The Raven Happy Hour

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So I Married a Psychic Medium
By Candice Gilmer

First off, I’d like to thank Mandy and Michelle for letting me kidnap the Raven Happy Hour for this blog.

We all know who John Edward, Sylvia Brown and Lisa Williams are, thanks to the power of television and introducing the world to the interesting talents of psychic mediums. We know they talk to the dead, that they bring messages from the other side to sooth and help us on our journey through life. They can even help us get over lost loved ones and move past the loss of said loved one.

Yet no one really sits down to address what it’s like to live with one of these people.

I live with a psychic medium.

My husband Bob has been able to hear the dead since he was a teenager, after an accident involving a four-wheeler and probably some stunt that no one is supposed to be doing on a four-wheeler to begin with.

The ability has been in his family for generations, usually bestowed on the first born, but he’s the first male in his family to ever have the gift.

And frankly, it was a gift that scared the crap out of me when he first started telling me about it. I have to give him credit – he didn’t just out-and-out say “by the way, I can talk to dead people.” He eased me into it, gradually explaining things over the course of a couple of years. Course, when we first got together, he didn’t use his abilities fully.

Now, though, after almost nine years of marriage, he’s fully in tune to what’s going on around him, and it makes life, well, shall we say, different.

Here’s a perfect example.

Bob called me not too long ago. “Hey, you need to call your friend A. E.”

My friend A. E. Rought lives about twelve hours from me, an author I know from epublishing. I’ve never been to her home, I’ve never been even in the same room as her, though we talk regularly on the phone, and we practically consider each other sisters. Still, there are certain things that can’t really be expressed through the phone, as I was about to learn.

“What’s up?” I asked my husband.

“Does she have a dog?”

“I think so.”

“Well, she needs to take it to the vet. There’s something wrong with its stomach,” he told me. “And she needs to do it soon.”

I’d learned over the years, when my husband calls and tells me something like this, I need to immediately do what he says, because it’s important. So I called my girlfriend and relayed what Bob had said.

“The dog has been acting weird,” she told me, beginning to explain that the dog’s lying around when she’s normally very active.

Well, after she spoke to her husband, they took the dog to the vet, and sure enough, she had some kind of infection in her stomach requiring medication, but after a few days the dog was fine.

When A.E. asked me about it later, I just merely said “It’s what he does.”

Which is the truth – he gets these messages, and he has to pass them on. What people do with the information is up to them. Sometimes, it’s spot-on, and he’s able to help people before they have a serious problem.

Has this changed me in my life? Quite a bit. I mean, how many people do you know who can say they have gotten put into their place from their grandmother who’s been gone for thirteen years? Every so often, my family that is gone has popped up with everything from writing related ideas to “get your lazy butt in gear” messages.

The biggest thing that I’ve learned so far from being married to a psychic medium, though, is that yeah, it can be hard, and we’ll all encounter troubled times, but it will work out. Everything that happens, happens for a reason. Yeah, I may have been rejected by this agent or that agent, but there’s a reason for it – they may have rejected this or that particular work, but they’re open to seeing more from me at a later date.

Sometimes, we’re just not ready for what we think we’re ready for.

About the Author:
Check out Candice Gilmer’s short paranormal novel, Unholy Night, coming out in May from Lyrical Press

Blog: http://candicegilmer.blogspot.com

On Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/candicegilmer

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Paranormal authors Mandy M Roth and Michelle M Pillow talk books, industry, paranormal, and take reader calls.

Michelle M Pillow and Mandy M Roth talk with author Gena Showalter about books and the paranormal.

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Author: Subhash

The Moon has a prominent place in myth and folklore throughout human history.

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Jane Masters has no idea she’s a necromancer. Luis Phillippe is the vampire responsible for the power mingled in her blood. Though her love life improves dramatically after meeting Luis, Jane faces a more urgent situation than dating a vampire; her boss is a zombie and it might be her fault. As Luis reveals the details of her past life and the source of her power, they learn there¢s a killer on the loose and Jane is next on the list. As for her newly discovered past with Luis, her heart remembers him. But will she survive to love him this time?

Coming August 2008 from NCP!

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Gena Showalter sold her first book at the age of 27 and now, four years later, is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thirteen books, with eleven more on the way in a thrilling blend of genres: breathtaking paranormal and contemporary romances, cutting edge young adult novels, and stunning urban fantasy.

Her novels have appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine, MTV, Seventeen Magazine, and have been translated in French, Italian and Korean.

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Emerald Green by Desiree Holt (aka Judith Rochelle)

Meredith Kincaid wouldn’t be at her grandmother’s bed & breakfast in Maine in October instead of enjoying the warmth of the Caribbean if she hadn’t discovered her fiancé in bed with two of her bridesmaids before the wedding. Tired of seeing her hiding away, her grandmother sends her off to the village for the afternoon. In the village candy cum jewelry store, she meets a handsome stranger who buys her an emerald pendant and offers to share his fudge with her. Mesmerized by his sensual good looks, she agrees to take a ride along the coast with him. Before she can blink her eyes, she is naked on a private, secluded beach, and the mouth-watering stranger is coaxing her into sexual situations that both startle her and bring her more fulfillment than she’s ever had. The afternoon is an initiation into the pleasures of the flesh, but sadly, all good things must come to an end. When Meredith wakes up at her grandmother’s, she wonders if the afternoon really happy or did she just dream it? But life is about to hand Meredith another surprise, one which will open yet more doors to her own sexuality.

ISBN 978 1419914027
Available Formats - ebook
Release Date – May 2
Buy Links – www.ellorascave.com

What inspired you to write this book?

Ever since I wrote Visions of Darkness I have been fascinated by dreams and how they affect us. The whole premise of Emerald Green is…was it real or wasn’t it? Did she dream it or didn’t she? Plus, I grew up on the rocky coast of Maine and I know how many little sheltered coves they are…and how they can be used! LOL! I wanted something that was a fantasy and this is what fell out of my computer.

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www.desireeholt.com/
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http://romancewriterandreader.ning.com/profile/JudithRochelle

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Michelle M Pillow and Mandy M Roth talk with author Judith Rochelle about books and the paranormal.

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Author: Eric Scribener

Magnetic forces are among the most potent power sources in the known universe. And just like the force of (1)gravity, magnetic forces are ever-present, constantly at work, and they have a dramatic impact on our daily lives. In fact, were it not for magnetism and all of its inherent forces, our species would not (could not) exist on this planet.

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