Thursday, September 20, 2012

Freaky Friday: Mr. Jimmy Pudge


Interview between Keira Kroft and Jimmy Pudge

Welcome to Keira's Corner, where it’s always hot and panties, underwear and any clothing for that matter are optional.
Keira: You have a story that recently came out though Amazon entitled The Dick. What is that about?
Warning: This book contains strong Adult Content.

Ex porn star Jonny Sausage wants to be more than a cook at a fast food dive, so he obtains his P.I. certificate online.

It sounds exciting enough, being a private eye, but Jonny has no idea how crazy things are going to get once this gorgeous vampire dame by the name of Cristabel Swan enters his office.

Swan needs a ruthless investigator to find out why her family members are being murdered, and Jonny feels he's the right dick for the job.


Keira: What do you wear, to write?

Jimmy: A smile on my face. That’s all I wear J

Keira’s reply: Oh, if only all your answers were this sweet.

 

Keira: Is writing your only talent?

Jimmy: No, I’m also very good at making convict pizza

Keira’s reply: I hear it’s as good as Chicago style.

 

Keira: Where in the Hell did you find time to write?

Jimmy: I get off work, grab a bite to eat, then I sit down in front of my computer and write like a motherfucker, not because it’s my schedule or nothing, but simply because I want to. I usually get 4 hours of sleep on a good night.

Keira’s reply: I am so jealous. Do you know how many working, writing; mothers are forming a kill Jimmy Pudge club right now? I have the logo worked out already. I mean they...

 

Keira: Why are you a writer?

Jimmy: Because people with criminal records have limited options.

Keira’s reply: Too true.
 

Keira: If you could choose anyone, who would you pick as your mentor?

Jimmy: That’s a tricky one. Probably someone rich, so I can hit them up for money when things get hard.

Keira’s reply: You know to spite what people say, Rich people...really don’t like that. Just in case you were wondering.

Keira: How many hours a day do you dedicate to writing?

Jimmy: I write for as long as it feels right. Once I get bored, I stop. I don’t make myself sit in front of the computer. That doesn’t work for me.

Keira’s reply: That’s an excellent answer, I feel forcing someone to write, hampers their creativity.

 

Keira: Do you use a particular writing method?

Jimmy: No, I just picture something funny in my head and go with it. Thinking about a dude steering his car with his belly, that was my motivation behind my latest novel “The Dick.”

Keira’s reply: That is actually a writer’s best kept secret. We absorb what is around us and use it. Thanks for giving away our secrets...JIMMY! *Does a Mike Tyson and Bites off Jimmy’s ear.*

 

Keira: What time of day, do you write best?

Jimmy: I can write any time of the day. Over the years I’ve turned into a machine. Anytime I want to write, BAM…I’m off. When I first started though, I only wrote at night.

Keira’s reply: Remeber the Kill Jimmy club? Because Bill would want us too.

 

Keira: Do you use one or more pen names?

Jimmy: Yes, I wrote a cheesy ass Romance novel once under a sexy pen name.

Keira’s reply: How do we get a hold of a copy of that?
Jimmy's Reply: "You can't get your hands on it."

 

Keira: What advice would you give to an unpublished writer?

Jimmy: Be cool, stay in scool!” No, just joking. I’d say, have a good time, enjoy the story, and fuck it if it doesn’t do well and you can’t get it published. Never expect to make any money unless you’re a damn Piranha. Piranhas make a killing at this game.

Keira’s reply: It’s a dog eat dog, world...my friend.

Let’s get personal…

Keira: What is your favorite food?

Jimmy: BBQ Vienna sausages.

Keira’s reply: Phallic Symbols? HeeHee

 

Keira: What is your guilty Pleasure?

Jimmy: I bought the new Justin Bieber cologne and put a splash on sometimes to pick up the chicks.

Keira’s reply: I’m going to be very sick, right now.


Keira: What is your favorite Smell?

Jimmy: A chick as she passes me by in the mall. I catch a whiff of magic.

Keira’s reply: Only at the mall? You really need to get out more.

 

Keira: If you could change one of your physical features? Would you? What would it be?

Jimmy: Yes, I would make it smaller. It’s too big. My nose is way too big.

Keira’s reply: I will be nice this time :)

 

Keira: What is your favorite color?

Jimmy: Green

Keira’s reply: Mine too.

 

Keira: What is your favorite day of the week?

Jimmy: Any day I don’t have to work is cool with me.

Keira’s reply: Amen Brotha! I do love to work, but having a day off is so nice.

 

Keira: What is your favorite favorite animal?

Jimmy: I like leopard skin furniture.

Keira’s reply: So who’s your favorite?

 

Keira: Can you tell us a secret?

Jimmy: I don’t really have luscious hair. It’s actually just a comb over.

Keira’s reply: Well it looks amazing.

 

Keira: Do you have pets?

Jimmy: No

Keira’s reply: Oh you definitely should get a lizard or snake.

 

Keira: What do you consider a household staple?

Jimmy: Toilet paper

Keira’s reply: People have actually killed over TP. This answer, is not me trying to be funny, it’s a fact.

 

Keira: What are you reading?

Jimmy: Some places I dog-eared in 50 Shades of Grey. I like to read those parts before I go to bed sometimes.

Keira’s reply: I can’t comment on this one.

 

Keira: Can you share an excerpt with us?
Sure, here’s a little bit of The Dick:

Jonny Sausage couldn’t believe the news.

“Jonny, I gotta let you go, baby. The old days of the ugly dude and the hot maiden is over. No one wants to look at the fat, hairy dude with the big dick in theys pornos anymore. You understand me?”

Jonny leaned against his agent’s desk. It had once been liberating to wear bling, but now all the big ass necklaces around his neck felt restrictive. He felt as if he were choking. He could feel his windbreaker pants cutting into his huge gut as he leaned over further. His eyes were burning. He was going to cry. Jonny Sausage never cried.

“Barry, we go way back, Barry. Ain’t nothing you can do for me?” Jonny said, twirling on the left tip of his mustache.

“I fought for you, Big Jon Stud,” Barry said. “I think you are an asset to our talent agency. But at the end of the day, it’s about the money, bottom line. And we haven’t found you a single gig in over a year. We gotta let you go, Jonny. I’m sorry.”

“Fuck y’all sonsbitches!” Jonny Sausage shouted, jumping out of his metal folding chair. He picked the chair up and hurled it into the wall behind his agent, a leg shattering the glass of a framed picture. The chair bounced off the wall, glass shards landing behind Barry, who had his hands over his bald head, looking wild eyed at Jonny.

“I’m calling security, you fat fuck!” Barry squealed.

Jonny looked at the picture mounted to the wall. Through the spider web of glass he saw himself, a decade younger, standing behind the stage podium at the 5th Annual Porno Awards, holding his Swinging Dick statue. He hadn’t won a Swinging Dick statue in years. He’d won the one in the photo for Pussyjuice, a rip off of Bettlejuice, only the ghost with the most was a woman in a black and white striped dress. “Pussyjuice, Pussyjuice, Pussyjuice!” he’d shout three times real fast. She’d appear out of nowhere, walking to him with a Billy Idol song playing in the background. He’d won the award for the scene where he’d lifted her up, upside down, and ate her out, standing up while she’d sucked on his dick. He’d remembered that pussy. It was overgrown like a wild jungle and tasted like oyster juice.

Barry was yelling into the phone, talking about having that Suasage fellow beaten to death out back. Jonny decided to split then. He grabbed Barry’s cigar box off his desk and ran out of the office, down the hallway, knocking framed pictures of famous porn stars off the walls.

“I’m calling the police on you, motherfucker!” Barry screamed, running out into the hallway. “You’re through in this town, Jonny! You hear me, you motherfucker? YOU ARE FINISHED!”

Jonny ran to the front of the office, saw two security guards coming for him and said, “Fuck it,” then tried jumping out the window, expecting the glass to shatter as he rammed into it. It was only a five story drop. But instead of breaking the glass, his face slapped into it and he left a smudge, sliding down the window.

The security guards had their tasers, and they were lighting him up. He was moving around like a cockroach trying to get off its back.

“Kill that sonofabitch!” Barry shouted as he hustled down the hallway, breathing heavily. Jonny was getting tasered, but he could still hear that heavy ass breathing.

 “Give me your baton, security man!” Barry said.

The tasing stopped, and Jonny lay there, unable to move, staring at them, every muscle in his body aching. It was kind of interesting that he had a hard on. He wondered what that said about him as a person.

A guard handed Barry his baton, a little short, graphite thing, and Barry flicked that shit with his wrist and it extended into a menacing weapon.

“Take this!” Barry squealed, bringing the rod down as hard as he could.

Jonny could barely feel it. “If you gonna hit somebody, don’t do it half-assed.”

Barry struck him again, this time on the face. “You’re one to talk you fucking prick. If you couldn’t do things half-assed, you wouldn’t do anything at all.”

That comment hurt Jonny more than the next blow that landed across his stomach. “You mean you really never believed I was a good actor?”

“You’re the worst, Jonny,” Barry said, kicking him in the face.

Barry walked over to the window and slapped it with the baton, breaking the glass. “You was about to go out this window, weren’t you Jonny? We don’t want to keep you from missing your flight. Boys, help Mr. Sausage out the window.”

The guards picked Jonny up, and he tried to struggle but found he had little control over his muscles. They sent him head first out the fifth floor, and he could feel the cold breeze and see the azalea bushes getting bigger and bigger.

He hit the bushes hard, flattened four of them like pancakes, belly flopping to the hard, cold ground. He realized he was still screaming. He sat up, saw his shirt was bloody from where sticks had cut into him.

Barry watched him sit up from the window. “You guys get the hell down there and drag him behind the building. I’m going to kill him myself.”

Jonny was trying to run across the parking lot as fast as he could, limping, his leg dragging. He reached the road before the guards jumped on him.

“Get the fuck off, me, man. I’m a FUCKING ICON. I’m MOTHERFUCKING JONNY SUASAGE! I BUILT THIS FUCKING TALENT AGENCY. MY DICK PUTS FOOD IN YOUR MOUTHS!”

 They each held an arm behind his back as they lifted him off the road. “We going around the building, Mr. Sausage,” a guard said.

“Why?” Jonny asked, his eyes wide.  Why we going around the building for?”

“Mr. Barry wants a word,” the other guard said.

They rounded the corner, blood streaming down Jonny’s face from the cuts on his forehead.

“Just hold him right there,” Barry said, looking through the sites of his pistol.

“Barry, this isn’t you, Barry,” Jonny said. “Come on man, it’s me, Jon Boy.”

Barry squeezed the trigger. Nothing happened. “What the fuck?” Barry said. “What’ the fuck’s wrong with this gun, Mike?”

The security guard on Jonny’s right side dropped his arm and ran up to Barry. Jonny tried to fight free, but the other guard was too tough.

“You didn’t take the safety off,” the guard pointed out. “You ever shot a gun before, Mr. Barry?”

“Nope,” Barry said, taking off the safety and resuming his firing stance. He pulled the trigger. There was a loud BANG that echoed across the parking lot and down the street, across the Los Angeles waste of crack houses and dollar motels.

Jonny could feel the wind of the bullet as it passed by his face and went through the security guard’s head. The splash of warm liquid on his face, the smell of blood. The guard dropped and Jonny ran as fast as his short legs would carry him, breathing heavily.

He heard gunfire, saw dust rising from the parking lot in front of him where the bullets hit, and kept going, his heart threatening to explode out his chest.

He was on the highway, running across it, and he slipped and fell down an incline, rolling into the ditch, out of breath, yellow dots dancing in his vision. “Jesus,” he thought aloud. “I’m a dead man.” He lay there, amongst the crushed beer cans and plastic bags, giving up on life, waiting for the guard named Mike and Mr. Barry to appear above him, the cold barrel of the pistol pressed against his forehead. It wasn’t supposed to end like this. Not like this! He wanted to win an Academy Award. He wanted to be on the cover of GQ and press his hands into some wet cement in front of a Chinese restaurant and sign his fans’ titties with a permanent marker.

His life flashed before his eyes. The money, the women, the cocaine. It had gone wrong with the cocaine. Somewhere, on another planet, was the sound of traffic zooming down the highway. The sound of people getting on with their lives. Maybe all of them had seen at least one of his movies. Maybe everyone in the world had. He wouldn’t be surprised about that. He was Jonny Sausage. A tear rolled down his dirty, scratched, fat cheek. Jonny Sausage didn’t deserve to die like a goddamn dog! NO!

Jonny stood up, held his chin up high. He’d die with pride. He looked across the street at the Golden Star Talent Agency and saw the parking lot was empty except for his blue Chevrolet Malibu. Barry’s Cadillac was gone.

“Fuck this California shit,” Jonny said. “I’m heading back home to Georgia.”

Keira’s reply: You are an awesome writer, thank you so much for stopping by Keira’s Corner.

One lucky commenter will win a free e-copy of The Dick.



 

Keira Kroft

Blood is thicker Than Water Thursday: Twilight- not a fan.


The next few Thursday's, I will be specifically discussing fictional vampires. I will be discussing different vamps in books, TV and movies. Today’s Top is...The Twilight Empire.
 
 

I didn’t like it.

Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel by author Stephanie Meyer. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.

 

It became an instant bestseller when published originally in hardback in 2005, debuting at #5 on the New York Times Best Seller list within a month of its release and later peaking at #1That same year, Twilight was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2005The novel was also the biggest selling book of 2008 and the second biggest selling of 2009, only behind its sequel New Moon. It has been translated into 37 different languages.
 


When first published, Twilight gained much critical acclaim. Critics often described it as a "dark romance that seeps into the soul" and praised it for capturing "perfectly the teenage feeling of sexual tension and alienation". On the other hand, in more recent reviews, some critics thought that Bella's appeal to Edward was "based on magic rather than character" and that Bella is a weak female character. However, almost all critics, whether they acclaimed the novel or not, agreed that it was a literary phenomenon.
 

A film adaptation of Twilight was released in 2008. It was a commercial success, grossing more than $392 million worldwide and an additional $157 million from North American DVD sales, as of July 2009.
 
 
 

So why didn’t I like it? I didn’t care for it personally, because they romanticized vampires, although we adore the idea, that a vampire can love human beings and they can. They are still monsters and not warm fuzzy teenagers. And for the love of God, they don’t sparkle in the sun! They fry up like a log on a fire. But I do admire the bravery of trying something new with such an old lure. People in general are going to be stand-offish and others will love it. Case in point Twilight :) What do you think of Twilight?

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Don't Drink and Whine, blog tour 2012


Thank you so much to Juniper Grove Book Solutions for hosting my tour, for a book that is very dear to my heart when it comes out in November. There is still room if you would like to have me stop on your blog during my tour. Read more...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Terrifying Tuesday: The Punisher

My two favorite combinations...comic books mixed with terror. The Punisher has been my favorite since I was a teen. If you’re a Punisher fan too, you might want to check out this clip of a mock Punisher 2 with Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman (Hellboy, Sons of Anarchy)
 
Warning this video is seriously graphic in nature.
 
 
 

Monday, September 17, 2012

Magic Monday: Message in A bottle


 
It’s Magic Monday, the day of Romance on Keira’s Corner. Today’s subject, Message in a Bottle is not normally a romantic phrase. But somewhere along the line, the idea of receiving a message in a bottle became, romanticized...by woman, books and Hollywood.

The Song (press play)
 




The Book
 
Thrown to the waves, and to fate, the bottle could have ended up anywhere. Instead, it is found just three weeks after it begins its journey. Theresa Osborne, divorced and the mother of a twelve-year-old son, discovers it during a seaside vacation from her job as a Boston newspaper columnist. Inside is a letter that opens with, “My Dearest Catherine, I miss you my darling, as I always do, but today is particularly hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together….” For Garrett, the message is the only way he knows to express his undying love for a woman he has lost. For Theresa, wary of romance since her husband shattered her trust, the message raises questions that intrigue her. Challenged by the mystery, and driven to find Garrett by emotions she does not fully understand, Theresa begins a search that takes her to a sunlit coastal town and an unexpected confrontation. Brought together either by chance or something more powerful, Theresa and Garrett’s lives come together in a tale that resonates with our deepest hopes for finding everlasting love. Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity, Message in a Bottle takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love. For those who cherished The Notebook and readers waiting to discover the magic of Nicholas Sparks’s storytelling, here is an achingly lovely novel of happenstance, desire, and the choices that matter most.

The Movie
 
 
 
A woman discovers a tragic love letter in a bottle on a beach, and is determined to track down its author.
 
Quotes from Message in a bottle 1999
 
Dodge Blake: If I was about 150 years younger, you'd be in trouble, young lady.


 
Dodge Blake: Choose between yesterday and tomorrow.


 
Garret Blake: Teresa, I don't want to lose you.
Theresa Osborne: Then don't.


 
Theresa Osborne: Have you lived here your whole life?
Garret Blake: Not yet.


 
Theresa Osborne: And you'll just forget about me, right?
Garret Blake: Every day.


 
Theresa Osborne: If some lives form a perfect circle, others take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been a part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has a love for which I can only be grateful.


 
Theresa Osborne: What if you got mad at me. It's a small boat.
Garret Blake: I don't like fighting, Theresa. Bowling either.


 
Theresa Osborne: So you *used* to be charming. Sorry I missed that.
 
 
There is even a website dedicated too... You guessed it. http://messageinabottle.com/

 



Wikipedia info

A message in a bottle is a form of communication whereby a message is sealed in a container (archetypically a glass bottle, but could be any medium, so long as it floats and remains waterproof) and released into the sea or ocean. Among other purposes they are used for scientific studies of ocean currents.

The first recorded messages in bottles were released around 310 BC by the Ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, as part of an experiment to show that the Mediterranean Sea was formed by the inflowing Atlantic Ocean.[verification needed]

On his return to Spain following his first voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus's ship entered a severe storm. Columbus threw a report of his discovery along with a note asking it to be passed on to the Queen of Spain, in a sealed cask into the sea, hoping the news would make it back even if he did not survive. In fact, Columbus survived and the sealed report was never found, or at least, its discovery never reported.[verification needed]

In the 16th century, the English navy, among others, used bottle messages to send ashore information about enemy positions. Queen Elizabeth I even created an official position of "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles", and anyone else opening the bottles could face the death penalty.[1]

In 1784 Chunosuke Matsuyama sent a message detailing his and 43 shipmates' shipwrecking in a bottle that washed ashore and was found by a Japanese seaweed collector in 1935, in the village of Hiraturemura, the birthplace of Chunosuke Matsuyama]

Since 1876, people have often used messages adrift in containers to communicate from the remote Scottish island of St Kilda. [3]

In 1914 a bottle was tossed into the ocean to test undercurrents-it was recovered in 2012[4]

In 1914, British World War I soldier Private Thomas Hughes tossed a green ginger beer bottle containing a letter to his wife into the English Channel. He was killed two days later fighting in France. In 1999, fisherman Steve Gowan dredged up the bottle in the River Thames. Although the intended recipient of the letter had died in 1979, it was delivered in 1999 to Private Hughes' 86-year old daughter living in New Zealand.[5]

In February 1916 the doomed crew of Zeppelin L 19 dropped their last messages to their superiors and loved ones into the North Sea. These washed up on the Kattegat coast near Gothenburg, Sweden six months later.[6]

On a lonely night in December 1945, American World War II veteran Frank Hayostek tossed a bottle over the side of his ship. It was recovered by an Irish milk maid, Breda O'Sullivan who set off an exchange of letters that lasted seven years before the two finally met amid an international media circus. Despite (or perhaps because of) the media attention, the two were never able to get their romance off the ground.

In May 2005 eighty-eight shipwrecked migrants were rescued off the coast of Costa Rica. They had placed an SOS message in a bottle and tied it to one of the long lines of a passing fishing boat.

The oldest message in a bottle was verified on 30 August 2012, by Guinness World Records, when a drift bottle released in June 1914 was found by Andrew Leaper, skipper of the Shetland-based Copious, ironically the same fishing vessel involved in the previous record recovery.[8]

That previous record was a find that spent 92 years 229 days at sea. A bottom drift bottle, numbered 423B, was released at 60° 50'N 00° 38'W (about halfway between Aberdeen, Scotland and the coast of Denmark) on April 25, 1914 and recovered by fisherman Mark Anderson of Bixter, Shetland, UK, on December 10, 2006.[9]

Similar methods using other media

Balloon mail is a similar method of sending undirected messages through the air. The advantage of balloon mail is that it can be launched anywhere and can in principle reach any point on Earth. A further advantage is that it can be launched more easily, since a bottle dropped into the ocean could be washed back to land by the surf.

The glass interior shell of the Westinghouse Time Capsules of the 1939 New York World's Fair and 1964 New York World's Fair was made of Pyrex, where the exterior metal casing was a special copper alloy of "Cupaloy" (1938) or "Kromarc" stainless steel (1965) to withstand the effects of 5000 years of time, when they are expected to arrive to the people intended.

The U.S. space agency NASA has launched several interstellar "messages in bottles." A graphic message in the form of a 6 by 9-inch gold-anodized aluminium plaque, known as the Pioneer plaque, was bolted to the frames of the Pioneer 10 (launched on March 2, 1972) and Pioneer 11 (launched on April 5, 1973) spacecraft.

In August and September 1977, NASA launched two spacecrafts, together called the Voyager Project. Each carries a 12-inch gold-plated copper disk, known as the Voyager Golden Record, containing recorded sounds and images representing human cultures and life on Earth.


In popular culture

Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story entitled "MS. Found in a Bottle", possibly intended as a satire of sea tales.

The Police recorded a song titled "Message in a Bottle" in 1979. It was their first number one hit.

Eyedea wrote a song called "Bottle Dreams", which refers to a girl who sends a daily message in a bottle into a river; after her death about 500 messages in bottles are found.

Nicholas Sparks's novel Message in a Bottle was made into a film of the same name in 1999.

In the 1977 Disney animated film, The Rescuers, captured protagonist Penny sent out a distress message in a bottle at the beginning of the movie in the hopes that someone will find it and rescue her.

In the 2009 BBC Radio 4 comedy sketch series Bigipedia one sketch covered the history of "The Desert Island Bore", a woman who has written more messages in bottles than anyone in history, but has never been rescued from the desert island because all the letters are boring.

In a second season episode of Gilligan's Island called "The Postman Cometh", it is revealed that Mary Ann writes a daily letter to her boyfriend Horace (who she later admits is a "real creep" and wasn't really her boyfriend at all, just a boy she hardly knew that she invented a romance with because Ginger had so many beaux and Mrs. Howell had her husband, so she wanted somebody to think that there was someone waiting for her back home).


Tell me what you think. Would receiving a message in a bottle be romantic to you? What would be?
 

If I found a message left by him, I would find it very romantic :)
 
Have an awesome day!
Hugs,
Keira

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Six Sentence Sunday, Part 1, set 2

Welcome to Six Sentence Sunday! :D

Here is part one of another four part arc from of Glow in the Dark, on sale now!

 

“Oh God, Mom, I don’t have time to explain. But Molly could be in danger.”

“What danger could she possibly be in? You’ve kept her under lock and key for weeks. Molly needs to go and play like a child should once in a while. She’ll be fine.”

Buy it now :) http://www.amazon.com/Glow-in-the-Dark

Check out other awesome Teasers :) Six Sentence Sunday.


I have seen a huge increase in sales since I started Six Sentence Sunday. Thank you to Triple S ladies and everybody that stopped by and the buyers. I love you :)


Have an awesome Sunday!

Cheers,
Keira

Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Saturday Saloon


Shaken not stirred.

Many cocktail recipes call for the ingredients to be shaken using a cocktail shaker. Of all the cocktail preparations, shaking is by far the most enjoyable and entertaining for you and your guests. Shaking is a simple technique that, with a little practice and by following a few tips, you'll master in no time. Once you get your personal shaking style down your cocktails will emerge crisp, cool and concentrated.

Here's How:

1. Place ice cubes in the shaker first. This will chill the shaker and cool the liquids as you add them.

2. Use 5-6 ice cubes for one drink.

3. When making two drinks at once use less ice to make room in the shaker.

4. Don't overfill the shaker. Give the ingredients plenty of room to move around.

5. Shake most drinks vigorously to a slow count of ten.

6. Shake drinks longer and harder that have many ingredients or ingredients that don't mix well such as eggs or cream.

7. Shake to a rhythm. Hum a tune and shake to the beat.

8. Shake frozen or blended drinks like daiquiris and coladas with crushed ice.

9. Don't add fruit to the shaker. Instead add it to the glass after straining.

What You Need

•Cocktail Shaker

•Ice Cubes

•Spirits, Liqueurs and Mixers as called for in the recipe

•Strainer (If using a Boston Shaker)

 

Now that you have your shaker skillz, down it’s time to test your work.

 

Cosmopolitain

1 oz vodka
1/2 oz triple sec
1/2 oz Rose's® lime juice
1/2 oz cranberry juice

Shake vodka, triple sec, lime and cranberry juice vigorously in a shaker with ice. Strain into a martini glass, garnish with a lime wedge on the rim, and serve.

 

Olive Martini

1 oz dry gin
1 oz sweet vermouth
1 oz olive juice

Pour the dry gin, sweet vermouth and olive brine into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and serve.

 

 

 
Shaker Drink

1 1/2 oz tequila
3 oz pineapple juice
1/2 oz lemon juice
1/2 tsp grenadine syrup


Pour all ingredients into a cocktail shaker half-filled with ice cubes. Shake well, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Freaky Friday: Mel Chesley

Freaky Friday, Features Mel Chesley, Hellfire Publishing's soon to be released Fantasy Author.

Mel, welcome to the Keira’s Corner, where it’s always hot, and panties, underwear and any clothing for that matter are optional.

Keira: You have a story coming out soon though Hellfire Publishing entitled ‘Adversarius, Shadow of the Rose, Book One’. What is that about?

 

Mel: Well, it’s about a long standing war between two kingdoms and what one of the ruling families is willing to do for peace. A marriage is arranged between the only heir of one kingdom to the daughter of the other. Problem is, the man’s father refuses to allow the union and orders an attack on the intended bride. She ends up losing her memory and it seems like the whole world tries to help get her home where she belongs.

Keira: Is writing your only talent?

Mel: No. I have an Associate’s Degree in Advertising Art. So, I like to draw when I have the supplies and opportunity. I am doing character drawings for my books. I’m also pretty skilled in people. In general, that is. I’ve worked customer service for almost 20 years and have learned to read people well. I use that in my writing when creating characters. I also love to cook/bake.

Keira: Where in the Hell did you find time to write?

Mel: I wish I could tell you! I have a great deal of time in the long winters of Alaska. I think if I didn’t have internet or my imagination, I’d go stir crazy. Picture ‘The Shining’...

Keira: Why are you a writer?

Mel: I love books. I love fantasy in particular. I have always enjoyed writing down little stories since I was a teenager and worked on some fan-fic with a friend. I knew, though, I had my own story inside me and over the years, I have had dozens of ideas and no patience to work on just one at a time. But I did!

Keira: Please share a particular detail about one of characters, please.

Mel: The pyrate in my books, Sorcha Lilanthroe, is actually based on my pirate persona from the SCA. (Society for Creative Anachronism) It is a medieval recreation group that has chapters all over the world. You have to research your name and device (coat of arms) and submit them to the College of Heralds. Everyone’s name and device should be unique (if possible) but also needs to be a name from the era you have chosen. You also have to research your history and come up with a viable story. My persona is Sorcha MacGregor from 17th century Scotland, who turned pirate.

Keira: What advice would you give to an unpublished writer?

Mel: Hmm... I would say, write, write and re-write. When you think you’ve got it all polished up and pretty, edit it again. Don’t give up! If you choose to go the route of becoming a self-published author, spend the money on an editor. It is worth every penny and your book will stand out that much more!


Let’s get personal…

Keira: What is your guilty Pleasure?

Mel: Guilty pleasure... I’d have to say Slippery Nipples...

The drink! Buttershots, Bailey’s Irish Cream and milk. Mmm!!

Keira: What is your favorite Smell?

Mel: Easy! The smell of rain before a storm in the desert.

Keira: What is your favorite favorite animal?

Mel: Wolves, hands down. I have a wolf tattoo on my right ankle.

Keira: Can you tell us a secret?

Mel: Not much of a secret, but not something very well known, either. Don’t know what this will do to my sales, but I failed English all through high school. ~Blushes~ I had the skills and the knowledge. My teachers even encouraged me to write, but I just didn’t apply myself.

Keira: Can you share your blurb with us?

Mel: Of course.

Two kingdoms, two goals.

The king of Relavia is determined to wipe out his warring neighbors in Paridzule, a worthy adversary for over five hundred years. News of an arranged marriage between his son and the daughter of his lifelong enemy has fueled the temper of Relavia's tyrannical king. What he doesn't realize is the true measure of his son's honor and how far he is willing to go to gain peace.

 

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Twitter: @MLChesley

Website: www.mlchesley.webs.com

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(Coming soon!) Keira: I can't wait!

Keira Kroft
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