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A television fitness trainer who had battled drink and drug problems revealed how her “heart was broken, her spirit was broken” before leaping to her death from Beachy Head, an inquest heard on Thursday. Angie Dowds, from ITV’s weight-loss challenge show The Biggest Loser, also told her girlfriend in text messages that she would be “in peace soon” before jumping from the suicide spot. Witnesses reported seeing her “walking purposely” towards the cliff edge near Eastbourne, East Sussex, before disappearing over a sheer drop just after 4.30pm on November 20 last year. Aol.

We all have secrets, shames, those room 101’s, we would do anything to hide, or some would, but find the people you trust to speak with and don’t live in fear or isolated addiction. Why do people want to break spirits, or hearts, is it because they can’t believe in anything bigger themselves? The media glare though can be ferocious, just be brave back again and don’t deal in other’s hypocrisy. The ‘eye’ of the world is like a whirlwind because ‘opinion’ contains all possible judgements, or hates.

My Grandfather was an alcoholic, with a monumental temper, and in a political arena in a certain age where it made it more difficult to cope with a secret. Thankfully we are more understanding of these things, but addressing the underlying issue, the need for the crutch, is the answer. I think it made Dad find it harder to cope with his life issues. When his sister Mary died, the Tory press labelled it suicide and that’s a hard tragedy. The other things is never, ever try to be perfect, the universe is an experiment.

“I am convinced of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections.” John Keats.

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Maybe wolves were an issue, not to mention polar bears! Certainly painted awfully in the old christian language of Good and Evil, Dark and Light, and in Medieval days even put on trial. Poor Red Riding Hood, in Angela Carter’s adult Fairy Tales, padding in the Company of Wolves. Transformed under a lunatic moon, out of a man into a werewolf. Altered States, like that Kronenberg movie about love and trust. David was neither Larka, nor actually Fell, but more Fell than Larka, since he had no sisters!

Wolves are remarkably like pack driven humans, in some ways, except that despite those alphas, betas and omegas, they seem not to abandon their own, especially when injured. The song of the wild wolf, and then the rising pack, is one of the most haunting in all nature. They are far more powerful than dogs, genetically, with jaws that have something like ten times the bite. Up in a wolf stanctury in Colorado, when what DCD had thought what was his pack, his home, back in NYC, and never was, had shut him out, he heard a lovely tale. Of how one had died and his mate lay down to grieve. That evening, when she (or he?) cried to the moon, the others stayed eerily silent.

As elephants seem to pass the bones of dead elephants between their trunks, as if asking some strange question, coming to consciousness, with their bodies. As Giant Squid flaring bright red, in anger or fear, turn blue when approached with care and intelligence. The Supernature of life is astonishing, but if we think we are always so right, we have another thing coming. But as for favourite animals here, why not the dolphin, those brilliantly fast and playful healers of the sea? Is it true they hunt sharks and can stun or kill by slamming nose first into them? To listen to the crack crack crack of Dolphin chatter in sparkling water is wonderful, like the huge, hauntingly deep and longing song of whales. DCD should have been given the chance to write a book on dolphins and ancient Crete called The Sacred Swimmers.

But there you go, adopt a company animal like the dolphin and live in water and sunlight!

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Phoenix Ark Press openly invites Abrams to privately answer the question of whether the always missing person in a strange puzzle, actually works at Abrams too. If that is true, then politics is a very nasty business indeed, but a great many scales will fall from a great many clouded eyes. It would explain something that could not have been cowardice, or compassion either. Still, easily answered. A publisher engaged in appalling abuse, especially of the spirit of the child inside an author, but of many basic principles. They should all actually read Fell and understand most precisely why, and it’s free tomorrow! Young adult or any good writing isn’t some game you write the cheque for, then expect certain delivery, it demands the right conditions. But with secrets, dark fears, or misunderstandings so much there, there is actually only one person alive who, with courage, could possibly heal it now. Fear always kills. No prayers have ever been answered there before though, so a person and Abrams will ignore many ‘unbelievable’ truths, and the God or Devil language they misuse daily, and stand over continued harm.

(Ammended)

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We are delighted to announce the promotion of two titles, FREE. The first is The Sight and Fell co-edition, available tomorrow, June, 21st, to celebrate the solstice and longest day. The second is The Godhead Game, although that is actually available the day after, June 22nd. Both are available for download from Amazon.com.

Although the UT time and date is this evening, it stretches to the 22nd.

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Th warrior of light has learned that it is best to follow the light.

He has behaved treacherously, he has lied, he has strayed from the path, he has courted darkness. And everything is fine, as if nothing had happened.

Then the abyss suddenly opens up: you can take a thousand steps in safety, but just one step too many can put an end to everything. Then the warrior stops before he destroys himself.

When he makes that decision, he hears four comments. “You always do the wrong thing. You’re too old to change. You’re no good. You don’t deserve it.”

He looks up at the sky. And a voice says ‘My dear, every one makes mistakes. You’re forgiven, but I cannot force that forgiveness on you. It’s your choice.”

The true warrior of light accepts that forgiveness.

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On a far sillier and happier note, readers, especially younger ones, are not interested in the privates lives of mad, disgraced authors, or the stupidness of adults, only in a good story. The Terror Time Spies was that story held up at Abrams and it was specifically written to try and help younger valiants, with so much terror and fear in the world. If truth be told, it was also intended as the start of a much lighter and funnier series than the label of epic author that was earned or stamped on a writer’s head, and with the gorgeous hope of making a lot of money too, and buying everyone an ice cream!

It is set during that blood soaked Reign of Terror, during the French Revolution, and is loosely based around the wonderfully dasterdly deeds of The Scarlet Pimpernel. It is almost ready, so do enjoy the cover and please be assured that like other promises, often delayed, in the battle to be and breathe again like a human being, it is coming soon…

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