This book literally caused me to stop and do a double take while walking down an aisle in my store. Apparently we’ve carried it for a while, I’ve just managed to miss it until now. With the number of online friends involved in this hobby, I couldn’t pass up the chance to share. I give you…

Not your mother’s knitting book, DomiKNITrix is all about bringing discipline to knitting and then using that discipline to create funky and hip projects that knitters want to wear, use, and give away with pride. Based on the popular Web site of the same name, this book will show hip crafters fun ways to tweak designs and give them a unique edge.

More than just a collection of projects, this book gives you all the information you need to become an accomplished knitter in terms of tips, techniques, things to avoid—all in a fun and useful package.

So… my lovely knitter-type friends… what do you think of this?? Something you’d like? Something you’d use? Something you’d give as a gift? It made me smile. I hope it makes you smile as well.

Happy mid-week, everyone!!

This week’s twitterverse was all aflutter with ALA Awards and Oscar noms… here are some things that caught my eye or made me smile…

1/24/12 – @i heart quotes Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. via @ankitgoyalacto

1/24/12 – @Michael Moore “We are starting a financial crimes unit.” Occupy Wall Street, take a bow. #ows

1/24/12 – @imdominating Twitter breaks with “POLOS” RT @NathanFillion: Marco.

1/24/12 – @KarenMMoning About FeverCon and the ICED book launch 2012 http://fb.me/NukmB4RQ

1/24/12 - @FelicityDisco We can now write the phrase “the Oscar-nominated Real Steel.” I’m just saying.

1/24/12 – @noele6277 15. I love to read especially Dean Koontz. When the book gets too scary I put it in the freezer #30thingsaboutme

1/24/12 – @Karina Cooper @HappyTwilighter [giggle] It says “The Booths”. It’s part of my legend. Dark purple = Mr. or Mrs. Booth.

1/24/12 – @amymaclane “When Washington gets its prostate checked, it tickles YOU!”  John Stewart about Newt Gingrich  #purefuckingawesome

1/23/12 – @booktopia When I grow old I will sit on my porch and sell tickets to those who wish to walk through a house still filled with books. #wonderofwonders

1/23/12 – @LawrenceBlockI wish Oliver Stone would direct the debates. They could just shout Fuck You at each other over a pile of white powder.

1/23/12 – @RL_Stine Creepier than Robert Pattinson? The 1st pix of Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins in Dark Shadows:  http://tinyurl.com/8yryev2

1/23/12 – @BWBooks 20 books you should read before they are turned into 2012 films. Shop BWB, we’re #BookforBook! http://ow.ly/8B1dA (via @BuzzSugar)

1/23/12 - @mandymrothasked my hubby once to show me how to work the universal remote for tv, cable, all that, he said no. He calls it job security

1/23/12 – @JeffreyWestI live in a world where authors are rockstars, nerds are celebrities, and scientists are gods. I love this living in this century.

1/23/12 – @HuffPostBooks Q:”Her birthday is Valentine’s Day. One gift or two?” #DHhelpsUA: If you stop at one, you won’t have to worry about it, ever again. Ever.

1/23/12 – @HuffPostBooks Q: “How do you go from being just friends to more than friends?”  A: Blind courage, sudden kiss, risk everything, good luck. #DHhelpsU

1/23/12 – @HuffPostBooks Q: My partner wants me to talk dirty to him, but I don’t want to.   A: Do it badly, once.  “Darling, I want your scrotum.” #DHhelpsU

1/23/12 – @Rob_Thurmanmajor accomplishment of yesterday: I ate a cake. Not a piece of cake–an *entire* cake. And it was goooooooooood.

1/23/12 – @maureenjohnsonJust heard this line in a commercial for tutoring: “Math was hard when you were in school. It’s only gotten harder.”  . . . what?

1/23/12 – @ShelfAwareness Full list of the ALA awards and honors: http://is.gd/hFgeEB

1/22/12  – @donnajherrenIt’s always fun to have occasion for a heroine to utter this line:  “You have two seconds to get up before I kick your face in.”

1/22/12 – @girlsinthestackJohn Green says that he wrote Looking for Alaska as Christian fiction. Who knew!?!?

1/22/12 – @PatriotsThe Patriots are going to the Super Bowl!

1/21/12 – @halseanderson I hope this isn’t TMI. The blog post that explains what happened in Chicago & why I’ve been AWOL: http://madwomanintheforest.com/reality-check-and-a-big-confession/

1/21/12 – @zero6artnmess Bones Brigade – Stacy Peralta – Trailer http://zero6artedesordem.blogspot.com/2012/01/bones-brigade-trailer.html

1/21/12 – @heatherbrewer In which Auntie Heather reveals her Big Secret: http://heatherbrewer.com/blog/2012/01/21/1504 (Please share this with the world!)

1/21/12 – dannymarksyaForced to defriend an author on Goodreads who kept recommending I “like” his personal quotes. Also I killed him. Defriending was too gentle.

1/21/12 – @lisamantchevTime to stop shopping online when you read “Gossamer Mesh Fairy Top” as “Gossamer Mesh Fairy Trollop” and still click the link. *ahem*

1/20/12 – @andrewtshafferDivorce isn’t finalized these days until both parties unfollow/unfriend each across all social networks.

1/20/12 – @Jess_Haines @HappyTwilighter Here’s all the Friday Funnies so you can catch up.  xD  http://bit.ly/ywfcAl

1/19/12 – @deidraalexanderAt Starbucks they asked my name for my cup. I said Voldemort. When my tea was ready they called ‘he who shall not be named’ cracked me up

1/19/12 – @jsmithready *emails to self* RT @mstiefvater: Okay, whether you want them or not, my top 15 music recommendations from 2011: http://bit.ly/w1P833

1/11/12 – @TXbookjunkie RT @Comic_Con: Interested in buying a badge for Comic-Con 2012? Start by signing up for official Comic-Con Member ID!  http://bit.ly/nKS9B9

Okee Dokee… that’ll do it for this week (and YES, I have my Comic-Con member ID!!) See ya in the twitterverse!!

Hello again, my lovelies Today we’re welcoming debut author and blues enthusiast, James R Tuck. His first full length novel, Blood And Bullets, will be hitting the shelves on February 7th. (Keep an eye out for my review on February 2nd, my date to host James on his blog tour!) He’s also got a prequel novella, That Thing At The Zoo, available January 27th.

So, without further adieu…

Blues With A Feelin’

By James R. Tuck

Hello, hello Loyals and True Believers. Thank you for having me. Let’s chat a minute about music. Not just any old music, but some of the best music in the world. I am talking about the Blues.

Now there is one thing writers love to do. We love to put pieces of ourselves in our characters. One of the things that I share with my main character Deacon Chalk is a love for Blues music.

Now, I love the Blues because it is awesome. In the Blues you can find the entire depth and breadth of human emotion. If you are sad of course you can find a Blues song to sing you through to the otherside. Your woman done you wrong? There is a song for that. Loved one died? There is a song for that. Lost your job? There is a song for that.

But it’s not all bad news in the Blues. The Blues is also happy music. Party music. Good time music. Especially when you start moving into Chicago blues like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf or out toward Texas with the rockin’ blues of bands like ZZ Top. Hell, you may not know this, but Led Zepplin is a Blues band. So are the Allman Brothers in my opinion.

Deacon Chalk does listen to the Blues from a place of sorrow. He has a deep pit in his heart where he lost his family. Since they were taken from him five years ago by a monster he has lived a blues song. Lonely and damaged he drives through the night in his vintage 1966 Mercury Comet, Desert Eagle .357 loaded with silver jacketed hollow-points, and the Blues wailing from the stereo. He hunts monsters and the Blues is his soundtrack.

As you read my book, BLOOD AND BULLETS, you will find songs in there. Those are real songs. You can find them on Itunes or wherever it is you get your music from and listen to what Deacon is listening to as the action unfolds. It will give you one more layer of the book to enjoy.

And if you aren’t a Blues fan it’s because you haven’t listened to enough of the Blues. Trust me on this.

So, ladies and gentlemen… there you have it. The blues. Who’s got a favorite blues artist to share?? Who’s gonna try listening to a bit of blues to get ready for Deacon Chalk’s adventures?? Here are a couple to get you started…

Hurt So Bad – Susan Tedeschi

I Thought I Heard The Devil – Walter Trout

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