Tuesday, October 15, 2013

The Karma Visited Blog Tour

The advantage of a virtual online blog tour is that if you are unavailable KV cvr with borderfor the original “meet & greet”, you can still come by and enjoy – and yes, your comments are still welcome!
Just click on the links below. 

So I dabbled in Paranormal 
[on Lindsay's Romantics, Aug. 19, 2013]
http://bit.ly/1fdr32v
I finally broke out of the mold. For years I wrote romantic suspense novels, liked the genre (and apparently so did some readers), and was very comfortable with the genre. I’ve always liked a bit of edge of the seat mystery and am a hopeless romantic myself, so…
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Guest Blog and giveaway: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Promotion by Chelle Cordero[Sept. 4, 2013 by The Long and Short Of It]
http://bit.ly/14YCbMK
An author shouldn’t wait until the book is already on sale before she starts promoting it. Once you know that the book is going to happen, start your promo. Use excerpts, interview your characters on your blog, play with the title, talk about the conflict the characters face and just make people curious…
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Dream, dream, dream…Chelle Cordero
[Sept. 15, 2013 by Marilyn's Musings]
http://bit.ly/162Bq8d
Annie Furman once died, but the doctors saved her and brought her back. A young child, she had just experienced the loss of her parents and the effects of a brain injury after a car accident. Now she is left with a gift, or a curse…
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NEW PARANORMAL SUSPENSE BY CHELLE CORDERO
[in the Potpourri Parlor, Sept. 15, 2013]
http://bit.ly/18dBjVb
VHP Announces Karma Visited by Chelle Cordero…
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Chelle Cordero’s KARMA VISITED
[Posted by devonellington on Biblio Paradise, Sept. 17, 2013]
http://bit.ly/1eV4rDK
Let’s give today’s guest, Chelle Cordero, a warm welcome, for her new release, KARMA VISITED. She was kind enough to spend some time with us, talking about the book and the process. Devon Ellington: What sparked the inspiration for this novel?…
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Chelle visits Karma[on Atty's Attic, Sept. 19, 2013]
http://bit.ly/16rsN10
In my attic today is Chelle Cordero. She has lived many lives and is spending a few minutes with me and my stuffed animals here in my dusty attic…
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It’s Not Real
[on Nine Naughty Novelists, Oct. 15, 2013]
http://bit.ly/19LMxkx
You won’t find the small towns of Catawai or Trance, Colorado on a map, but readers of Karma Visited will know where they are…
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Karma Visited

by Chelle Cordero
Do you believe in karma? Annie Furman has a gift that allows her, while she sleeps, to visit people in their time of need – but who will be there for her when she needs help? Undersheriff Dave Turner is investigating a series of home invasions and homicides. He has no idea that solving this case will lead him to the woman of his dreams. 
 Reviews
Karma Visited captured me from the beginning and never let go. This tale of good, evil, and a miraculous gift between has a cast of characters you’ll never forget. Well done, Chelle Cordero. ~ by Charmaine Gordon, Author of Survive and Thrive novels and Mature Romances
Karma Visited will stay with you 
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Saturday, October 12, 2013

10/13/13 WEWRIWA a community of writers and readers

Welcome to Weekend Writing Warriors where we share 8 sentences of our writing every weekend.

Returning to my paranormal Karma Visited, this is one of Annie's dreams (creative punctuation has been employed):

She watched as the car rolled down the embankment. Annie was frustrated as usual because there was nothing she could do to stop it; she was next to the car and could see inside. The man who was driving was dead; she was able to tell even without touching him. She could see the life as it drained from his body.

 The woman sitting next to him was dying. “Help them, please,” the woman’s lips barely moved, she didn’t move. But Annie knew she motioned to the backseat. “Save my babies…,” she looked expectantly at Annie.
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Do you believe in karma? 
Annie Furman has a gift that allows her, while she sleeps, to visit people in their time of need - but who will be there for her when she needs help? 
Undersheriff Dave Turner is investigating a series of home invasions and homicides. He has no idea that solving this case will lead him to the woman of his dreams.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013

I hadn't connected this before now...

THAT DAY

It was 1977, I was home on doctor’s orders and recovering from an asthma attack that had sent me to the ER a few nights earlier. After my husband went to work, I went back to bed, medication was knocking me out. My chest still ached.
I dreamt I was having terrible, terrible chest pains. And in my dream I was being wheeled into a hospital on a gurney. I remember the lights in the ceiling above and the hustle and bustle of everyone surrounding me. I didn’t feel it, but I could “sense” a doctor reaching down and putting his hands into my chest and on my heart.
The doctor kept saying, “It’s his heart, it’s his heart.”
I was confused, why was he saying HIS?
Somewhere in the background of this dream a bell was ringing. I soon realized it was my telephone. Forcing myself from this disturbing dream, I stared at the clock and was confused if it was night or day. The time read 10:18. I answered the phone with a groggy voice, it was my friend Leena.
Leena was calling to check up on me and ask if there was anything she could do. I told her about my dream and together we reasoned out that it was probably just a reaction to my own experience a few nights before even though it wasn’t the same hospital and it wasn’t the same doctor. We spoke for a few more minutes and then we hung up.
I drifted back to sleep. I was woken again a few hours later by another phone call. This time it was my sister and she was upset. She had just been notified that our dad passed away that morning, he had been at work when he suddenly collapsed. She was told it was his heart, it shook me to hear that phrase again.
I drove 40-miles to be with my mom, my sister drove 40-miles to identify my dad’s body and fill out official paperwork. Daddy worked nearly an hour away from home so it was much easier to split the responsibilities.
Dad was buried and we sat shiva (mourning period) at my mom’s. Everyone was in shock, my dad had seemed in perfect health. A few days later the official death certificate was mailed to my mother’s address. I opened it and blanched – the time of death was 10:18 AM.
Later that week my husband and I went to Daddy’s place of work to pick up his tools, he had been a tool-and-die-maker. We went to the hospital from there to pick up the remainder of his personal effects.
I recognized the hospital corridor as soon as I walked in. I saw one of the ER doctors and realized it was the man I saw putting his hands in my chest. Approaching him, I thanked him and told him about my dad – he did remember trying to revive a man with open heart massage the morning my dad passed away.
I know I was with my dad when he passed away, we always had that kind of connection. But even to this day I wonder if Leena hadn’t called and woken me, could I have helped keep my father alive a little longer? Or would I have died lying in my bed along with him on that hospital gurney?

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I recently wrote the above TRUE story to enter a contest (no, I didn't win). It wasn't until I finished writing it that I realized how significant it was to the plot of my most recent novel, Karma Visited. Previously I admitted in a guest post (Lindsay's Romantics) that when I was much younger I had dreams where I woke convinced that I had actually traveled in my sleep, much like my character Annie.

I never had the depth of Annie's power to dream, waken to offer help, and go back to sleep again and dream/visit the place she was before. And my dreams never happened with the same frequency either. I guess in some ways I am lucky, in others I am downright envious. Annie's gift has so much potential.

My friend and fellow VHP author Charmaine Gordon has convinced me to continue Annie's story and it's something that has gotten me quite excited. I've already gotten some terrific ideas and some great twists. Tell me, what would YOU like to see in Annie's future?

Karma Visited

by Chelle Cordero
Do you believe in karma? Annie Furman has a gift that allows her, while she sleeps, to visit people in their time of need – but who will be there for her when she needs help? Undersheriff Dave Turner is investigating a series of home invasions and homicides. He has no idea that solving this case will lead him to the woman of his dreams. 
 Review
Karma Visited captured me from the beginning and never let go. This tale of good, evil, and a miraculous gift between has a cast of characters you’ll never forget. Well done, Chelle Cordero. ~ by Charmaine Gordon, Author of Survive and Thrive novels and Mature Romances
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Saturday, October 5, 2013

10/6/13 WEWRIWA a community of writers and readers

This week's entry is from my new paranormal suspense Karma Visited:

It was shortly after they were married when she had one of her nightmares. She woke shaking and crying and panicked by what she had seen. Scott held her and tried to calm her, it felt good to be comforted by his strong arms. He kept telling her it was just a nightmare, she was safe. He offered comfort up until the point that she finally told him what she had experienced and she trusted him enough to tell him about her belief that the dreams were real, and then he laughed at her instead of listening. He called her a fool; he made fun of her for days. His taunts reminded her of the ridicule she suffered in middle school. She was humiliated and decided she would be better off never to share her dreams with him again.

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Do you believe in karma? 
Annie Furman has a gift that allows her, while she sleeps, to visit people in their time of need - but who will be there for her when she needs help? Undersheriff Dave Turner is investigating a series of home invasions and homicides. He has no idea that solving this case will lead him to the woman of his dreams.



Acclaim for Karma Visited

Karma Visited captured me from the beginning and never let go. This tale of good, evil, and a miraculous gift between has a cast of characters you’ll never forget. Well done, Chelle Cordero.
Charmaine Gordon, Author of Survive and Thrive novels and Mature Romances

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Saturday, September 28, 2013

9/29/13 WEWRIWA a community of writers and readers

My entry this week is from Hostage Heart, a romantic suspense involving a young lady from Louisiana whose family was affected by the devastation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But life goes on and a baby is on the way. Although she is an unwed-mother-to-be, the baby's father wants to be a part of his child's life... and hers.

It was important to her that they pass along their legacy. Ryan picked the book up while she was in the bathroom and opened it to the pages on the mother’s family. 

 Deanna had an older brother, Andres, but Ryan was dismayed to see a date of death listed. He looked at a picture she had stuck on the page of a young man in a marine uniform and assumed that was her brother.

  She had several relatives in the Louisiana area and there were references to the Creole and Cajun culture. A picture of her mamere who had drowned during the Katrina flooding showed an older woman with the same dark eyes and a darker complexion than Deanna and her mother shared; she was truly another beauty. Deanna wrote that her maternal mamere was Chacuma from her grandfather. Deanna’s paternal line was pure Creole.

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Life was hard after the hurricanes swept through, destroying her parents' home and livelihood...Deanna did the only thing she could do. She moved to New York City, found a job, worked hard, scrimped and saved to send what little she could manage back home to Louisiana to her parents.

An errand for her boss - a chance encounter with a crew of bank robbers - a kind man who tried to help her and deserved her courageous help in return... But he wasn't the man she thought he was...no, he was so very much more!

Review
Hostage Heart is a captivating read… I really enjoyed Chelle Cordero's 'Hostage Heart.  It read quickly and kept my interest until the very end. I would highly recommend this book and I plan to read all of the author's other books. It took me along on the adventure. I enjoyed the romance.
~LDB, on Amazon




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Friday, September 27, 2013

National Preparedness Month - COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS

Individuals can make a difference in their own community but not everyone has bought into preparedness.  Research on personal preparedness indicates that individuals who believe they are prepared for disasters often are not as prepared as they think.  In addition, some admit they do not plan to prepare at all. 
The challenge: Maximizing awareness and encouraging participation in disaster preparedness activities to affect change at the community level.
Our nation’s emergency managers, firefighters, law enforcement officers, EMT/paramedics, and other emergency responders do an incredible job of keeping us safe, but they cannot do it alone. We must all embrace our personal responsibility to be prepared – in doing so; we contribute to the safety and security of our communities as well.

Getting Started

While no two projects will be the same, successful projects will share a few common practices. We encourage you to incorporate the following elements into your service project:
  • Create a team with your friends and neighbors to share the effort;
  • Set outcome-based goals and track your progress to those goals;
  • Celebrate your successes together.
The Challenge: Many community-based organizations do not have enough capacity to manage a large number of volunteers, so they need you to organize yourself in coordination with them.  This tool kit is designed to either help you organize a group and be a positive addition to a community-based organization, or, if such an organization does not exist, to be a well-organized independently-run group that fills a gap in the community.
A step-by-step guide to getting started and executing service activities follows.  Please let us know how your project goes and what you learn by telling your story at Serve.gov.

STEP ONE: PREPARE YOURSELF AND IDENTIFY LOCAL RESOURCES

Check out which organizations are already helping in your area.  Many have identified community needs and built the expertise to provide solutions, and there may already be an active volunteer group that you could join.  Here are several ways to identify local groups and volunteer opportunities:

STEP TWO: BUILD A TEAM

Teams can help share the work, motivate members, and hold each other accountable.  Teams build community.  Ask your family, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and faith group members to serve with you.

STEP THREE: SET A GOAL

Set a service goal and hold yourself accountable.  Find out what your partner organization needs and then work to fill that need.  For example, commit as individuals and as a team to helping at least three people who may need additional assistance in preparing for emergencies (including the frail, elderly, individuals with disabilities, and others with special needs). Set your goals high to stretch yourself.  Then keep track of how you are doing and designate someone to be responsible for updating the group on how you are progressing toward your goals.  You’ll be surprised at how much you can do when you commit, focus, and follow through.

STEP FOUR: SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY

The key to effective service is planning.  Organize your materials, make confirmation calls, and, if you have time, read supplemental materials before you volunteer.

STEP FIVE: REPORT AND CELEBRATE SUCCESSES

Your team members, the community, and the President want to know about your successes and hear your stories.  Share your accomplishments by reporting your results. We will highlight the best stories throughout the year. Tell us about your successes and what you have learned, or just tell your story of service at Serve.gov.
and now, a brief excerpt

Annie was standing at the end of a long hallway. A group of people were walking towards her. She noticed tear streaked faces and vacant eyes that had already seen too much. One woman was holding a toddler to her chest; both of them were soaked through and shivering. A young girl was holding a calico cat; the cat clung to her, and both of them looked scared. Arms around the furry feline, paws around the little girl’s neck, both of them looked like all they had in the world was each other. Silent tears were rolling down the girl’s cheeks.

The destination for the mass of bedraggled storm victims was a rickety table. Two women sat there asking gentle questions and taking names. As the evacuees signed in they were ushered into the room behind the table. A man brought in a heavy wool blanket and wrapped the woman and toddler in it. Through the tears and anxious whispers Annie heard the words rain, tornadoes and death. The shocked expressions and quivering voices bore testimony to the fierce winds of the monsters that left devastation in their path.

Looking around the room now teeming with both the rescued and the rescuers, Annie saw trophies and photos of uniformed men and women marching next to fire trucks and ambulances. The local fire department opened its doors as a shelter for the survivors of the storm. Even the heroes who were doling out blankets, hot coffee and comfort looked scared and overwhelmed. Every now and then she saw a shelter worker offer a consoling and light touch on the arm, a hug, a shoulder – human touches that were beyond her ability. Annie wondered why she was there, what she could do to help them.

The evacuees clung to family members and friends who walked in with them. She heard people crying as they spoke about homes that collapsed around them. A few people stood and shouted random names with passionate pleas for any information. A shelter volunteer began handing out dry clothes for people who needed, others got blankets and toiletries, a few of the very young were given stuffed animals and toy trucks. A non-stop stream of coffee, juice boxes and cookies were offered all around. People sat at tables clutching their new possessions, an armful of material things that represented all they owned.

No one saw her there, no one could take comfort from her touch, and no one could hear her words of encouragement.




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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

National Preparedness Month - PROTECT YOURSELF & YOUR FAMILY


Download the Family Communication Plan for Parents and Kids (PDF - 1.2 Mb), print the pages and fill them in offline.Prepare yourself and your family for a disaster by making an emergency plan.
You may also want to inquire about emergency plans at work, daycare and school. If no plans exist, consider volunteering to help create one. Read more about school and workplace plans.
Once you’ve collected this important information, gather your family members and discuss the information to put in the plan. Practice your plan at least twice a year and update it according to any issues that arise.
Family seated around a kitchen table writing an emergency plan

excerpt
a short story collection

Stormy Weather

The sun felt like it was burning into her skin. Even SPF-25 didn’t stand up to the wind burn.
It was just too easy to be lazy and lie there on the towel. The wind was kicking up and she felt grains of sand skitter across her skin every now and then. She wasn’t alone, there were a few diehards still on the beach. Running feet kicked up clumps of sand and finally annoyed her enough to sit up and dust herself off.
“Surfers,” she mumbled and shook her head. Storms always brought them out. The wind kicked up the surf and the waves swelled. Debbie was compelled to watch two figures riding a huge crest and cringed when she saw one tumble into the crashing foam, his board flying in after him.
Groaning, she finally stood and brushed some of the sand from her arms. Debbie walked to the water’s edge and was amazed to realize how much closer it was to the towel she was lying on than when she first picked out a spot. At least she would get her feet wet before she packed up her belongings and trudged back to the hotel.
She was standing in ankle deep water when a wave crashed into her at chest height. She was knocked off balance and wound up sitting in the wet sand as the water threatened to pull her in. The salty water passed her lips and she sputtered and tried to catch her breath.
“You okay?” A bronze god squatted beside her. His hand rested on her back to support her in case she actually collapsed.
Cough, cough. “Yeah,” cough, “I’m fine.” She paused and cleared her throat. “That wave just surprised me.”
He stood and stretched a hand out. “Obviously a tourist.” He smiled.
Debbie stood, she deliberately avoided his help. “Is that an insult?”
“No,” Adonis’ twin laughed. “It was a guess. This is obviously your first hurricane and since we have them every year I figured that you’re either a brand new resident or, most probably, just visiting for a few days. So which is it?”
She didn’t look up at him. “I’m here on vacation.”
“Hah! I was right.”
Debbie looked out at the horizon. “How bad does it get?” It almost looked like sets of black curtains were billowing from the clouds. She walked back to her towel and straw bag and just assumed he’d follow her.
“Oh baby,” he paused while she bent to pick her things up. “It hasn’t even started. The storm is still pretty far off. Besides it’s only a category two.” ...
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The Many Faces of Chelle Cordero is a single author collection of short stories featuring Introduction, Pussycat Tails, Holiday Happiness, Not Alone, I Swear That Raccoon Just Knocked on the Door, Stormy Weather, A Mother’s Love, More Than a Friend, The Meeting, The Vacation and a special bonus section.

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