The Lost Lantern Sweepstakes

Do you have a favorite book? A top five or ten list?

Have you read a book where you imagined the author opened a vein and bled for you? A book where there was so much hurt you felt it, followed by joy and elation, then more disappointment, followed by intrigue, and perhaps happiness? A book where the characters you’ve visualized stay in your mind and return to you later? You lived the tension they experienced, and felt empathy, anger, or disgust?

Transferring feelings to readers from the written page is the goal of any author, and certainly is for me. My most recent release came from deep within, I assure you. It is a tale with much raw emotion.

For the next week you can enter to win a paperback copy of my new book, The Lost Lantern. Please follow this link: https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/9de9b7bc52e07df5

If you win, it will be shipped to your door. If you don’t win, please consider reading both my books, which are also available electronically on Amazon.com and Goodreads.com.

Good luck and as always, thank you for reading. A.S.

 

P.S.  I would enjoy reading what book means the most to YOU. My favorite is For Whom The Bell Tolls.

© 2017

The Ballads of Two Thin Men

HUNTINGTON, WV – Had the pleasure of seeing Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt together in concert, two chairs, taking turns, accompanying each other, singing harmony, Hiatt playing leads. If you get the chance and are so inclined, don’t miss it. Well worth it. Had to borrow some words to get this ball rolling again. Thanks for reading, A.S.

 

Heard the ballads of two thin men, yet I’m empty of all words.

For a song that is in search of, a bridge and a third verse.

Now Hiatt he would blues it out, Lyle would take it deep,

The difference would be negligible, their writing not discreet.

 

“She’s no lady,” he proclaims, although she wears his ring,

“She’s my wife,” he coyly lets us in, complete is his slow zing.

That image always makes me smile, unlike the next great find,

Sad to think, without a blink, “She’s already made up her mind.”

 

Johnny tests the great conquest, with this the perfect line,

From narra’tor – “His beer was warmer, than the look in her eye.”

If his “Smashing a perfectly good guitar” don’t tickle,

Neither “Tennessee Plates,” nor “Baby Drive South” – you’re fickle.

 

“Honey it’s so early, we probably shouldn’t speak yet,”

So “I’m gonna wait, just a little bit longer,”

“My Baby Won’t Tolerate” an “Icy Blue Heart,”

So if you failed to Lovett, “It Feels Like Rain,” and “You’re Paper Thin.”

 

© 2017