Hell Bound is the first Novella in a post-apocalyptic series.
How far would you go to save your family?
Sam and Mathew finally get a chance to go on a train ride to the Grand
Canyon– alone. Leaving their two kids back in California, they are
excited for a weekend of rest.
When a zombie Apocalypse breaks out, the couple must try to fight their
way back to California to see if their kids are still alive. In this
harrowing story of love and survival in a world that is crumbling by
death and destruction, we follow Sam and Mathew through their
struggle to reunite with their children.
Mathew and Sam fought their way back home to where their kids were supposed
to be waiting. Instead they find out they have already moved on with
Sam’s parents to seek safety.
Now they are in a rush to be back with their kids, fighting hordes of
flesh eating zombies ,gaining and losing friends along the way.
In a world full of death and destruction where the dead come to life and
the living are just as bad as the dead, will Mathew and Sam find
their kids before its too late or die trying?
Sam and Mathew have come so far to receive the bad news that the safe
haven is no longer safe. No one can tell them where their kids are.
Trained soldiers have retreated, and all are too scared to fight
against the raging zombies. A stranded Soldier offers them his help
to find their family but will it be enough to fight all the obstacles
in their way? Can Mathew and Sam survive their last journey?
Three years after the apocalypse Sam and her three kids continue their life
in the safe haven. Well,as safe as they can be. The military is at a
constant battle to keep the walls standing but the zombie herd just
keeps growing stronger by each passing day and keeps finding their
way into the compound that once protected everyone.
Supplies are running low, weapons are far and few. Now Sam must help a group
of soldiers find weapons and food. Her journey continues with her
fighting to save the only home she has left and the only family still
living.
The End Is Near is the fourth book in the Hell Bound series but can be
read as a standalone. To understand Sam’s story you may want to read
the Hell Bound series from the beginning.
Kathy Dinisi is an award winning author,Amazon best seller, International
best sellier. She is born and raised in Southern California where she
currently resides with her husband and two kids. She usually spends
her time watching Horror movies and reading a good old horror Novel.
She enjoys crazy hikes to unknown places you usually cant find on a
map, where she gets her crazy ideas.
I took the plunge today and started my shop on my website. This is an exciting step for me. I’m able to offer discounts and sales more easily than anywhere else.
Right now there’s only a few items listed. I’ve got two book series listed for sale and a few crochet patterns which can be downloaded right from my site!
This shop feature is one of the reasons I switched to the new website. It offers me the opportunity to have more control over the price of my items. There are a variety of features which offer a lot of options that aren’t available elsewhere.
Please go to the Shop and wander around. At the bottom on the product page is a place for you to like a product, if you so wish.
Over the next few weeks, my plan is to add all of my books, short stories, and crochet patterns. I also plan to add completed crochet items which will be one time offers available to the first person to purchase.
Wayfarer Resolve is finally done! In this final installation of Wayfarers, Decker and Adara face an attack on their homeworlds as well as on their children. A clan member from Phelan’s clan attacks Addy and Zoe while Adara and Decker deal with riots and attacks on the home world. Phelan’s clan member is at fault. Will this break down the clans? This is available in on Amazon, Smashwords and other sites. For more information on what I’m up to writing and publishing check out my web site
You all know I write. I publish through Smashwords and KDP (Amazon). For the month of July a number of my items are on sale at Smashwords. Some are free and some are discounted. It’s a good time to add to your book list but get things at a discounted price.
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While you’re there, check out the erotica author Ava Taylor. Adults only but she has some interesting stories on sale as well: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AvaTaylor
I’m on a streak! I recently won three books! Hopefully they will be good books and I will enjoy them. The question will be how will I fit them into my schedule.
One is a physical book and I think the other two are ebooks. I’m going to have to ask my daughter to help me with those so I can read them easily on my phone. If I can read them on my phone, I’m more likely to get through them as my kindle is somewhere and maybe not working.
I’ve got the next nine days off and can’t wait. I’m sure it will be relaxing – though not likely to involve a lot of outdoor time. Our temps are in the 90s and heat index hovers over 100. Not my idea of a good time. Maybe I can sneak in some time in the mornings – even though it isn’t my favorite time of day.
Even with the holiday, I’m hoping to get some writing time. In one of the stories I’m working on, I need to step back and maybe redo a complete scene. I’m not liking where I’ve ended up. I may have to sacrifice what I’ve written which in a rough draft I have a hard time doing. I’ve lost the flow though so it may be necessary.
I’ve got two books I’m hoping to get the edits for the one on the computer and the editing done on the other one. I’ll have to see as there will be a lot of family time going on over the next week.
Next Friday, Vicki and I will run all the errands for the weekend. I’m hoping we will get them all done so the rest of the weekend will be an actual weekend.
We’ve been so busy. A few projects have gotten done around the house. Ken and Vicki painted the garage door and our front door. They are now a lovely purple. I LOVE how they turned out. We still have to do the back door but of course we ran out of time.
We also got our new appliances delivered. Yes, we know stainless is in but we prefer the black and I think they look great in our kitchen with the yellow walls. The dishwasher still needs to be installed but that will be next month! I cannot wait!!!
I’m still recovering from my surgery. I still get tired too easily but it’s getting better. I didn’t have a lot of pain but every now and again, I’ll touch my nose and it will twinge. It’s not really a hurt but more a sensitivity to being touched.
This last weekend we accomplished nothing other than to go to the ALA (library) conference with Vicki. She got to talk to a lot of vendors, librarians. We got a massive number of books for her job. Ken and I got a large number as well. On top of the lovely books, I spoke to some amazing people. One was a children’s book publisher who expressed an interest in my children’s book (once I get it completed). I have her card and hopefully I can make a connection. I also spoke to and gave a card to a reviewer. Interestingly, I stopped to speak to a vendor and we got to chatting. He asked what I do – i.e. why I am at this conference. I had on my tag I was an author. He asked about what I write and took my card. Now we will see if he purchases. I realized I need to get more general cards – something which promotes my writing, editing, and publishing.
I have two days off now. I’m in need of them. The conference was fun but exhausting. I’ve been spending my nights working on crochet things – currently I’m crocheting around all the fleece I have to make it into different things. I have several I’m making up for the rummage sale. I also got another set of potholders done.
I’m working on reading a book for review. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I’ve decided I’m going to take a book to work and read during my lunch hours. My to read list has gotten excessive and I miss reading.
I got my purse sent off to the publisher. I’m excited to see it in the magazine. I hope they like it. I know I do. It will be wonderful to get another publishing credit under my belt. This weekend I’m hoping we can get through some of our to do lists. All three of us have this long long list of things to get done. We’re making progress but our weekends are so busy.
I’ve been experiencing some serious crankiness over not physically being able to get things done. I know what needs to get done, but I can’t physically do it myself and the other people in my house are working on other things. It’s making anxious because there are aspects of the tasks I can do – i.e. sit and sort through things but when I physically try to shift things, or work on it, I can’t. My legs hurt, my joints hurt. It is frustrating me I can’t get more done. I was getting cranky at those in my house – even though it isn’t their fault – but now I’m recognizing what I’m doing, I’m attempting to do what I can. I’ve started a list and I’m getting someone in to help me do the things which are top of my priority list. The other people in my house all have their own lists which are as important as my list. I keep reminding myself in the end we’ll have a more organized space.
Today I’m working on some computer stuff where I need to be at my computer but then I’m going to go write. I’ve already updated my budget, sales for the last two months and other reports I do to keep track of my writing stuff.
I need to write my pagan blog and work on my web page. Once I’m done with these tasks (and hopefully in the process I don’t find more tasks) I am hoping to go write. I need to be off my legs and give them a chance to rest. I’m either going to write or I’ll watch some tv and crochet – with the dozens of projects I have going it won’t be hard to pick one or ten to work on.
The plan for the today and tomorrow – rest and recover from the last three days. My legs are swollen and painful which is what happens when I spend too much time doing and not resting. It will pass and in the meantime I’ll be busy doing things I’m able to do. The more I accomplish the less stressed I am about the things I can’t accomplish.
I would think things would slow down a bit but they aren’t. Our a/c was giving us grief so we had the HVAC people come look at it. In the process they discovered our furnace was broken to the point where it is dangerous to turn it on. Anyone who knows me knows I can run my a/c or furnace any time depending on my temperature. Our furnace had been red tagged – meaning we cannot use it at all. The HVAC guy turned off the gas so it doesn’t even turn on accidently. In all this drama, I’m starting to have a panic attack about the costs of the work. To fix the a/c it cost us nearly $200. When he told us about the furnace, it’s only seven years old, I started to freak out. However, it’s under warrantee so no cost to us (thankfully). But it still needs to get fixed. They are coming in on July 5 to fix it. Since I had to take off, I asked someone to come over on that day to help me with a few projects. The guy who is installing our dishwasher is coming on July 8. We have a ton of stuff to get done between now and then.
I’m hoping for a cooler weekend so I can get out in the garage and sort through some things which we have to decide if we want to keep or get rid of. I think Vicki has stuff she needs to sort out there as well so hopefully we can get it done in a couple of hours. Then I’ll move on to other projects. There are so many right now, the problem will be more in deciding which one than to find a project.
It is the Fourth of July weekend so I think Vicki has plans but I doubt Ken and I will do much more than hang out at home. If I can get the sorting done in the garage, I will likely need to sit with my feet up. This means crochet or writing time depending on who is around and what’s going on in the house. Either way at least I’ll be productive.
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I barrelled through the bad book. It’s done. I’m annoyed and will never read the author again. I posted a review on Goodreads and Amazon. When I was on Amazon, I discovered she’s continued to write in that same town but with new characters.
I read some of the reviews of the first one and it reaffirmed my belief that I wouldn’t be reading her again. She took a character from the last book – the bad book – who stood by while the main character was raped and tortured and made him into the love interest in the new book. How is he supposed to be romantic and loving?
At the end of the last book, she put in a bit about how it was the brother of one of the sister’s love interest. He said his brother was undercover. The whole spiel was you do things that are wrong while you’re undercover. Can you just imagine the meeting – hey bodyguard, you stood by while I was raped and torture but come have Sunday dinner with your brother, sister-in-law and the rest of our family. I don’t think so.
Of course, realism was not anywhere near this book with the rape victim having sex, lots of sex, within a few days of being rescued. Of all the things in this book, that is what bugged me the most. There’s just no way, no matter how much healing – magical or otherwise – that a woman would be ready in that short of time.
It’s behind me now. I’ll stop complaining – maybe. I won’t be reading anymore of the author. I’m going back to JD Robb tonight. I’m going to try to finish the scarf and the book I’m listening to. I’m going to work out a schedule for all the things I want to get done including the writing. I also want to look at yarn to see what I will need to buy (there’s always room for more yarn – it’s squishy!)
I’ve found myself in a bad place with reading books right now. I have one book I hate. I read two chapters of it last night and wanted to throw the book (i.e. my kindle) across the room. I’ve been struggling to finish this book since June of last year. The JD Robb book I’m reading is slow. I’m a tad bored with it. I’ve read it before. It gets better but I feel like I won’t get to that part. The Sagara book is just tedious. I can’t stand to listen to more than a chapter at a time.
My strategy to get through these books is this. Tonight I’m going to skim the beginning of each chapter of the BAD book. I’m going to read the last two chapters and finish the damn thing.
For the JD Robb book, I’m going to listen to the opening of the chapters and see how I feel about where I am in the book. I’ve read this book two or three times already so I don’t feel obligated to read every word. I’ll likely skim ahead until I get to the parts I like. I know once I reach a certain point in the book, I’m going to want to listen to the whole thing.
For the Sagara book, I’m going to continue to intersperse a chapter or two at a time with other books.
I love to read. I enjoy falling into a story and getting lost for hours as I traverse the world the author has created but these three are just annoying me. I know the next JD Robb one won’t annoy me. I’m not going to pick up any more by the BAD book’s author – not ever. I hear from my daughter that the Sagara books I’m behind – there are three – two of them are like the one I’m currently reading (so this one and one more) and the third one out is back to her usual format and story telling set up. I’ll get to a good book. I think it’s going to take a few days – unfortunately.
This morning at 2:15 I finished the afghan! After work, I had a headache so came home to a dark room. It felt good to just have quiet and dark. I was a bit annoyed because I thought I wouldn’t be able to work on the afghan.
However, after supper my head felt better so I picked up the afghan. I only intended to work a bit and then go to bed early as I’ve had a couple of nights with crappy sleep. Instead, I watched Torchwood and crocheted until the afghan was done.
I’ve made a late start today but I’m okay with that because the afghan is done and I can move on to the next crochet project. Before I start the next crochet project, I’m going to spend some time on the computer working on production for some of my books.
Suzanne got me pictures for the next poetry book cover. I have to take some time to see if they will work. She sent me multiple pictures. This means I have to pick the ones I think will make the best cover and play with it to see if it will fit the requirements and work up into a good cover. I generally make four or five and email them off to people for opinions. Once people let me know what they like and don’t like, I eliminate until I’m down to THE cover for the book.
This all takes time and is one of the most time consuming. It is also one of the most difficult decisions I make when it comes to my books. Suzanne provides me with some amazing photos and I have a hard time narrowing it down to just one. There are a multitude of decisions like font style and color, placement, size, and so on that all affect how the book looks. Since there are almost limitless options for these decisions I try to be consistent but it still helps me to have other people’s opinions.
Don’t think I’m indecisive. I have a good eye for color combinations and other stylistic features but too often I’m just too close to it all. This is where other people’s opinions help me. It isn’t just a matter of them choosing cover A or B. It is a matter of telling me what works and what doesn’t work in the covers.
Suzanne and my daughters are the four people I trust most but I’ve also asked other people to. The interesting thing from this is generally one cover stands out as getting a consensus of being the front runner. For Secret Past, I had opinions from at least a dozen people and they all liked the one cover – the one I went with – the best.
This means my day will consist of cover design, errands, and starting a new crochet project. It will be a full day but hopefully a productive one. Finally – the neverending afghan – is DONE!!!
