2 Fantastic reviews of "All For Love" :-)

A good start! Apparently I have some sales over at Smashwords...
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/608095
...and two fantastic reviews over on Amazon from ARC readers, after only 1 day :-)
http://www.amazon.com/All-Love-Dani-J-Caile-ebook/dp/B01APR99OK

Thank you Larry and Amy! Maybe this little novella will get me off the Desert Bus and into the Castle :-)
Siren's Song...yes! She got it! :-) Lili B's face, the inspiration for this little story, a real-life siren, can be found on the back of the paperback version of the book, which will be available soon.
The book even has its own website!
http://evelynsandsismissing.weebly.com/
AND it's on Goodreads...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28576501-all-for-love

5.0 out of 5 stars
Siren’s Song
By Amy Outland

Readers of mystery and mythology will probably enjoy All For Love, the edgy novella by author Dani J. Caile.
A mystery unfolds in the small fishing community of Fickleton, when two fishermen, Horris and Nigel find the body of a one of the village’s residents, a beautiful young girl named Evelyn floating in the river.
All For Love is a quick read at just over one hundred pages that could easily be read from start to finish in one sitting if one were so inclined.
This sharply written novella is filled with humor and suspense and will keep you guessing as the two dim-witted fishermen put their heads together to simultaneously discern the killer’s identity and prove their own innocence.
This story is fast-paced and entertaining so if you’re looking for a mystery or maybe just a good laugh All For Love is definitely worth your time.

5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Fast Paced Edgy Work
by Larry Paz

An intriguing fast read mystery with well-defined characters. The main plot is well presented and the sub plots heighten the storyline. The reader lives the twists and turns of the story through Horris and Nigel. Want to enjoy a fun but thoughtful evening of edgy reading? This book did it for me.

WQ162 + "All For Love" on Smashwords

"All For Love" is available on Smashwords now for 99c...

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/608095 

I've also written my entry for the Iron Writer Winter 2015 Open...it's different. Next week...

And here's the Iron Writer Weekend Quickie 162...
http://theironwriter.com/the-iron-writer-challenge-weekend-quickie-162/
Mine is reproduced down here, too...

WQ162 – image above, a longstanding debt, an estranged relationship, counter-intuitive

As the rain poured down, he watched the gay, vibrant crowd inside the corner bar. Their revelry would be quickly halted. Lighting a cigarette, he took one long drag and flicked what was left into the wet gutter, following its journey into the sewers  below. One other would follow it tonight. Checking his gun below his trench coat, he entered the espresso bar, the aroma of crushed coffee beans mixing with the dampness of the night. No one turned as he sat down on a stool by the toilet door. He ordered a cappuccino and waited. It didn't take long for her to come over.
"Long time no see, Dave," his estranged publisher said as she took the seat next to him.
"You owe me," he said, pouring a bag of brown sugar into his cup and watching it disappear under the foam.
"Owe you? That was a long time ago, Dave, get over it," she said, sipping her americano.
He reached for his gun but she was quicker, firing a shot into his gut. The crowd continued on, laughing, joking.
"Well..." said Dave. "That was... counter-intuitive." He fell from his stool and lay, watching his blood cover the tiles.

Update: Winter 2015 Final/All For Love Release/How to promo!

Yep, with votes from Iron Writers, I got through the Prelims and into the Final...once again! I don't know about winning that, though... I've seen the elements. I may need to go deeper for this one...

I did pretty well in the Popular vote, too!

AND tomorrow..."All For Love" is coming out! Get ready for a link or two!
AND "How to" is being promoted for a week here! I wonder how that will go?
http://booksgosocial.com/2016/01/14/build-castle-seven-easy-steps

The Revenant...SPOILERS...Hugh Glass? Yeah, right.

I heard 'The Revenant' was one of the best movies of the moment, so I watched it...I want that two and a half hours of my life back, thank you very much.
I'm reading "Mrs Dalloway" by Virgina Woolf at the moment...THAT is class. The Revenant is NOT.
DiCaprio's performance is the only good thing about this movie...oh, and the snow. Go and watch it for that, if you must, but it's his "man in a bid to survive" performance, one which he has so often done before. His face suits it.
So, what's wrong? The winter landscape shots are fantastic, you can feel the cold and immense distances. But there are problems with believability, as many critics have already said.
Firstly, how can someone survive so many things which would kill you? He escapes an Indian raid on their pelt camp (about 25 out of 35 people die), he survives THREE individual attacks from a large mother grizzly bear and then is crushed under its corpse, he survives his injuries, fevers, the cold weather conditions, loss of blood, hunger, infection, escapes from the Indians by floating downriver, survives lethal rapids, escapes with a horse from the open French camp, ANOTHER Indian attack on horseback, a lethal fall from a cliff where he falls through a large tree to land in the snow and finally overcomes the man who killed his son. What?! His name is Hugh Glass. Glass. Yeah, right. He never breaks. American irony, huh?
Secondly, what is this movie actually about? It's a story about a Pawnee chief trying to find his kidnapped daughter. His tribe are able to track down Glass' group through the wilderness BUT not realise that the French have her daughter? They meet them at least twice in the movie, surely one of the braves can 'smell' or 'see' her? And they don't trust them, so why don't they check the French out? All they know is that two white men came and took the daughter. It could easily have been the French as well as the Americans.
Thirdly, just when you think, okay, that was a movie, nice scenery, shame about the plot hole and unbelievability, but good acting by DiCaprio with a spiritual ride back to his dead family...no, hang on, what's that? He breaks the 4th wall in the last 10 seconds? There he is, looking straight at the camera. Hello, DiCaprio, how much did you get for this one?
Really, I wanted to like it...

It isn't their land to fight over!

Had a look at the latest from Oregon...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/call-supplies-oregon-standoff-enters-week-36209625 

1. destroying a fence...that's Vandalism, that is.
2. looking through 'non-computer' files...that's Unauthorised Access

Why haven't they gone in and arrested them yet?

And why is there STILL no mention of the Bush Paiute tribe??
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-oregon-militia-tribe-idUSKBN0UK1FS20160106

What is wrong with people?
1. The Bush Paiute tribe lived on that land.
2. The US Government forced them to sign a Treaty and leave the area.
3. The US Government DID NOT RATIFY the Treaty, therefore the land still belongs to the Bush Paiute tribe.

Who cares what a bunch of WHITE PEOPLE WITH GUNS say? It isn't their land to fight over!

I won on BooksGoSocial.com! :-)

Would you believe it? On my birthday, I won $100 on BooksGoSocial.com!
I entered "How to Build a Castle in Seven Easy Steps" a week ago and I thought I hadn't won...but I had!

Excellent, huh? Thank you to those 17 wonderful people who entered their email and voted for me! Maybe we can all do this!
On Friday, I will also receive 1 week's promotion from their site!
And on Friday, there will be the "All For Love" Facebook Release Party!
Oh, it's all happening...I'll enjoy it while it lasts :-)

MORE Oregon?!?! Give the Land back to d'em Injuns!

There's still more Oregon Standoff news?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/call-supplies-oregon-standoff-enters-week-36199170

Why don't they mention the Bush Paiute tribe? THEY own the land! NOT the Feds! And hell not those "3% of Oregon"! The Bush Paiute tribe were the ones who were forced to sign a Treaty which was later NOT RATIFIED and so it is STILL THEIRS! By the Feds own laws!
Read about it here!
http://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462513600/native-american-tribe-worries-oregon-militants-could-damage-ancestral-land

A quote from the above website post...

Rodrique would like the FBI to remove the armed men, and she thinks the FBI's inaction is a double standard.

"If I, as a native person, a person of color, were to go down there and do the same thing, they would have hit me on the forehead with a baton" and dragged her out, she says. But "because they're white people, I feel that they're being treated differently."

(article written by NPR Staff)
Yep. The Feds have double standards.
The "3% of Oregon" are WHITE and have GUNS = Stand Off
NON-WHITE with GUNS = Bloodbath
Simple. Give back the land to the Bush Paiute tribe and arrest the "3% of Oregon" for terrorism.

On another matter...another rejection letter...this time from Asimov Science Fiction Magazine...they said...
Unfortunately, your story isn't quite what we're looking for right now.
In the future, we'd appreciate it if you formatted the story in standard manuscript format (SMF).
Standard Manuscript format...really?

Anyway, "All For Love"...coming out on Friday. And hopefully this Oregon thing will be over by then...