New items and comments

Hello out there,

First the news:
I had two operations within 6 weeks and almost died twice. Obviously news of my actual death was premature. I actually went on a cruise to Europe (Italy, Monaco and Greece). Doing well and in the process I lost 40 pounds. If anyone finds them--you can keep them.

My newest novel "The Trashy Gourmet" is scheduled for publication in June of 2012 and another book, a Virginia Davies novel, "Dangerous Threads" is coming out in the fall of 2012. This last one involves a quilt.

Now for the comments:
I know some of you may not agree with me and that's fine. That's what makes America great, we can all have and share our opinions freely.
My tirade today is about the governor of our state (TEXAS) and his bid to be the next President of the US. This guy (Mr. Perry) does NOT believe in global warming. I would agree with him if he said man was not the only contributor-that nature has a big part in it as well. BUT he said he doesn't buy global warming and that man has anything to do with it.
Next he asked for a got a law (overturned by a federal court) that made sonograms of fetuses be shown to women prior to an abortion. Whether you agree with abortion or not, this is cruel and just because he doesn't like it he has no right to hurt pregnant women.
Next he disagrees with science at the earth is over 4 billion years old. He's more inclined to believe untrained bible thumpers that it is only 4,000 to 6,000 years old.
He also disagrees with science about evolution and goes for the myth that the earth and man was made in 7 days.
This is a man who's running for President? He's sucking up to the Re[publican extreme right and evangelical christians and leaving the rest of the world out. He will NOT get my vote and I'll push for him NOT to get a lot of others. There are better candidates with business and government experience than him. A lot of Texans think he's operating on tortilla short of a taco. This is they guy who suggested Texas drop out of the Union, now he wants to be president?????

Operation and positive side of things

I went into the hospital the end of May for a routine laposcopic gall bladder removal. It was to be about an hour operation and out of the hospital the next day. Well things went really wrong. The surgeon had to call in another doctor and they opened me up. The operation took over 5 hours and part of the bladder was burned in place because of where it had nested. It was seriously infected and when it was ready to burst (soon according to the surgeon) it would have killed me. Left the hospital a week later with 3 tubes sticking out of me. Two weeks ago the doc removed two and today-after a couple x-rays, the last one comes out. It wasn't what I signed up for but it beats the alternative. The first weeks out of the hospital were trying and I slept a lot. On the positive side I think it was a success--I'm alive, no gall stones and I lost 35 pounds and have managed to keep the weight off so far. I feel great (except for this tube which is coming out today).

I do not recommend this weight loss program.

I'm getting back to writing and getting out more now.

Virginia Davies new book in work and another one to follow.

Virginia is at it again. Lots of action and adventure as usual. She and her husband Andy along with her friend Donna are in search of the 1933 Sears quilt contest quilt that was displayed tat the Chicago Worlds Fair. It was later given to Mrs. Roosevelt and then it disappeared. That part is true but in the story, it contains something of great value to the government and others.
I'm well along on it and will have it finished before too long.

After that I'm starting a new book.   Chemist Jack Parker, Ph.D., is the Coroner of San Diego County California.  He is also a reserve officer (Lt. Colonel) in the Army Medical Service Corp and has a background in Chemical and biological warfare from working for defense contractors and a stint at USAMRIID (US ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES).  One of his Medical Examiners hits the HOT ZONE lock down button while performing an autopsy.  Jack is called to the morgue. The body the M.E. was examining died of smallpox. Not regular smallpox, but an unusual and highly reactive strain of the disease. Dr. Jack looks at and realizes it is at a man made chimera.  The smallpox released from the inside the cells of an E-coli bacteria as the cells were killed by antibiotics and the dead man’s immune system. Who made it? Where did it come from? E-coli is common. But, smallpox was eradicated decades ago. He knows there are still strains of smallpox in labs in Russia and in the US. Did a lab lose a sample? Who has the smallpox virus and why?
 

New inforation

Gave my new Adam Thomas book to the publisher (L&L Dreamspell) a couple weeks ago. The title is The Trashy Gourmet. Had a lot of events this month and starting to plan some more for the rest of the summer. Will put them in the blog later.

SPEAKING

HI AGAIN,
I WANTED TO LET ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS AREA THAT I GIVE FREE* TALKS TO GROUPS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

FOR INFORMATION OR TO BOOK AN ENGAGEMENT CONTACT ME AT MYSTERYWRITER5@MSN.COM.

* if the engagement is too far, I do ask for travel expenses.

New Virginia Davies mystery-Quest for the Crystal Skull in now available

New Virginia Davies mystery-Quest for the Crystal Skull in now available at bookstores and on-line. ISBN: 978-1-60318-256-0

                                      Quest for the Crystal Skull

                                                        A Virginia Davies Mystery

                                                                          by

                                                              David Ciambrone

Texas. It’s the biggest state in the continental United States. Sun worshipers, college students at Spring Break, smugglers and hurricanes visit its coastline. This hurricane found Virginia Davies at a beachfront resort on St. John’s Island securing archaeological artifacts and treasures worth millions that had been hijacked.  With the hurricane raging around her, she and a long time friend, Donna Boletti, encounter Virginia’s murdered partner, and some killers trying to steal an old crystal skull. 

After she and Donna eliminate the threat of the killers and the hurricane ebbs, they heads for New Orleans to trace down the people behind the murders. Virginia and Donna are pulled into the world of Voodoo and find other groups wanting the crystal skull and her dead. She and Donna keep searching for clues while the body count keeps going up around them. She learns the people behind the murders are headquartered in Rome. In Rome she manages to get inside the world of a dangerous art and fake antiques business and an unusual laboratory for the manufacture of undetectable fake art and antiques that could mean her death.

Virginia entangles the reader in a rapid-fire adventure involving the worlds of murder, voodoo, and antique fraud and the sights and sounds of Texas, New Orleans and Rome up to the high stakes end on the Mediterranean Sea. 

 GET YOURS TODAY!

Arizona's new Immigration Law.

I think Arizona got the right idea when it passed their new law. No one has a problem with LEGAL immigration, it is the ILLEGAL (criminal) immigration that we do not like. So:

LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT ABOUT IMMIGRATION

IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.

 IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED  INDEFINITELY.

 IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.

 IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.

 IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.

 IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND  YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.

 IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.

 IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY (you are a (CRIMINAL), YOU CAN GET:

 1 - A JOB,

 2 - A DRIVERS LICENSE,

 3 - SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,

 4 - WELFARE,

 5 - FOOD STAMPS,

 6 - CREDIT CARDS,

 7 - SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,

8 - FREE EDUCATION,

9 - FREE HEALTH CARE,

10 - A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON

11 - BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR

LANGUAGE

12 - AND THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY'S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON'T GET ENOUGH RESPECT

 I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION.

HELL YES I'M FOR WHAT ARIZONA DID. THEY HAD TO ACT BECAUSE THE JERKS IN WASHINGTON DO NOT HAVE THE GUTS TO ACT. THEY HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SECURE OUR BORDERS AND ARREST ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, BUT THEY WILL NOT DO IT. 

THIS MESS IS COSTING US CITIZENS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE LEGALLY BILLIONS AND WE CAN'T SEEM TO GET WASHINGTON HEAD OUT OF IT'S ASS. HOSPITALS HAVE CLOSED EMERGENCY ROOM BECAUSE THEY CAN AFFORD TO TREAT THEM FOR FREE. THIS AFFECTS YOU WHEN YOU HAVE TO GO FURTHER TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM IN CASE OF A MEDICAL PROBLEM THEN YOU'LL WAIT BEHIND A BUNCH OF ILLEGAL (CRIMINAL) IMMIGRANTS WHO WE MUST TREAT FOR FREE. THE HOSPITAL CHARGES MORE TO RECOVER THEIR COSTS FROM WHO? YOU AND YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY. SO DON'T BITCH WHEN YOUR INSURANCE GOES UP AND THE HOSPITAL COSTS A FORTUNE. YOUR TAXES ARE PAYING FOR THEM TOO FOR ALL THE "FREE" THINGS THEY CAN GET (SEE ABOVE). THERE IS NO FREE LUNCH---YOU PAY IT FOR THEM. HOW STUPID CAN WE GET?  SO GOOD FOR ARIZONA--WHICH OTHER STATES WILL HAVE THE GUTS TO FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE? PERSONALLY I DON'T CARE WHAT THE ADVOCATES FOR THE IMMIGRANTS THINK OR NBC OR CBS OR CNN OR THE OTHER WACOS IN THE PRESS THINK.