The Path: A Series on Redemption & Sensual Awakening

Ladies and Gentlemen, if you would, please take a moment to check out the little book below you will see the new cover for my newest book.

I am giving all of you a sneak peek into the book.

First, here’s the cover.

Now that that’s out of the way, let me give you a snippet from one of the chapters you will find in The Path.

An excerpt from The Path:

Change

I don’t know how long I sat there, staring, emotionless, growing colder with each passing minute. My hands were shaking, my body shivering, and I felt sick inside.

I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what to feel. All I could feel, all I was consciously aware of was the cold. It was so very cold.

Yet the temperature in the room was normal. The air conditioner was off, the ceiling fan had ceased spinning, but I was cold.

Is this what shock feels like? Who knew that anger, white hot anger, could make a body feel so cold? Was I angry? Was that an emotion?

Well, perhaps there is progress, because a moment ago, I was numb and unable to feel anything. Anger is better than apathy.

But I’m so cold. And I’m scared.

Yes, that is it, another emotion. I am scared. Fear.

And if this goes like it has in the past, the rest of the emotions will come flooding in soon enough, to put me into a whirlwind spiral of despair, ecstasy, hatred, rage, confusion, sadness, raw emotion. Pure, unadulterated, raw emotion.

Passion.

I’ve learned all too well that passion consumes. It is a flame that burns everything in its path. It creates and then destroys. And it does not matter if this passion is lust, greed, jealousy—even seemingly good, passion burns. Passion tears. Passion bites and bruises. Passion bleeds.

But passion ignites places in your soul you never knew existed.

So why am I so cold? Why are my fingers like ice?

I pace the floor, restless. I sit, restless. I lay upon the bed, restless. I pace again. I walk outside; the breeze is cool, and I shiver before turning back to go inside. My legs feel numb. My arms feel like the weight of the world is holding them down, making each movement sheer agony. Time stretches before me, moving in animated slow motion, each second of the clock seemingly an eternity while I wait.

Every sound is amplified. Every noise in the house reaches my ears at a deafening proportion. I can hear myself screaming, but no sound comes out of my mouth. I can feel myself crying, but no tears touch my eyes. I can feel my heart beating hard in my chest, and I swallow because it is hard to breathe, hard to think, hard to feel.

And I wait, not knowing what I am waiting for, not knowing what the next moments will bring when I hear that door open. Not knowing what the future holds for my life, but feeling as though something is changing, something over which I have no control.

And I am cold. So very cold.

Nothing ever stays the same; everything must change.

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…. But to read more, you’ll have to buy the book!

Currently, the book is in production, meaning it is still at the printer. It should be available any day now, but can be pre-ordered through Amazon.com. The Publisher will have the book available on their website for pre-order next week, and I myself will be selling pre-ordered signed and personally inscribed discounted copies through my own website next week as well.

For today, before the press releases go out, before the advertising, before the hype, before the hard sell, before the first review is received and posted, I just wanted to take a moment and bask in the pleasure and excitement that a new title brings to me and share that with my friends here.

Four years ago when I quit my day job to become a full-time professional writer, following a life-long dream of mine, I never imagined I’d be where I am now. I visualized it, but somewhere in the back of my head, I never truly believed it would happen. It was just a dream.

Today, I have four books in print, contracts/offers on two others, and four more in various stages of completion and I no longer feel it is just a dream… now it is a dream come true.

Every day, in every way, I am living my dreams. I have my family, my love, my good friends, my life, and my writing… not necessarily in that order, and I must say, there is nothing like living a dream. I am blessed.

Awhile back, I wrote in an old blog that one day soon I would fly.

Not too long ago, I took a leap of faith. Since then, my feet have not touched the ground. My dear friends, I am flying…

I treasure each and every one of you, more than you know. I know that, again, they say you are just internet friends (though many of you are friends in person to me too) but coming in here and sharing with you all, it’s just amazing. I look forward to it. Every comment brightens my day. Every message adds to the joy and abundance in my life.

Ryan, Gregg, Kimberlee & Steve, Bo, Shannon, Richard, Lynn and Rian – you all need to read the Introduction & Acknowledgments of The Path. Each of you have a personal note in there.

That’s all for now… but I just wanted to share with you my joy. Thank you for reading and commenting. It has come to mean so much to me. (HUGS TO ALL)

Before I go, just a little something I’d like to put out to the Creator and the Universe:

Ya’ll have a great day!

Love and stuff,
Michy

PS: Giggles…

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To all you writers and creators out there, I need to plug my forum again. This is an absolutely free writers forum, open to anyone who writes, no matter the skill level or style or content, all genres or no genre, or even if you just want to write and haven’t started doing it yet, this is a place to come for friendly help and advice and networking. It’s growing and people are really starting to get active and check out what the forum has to offer. I’m tickled to see this!

I added a WARNINGS & SCAMS section today, and of course, there’s the thread with the paying writing jobs, which are leads to freelance writing assignment for all skill levels, from experienced to new and unpublished writers or even those just wanting to make some money doing blog writing and online content. There’s a little something for everyone here. All the writing gigs are personally verified by me as legitimate, paying leads.

The part of the forum I’d really like to see grow a bit and have some fun with is the Start a Story/Finish a Story section. I’m going to be doing a push over the next week or so to get more people invovled with this, and I’m going to start with you guys here. You do not have to be a writer to do this. We are not going to critique it or edit it. I just want it to be fun.

What you do is either find a story that has already been started, and then read it, and then YOU will write a short ‘next chapter’ to the story and take it from the last  posting wherever you want to take it. Then someone else will come along and add their ‘next chapter’ to it, and let’s just see where the story takes us.

I only have two requests… 1) if you want to discuss the story that you are adding to, please start a new thread with that story’s name and the word DISCUSSION in the new topic title so that the story isn’t broken up with discussion and 2) let at least one other person respond to the story and write a chapter after yours before you add a new chapter again. After all, this isn’t going to be someone’s novel or anything. It’s just a fun place to see how people think different, write up a short little chapter, and see if someone can take that little chapter in a whole new direction.

I think it can be a lot of fun for the writers on my list who are wanting to just cut loose and write something fun without having to worry about grammar and editing and queries and such, but I also think even my non writing friends might enjoy adding their own unique spin to an existing story.

Won’t you check it out? I’d love to see what all of you decide to write about and where the stories take us!

Love and stuff,
Michy

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“Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.”

-Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write

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