MIU Publishing: The Power of TRUTH-OCTOBER 2010

October 2012...and WE made it!

Muse It Up Publishing BURST upon the Publishing World

Two Years ago on October 1, 2010 because everyone at Muse worked our

buzzing little tales off to bring our debut forward from December 1st. By everyone I mean our publisher

Lea Schizas, her partner

Litsa Kamaetors, the coterie of

editors, THREE gifted

Cover Artists, and our gifted

Web Designer.

We were about to arrive and were we

READY!

So...

with our first month, October, 2010 and the direct buy links to each book...just in case you missed them the first time around.

OCTOBER 2010 We brought forth

amazing titles, and many have gone on to win

awards and accolades attesting to the hard work all of the Muse It Up Family put into bringing

the World out There, OUR world here at Muse It Up Publishing, Inc.

The following books are in no particular order.

1.) The Killer Valentine Ball by C.A. Verstraete.

2.) Fallon O'Reilly and the Ice Queen's Lair by Debra K. Dunlap

3.) The Ghost of Grover's Ridge, by James Hartley

4.) The Harvest Moon by Krista D. Ball

5.) Grounds For Murder by John Russo

6.) The Halloween Dino Trip by Lee Hovris Schizas.

What a powerful first month.

Truth time...

I must admit I have not read ALL of the books Muse releases...Until I

win a lottery..and since I don't play the lottery, that's probably not going to happen any time soon...but until I do, I have to carefully decide how may of these great offerings to invest in.

So which have I either read or have waiting for me in my

Kindle...and why did I choose them?

Like everyone else, my first clue a book is coming out is its cover...and hey...look at these six covers!

Cover One...is

scary and tells me this book is going to have me diving beneath my covers and praying the scary noises just beyond my vision of darkness are not parts of this book coming to life.

Did I read THE KILLER VALENTINE BALL? Life is scary enough without me trying to entertain myself with terror...however I also don't go to see the movies popping up with nerve shaking regularity around Halloween either. If I'm going to have a

heart attack I'd rather it not be because I am scared out of my bejeeburs.

STILL, Muse knows it has an audience for scary tales...

(Meet Bonella, our publisher's October Icon who comes along to remind all of us October can be a really scary month.) The story AND the cover for this book guarantee a delightfully bone chilling ride for that person.

Cover Two...this is AMERICA'S answer to Harry Potter. I have to admit I

LOVE this cover...and the book is waiting for me in my Kindle. (If I read all the books I've snatched and are waiting for me in my Kindle I'd have to mainline my Kindle 24/7) I'd only make one suggestion, the author's name should have been in a color that doesn't blend into the background, but other than that, the cover is a perfect introduction to Debra K. Dunlap's

mystical world.

Cover Three...I am a HUGE James Hartley fan, and I admit I read this book, loved it and have it safely tucked in the memory of my Kindle for future re-reads. The cover, especially the

wand angling guy, is a perfect introduction to a world where James Hartley delivers HIS magic with a resounding snap!

Cover Four...This was the very first Muse It Up Publishing Book I read and I was not in the least disappointed. I am a great aficionado of anything that whispers

Native American. This cover doesn't just whisper it...it bellows it along with the hint of an ominous orangey moon. Love, Love, Love this tale.

Cover Five...I'm going to let you in on a secret...well a secret to you...not to my daughter, author Kat Holmes...because she lives with me she knows I am a fan of

mysteries, and no body does them with the panache of John Russo. His cover...gotta love steam rising from a cup of coffee atop a mountain of coffee beans morphing into a poisonous skull. Talk about a delicious teaser. Not all teasers deliver, though, but boy does this one!

Cover Six...I have read this book many times. I have reread it to my young relations, and recommended it to teachers I know from before my retirement as a teacher. The cover is nothing short of

brilliant. It shows the

prehistoric world this books wings us to on the night of a Halloween party unlike any

 Halloween party I've ever been to. The storyline is brilliant and the cover brings the author's brilliance to enticingly accurate life.

And there you have the

DEBUT MONTH...it came two months ahead of schedule so Forever More we can celebrate October 2012 as Muse's Two Year Birthday.

Check back for the next MIU PUBLISHING: THE POWER OF TRUTH-NOVEMBER 2010 as Muse It Up Publishing continues to celebrate October and Two Years of award winning tales.

THE TERRIBLE TWO'S HIT MUSE IT UP PUBLISHING, INC...Oh Dear

Officially

Muse It Up Publishing, Inc. created by powerhouses

Lea Schizas and

Litsa Kamateros is about to bust out of its training pants and march into the world of the

TERRIBLE TWO'S.

I'm a mom and remember with nerve shattering clarity the almost immediate change that took place when my little ones went from the darling babies who

cooed and laughed, to the nasty tongued,

"NO!" spouting, argumentative terrors one minute after turning two.

Does that happen in the publishing world too?

As with any developing creation

growing pains are a big hump to climb over...and boy howdy has

Muse It up Publishing, Inc. GROWN.

In the past two years it has taken the largest number of



industry awards. It celebrated a rather impressive

meet-greet-and large scale book signing weekend in Montreal shortly after its FIRST OFFICIAL birthday.

Are you impressed?

TRUTH time...technically Muse It Up Publishing, Inc. already HAS celebrated it's

second birthday. Officially it opened for its authors to purchase like kids in their own candy shop back on September 10, 2010, but did not throw its doors open to the REST of the world until October 1, 2010.

I have the advantage of having started with Muse It Up Publishing, Inc. almost from the moment Lea and Litsa put forth their vision for the house Muse was to become. (I signed on with Muse on March 29, 2010, and my first book

released on December 1, 2010)

I've seen it develop from the ground floor and part of my development has been my discovery of the

Ladybug Lin part of my chaotic personality.

But I now turn this posting over to Ladybug Lin and her 100%, no matter what, truth.

MUSE IT UP PUBLISHING, INC. and it's terrible twos...

Yes,

it is suffering growing pains. Sometimes we all forget it takes a lot to run a house growing as quickly and with the kind of recognition Muse has garnered. So there are problems.

I as an author have not always been happy with the changes growing so quickly has brought our way, but just as I had to invest in bigger drawers for my children when they moved into their twos, Muse is having to expand the constraints its growth is bulging against...and it is doing so.

Lea Schizas is

NOT an amateur who woke up one morning and said..."Gee I want to publish books." She knows the industry, but more importantly she

LOVES the industry.

Muse has grown phenomenally in a very short time...it's suffering the terrible twos, but Lea and Litsa are going to lead Muse through the constraint breaking twos into the

giddy threes.

So I wish Muse It Up Publishing a Delightfully



Happy Birthday and know there are many great things coming our way to feast on.

You can be kept up-to-date by going to the Muse It Up FB page and LIKING it. You won't be disappointed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUSE IT UP PUBLISHING...LONG MAY YOUR BANNERS WAVE.

THE GENESIS OF TASMERELDA

Let me tell you a little about THIS Lin when she's decided she's had enough! And HOW

Tasmerelda finally became my inner warrior.

The year my marriage ended, I needed to get my children tested for learning disabilities so they could be placed in the appropriate school settings.

I started trying to reach the Superintendent of our school District in April. I'd begin calling his office at 9:00 in the morning. I was told he's wandering around the building and they could not get him via the PA system...(CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???)...or, and this was my favorite..."He's out to lunch."

I sent letters demanding a meeting...but heard nothing back. I sent REGISTERED letters requiring HIS signature ONLY...the signature cards came back, but no contact.

This went on until the middle of August. I read in the newspaper of an upcoming conference the Sup was going to have with all the principals for all the schools in out district prior to the beginning of the new school year. It gave time and place.

Now remember I was a size four, long haired blonde, with THIS little girl's voice.

I carefully dressed. slipping into one of my tightest pairs of jeans and a peasant blouse. On my feet I wore white heeled sandles...I drove to the admin building, parked, passed the security guy at the front of the building who was gawking at my tightly encased lower body and when I passed him my retreating ass.

I didn't stop. I KNEW where the conference room was. I walked down the hall, reached the door, turned the knob and pushed it inside, following right behind.

Mr. Almighty Superintendent had never actually met me, so he began blustering about my not being allowed there and I had to leave.

I walked...slithered, sauntered arrogantly right up to him, gave him this unimpressed once over look and climbed up onto the table plopping myself down face-to-face with him and said...loud enough for ALL the principals to hear, "Mr. Impossible to Reach Superintendent, I have been trying since April to get you to set up a meeting with me so I can get my children tested for learning disabilities. I call at nine o'clock in the morning and am told you're either wandering around the building or out to lunch. I have sent you registered letters, " I said reaching into my peasant top, letting him see my scarlet red bra lace, and pulled the signature cards out and held them out to him, "and here is my PROOF you have received them. Yet you still avoid contacting me and making a firm committment to meet with me.

"Well I'm not budging until you give me an appointment...here before ALL your principals, and sir, if you give me an appointment and fail to keep it, my next stop will be the newspapers. So what'll it be?"

I GOT the appointment...he kept it, and quickly arranged the testing so my children entered the RIGHT programs in September.

That Lin does not come out often, but when she does, she...

The Inner Lin has returned!

LONG LIVE TASMERELDA !