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Ingrid Foster
Like most writers, I've always been creative, making up the most elaborate stories to entertain my grandmother at an early age. But it wasn't until 2007 that I realized my dream of becoming a full-time writer, allowing the words to flow through me onto the blank page...
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Blog postThis Pleasure of Music
I go to the well and drink
My soul quenched, my spirit at peace
As each note fills my senses,
I sit here absorbed in its beauty,
Oneness envelops me,
There is no negativity, I know only joy,
I wonder, why do I hesitate to enter this realm?
This garden, this forest, this world of light and serenity,
Silent I sit in wonderment as the music caresses me,
Relaxes the tension that once tighten me,
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Blog postStrength
I search the embers for the home I knew,
For the life I once had,
There deep in the rumble lies my silver-plated music box,
A gift cherished, now destroyed,
Over there, yes, near that fallen cross beam
Is the meat tray from my mother’s china,
Even in the wet ashes the roses are still fresh,
Too bad the platter is broken,
That’s the story of my life, I am alive
But my memories are gone,
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Blog postA Leap of Faith
I am standing on the edge, a precipice,
My world spread out before me, a vast, open canyon,
Do I take a step, perhaps a leap, of faith?
Or do I step back, away from the edge
And move to safer, more familiar ground?
It is easy to take the path more traveled
And return to a life planned for me,
But I have never been one to follow the herd,
No, I’ve always favored the road less traveled,
Moving on my own, the desti3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postForevermore
My world shattered when I was nine
You left me one last time,
I stood on the sofa and watched the lights
Swirl bright and red and I knew you were gone,
I cried and cried, I yelled and yelled,
You were my rock and then you were gone,
We went to the viewing, my family and I
So many people, all strangers,
And then there it was, a large metal box,
Inside was a body, all pasty and pale
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Blog postYour Legacy
For years, I watched you, learned from you,
You were my father, my role model,
For good or bad, right or wrong, indifferent,
Emotionally, you were luke-warm,
Physically, strong, determined, stoic,
Burying your pain, your sorrow and even loss
Deeper and deeper, inside you,
Do I mourn for you now?
In truth, I never knew you,
But I do mourn, not for you but, rather
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Blog postHello my Friends,
Just a quick note to let you know I'm off to a fantastic start writing-wise in 2018. I just released my novel, My Father's Magic, in print form. It's currently available for purchase on Amazon.
Also today thru Sunday, my short stories, "Fresh Meat" and "A Home for Rose." are both free and I've reduced the price of the eBook version of My Father's Magic . Or, you can get it for free when you buy the print version!
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Blog postHello my Friends,
Just a quick note to let you know I’m off to a fantastic start writing-wise in 2018. I just released my novel, My Father’s Magic, in print form. It’s currently available for purchase on Amazon.
Also today thru Sunday, my short stories, “Fresh Meat” and “A Home for Rose.” are both free on Amazon. In addition, the price on the eBook version of My Father’s Magic has been reduced. Or, you can get it for free when you buy the print version!
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Blog postHappy Mother's Day to all of you who are motherly!
Mother's Day has always been an enigma to me and every year I am puzzled as to how to feel about this day. You see, my relationship with my own mother was strange and often estranged and so I can't relate to my friends who reminisce of loving and close relationships with their mothers.
Today a wise friend told me that on Mother's Day she takes the opportunity to thank everyone who has been motherly to her over the year11 months ago Read more -
Blog postA little tongue in cheek to start your morning -
Can One Get Spiritually From a Teabag?
Apparently Yogi Teas thinks so, because everyday there is a message of enlightenment on the label of my teabag. Today's message is, "Truth is Everything," and we seem to be on a roll because yesterday's message was about "truth" as well. But it obviously didn't sink in, because that's all I remember.
Which brings me to the question,11 months ago Read more -
Blog postStill Mindful After All These Years...
What is being mindful? For me, being mindful is being aware or being in-tune with the present, what I'm doing, how I feel and what's going on around me. It's taking time out of my busy life to just focus on me, not change me, not change my circumstances, but get off the busy treadmill of life, allow myself to relax and just take care of me, even if only for a few minutes. Sort of like a mental "stop and smell the roses" moment.
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Blog postOn the horizon, the sun breaksChasing the darkness of the night,
With sleepy minds and slow bodiesWe stumble from our bed, hopeful
Yet searching,
WHERE IS IT?
Where is that savoir to the sleep-starved,
Where is that first cup, that first sip
Where is that glorious elixir
we call...
COFFEE
With each sip energy flows through
Our bodies, invigorating
our muddled minds, restoring
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Blog postUPDATE April 2017
New Cover - Same great magical suspense adventure!
Available on Amazon
On April 22nd, 2016, my fantasy suspense novel, My Father's Magic, was published on Amazon. Here is the original cover. Which do you like better?
Available on Amazon
...and here is my updated sneak peek -
Prologue He took a sip of amber liquid, his eyes shifting once more to the report. I should have known, h11 months ago Read more -
Blog postOriginally posted on my website - IngridFoster.com
Our guest for today, Amie Irene Winters, author of bestselling novels, Strange Luck, and The Nightmare Birds.
Amie, congratulations on becoming an Amazon Bestseller! If you had one word of advice for struggling writers, what would it be?
Thank you! It was a long-time goal of mine and it feels very strange now that it’s finally happened.Here’s my best advice for struggling authors:Don’t ever give up writing! It’s o12 months ago Read more -
Blog postWhat I’ve Learned So Far – For more than seven years I’ve been working on this one horror story, off and on. It’s a story that shows great promise. Truly remarkable and unforgettable characters, one of which scares me witless, but for the life of me, I cannot get this story right. This morning, I …
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Blog postAn old blog post revisited… IT by Stephen King –
Living an Adventure – A few days back, I finally overcame my fear and reservations and once again started reading Stephen King’s IT. Truly one of the most well-crafted books I’ve ever read, I’m 454 pages in and though it’s scary and unnerving in parts, the characters are so well written, so well developed, that I feel as though I know them personally. As a reader, I am no longer reading a book, but living an adventure.
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Blog postLULLABY of the DEAD by Author Lynn Lamb – I finished Lynn Lamb’s LULLABY of the DEAD and am reminiscent of my first Stephen King book, DUMA KEY, and my first Dean Koontz book, WATCHERS. With both of these books, I felt like I just returned home from the most extraordinary adventure. And upon doing …
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Blog postTweet or Comment While Writing… Because one just never knows who’s in the driver’s seat – When I started writing this morning, this great quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald appeared on my desktop. Seconds before, I had vowed to stay off social media and get serious about finishing my novel in progress. When I saw …
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Blog postOne of the things that attracted us to moving to the desert, was the lack of grass to mow. But, likewise, we also quickly noted that with no grass or ground cover, everything living or buried within the sandy earth was also easily revealed.
So, as we began our gardening adventures, we found things that the desert had long ago claimed. In my office, I have a lion and a small dragon. Both are made of brass and both were found buried in the crusted dirt around our home.
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Blog postWhile living in a small town in southern Arizona a few years back, I was out walking my dog around our apartment complex when I spotted, high in the sky, a flock of large black birds. They were circling a grove of cottonwood trees.
My imagination, being a sometimes strange and dark place, began to wander, to form the "what ifs."
What if someone lived in that grove of cottonwood trees? And what if that someone were to feed those large black birds much like one3 years ago Read more -
Blog postToday I read King's The Stand andFor the first time I felt their pain,You died a week ago and my lifeWill never be the same,
I exist Through the good days and bad,The ups and the downs... Oh, how they threaten to drown!
My mind in a fog, My emotions on hold,I never knew How much I loved you Until you were gone,
I wonder,Does one ever get past this pain,This suffocating sense of loss?
I love you, Mom,Wish you were here,Just one last time withYour l3 years ago Read more -
Blog postOriginally I signed this book from the library while researching the fall of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages. As this book is based upon the Roman historian Tacticus' observation of the Germanic hordes that had taken over Europe as Rome declined, I had hoped it would prove useful to my research.
Then, as I started reading, I wondered if it would provide insight into the German psyche, especially during the late 1800s and early 1900s, prior to and including Hitler's rise to power. While3 years ago Read more -
Blog postAfter a long struggle with a mentally-crippling illness, my mother died yesterday. Due to her illness and other psychological trauma, we were never able to get as close as I would have liked. She was just not capable. But as a direct result of her passing, I had reached out to my aunts, her sisters, and a world of understanding enveloped me.
Shortly after World War II, at the age of eighteen, my mother left Germany with her mother and three sisters. As a child, I knew my mother was German,3 years ago Read more -
Blog postAs a writer, one of my biggest faults is expecting too much, too fast...3 years ago Read more
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Blog postJust finished THE DEVIL'S GRAVEYARD by Indie Author TL Parker, it's one of those amazing tales that seamlessly crosses genre lines, keeping readers enthralled until the very end. I really like what another reader, P.S. Winn, wrote in her Goodreads review, "This epic novel feels like it was 400 years in the making."
What a perfect summation! For those who love history, science fiction, and romance, this truly is the book for you. TL Parker's writing is superb, her characters3 years ago Read more -
Blog postI had planned for my next post about my life in the Air Force to be about my first "job," which was during basic training, but it occurred to me this morning that I needed to address one other vital ingredient to this saga, beforehand...
Yup, that's me just before entering the USAFWhen I left home on July 14th, 1981, to enter the military, I left a very small rural area called Embreeville, Pennsylvania. I had been bused to the same school district miles away my entire young life.3 years ago Read more -
Blog postRecently finished K.N. Lee's NETHERWORLD, the first book in her Chronicles of Koa series.
The story is about a Korean half-vampire named Koa who works for an angel named Halston. Together, their job is to keep the human population safe from Netherworld vampires.
The only catch is two-fold, Koa's mother is trapped inside a cat's body and the only one who can release her is an imprisoned Netherworld vampire prince. A prince Halston and Koa must go to Netherworld to rescue and bri3 years ago Read more -
Blog post...otherwise known as Air Force BMT (Basic Military Training.) We woke up early, 5 am, to the sounds of Reveille, which is surprisingly loud that early in the morning, and then were immediately yelled at. Between that damn, persistent bugle and the even more persistent TIs (Training Instructors) I think I went into shock.
Now, bear in mind, that I had spent most of my teenage years being yelled at. My father and stepmother had the whole yelling-and-making-me-feel-like-di3 years ago Read more -
Blog postHere's another blog entry that I relocated from my previous blog:
This morning while reading Jeanne Cavelos' essay, "Innovation in Horror," in the HWA Handbook, ON WRITING HORROR, I was once more moved to record my thoughts in this blog.
I recently read in ON WRITING by Stephen King, that he prefers not to plot. Thanks to his wise words I gave up the tedious and stifling task of attempting to plot my current work and just started doing what I love, writing through th3 years ago Read more -
Blog postWhen writing a story, you are your own best immediate gauge of how good it is. Does it excite you, hold your interest and keep you on edge? Are you emotionally vested, even to the point of potential embarrassment?
If not, you need to either make significant changes or start over. If you don't feel emotionally tied to your own story, your readers won't either.
Here is one of my favorite quotes, one I keep on the wall of my office...and what I try to live by when writing4 years ago Read more -
Blog postSome books immediately grab you and won't let go until you've read the last page. Brian Keene's CASTAWAYS is one such book.
I started reading it yesterday morning while waiting for my husband during his dentist appointment and, I kid you not, I finished the book in one day. (Not a norm for me.) According to Brian Keene's own words, he is a fan of the reality-TV show Survivor and it shows in the writing of this book.
On a personal note, I can't tell you how many times I've wondered wh4 years ago Read more -
Blog postAnother tidbit from a couple years ago that has changed my writing life forever....
In between the required reading in ON WRITING HORROR, I've been studying the various essays by the gifted writers enclosed within its pages. The latest nugget of wisdom came from Tina Jens titled "Such Horrible People." Ms. Jens describes characterization in such a creative and entertaining way that not only have I soaked up her insightful words, but I do believe they have changed the way I write4 years ago Read more -
Blog postImagine your goals, your dreams are just within your grasp and then a scientist you've never met discovers a gene that is common among the most depraved murderers in our nation's prisons and that anyone with this gene has a tendency toward extreme violence. Then, to ensure the safety of all citizens, the government requires everyone to test for this gene...and guess what, you have that gene.
Then the government decides that you and everyone else with that gene must be monitored and control4 years ago Read more -
Blog postI recently finished OUTCAST by Cheryl Matthynssens. The heartwarming tale of a half-breed boy, Alador, who is caught between two very different kingdoms. One kingdom reveres dragons and seeks to protect them while the other will do anything to acquire the magical properties of their blood.
From the author's webpage, dragonsgeas.com :
The First of the Series, Outcast introduces the Great Isle set in the world of Vesta. Two kingdoms interdependent upon one another4 years ago Read more -
Blog postSome books make you cry, some books make you laugh and some may even scare you... But if you're lucky, you'll find a book that does all three. Neil Gaiman's dark, children's book THE GRAVEYARD BOOK does all three.
I started reading it a while back and decided it wasn't my "cup of tea." Tried again and so very glad I did. This is definitely one I will read again and again.4 years ago Read more -
Blog postAs caffeine-induced epiphanies Spew forth from this fuzzied core,I am grateful for that one-less-drink I did not partake the night before.4 years ago Read more
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