Happy Three King's Day

Today fifth of January, many homes celebrate the arrival of the Three King's, The Three Wise Men, or the Three King's from the East. These three men,Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar (Gaspar, Melchor and Baltasar in Spanish) are said to have visited Jesus after his birth bearing gifts.

Years ago in Spain, Santa Claus did not exist and the Three King's were the one's in charge of bringing gifts to the children.
Across the years the presence of Santa Claus has come to play an important part in Spanish homes, but the Three King's are still the main characters during this festive season.
Spanish children send their letters to their favorite King: Melchor, Gaspar or Baltasar and await eagerly for their arrival tonight.
So strong is the tradition that many towns (even small villages) prepare a royal mailbox for the children to deposit their letters in and if not the Royal mailman goes to each village picking up the letters.
Even if there is no mailbox there usually is a "Cabalgata" or parade, in which the Three King's riding on their camels appear before the children throwing candy.
The most recognized Cabalgata is the one celebrated in Spain's capital, Madrid.

Melchor in last year's Three King's Parade.

Happy 2009

May all your dreams for this new year that is about to begin come true!

The Sweetest Christmas Candy published in The Long and The Short of it

My Short Story "The Sweetest Christmas Candy" will be published this Thursday (1 January 2009) in the Whipped Cream section of The Long and the Short of it website!

http://www.longandshortreviews.com/WC/index.htm

Hope you like it! and please feel free to leave some comments!

Merry Christmas!

May all your wishes come true...

I'm very happy

I'm very happy, I got some great news yesterday which helped me boost my ego! But I won't say anything yet...I'll try to keep the secret until Monday...okay, maybe Sunday :p

Sent another one

Sent another query letter...hum, hum...let's hope for a bit of luck this time.

What is life...

but a constant ache, a dull pull that makes you go on for no apparent reason?

"We The Living" By Ayn Rand is a great novel, but I have not chosen a good moment to read it...it has depressed me.

Life? Life is but a few senseless moments of happiness which you end up forgetting in time...Life is fighting for those moments which you will forget....Life is nothing but a worthless pain.

About the Twilight Series...

I’m writing this and I’m thinking that it might sound like a jealous rant, but not really…I haven’t read the series, unfortunately. I live in Spain and English copies of books are hard to come by, not to mention expensive, and my financial situation is not exactly at its best moment. I look forward to reading the books, for I have heard from more than one person that they easily capture you and I love that in a book, I love sitting down and getting obsessed with a series, feeling the up and downs of characters, seeing their experience through my eyes…imagination is a powerful thing.

However, not all I have heard from these books are good: I have heard that the books are written in childish fashion, that they are nothing but a mere “easy read”, and they’re no big deal. There’s nothing bad with that, I mean, the easier it is to read, the larger audience it will get too…

Anyhow, thing is, to be an author sometimes you don’t need to be good (this has nothing to do with Ms. Meyer, I have not read her books and can not judge them), you just need to have loads, loads, loads, loads of luck.

Lady Luck, why have you forsaken me?

Ps: I don’t intend to watch the movie until I read the books, whenever that is, and I don’t like the main vampire guy…he just doesn’t appeal to me. Vampires need to look like this:

or like this:

Desperate Craving

Sadness, darkness, tears of sorrow, tears of hell.
Come to me beloved, leave me not hanging on the edge.
I fear the life, I fear the death, I fear the love, I fear the hate and yet I crave for it all.
Give it to me now, give it to me now, I have no patience, I wish not to wait. Give it to me now, let me feel lfie, death, love, hate all together, all as one, let me have it.
I crave for it.

I did it!

I can't believe it! 50000 words! which suck, which I had to include lot's of erotic nonsense, and an epilogue...but I did it! wohoo!

50110 / 50000 words. 100% done!