Have you stopped by Weekend Writing Warriors
or Snippet Sunday (on Facebook) lately?

Every weekend a whole lotta’ authors get together to share tantalizing snippets from their works, some published and some not, and we all comment and offer critiques and encouragement on each. It’s Writers hanging out with Writers.

Even if you aren’t a writer you are welcome to come and sample our work — it will be like enjoying a passed hors d’oeuvre party. Just click on the links above to find the snippets.

In the meanwhile:

I posted snippets from Hostage Heart,
you can read them by clicking on the links below:

The bank robbery ~ 02/08/15

Danger ~ 02/15/15

Miss Goody Two-Shoes  ~  02/22/15

No money for ransom ~ 03/01/15

Because they sleep together ~ 03/08/15

Mamere called it vibrations – 03/15/15

Confusion – 03/22/15

Temptation  ~  03/29/15

Foreboding ~  04/05/15

Death – 04/12/15

We have a problem ~ 04/19/15

Three months later ~ 04/26/15

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“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.”  ~  Dave Meurer

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“A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.”  ~ Wilson Mizner

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“Teenagers don’t know what love is. They have mixed-up ideas. They go for a drive and the boy runs out of gas and they smooch a little and the girl says she loves him. That isn’t love. Love is when you are married twenty-five years, smooching in your living room and he runs out of gas and she says she still loves him.  That’s love.” ~ Norm Crosby

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“The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

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“To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.”
~ John Emerich Edward Dalberg

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“Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it–second chances when all hope was lost.” ~ Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again

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“Don’t underestimate yourself by comparing yourself with others. It’s our differences that make us unique and beautiful.” ~ Robert Tew

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“So many things I would have done, but clouds got in my way.” ~ Joni Mitchell

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“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

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“Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” ~ Franklin P. Jones

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“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” ~ Maya Angelou

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“I think sportsmanship is knowing that it is a game, that we are only as a good as our opponents, and whether you win or lose, to always give 100 percent.”
~ Sue Wicks

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“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan

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“The world is becoming more complicated every day, my fellow citizens. No man ought to be foolish enough to think that he understands it all. And, therefore, I am glad that there are some simple things in the world. One of the simple things is principle. Honesty is a perfectly simple thing.” ~ Woodrow Wilson, July 4, 1914

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“If you want to know what a person’s character, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.” ~ Proverb

 

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“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
~ Saint Augustine

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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” ~ Maya Angelou

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“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
~ Oprah Winfrey

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“When it comes to life the critical thing is, whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.” ~ Gilbert Chesterton

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“Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.” ~ Charles de Gaulle

 

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“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

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“Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” ~ Richard Armour

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“Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.”
~ Joan Blades

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“Success is 99% attitude and 1% aptitude.” ~ Celestine Chua

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“Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” ~ Albert Einstein

 

 

 

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“There are memories that time does not erase… Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.”~ Cassandra Clare, City of Heavenly Fire

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“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.” ~ Gaylord Nelson

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“Selflessness is humility. Humility and freedom go hand in hand. Only a humble person can be free.” ~ Jeff Wilson

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“No matter who we are, no matter how successful, no matter what our situation, compassion is something we all need to receive and give.” ~ Catherine Pulsifer

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“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.” ~ Kimberly Johnson

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“If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~ Van Gogh

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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” ~ Khalil Gibran

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“IT WASN’T A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. It should have been, but that’s the weather for you. For every mad scientist who’s had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who’ve sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime.” ~ Author Terry Pratchett

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“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” ~ Charles Bowden

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“Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day.” ~ John Mayer

 

 

 

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“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.” — Bruce Lee

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“Too many people spend money they earned.to buy things they don’t want.to impress people that they don’t like.” ― Will Rogers

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“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.” — Marquis de Condorcet

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“The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness and inner peace.” – Allan Lokos

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“If you’re angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug – which is all the more reason to do so. It’s hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that’s precisely what happens when we hug each other.” — Walter Anderson

 

 

¡en español!

Hyphema CVR Spanish F

Hipema

Por Chelle Cordero

 

Hifema: Sangrado en el ojo causado por un trauma…

Matt Garratti, paramédico de Nueva York, se muda con su esposa e hijo a Carolina del Norte para tener el trabajo de sus sueños como paramédico de vuelo. Sudah, su esposa pakistaní, recibe miradas frías y comentarios insensibles de sus nuevos vecinos… Matt se pregunta si está siguiendo su sueño o llevando a su familia a una pesadilla de la que tal vez nunca puedan despertar.

 

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REVIEW (English Edition)

A Non-Stop Thriller that Will Leave You Longing for More

 

I sat down to read Hyphema late one night. I thought I would start it, read for about thirty minutes and then go to sleep; instead, I stayed up till almost four in the morning reading it. Immediately immersed in the story, the tension never let up enough for me to even consider putting it down and coming back to it later.

 

Matt is an air ambulance EMT, a flight medic. He has just moved his son, and his Pakistani wife, to a small town in North Carolina from New York so he could have this job. The job is his dream job and Sudah, his wife, couldn’t be more supportive. She is patient, caring and so obviously in love with Matt and their son that it just spills over onto the page. She’s the kind of person I’d like to have for a neighbor, but not everyone, even within the circle of Matt’s work buddies and their wives feel that way, but Sudah handles the anger and prejudice with grace and softly spoken words meant to soften hearts and break down the walls of misunderstanding.

 

Tracy Riva

 

For the rest of this review, https://www.amazon.com/Hyphema-Chelle-Cordero/dp/0615877281

 

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Hipema Links

 

 

Apple

 https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1130377502

 

 

 

Kobo

 https://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/ebook/hipema

 

 

 

Apple

 https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1130377502

 

 

 

Nook

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hifema-chelle-cordero/1124020052

 

 

 

Kindle

Coming Soon!

 

Scribd Subscription  Service

https://www.scribd.com/book/316906221/Hipema

Also Available through:

3M, Baker and Taylor, Follet,  Overdrive, Gardners, Chegg, StreetLib, and Google Play

 

 

 

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Hipema Sneak Peek Video (English)

 

or

https://youtu.be/AxYHVpsZHds

 

 

 

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Hipema Free PREVIEW 

or

http://books.noisetrade.com/chellecordero/preview-hipema-by-chelle-cordero

 

Fotografía de  Mark Engelman

Author Photo Chelle

Chelle Cordero

 

Chelle Cordero escribe historias de pasión y suspenso. Vanilla Heart Publishing ha publicado nueve novelas de Cordero: Bartlett’s Rule; His Lucky Charm; Within the Law; Courage of the Heart; Final Sin; Hostage Heart; A Chaunce of Riches; Common Bond, Tangled Hearts; Hyphema; y Within the Law. Actualmente trabaja en su décima novela y promete otra historia de aventura y reconfortante amor. Chelle ha escrito libros tanto de ficción como no ficción la mayor parte de su vida adulta y ha estado con Vanilla Heart Publishing desde principios del 2008.

 

Sus libros han sido muy aclamados: Bartlett’s Rule fue nombrado uno de los 10 mejores libros del 2009 por of Carolyn Howard-Johnson. El último pecado tuvo Mención de Honor en la Categoría de Ficción en el Festival del Libro 2010 en Nueva York así como una nominación para el Premio Pushcart el mismo año. Hyphema ganó, el 9 de diciembre de 2011 el Friday Book Cover Vote en la página de internet Shades of Love. A Chaunce of Riches fue el ganador de  D. Renee Bagby’s readers’ choice en la categoría The Best Overall First Chapter en abril de 2010. Y Hostage Heart, Final Sin y A Chaunce of Riches han sido finalistas en los 10 mejores libros según la encuesta del 2009 de Preditors’ and Readers. Chelle también ha aparecido en “50 excelentes autores que deberías leer” de The Author´s Show en el 2010.

Chelle Cordero tiene un blog de autor en http://chellecordero.blogspot.com/, un blog promocional blog en http://ccepotourri.wordpress.com y su página de internet http://ChelleCordero.com ofrece información de todos sus libros y publicaciones. Los blogeros y medios de comunicación están invitados a visitar la sala de medios de comunicación en https://chellecordero.com/media/ con fotografías y otra información para ser descargada.

Chelle vive en el noreste del país con su esposo, Mark, y su familia. Tienen dos hijos, adultos, Jenni (y Jason) y Marck (y Trish); también viven con tres gatitos traviesos y consentidos, uno de ellos se ha instalado permanentemente en el escritorio de Chelle. Chelle es periodista autónoma de tiempo completo para varias publicaciones; sus artículos aparecen regularmente a lo largo de América del Norte y escribe una columna mensual en NYS Emergency Medical Services como NYS Emergency Medical Technician (Noticias de la Primera Respondedora)

 

 

 

Translator for the Spanish Editions

FS Translator Mariana

Mariana Sánchez Carranza

 

Mariana Sánchez Carranza – Traductora mexicana, licenciada en idiomas con especialización en traducción e interpretación por el Centro Universitario Angloamericano. Ha participado en talleres de traducción literaria impartidos por la OMT (Organización Mexicana de Traductores) de la cual es miembro y la ATA (American Translators Association).

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Mariana Sánchez Carranza – Mexican translator who has a B.A. in Languages with a specialization in Translation and Interpretation. Attendee at literary translation workshops organized by OMT (Mexican Translators Association) at the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Jalisco and the ATA (American Translators Association).

 

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