Deborah Woehr

Sitepoint is offering their Photoshop Anthology ebook as a free download for the next thirteen days. If you’re looking for a book that will help you utilize Photoshop in designing web pages, this book has plenty of information (296-pages worth) to help you create stunning effects. Here’s a taste of what you’ll get.

* Design attractive web graphics
* Touch up photographs for web use
* Create web site mockups using Photoshop
* Improve your digital workflow
* Master menus, buttons and background tiles
* Use nondestructive editing techniques

Go to Sitepoint to learn more information about this book and to download it before time runs out. A word of warning: It seems as though they are getting inundated with requests. So, if you don’t receive the link to the ebook right away, don’t panic and think that you’ve been phished. It may take them a full day to send you the link, but you will get it.

I haven’t had much time to practice digital painting as much as I would have liked to because I’ve been preparing for my first virtual book tour, which is scheduled for February. Here is a list of my scheduled stops.

Feb. 1 - Rose Marie Wolf’s Blog www.rosemariewolf.blogspot.com (guest post)
Feb. 2 - Paranormal Stories www.paranormalstories.blogspot.com (guest post)
Feb. 4 - M.E. Ellis’ Nutters Gang www.meellis.blogspot.com (guest post)
Feb. 5 - Storycrafters www.storycrafters.blogspot.com (guest post)
Feb. 6 - Blogcritics www.blogcritics.org (interview)
Feb. 7 - Beyond the Books www.beyondthebooks.wordpress.com (interview)
Feb. 8 - Fiction Scribe www.fictionscribe.com (interview)
Feb. 10 - Dark Phantom Review www.thedarkphantom.wordpress.com (book spotlight)
Feb. 11 - The Story Behind the Book www.thestorybehindthebook.wordpress.com (guest post)
Feb. 12 - Buzz the Book www.buzzthebook.blogspot.com (book spotlight)
Feb. 13 - The Book Stacks www.thebookstacks.com (guest post)
Feb. 14 - Henri the Ghost www.henritheghost.blogspot.com (interview)
Feb. 15 - Night Owl Romance www.nightowlromance.com (you’ll actually have another url that will take you right to your interview) (interview)
Feb. 18 - Paperback Writer www.rebecca2007.wordpress.com (interview)
Feb. 20 - The Book Connection www.thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com (guest post)
Feb. 25 - The Plot www.theplotline.wordpress.com (book spotlight)
Feb. 26 - The Plot www.theplotline.wordpress.com (character interview)
Feb. 29 - Announcement of free book giveaway

Dorothy Thompson of Pump Up Your Book Promotion has done a fabulous job of helping me promote Prosperity. Next month, I’ll be posting the details of each stop at my writing blog. Hope to see you there!

I’ve had a penchant for ghost stories ever since I could remember. Anyone out there remember Creature Feature? I saw my first horror movie when I was thirteen, when my aunt took me to see Friday the 13th and Prophecy. Of course we just HAD to go to a campsite for a family reunion that year!

I didn’t really become interested in ghosts or the afterlife until I lost my grandfather. Organized religion did nothing but confuse me. So I turned to books written by Betty Edie, John Edward, and Barbara Rommer. Rommer’s book turned out to be my favorite on the subject because I didn’t believe that everyone experience chariots and angels after they died.

It wasn’t until I lost one of my brothers that I began to write novels and short stories. Writing became my outlet and an obsession that my family has endured for the past decade. My first story was about a serial killer. This manuscript never saw the light of day for several reasons.

Shortly after I had published my first short story, I began to write a story that I eventually called Prosperity. Is death really an escape from all of our problems? Is there a Heaven and a Hell? Or, are we forced to face and deal with the problems that we avoided in life? These were the questions that kept pervading my mind as I worked out the plot for this novel, which was just released last weekend from Lulu.

Amanda Thorne is an embattled clairvoyant, who refuses to believe in God or the afterlife, even when the ghost of her murdered husband confronts her from his grave. More ghosts confront her when she finds herself stranded in a tiny town in Arizona.

Two of them mistake her for a prominent woman who was murdered 79 years ago. One of them wants to avenge him for the murder, and the other wants to kill her all over again. She and her misplaced deputy friend must uncover the truth about the murder before history repeats itself.

Right now, the book is available only from Lulu. I’m anticipating that it will be available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble some time in February, when I’ll be going on my first virtual book tour. More about that later.