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La sora Cesira e i gialli svedesi

Ho deciso di diventare una scrittrice svedese di gialli svedesi.
Nella vita quando capitano le occasioni bisogna prenderle al volo e visto che in questo periodo basta provenire dalla Svezia o giù di lì per avere successo come scrittori, ho deciso di lanciarmi anch'io.
A parte che io lo svedese lo parlo abbastanza bene perchè vado da Ikea almeno due volte alla settimana, ho anche il nome d'arte e il titolo del mio primo giallo svedese:
Mi chiamerò Soraan Cesiransenn e il mio capolavoro, primo volume della trilogia di " Billy ", si intitolerà " L'avvitatore di salme ".
Il protagonista, l'ex commissario Billy Ektorp, è un uomo distrutto dal senso di colpa per aver fatto erroneamente condannare per omicidio plurimo un bambino di quattro anni.
Egli, dopo aver lasciato il dipartimento di polizia, si imbatte casualmente in un serial killer che dopo aver ucciso le sue vittime, prima le fa a pezzi e poi le rimonta pare pare a come erano prima, pure meglio.
A Billy non resta che seguire il suo istinto e scivolare in un torbido abisso di codici massonici, manicomi criminali, segreti di stato e pornografia.
E pure un po' di esoterismo.
Egli metterà a repentaglio anche il suo legame con la suora laica Ullalla che, all'ennesima notte trascorsa in solitudine, gli lascerà un biglietto per annunciargli che ha passato il limite, che in svedese si dice " Stoccolma".
Una spasmodica sfida contro il tempo e contro i demoni del passato porterà il commissario Ektorp a chiedere aiuto alla brillante e assai apprensiva patologa Pallaa Arpieden, che siccome pure lei quanto a demoni del passato non scherza, porterà un po' di scompiglio nell'evolversi della storia.
L'intreccio condurrà il lettore ad un finale a sorpresa dove niente è come sembra e ciò che sembra non è.
Fino al dramma finale che pure io mi sa che me sto a impiccià un po'.
Comunque, finale a parte, presto si scatenerà la corsa per l'acquisto dei diritti per la versione cinematografica ed io forse mi devo prendere un agente per gestire la situazione.
Comunque se nel frattempo avete bisogno di un grosso fermaporta vi prego di usare il best seller " La psichiatra ".



Questa delizia per lettori alcolizzati di brutto parla di una giovane psichiatra che a forza di sospettare la pazzia altrui si accorge che la scema col botto è lei e pure metà del palazzo suo.
Il libro è molto bello perchè grazie al suo spessore può anche essere usato come cavalletto da motorino.
L'autore si chiama Wulf Dorn, ma visto il sapiente uso dei congiuntivi e la scorrevolezza della narrazione, sospetto fortemente che sia il ghost writer del mio idolo Lapo Elkann.

Dear Diary

Dear diary,

I cannot wait to hear what happens next to the Mcks. Her blog is, after all, my favorite reality-based virtually-almost-exactly-true soap opera. What, if anything, can keep her show afloat? Gosh, which wild and crazy plunge will the Mcks take next?

One thing is for sure, she's got all of us across the MWOP on pins and needles as we wait for her to stop talking about making a decision she won't share and actually makes it. It's like she's drawing this decision out to keep us coming back for more or something. She wouldn't do that, though. It's not her style.

Until she writes again,

MWOP

Product Consultants

doTERRA oils are expensive. The 15mL bottles of peppermint oil cost almost $35 a piece. If the 5mL bottle was just 1/5 the cost, that's $7 a bottle...times 100 for this giveaway. Not including the shipping for 100 fragile vials from "Aunt Patty" to the 100 winners.

Which leaves several people on here wondering if "Aunt Patty" is rich, or if she will be using these addresses for future customer purposes.

doTERRA has product consultants much in the same way Mary Kay or Avon would: mailing lists = customers = money. Hopefully "Aunt Patty" is loaded, and not using this giveaway as an underhanded way to gain customers.

On another note, if you are lucky enough to win peppermint oil, please do not digest it unless you have read up on it first.

And yes, I noted the link to the cleaning post. If only we could all have such humor in the face of our faults.

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Going Pink!

On to my original post for this weekend! Save the ta-tas, MWOPers! October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I would love to see this blog do some more good. We don't have the number of readers other blogs might, but you guys are a passionate group, and the last few days have brought forth some heartbreaking stories of cancer and loss.

To do my very small part, I'm adding links to companies, organizations, and products that support breast cancer awareness month to this site. Please click and click often to see how you can help raise money to help fight this horrible disease that kills a woman every 69 seconds.

Susan G. Komen

Shop Komen

Yoplait

Save the Ta-Tas

Estee Lauder

The Breast Cancer Site

Army of Women

National Breast Cancer Foundation

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Click to Give at the Breast Cancer Site

Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation

American Breast Cancer Foundation

Ju-Ju-Be

American Breast Cancer Foundation

Vera Bradley

Breastcancer.org

Avon Foundation

Pink Ribbon International

Breast Cancer Care

Cancer Research UK

Breast Cancer Africa

Cancer Association of South Africa

AfrOx

Cancer Council Australia

Personalizedfree.com

New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation

Magee Womancare Inernational

Cancer Support Community

Young Survival Coalition

Mothers with Cancer

Cleaning For a Reason

If you know of another worthy organization, please add the link in the comments, and I'll add you to the list. If you are participating in any fundraising events this month, please let us know!

Last example

What a whirlwind day. I read the latest "I am flawed" post and it irritated me the way MckMama excused away plagiarism by saying she posted that before she had ads. I have another photography example from 2009 when she certainly had ads that a commenter left in yesterday's post that I want to post to further prove it wasn't a 'one-time, 2008, pre-ads' occurrence.

It is my understanding that BlogHer was contacted before yesterday's post went up and they were sent a few examples, not just the ones from yesterday.

Posted by MckMama on May 24, 2009

Posted on SLR Photography Guide, Copyrighted 2007 - 2010 (photography ebooks)

Posted by MckMama on May 24, 2009

Posted on SLR Photography Guide, Copyrighted 2007 - 2010 (photography ebooks)

I am sure there are more, but this is my last example. I don't want to beat a dead horse.

I do want to add if you're going to own it, own it. Don't excuse it.

Some more examples

Example 1:

Posted on November 19, 2008 by MckMama:

Posted on April 10th, 2007 on other site:

Example 2:

Posted on November 19, 2008 by MckMama:

Posted on April 10th, 2007 on other site:

Example 3:

Posted on November 19, 2008 by MckMama:

Posted on April 10th, 2007 on other site:

Example 4:

Posted on November 19, 2008 by MckMama:


Posted on April 10th, 2007 on other site:

Example 5:

Posted on November 19, 2008 by MckMama:

Posted on April 10th, 2007 on other site:

Example 6:

Posted on June 9, 2009 by MckMama:

Pick a source, any source.

Thank you, Chicken Little and WCA.