Downloaded: Not Your Everyday Housewife by Mary Campisi

Not Your Everyday Housewife  by Mary Campisi 

 A wise and humorous tale of living large after 40 as women finally make peace with themselves- wrinkles, blubber, neuroses, exes, and all.

Three women embark on a month long ‘discovery’ journey and uncover quite a few tidbits along the way…one bottle of Clairol Midnight will not cover a full head of red hair, and never talk to men wearing polyester pants hiked up with a tan belt. But most of what they unearth is about themselves—who they are, what they really want, what they really DON'T want. The center of controversy is a Maid-for-You mixer which symbolizes a boring, routine suburban life with NO second chances—then along comes insight in the form of Tula Rae, a sixty-something Salsa dancing, Dalai Lama quoting, four time widow in spandex and a gray braid who gives them a different perspective on life, love, do-overs and the real reason a man buys his woman a Maid-for-You mixer, (which she says is all about S-E-X.)

Just downloaded: Tamed by Douglas R. Brown
Werewolves are real.
And they make excellent pets.
Owning one of the legendary creatures is the latest fad. The WereHouse insists their werepets are loyal, docile, and 100% safe, but what happens when these gentle giants turn on their masters?
While on a routine EMS call, paramedic Christine Alt is attacked by a rogue werepet. She escapes with her life, but the encounter leaves her with more than just scars. As her body begins to change, she discovers the WereHouse is hiding a terrible secret, and they will stop at nothing to keep her from exposing them.
Tamed is a werewolf tale with a twist from the author of the The Light of Epertase trilogy.

Fabshop Hop Cupcake Blocks

The October FabShop Hop has cupcake block patterns for hoppers. I'm in love with these blocks.

I've always been a half-hearted hopper during past hops, but not this time, I want all the blocks, preferably in yummy reproduction fabrics. Being the procrastinator that I am I'm trying to figure out the logistics of having a block swap. Do I have the time? Do I have the fabric? My stash has gotten pretty big and I don't really want to buy fabric...but I can just vision all those yummy cupcakes hanging on my wall.

Hopefully with the harvest season coming to an end and the fall/winter months just ahead I'll have more time now the the cannning and freezing are pretty much winding down leaving more time for sewing and some constructive procrastination.

If anyone is intersted in maybe swapping a block let me know.

Everyone in Silico by Jim Munroe

Everyone in Silico by Jim Munroe

Are you ready to upgrade to a fully modifiable and personalized reality?

In Vancouver, 2036, people are tired of the smog and the rain. They're willing to give up a lot for guaranteed sunshine.

Don't think about what you're losing, think about what you're getting — a life with no wasted hours sleeping or commuting. A life free of crime and disease. A life that ends when you want it to, not when some faceless entity decides it's your time.

Those who don't buy in — the poor, the old, the paranoid — have to watch as their loved ones, their friends, and their jobs leave the city. They have to watch as the latest prestige technology, Self, thoroughly transforms their world.

On the bright side, the rents have dropped. And from several strange and unexpected quarters, resistance is growing...

Offer ends soon. Take advantage of our lowest-ever financing rates to reserve a space now in the reality you can truly call your own.

the Girls with Boy Names by Bob Tschudi and Marilyn Howard

The Girls with Boy Names
 by Bob Tschudi and Marilyn Howard

Club 4 Girls #1
 When four girls from around America find themselves instantly transported to a virtual clubhouse - they are amazed. But they soon learn that there's a secret behind the clubhouse. To solve the mystery the girls must work together by finding clues, solving puzzles and escape danger.  Technorati Tags: club 4 girls, series, pre-teen fiction

Empire by David Dunwoody

Empire by David Dunwoody

Synopsis:
The outbreak began in 2007. It's now 2112.

The crippled U.S. government is giving up in its fight against an undead plague. Military forces and aid have been withdrawn from the last coastal cities, leaving those who choose to stay in the “badlands” defenseless against hordes of zombified humans and animals.

It’s been a hopeless battle from the beginning. The undead, born of an otherworldly energy fused with a deadly virus, have no natural enemies.

But they do have one supernatural enemy…Death himself.

Descending upon the ghost town of Jefferson Harbor, Louisiana, the Grim Reaper embarks on a bloody campaign to put down the legions that have defied his touch for so long. He will find allies in the city’s last survivors, and a nemesis in a man who wants to harness the force driving the zombies – a man who seeks to build an empire of the dead where America once stood.

Technorati Tags: empire, david dunwoody, serial novel, horror, free fiction,

Meta Dead by David Dunwoody

MetaDead by David Dunwoody (pdf file)

During a zombie outbreak a group of horror writers meet up in an IRC chatroom.

Comments: This is a quick read with just six pages, but oh what six pages they are. I had goosebumps reading the chat between a number of friends that are also horror writers that come to the conclusion they are woofully unprepared for reality.