Crimson’s Creative Challenge #71

Posted on March 18, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC#71

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

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Through Sleep’s Fragile Film

Posted on March 16, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by Leandro de Carvalho on pixabay

In her bed yet in her head
In her sleep, no place to keep
Creeping through sleep’s fragile film
In a dream, through veils unseen
Into a world that is not ours
Where five minutes lived might yet be hours
Or hours be but a second breath
To walk with folk who might be foe, kith or kin
Who yet behave like conscripted actors in the walker’s scenes,
Acting out the somnambulist’s fears and hopes and daily cares

78 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Somnambulist

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Sunday Fungi: Ghostly Forms

Posted on March 15, 2020 by crispina kemp

Photo 19 Nov 2019

A typical fairy-cap type of fungus, all pale and mysterious.

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Fast in the Flood

Posted on March 14, 2020 by crispina kemp

A willow wept in the River Wensum: 3rd March 2020

Surrounded, another title achieved in Maria’s Antonia’s #2020picoftheweek

And no, it’s not part of the flooding that’s hit the west of Britain so terribly. This is Norfolk, on the outskirts of Norwich, and these have long been watermeadows, liable to flood every spring.

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ARC Book Review: The Spinner’s Child by Crispina Kemp

Posted on March 13, 2020 by crispina kemp

For some reason, my first attempt at this didn’t work. So I’m re-reblogging Sammi’s very generous review

sammicoxwriter's avatarSammi Loves Books

The Spinner’s Child is the first book in the soon-to-be-released series The Spinner’s Game by Crispina Kemp.

My thanks to Crispina Kemp for the ARC of this book in return for an honest review. The Spinner’s Child, and the rest of The Spinner’s Game, will be available from 21st March 2020 from Amazon, and is currently available for pre-order.

Quick Review (read on for full review)

The Spinner’s Child is a fantastic, enchanting read. Wonderfully written, it’s a highly imaginative historical fantasy, filled with engaging characters, captivating locations and a gripping storyline. Recommended! 5 / 5

Summary (from Goodreads)

Spliced with dark material, sprinkled with the mystical. Join Kerrid’s journey through the timeless first days… and into the Spinner’s Web

Cursed, friendless and shunned, fraudulent seer Kerrid, born of a fisher-hunter clan, holds two beliefs. That in her psychic abilities and exuded light she is unique, and…

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Update ReadEveryBooks Scam

Posted on March 13, 2020 by crispina kemp

First, the situation with the tweeter, Eunice Beckman. Tweets began on 3rd March 2020. To date, 800+ tweets have been posted. That’s 800+ books linked to the we-books.ga site. See the screenshots that follow.

I haven’t checked out all the books offered free for download, but those I have are, like my own Lake of Dreams, available only on pre-order. Now isn’t that odd?

The link given in the tweets goes to we-books.ga. See the following shots. Yesterday, the Contact Us button on we-books.ga site linked to ReadEveryBooks.com.

They searched the web and couldn’t find? No, a search would have delivered them to this blog, my author’s page on Goodreads, and the Kindle Store on Amazon

The link here went to ReadEveryBooks.com Note the variety of formats available

No comment required!

Yesterday, the Contact Us button on we-books.ga site linked to ReadEveryBooks.com. I tracked them down to their service provider and reported their scam (piracy, copyright infringement and phishing).

Today I find the thread regarding my book is closed. See the pics below.

In case you can’t see, for it is small, Caffeine, a Senior Member, says CC just to make sure you aren’t a bot. And the last post on the thread: Thanks guys, was waiting for this book long time too. (I should be so lucky!) She really ought to have gone to Amazon!

And the Contact link now delivers the enquirer to talecrate.com

Talecrate was registered in March 2017, has a UK tech contact and a most interesting Hosting History: 3 changes on 4 unique name servers over 3 years.

I checked out talecrate. See the pic…

Job done. Warning given. Please do avoid.

And once again, this evening, the link takes gs the enquirer to ReadEveryBooks. Somewhat erratic in the addresses!

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SCAM written loud

Posted on March 12, 2020 by crispina kemp

This SCAM has just blarred in my face. The screencaptures below tell the story. This doesn’t just affect me, but EVERYONE who publishes with KDP (Amazon). I’m guessing the owners of the site ReadEveryBooks.com downloads a title, free cos they have Kindle Unlimited, then copy it to mobi file (easy to do) and offer it on their site. It says Free but that’s only to register, and to register you must give Credit Card details.

Screencapture of ReadEveryBooks.com

The report says this site has been in existence only this month

Advice on what to do now. I have tried to contact the site owners. Not possible. I have tweeted Ms Beckman to ask her to remove the tweet and advise her she’s breaking copyright. I’m about to explore KDP for a way to report. After all, they’re being ripped off too.

 

 

 

 

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CCC70: Nelly and Sid

Posted on March 12, 2020 by crispina kemp

Crimson’s Creative Challenge #70

Sid was one hell of a guy with the girth of a giant and the heart of a saint,
Nelly always was laughing, the happiest soul without restraint.
They met one night at the harbour’s mouth, colliding, for lack of light.
Lips found lips, hands clasped and clung,
As the tide came in, several bells they rung.
At the height of the tide… the climax when all is given, nothing more to come,
They collapsed in a heap on the lifeboat’s run and slithered into the scum.

The broken concrete forms the edge of the old lifeboat slipway at Gorleston-on-Sea. I looked at it and thought: Did the earth move for you too, Darling?

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Crimson’s Creative Challenge #70

Posted on March 11, 2020 by crispina kemp

CCC70

Welcome to my weekly challenge—open to all—just for FUN, FUN, FUN

Here’s how it works:

Every Wednesday I post a photo (this week it’s that one above.)
You respond with something CREATIVE

Here are some suggestions:

  • An answering photo
  • A cartoon
  • A joke
  • A caption
  • An anecdote
  • A short story (flash fiction)
  • A poem
  • A newly minted proverb, adage or saying
  • An essay
  • A song—the lyrics or the performance

You have plenty of scope and only two criteria:

  • Your creative offering is indeed yours
  • Your writing is kept to 150 words or less

If you post a link in the comments section of this post I’ll be able to find it
If you include Crimson’s Creative Challenge as a heading, WP Search will find it (theory)
by ‘Searching’ in the WP Reader (fingers crossed)

Here’s wishing you inspirational explosions. And FUN.

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Who But a Human

Posted on March 9, 2020 by crispina kemp

image by Fernando Zhiminaicela on pixabay

Perplexed, you say, pondering
And I wonder what perplexities you mull upon now
What confusion found though the evidence was clearly presented
What contradictions cleverly wrought – in your opinion – to baffle and snaffle you
What oxymorons, what tautologies, upset your tight-kept schedule
Must you ever remain defined by that line, that whip they wielded in ages past that disallowed a toe’s transgression
Now I see you lost in cogitation
Beyond any thinker’s recognition
A person with brain, not a machine’s premonition
Truly, for who but a human can be perplexed?

90 words Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Perplex

 

 

 

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