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I'll admit to enjoying checking out my horoscope as cast by Jonathan Cainer.  BTW, I'm a Leo.  Too bad there's not a duck in the Zodiac. I'd have to change my birthday to get that sign!

Anyway, late yesterday I was checking Mr. Cainer's horoscope reading for today to see if it was going to be as tough as most of the days have been lately.  Cainer says Leos have been having a rough time because Mars has been boogling through our sign.  Thank goodness mean ole' Mars exits Leo at the end of the month because I've had about enough of him.

In the horoscope I just read Mr. Cainer was referring to this Friday's date.  If you check your calendar, you'll see that 11.11.11 is the date on Friday.  And according to Mr. Cainer, lots of folks think 11.11.11 is the day we can re-boot our lives. It's interesting to consider, isn't it? 

When I consider something, I Google it and when I googled this, I ran across  Numerologist's Nam Hari Kaur Khalsa's thoughts on the significance of 11.11.11.  Mr. Khalsa says as follows:

The date of 11.11.11 is one of the most powerful shifts in human awareness that we will experience in our lifetime. It is a rare opportunity to release lifetimes of karmic scripting and ancestral entrapment. Entrapment in the sense of the conscious and unconscious habit patterns which have us wondering why we can’t seem to actualize the life we really want to have, and know is possible. 11-11-11 is the cosmic birth date of humanities prayer for liberation from the rote, mundane, and monotonous. Many people are presently feeling, “I can’t go on like this anymore, I just can’t live like this another day.” 

And Mr. Khalsa says that Eleven is the sound current of infinity.  He suggests that "Eleven is the sound current of Infinity, and sound is one of the most powerful ways we can heal ourselves. Mantras contain a frequency of sound which is a healing force that is available to us all."

Mr. Khalsa suggests we channel the energy of the day by chanting a "Magic Mantra":   

There is one Creator of all Creation.  All is a blessing of the One Creator.  This realization comes through Guru's Grace.

The numerologist says  this is the “magic mantra” because it "can shift the flow of the psyche so powerfully that new opportunities seem to materialize out of nowhere."

Wouldn't you love a chance to re-boot your life?  For me, a re-boot would be having an opportunity to write full time.  When I'm writing and my muse is with me I feel like I'm channeling thunder.  I don't know if chanting the mantra will be magic or not, but why not try some possible magic?

I wish everyone a happy re-boot on 11.11.11!!!!!!!!!!!(11 exclamation points. I might as well make the most of the current of infinity.)

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We've made it over the hump in a short week.  If I perch on my tippytoes I can just make out the weekend - getting closer every second.

Why are short weeks so much busier than long weeks?  Crises and deadlines wait for the short weeks.  I picture them behaving a little like the faeries in some of my historicals - plotting to pop in at the very worst time.

In honor of our having made it over the hump, I give you a link to the movie - Lord Love A Duck.  And yeah, there's even a quacking duck in the theme song. I've already asked my DH to download the song on the USB stick. It's full of oldies from the real era of music - the 70s to the 80s. I boogle down the road in my little red PT Cruiser, bopping to the beat of the same music that inspires my muse.

This movie has Roddy McDowell and Tuesday Weld. Can't believe I'd never heard of it before!  But any movie smart enough to pay tribute to ducks in its title and theme song gets my vote.  I'll have to watch the whole thing - sometime.  I stay pretty busy between the full time day job and the writing that is trying to grow up into a full time job.

So, without further ado - turn up your speakers and click for : 

Lord Love A Duck

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Quack on over to the All Day, All Night Writing Diva's blog.  The post up today (8/17) is mine.  It was inspired by comments from a reviewer on Amazon saying that based on the book's cover, she thought it was something appropriate for a younger crowd - something with a lower heat level. 

Pop by and tell me whether in the virtual bookstore era a cover has an obligation to illustrate the heat level for the book.

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I'm hoping the answer will be NO.  Or perhaps, H..E..Double Hockey Sticks..NO!

My Blog is Up over at All Day, All Night ... Romance Divas.  It's the other place insane enough to let the Duck Lady swim over and give a Quack Out on a regular basis.

This month, I'm blogging about Sexism.  I discuss the Fall Network TV Schedules and the insidious Anti-Romance articles popping up lately.  Is there a connection? 

Put on your tinfoil hat, pop over and leave a comment.

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My blogging insanity is at an ebb today because I dug down deep and cranked out A GOOD ONE for All Day, All Night, Romance Diva's -the Marianne's Blog. That post will be out and about on the 18th - which begins a minute after the stroke of midnight tonight.  Yeah, you should absolutely stay up to read it.  Yeah, it's that good.  I'll post a link on this blog for sure and after it comes down at ADAN later this week, I'll repost it here.  It bears repeating.

But what would the weekend be without a dose of QA insanity?  This week, the witty, wonderful wierdos on Twitter - myself included - participated in a fun # (hashtag).  Some of the ones I particularly liked appear below.  To check them all out, go on Twitter and enter the hashtag in the search.  Of course, you should IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW ALL THESE FOLKS -  

***#replaceawordinafamousquotewithduck***

@angeldodger  "I want your clothes, your boots and your Duck."

@valsadie  "Don't ask me about my Duck, Kay."

@_jax_  "A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a Duck." - Mark Twain.

@rodwinery  "Power corrupts. Absolute Duck corrupts absolutely."  Lord Acton.

@Im_bonafide  "Ask not what your Duck can do for you. Ask what you can do for your duck."

@amirhalbakri  "All for one & Duck for all."

@SarahBurnett  "The rumors of his Duck have been greatly exaggerated."

 @Perry_e  "Another one bites the Duck."

@taguan  "You want the Duck? You can't handle the Duck."

@quackingalone  "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a duck."

@xunes  "Duck the halls with boughs of holly."

@RichardWiegold  "A large Duck is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."  Jane Austen.

@zelda_pinwheel  "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the Duck."

@edovebragg "The first rule of Duck Club is: you do not talk about Duck Club."

@sboulton  "I'll make him a Duck he can't refuse."

@KillBen10  "They may take our lives, but they will never take our Ducks."

@YesYvonne  "You shall know the Duck and the Duck will set you free."

@demeIza2  "All the world's a stage and all the Men and Women merely Ducks."

@jarnoglenn  "I get by with a little help from my Duck."

@WJKrembi  "You're going to need a bigger Duck."

Again, the hashtag is full of teh funny, and I've only repeated a few of 'em above.  Go forth and check them out and the next time a funny hashtag is trending, play along!

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Just a quick update b/c I didn't blog this weekend. I was busy working on Duke of Eden - so I know my fans will forgive me.

I almost finished Duke this weekend - I've made it to the closing scene. So I hope to get 'er done this week and hit the press with Part 3 by the weekend - at the latest. The full book will follow after a "full" edit.

So all you DUKE OF EDEN fans keep your eyes on this blog. You'll find out here first when Part 3 goes to press.

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That's right pardners.  'Tis once again time to boogle over to All Day, All Night ... Romance Divas - The Marianne's Blog.  Yours truly posted about secondary characters. 

Belly on up to the ADAN bar and tell us how you like your romance served!

http://alldayallnightromancedivas.blogspot.com/2011/03/do-you-like-your-romance-neat-straight.html

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Earlier, I'd blogged that Quacking Alone's romance books would be at 25% Off for Smashwords Read An Ebook Week Promo. Then, I checked and couldn't find the books listed so I updated the blog.

SW founder Mark Coker has now advised that QA's books are in the promo.

SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? Go to Smashwords quick before you miss out. Grab QA Romance's full line of books and then pick up a bunch of other fine books.

Read An Ebook Week only comes once a year. Fill up your ereader while the deals last!!!

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For some reason, it doesn't look like SW has ever applied the 25% discount to my books for this week. I listed them for the Read An E-book promo at that price, so I don't know why they wouldn't be enrolled.

Possibly the SW site is having problems, the staff is sick, etc. (There is some of that going round at my house too).

Either way I wanted to update my readers. I listed my stuff for the promo at 25% off - I'd never quack out the wrong info to my peeps.