Isis The Red Mirror Series

I finished “Isis,” the first book in the Red Mirror Series, am putting together query letters which feels a lot like college applications.  The final draft of “Isis” came in at 93,000 words or about 275 pages.  I like to create a total package, so put together the cover you see here.

The next book is spinning in my head and I’ve already done the cover for it. “Athena” will be set in Las Vegas, ancient Greece and Ptolemaic Egypt (325 BCE).  Isis is set in Las Vegas and Late Period Egypt (525 BCE).  That might seem like close to the same story for non-history buffs, but there were monumental world changes at those times.

The Persians invaded Egypt in 525 BCE and ended the last Egyptian dynasty ever to rule the Delta. Alexander the Great took Egypt from the Persians about 200 years later and starting constructing Alexandria from a little Egyptian village on the Mediterranean. He envisioned the greatest city ever built and the capital of his world empire.

more about my author life? visit www.sandragorenielsen.com

Sex and the Zen of Shopping or How to Shop Smart in a Dumb Economy (color edition)

A bit like a small child, a book seems to suck all the creative energy right out of your soul.  If you don’t feed it and nurture it all the time, it withers and dies.  That’s where I’ve been – creating and rearing my book-child “Sex and the Zen of Shopping” – focusing on it’s well being above all else.

Finally ready to go away to college (publication), we’ve passed so many important milestones – the goal finally does seem just at our fingertips.  The experience of creating a book is for yet another article.  Here is meant to be an explanation to my readers for my absence from Sandra Off the Strip.

In addition to writing my own book on some of my favorite topics –shopping, philosophy and human need, I have written a piece for an upcoming anthology titled “Life Choices.” Turning Point Publications has scheduled release for Jan 30, 2010.  My piece “A True Love Story” is another of my pet subjects.

Because my life is entering a new era, so must Sandra Off the Strip evolve.  I loved sniffing that underbelly of Vegas with its hidden treasures to harvest the tidbits that make living and visiting here such an adventure.  The changes in the blog are sure to displease and disinterest many of my readers who looked to Off the Strip for updates on all the wild, eclectic happenings in Las Vegas, the world capital of crazies.

So I’m breaking the first rule of a problem-free life – “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”  More than a fix, the changes are alterations.  My life is changing so Sandra Off the Strip has to change too.  I don’t believe in boring lives though, so I anticipate new adventures in new territory.

You are most welcome to come along for the ride.

http://www.sexandthezenofshopping.com
http://www.lifechoicesbook.com

Related A Meeting of Science Fiction Buffs (another club), Clubs & Associations

The schedule:

Jul 07 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Jul 14 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Jul 21 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Jul 28 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Related Free Films for Family and Adults

In case you don’t watch TV, read the newspaper or catch the news online at MSN.com, Avandia is a Glaxo-SmithKline pharmaceutical for treatment of diabetes type 2 which causes a significant increase in risk for heart attack. The New England Journal of Medicine published its report on Mon May 21 which may have prompted the FDA to issue a “safety alert” citing potential significant risk of heart failure among Avandia users. These risks are reputedly between 30-43% over normal for heart attack and 64% for heart death. Significant indeed. And don’t forget that those with diabetes are already at high risk of heart failure as a result of the disease itself.

Avandia and Actos, from Japanense Takeda Pharmaceutical, are part of a class known as glitazones. Rezulin, also in that class, was pulled from the market in 2000 because of deaths from acute liver failure. Baycol, a statin lowering cholesterol, was pulled in 2001 because of sometimes fatal break down of muscle tissue. Vioxx, the anti-inflammatory and pain-killer, was pulled in 2004 due to increased risk of heart attacks and stroke. Bextra, another COX-2 inhibitor anti-inflammatory, was pulled in 2005 also due to increased heart disease and stroke. Are you starting to wonder if FDA approval is any guarantee that your prescription won’t cause more damage than good?

And we are faced with the same repeating questions since Vietnam, the tobacco industry cover-up, Watergate, Iraq etc etc etc: Who knew what and when?

If you are a thinking person, you might ask what else are you putting in your body, with your doctor’s, the FDA?’s and the pharmaceutical company’s recommendation that could kill you? Couple that with the number of meds that are advertised on any given Thursday night TV show and the scenario becomes frightening. Almost makes you yearn for the good old days when cigarettes and alcohol picked up the tab for our evening entertainment.

You can order Natural Cures “They” Don’t Want You To Know About from Amazon.com. and decide for yourself how crazy Trudeau is. I never buy anything 100%, but if he is only half right, you need to know about it.

Related FDA Assault on natural health choices

Related Clubs & Associations, “Socrates Cafe” Discussion Group, Websites for Thinkers

Against the Stream

On Sat May 19 1:30pm-4pm Levine will lead meditation. Considered a Spiritual Revolutionary, he is based in Los Angeles where he effects social change by teaching, writing and counseling, including work with juvenile halls and prisons. He has studied both Theravada and Mahayanan Buddhist traditions. Fee $30.

Call 702-798-YOGA (9642), email info@itsyogalasvegas.net or check out excellent website itsyogalasvegas.net. It’s Yoga Las Vegas 4634 So. Maryland Pkwy #101 Las Vegas NV.

Related Spiritual Skydiving (Kriya yoga)

Schedule of events:
Fri May 11 5pm. Hennessey’s (over 21) 425 Fremont St Downtown Las Vegas NV
Sat May 12 7pm. Borders Books & Music (all ages) 2190 N. Rainbow Las Vegas NV
Sun May 13 4pm. Bruce Trent Park (all ages) 8851 Vegas Dr Las Vegas NV
Mon May 14 4pm. Clark Country Library Theatre (all ages) Includes reception, art exhibit and performances. 1401 E. Flamingo Rd Las Vegas NV

www.worldfolk.com

Amy Tan

Related John O’Hurley Talks Dogs

The cost is $350 for the entire event, with meals, or $200 for one day. Students may attend on Saturday for $150. Registration is limited to 100 attendees. Sam’s Town Hotel and Gambling Hall Boulder Hwy Las Vegas NV. More info: www.lasvegaswritersconference.com.