On day one of 2018, I wrote a blog post stating,  “I (had) signed up for Rob Parnell’s free ‘Super Success & Productivity 101’” 

In Rob Parnell’s “Mindset Management – The 5 Keys to Success”
video; he mentioned Pam Grout, the author of E^2.

Hmmm! Grout…Groot?  I am Groot?

Must be my mind creating ‘my reality’.

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I jumped on eBay and found a copy of her Pam Grout’s book.  I  just received that book in my mailbox.

Immediately, I read the first 40 pages. This book is about belief. The belief that the world is vibrating energy and we can control that energy by just fully, totally believing. The premise of her book is that the universe is helping us all the time. In order to learn how to believe, she has nine experiments to help us ‘really believe’;  so that we are open to all the good things we are supposed to have.

Now Pam Groot…Oooops!  Pam Grout talks about vibrations of energy that surround us, and how we need to acknowledge and believe in those vibrations in order to use it to change our reality. Electricity is real, we can’t see it but it is there, and we believe it is there.

“… FP (field of potentiality) like electricity, is dependable, predictable, and available to everyone,…” and “…we have an energy wave that affects everything…”  and  “But, like electricity, you do have to plug into it…”

As an example, she uses an analogy of a toaster. We plug in a toaster and don’t worry that it will work; we just know the electricity will turn on that toaster.

The ‘Forward’ is written by, Joyce Barett, Ph.D. Former NASA biologist, her last line she writes, “…there is an amazing energy source available to everyone.”

“Everything in Life is Vibration” – Albert Einstein

Pam Grout has nine do-it-yourself experiments. I am starting with #1, “The Dude Abides Principle: There Is An Invisible Energy Force or Field of Infinite Possibilities” which starts on page 27. Each experiment has a lab report sheet to fill out at the start of the experiment and at its conclusion.

The first experiment has me asking for proof that the FP (field of potentiality)  is listening. My inner vibrations, can you hear me now? I need to connect to my field of energy and really, really believe.

I need to give it a time frame of two days. This is a test to show me that I can access this vibration (the big kahuna) and have belief so strong that I can receive what I am supposed to.

You can find E^2. here on Amazon.

Oh, she also talked about not giving up. She used an example of looking for your keys. I took that to looking for my glasses. I am always setting them down somewhere or my cat is walking off with them. The point is I don’t stop looking because I decide to procrastinate. I keep searching until I find my glasses. In the same way, I shouldn’t give up searching for God or ‘the all there is.’ 

I read a blog post by Pam Grout, where she spoke of Florence Scovel Shinn, she is an author who wrote, The Game of Life (and How to Play it  In her book, published in 1925, vibrations are brought about by God and praying the right way, she also gives her readers affirmations. I found a PDF of this book online (see Link below)  and I found the audiobook on Youtube.

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Affirmation for prosperity:

God is my unfailing supply, and large sums of money come to me quickly, under grace, in perfect ways.

This is from Chapter 10: Denials and Affirmations.

“I am asked so often the difference between visualizing and visioning. Visualizing is a mental process governed by the reasoning or conscious mind; visioning is a spiritual process, governed by intuition, or the superconscious mind. The student should train his mind to receive these flashes of inspiration, and work out the “divine pictures,” through definite leads. When a man can say, “I desire only that which God desires for me,” his false desires fade from the consciousness, and a new set of blueprints is given him by the Master Architect, the God within. God’s plan for each man transcends the limitation of the reasoning mind, and is always the square of life, containing health, wealth, love and perfect self-expression. Many a man is building for himself in imagination a bungalow when he should be building a palace.” ~ online, Sacred-Texts

I enjoyed Shinn’s novel and I am finding Grout’s book equally interesting.  As I read I will post to keep you updated on my progress with the next eight lessons from E^2. 

You can find the full PDF of The Game of Life (and How to Play it)  

Or buy it on Amazon

Hemphill Towers shows us how a glass of wine flows through its pages with romantic love, family, and scammers with self-indulgent intentions.

Leona Pence is an author the author of ‘Hemphill Towers’, an intriguing romance novel. Hemphill Towers is filled with beautiful career oriented women and handsome, entrepreneur men, who will fight to keep those women safe. A sly villain, one who drags along a past of blackmail and lies, with a morally reprehensible control over anyone who comes to too close, and another who uses a business that is not his, which pulls in the Russian mafia and endangers everyone.

This novel starts running, right from the prologue. We follow along, reading how power and money in the hands of a deceitful man can destroy lives. At the same time, we watch reputable men use their power with an opposite strength. That strength turns them into kittens when they meet the heroines of this novel.

Thirty-five chapters with multiple characters that are rich and intelligent. I noticed they don’t jump in the sack when called. They choose what they want to do and what they don’t.   This novel takes us around the world. We see the Russian mafia, vineyards, museums, painters, pretty clothes, food … Mmmm! Food.

Here’s a slice from chapter 8: “Rosetta placed a steaming cup of espresso in front of Birdie along with a plate filled with pastries that she called brioche.” ~Pence, Leona

Leona had me on the edge of my seat. Each chapter moves at a fast pace. I find myself hungry, sad, happy then thrilled. I love the Italian family. I wish I could sit and talk to the artist, and walk around JB’s home and peek into closets. Then relax and read by his pool.

Leona Pence answered a few of my  questions.

1. Why did you choose the locale: Italy- Chicago- California-Spain?

I needed my Italian character near wineries, both in Italy and the US. A little research helped choose Italy, California, and Spain.

2. How did you come up with the names in your book?

The three main women were based on me, and two online friends. We chose and described our own love interest. The rest of my characters were twisted names of family and friends.

For example, my brother, Lawrence Harmston, became Judge Lawrence Harmstrong. My bro-in-law, James Otts, became Dr. James Ottsman. I had people vying for me to use their names. It was fun, and they all had a laugh at finding their twisted names.

Thank you for this  Leona.  I bet a number of our readers will use your ideas when naming their characters.

3. How did you keep your characters straight?

I did not set out to write a novel, just a short spoof for my friends. So, I wrote installments and sent them to a few people. They became hooked on the story, and for me, the words just kept coming. I ended up with fifteen installments going out to about fifty people.

I wrote character descriptions in an email format. I had fifteen emails at my fingertip, so when I needed to check out anything about my characters I would pull up those emails. Keeping them straight wasn’t a problem, but getting everybody’s names in the story wasn’t easy.

4. What keeps you writing?

I’ve always been a voracious reader but being able to write actually came as a shock. But once I finished Hemphill Towers, I had the itch to write more. Discovering F2K and WVU made such a change in my life. All my friends there along with my large extended family inspire me to keep writing.

5. Who edited your novel?

I joined the Novel group in WVU where we critiqued each others work one chapter at a time. After that, Mar and I exchanged chapters. Linda helped us also. Then, my publisher at MuseItUp, Lea Schizas, did the final edit.

6. I noticed that some chapters have more than one scene. Each scene is separated by and asterisk *.   How did you decide to separate the chapters? There are more scenes in the later chapters. What was your idea to making that length, and detail instead of separating them?

Hummm! Good question.

In the novel group, we were limited to 3000 words per chapter for critique. So I combined some short chapters by using * and created scenes. After the group finished, I couldn’t remember how I had divided the chapters, so it took a while to figure it out. I know I started out with a lot more chapters than I ended up with.

7. Where did you get your ideas for the JBs home? It is beautiful, wooded area fishing pond, an alcove off the kitchen three sides of glass “panoramic view of the grounds”.

I shut my eyes and used my imagination as to what I thought the home of a rich bachelor with a teen daughter might look like.

8. How do you write; do you use an outline?

I’ve never ben able to use an outline.  Whatever flows through my mind is what I type.

Leona’s  favorite genre to write is Romance or Romantic Suspense; she had written some flash stories and plans to expand them into a novella.

The author, Leona Pence is a mother of four, a grandmother to twelve and great-grandmother to seven. She started writing later in life, after the death of her husband of forty-four years. Hemphill Towers was written when she was sixty-five.

Leona is a woman that I look up to; she is the spirit that never stops looking forward. Never gives up her dreams and never ever stops living, creating and learning. She is a romantic at heart. After dating her husband for three months, she married him on her nineteen birthday.

Leona has a crippling disease: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, a neurological disorder. There is no cure for CMT. It has weakened Leona’s lower arms, hands, lower legs and feet. The disease took her hearing, when she was in her mid-20s. Leona types out her stories on her computer using at first the eraser end of a pencil and now a stylus pen.

Leona is the author of Hemphill Towers.  you can buy this novel at itunes: http://tinyurl.com/mclslgs

Leona’s stories are also featured  in,  Bump off Your Enemies Anthology: http://goo.gl/T97WNW

And in The Darwin Murders Anthology:  http://amzn.to/2cL5fmu

And in Tasteful Murders: http://amzn.to/2dIJyEk

Leona is a  Blogger and an active member in Writers Village University.

You can connect with Leona Pence on Twitter and Facebook and at her Blog. I listed all her links below:

• https://twitter.com/leona_pence
• https://www.facebook.com/leona.pence
• http://leonaschatter.blogspot.com

Leona Pence is also found here:

• MuseItUp: http://tinyurl.com/lrqon56

• Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/krom6yw

• B & N :http://tinyurl.com/k597f84

• itunes: http://tinyurl.com/mclslgs

• Omnilit: http://tinyurl.com/lxo7x44

• Goodreads: http://tinyurl.com/lyojbwo

• Smashwords: http://tinyurl.com/kb6ohpt