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Color Outside the Lines
The clothes make the man. That’s what they say, isn’t it? There aren’t too many men who got made by being naked, either—oh, no, honey, that’s an entirely different post. I’m talking fashion here, and not the sort that struts itself down the catwalk, draped across the skeletons of giraffes. I’m talking alteration fashion. I grew up with a mother who can sew just about anything. She taught me the basics, and then the intermediates. I haven’t sewn an entire item of clothing from scratch in awhile, but you plop a pattern in front of me, all crinkly brown, with more layers than an onion and just as thin as its skin, and I’ll dress you in the most fabulous ribbon-pocket jodhpurs you’ve ever seen.
Pockets made of ribbons, yes, the wire-sided Christmas sort sewn together to make translucent, glittery fabric and backed with gauze. Such pockets are awesome. And so are arm-warmers, and glitterified shoes, and fuchsia top hats. Sticking to the pattern is boring. Creation is one thing—in fact, it is by definition the first thing—but after that, alteration is the goddess of personal expression.
The spirit of alteration is a restless one, born from dissatisfaction with the Now, the What. It does not seek to reject what is, or to replace it with a new creation. It wishes only to bend the corner of reality, to slip its feet inside for warmth while its head floats in the stars of possibility. Its hybrid existence is never fully accepted, but that is the price of self-actualization on the fringe.
One of my two main characters, Bindi, embraces her own less-than-mainstream existence as well as her fashion creativity. You couldn’t keep her quiet if you tried, and if you did manage to duct tape her mouth, her outfit would take over. I have a Pinterest board dedicated to this book series, but I freely confess that it’s dominated mostly by things Bindi would own, make, or bash someone over the head in order to steal.
True, the fringe can be a dangerous, lonely place. But it makes a fabulous accessory.
First to Find
Written by Morgan C. Talbot
Death is the hardest puzzle to solve.
Margarita Williams escaped death at a young age, but its shadow has followed her all her life.
Now, amidst the chaos of a new Australian roommate and mysterious, menacing neighbors,
Death has set the puzzlemaker a puzzle of her own: someone is killing her fellow geocachers,
one by one.
And if she doesn’t stop the murderer before he strikes again, Death will finally collect the soul
that got away.
Written by Morgan C. Talbot
Death is the hardest puzzle to solve.
Margarita Williams escaped death at a young age, but its shadow has followed her all her life.
Now, amidst the chaos of a new Australian roommate and mysterious, menacing neighbors,
Death has set the puzzlemaker a puzzle of her own: someone is killing her fellow geocachers,
one by one.
And if she doesn’t stop the murderer before he strikes again, Death will finally collect the soul
that got away.
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Amazon Paper: http://www.amazon.com/First-Find-Book-One-Caching/dp/1480022039
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Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/247957
ABOUT MORGAN:
Morgan is an outdoorsy girl with a deep and abiding
love for the natural sciences. Her degrees involve
English and jujitsu. She enjoys hiking, camping, and
wandering in the woods looking for the trail to the
car, but there isn’t enough chocolate on the planet to
bribe her into rock climbing.
When she’s not writing, she can be found making
puzzles, getting lost on the way to geocaches,
reading stories to her children, or taking far too
many pictures of the same tree or rock.
She lives in Eastern Washington with her family.
FIND MORGAN ON THE WEB
BLOG: http://morganctalbot.blogspot.com/FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/MorganCTalbot
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/MorganCTalbot
AMAZON: http://www.amazon.com/Morgan-C.-Talbot
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