My latest addition to Smashwords is my ebook short story entitled, The Ghost of Goodacre Hall. To download it in various formats, check out the Smashwords.com link HERE. The eBook is FREE! In the coming weeks, I will also upload a few 99¢ specials.

I hope you enjoy them. Also check out Barbara Vey’s column at Publisher’s Weekly. This Week Barbara is celebrating her third anniversary and readers will be thrill to know some of their favorite authors and publishers will be participating. I will be offering up goodies on Wednesday and Friday at Barbara’s blog, so stop by and enjoy the fun. Who knows, you might win something very cool from moi. :-)

Just got through watching the 100th episode of Ghost Hunters. The TAPS team investigated Alcatraz, and I have to say, one of the scarier places to investigate. When that disembodied voice said, “No.”  to Grant’s question, I could hear it quite plainly. But the whole thing with the voice saying ‘Harry Brunette’ was creepy and wild at the same time. Good catch fellas!

I kept waiting for the Birdman to pick up that feather, but I guess he wasn’t interested. Awesome show and looking forward to what you find in the next 100 episodes.

I am so sick of snow and ice and cold weather. I am ready for spring. In fact, I’d rather have hay fever sniffles than freezing cold patooties.

In preparation for spring, I am doing my spring cleaning now and paring down everything I own, which is considerable. I hate to say it, but I am a pack rat. I have three piles in my office. The first pile is maybe I will need this and wish I hadn’t thrown it away, or JustincaseIregretit for short. The second pile is OhMiGawd I actually bought this in the 80’s and I may one day fit into it again, or OMG80’sflashback. The last pile is shit so strange no one will buy it unless I have a twin out there, so Goodwill can have it, or Strangeshitforgoodwill.

That last category is a tough one, because I know if I have a yard sale, people will ask me what the fuck it is and half the time even I don’t know. It was an impulse buy. And sadly, if offered a dime for it, I will pay myself a quarter to keep it. lol.

Like the funky clay window charm I bought at an art show. Cost me $22 and I remember getting it because it matched my color mood that day. I think I was plaid. Anyway, try getting anyone to pay $1 for a clay ashtray-looking charm with cracked beads and twisted neon orange pipecleaner. Oh yeah, that’ll happen. Or the keychain with a picture of me throwing up at King’s Island after going on a ride. Ooh, I bet that’ll bring lots of money…lol.

I have so many pairs of scissors, I mean how many things will I need to cut that I need 10 pairs of scissors? I have four that are left-handed, so I could cut things both ways at the same time. Dueling scissors, en garde.

But the oddest thing is the pink stuffed animal and see-thru plastic  stomach piggy change purse with dangling legs and round feet. I never use it, but I can’t seem to toss it either. I would probably get a dime for it and get into a bidding war with myself.

Le sigh. So many things, so many memories. ::spies thumb-sized hole punch with star cutouts:: Ya know, I will kick myself one day if I toss this away. ::moves hole punch to pile number one::

Smashwords Goodies

For those of you who love the MMC ebook short story freebies, but wish they were available in other formats, there is good news. Smashwords now carries several of my freebie titles, including updated versions of  Shimmer, Stroke It, and Mummy Dearest.

Cora Zane’s ebook freebie, Heart Spell is also available at Smashwords.

So those of you with Kindles, Nooks, iPads or iPhones can now enjoy a taste of the sensual reading pleasure only a Midnight Moonmaid can deliver!

More titles, including .99¢ specials will be added in the coming months.

Cassandra Curtis is a proud sponsor of the Read an Ebook Week March 7-13.

Snowed in, and with my back still giving me fits from trying to lift a storage tub two weeks ago, I decided to stay home for my birthday. So yesterday morning and afternoon were spent on the phone and online. Then last night, “Bear” gave me a lovely card that brought tears to my eyes (which of course I tried to hold back and not show), and for dinner we shared my favorite pizza he’d brought home, Tony BoomBozz, and a six pack of Miller lite (bottles) and the DVD of The Time Traveler’s Wife. I’d been wanting to see that since I read Audrey’s book.

Everything was so cozy and mellow. Fireplace lit and crackling, delicious food, and us watching a movie. No cake and ice cream, but I imagine I damaged the diet plenty with pizza and beer. lol.  It was all good…I could almost fool myself and think things were the way they used to be.

But they aren’t. And I need to stop fooling myself. However, I can save up that memory and store it as a happy one. Sometimes that’s all we can do. Store up and save the good memories. I know there will come a day I will look back at last night with fondness…and without the touch of sadness.

Today is my birthday and we won’t say how old I am today, because it might worry the fire department when I light the candles. lol. Let’s just say this chickie ain’t getting any younger! lol.  In honor of my birthday, I am hosting a contest over at the Midnight Moon Cafe today, so stop by to help me celebrate and you may even win a prize. Neat huh? :)

http://midnightmooncafe.blogspot.com

Special Event Tarot Readings

Friday, February 12, 2010!

(Tomorrow night)

6pm-7pm SL Time (Pacific); 9pm-10pm Eastern Time.

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Check out the link here and find out:
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Last night I sat outside on the patio at the Midnight Moon Cafe place we have in SL, supposedly to read tarot for free (for promotion of course) and the only customer I got was Cora. (That’s her in the chair facing away with the long white tail hanging out—she was doin’ her Neko kitteh thing) lol. We traded readings and talked shop, so it was all good. My life has been topsy-turvy since New Year’s eve and I am unsure how things will work out, but the cards say they will work out—eventually, so I have to trust in that or go nuts.

I will also be doing free tarot readings in SL this Friday from 6-7pm SLT at Trilla’s Treasure Friends Mall in Tokara http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tokara/120/76/30. Upstairs you’ll find Mariner’s Treasures of the Deep freebie store and that’s my place. If you happen to be free Friday night and you have an SL account, stop by and see me for your own free tarot reading.

This Sunday, I will be at the MMC blog hosting a cool contest for our readers to celebrate the day romance (and marketing) created. lol. I hope to see you there.

I am trying to get back into the writing zone after being in promo zone for the past several months. This is the worst case of writer’s block I think I’ve ever had. I am following the workshop Cora told me about over at Cobblestone Press, picking up a few pointers, honing my skills toolbox and hoping something good comes of it.

Finally some good news – I hope to get my vehicle back from the repair garage tomorrow or Friday, so I will have wheels again! Yay me! I have been worried I might pick up some of the weight I lost this last month, since I haven’t been at the gym since the auto died, but the scales were all smiles when I weighed this morning. A total of 18 lbs lost now since January 12th! Woot!

Can you tell my dreams are of a skinnier me? Well they are. I’m not trying for bone thin, but a nice size for a healthier and hopefully happier life. :)
Until next time,

Cass