City of Redemption Dudes _ HELP!

City of Redemption - 1967 Summer of Love mystery novel and screenplay has some really cool young dudes - even Ricky the Rat and Chaz the ruthless undercover cop are manly men! Drugs, lies, betrayal, Black Panthers and great music. Read more about it at www. june ahern dot com

 Let me know if you suggest another actor or which ones below you like best.

Sam, seen in the very beginning, aged and sick, is not the '67 Sam. -  a handsome 27 year-old Vietnam Vet with the gait of an athlete is the 1967 hippie complete with John Lemon glasses.  The yoga practitioner observes the family with a mellow attitude that hides his lies. I chose actors to the left  Garrett Hedlund - or below Paul Walker. What do you think? Who'd you suggest?

 

  

RICKY MARTINEZ  - a dangerously handsome 23 year-old Latino neighborhood drug dealer and womanizer: Ricky strokes his slicked-back hair, mustache and divides his goatee it in the middle, smoothing it back with his "Ricky-knows-you-want-him" smile. His commune family doesn’t know he’s more to him....  side by side my choices - really need a hot Latino actor 25 - 30?

Shiloh Fernandez  

Or .... James Franco  

Next posting will be Mason, the gay hairdresser, Bobby, Toni's Black Panther boyfriend and Chaz, the undercover cop who's been under too long. 

 

WHO WOULD PLAY YOU?

You know that question interviewers ask - 'Who would play you in a movie'? I've thought about it and my picks - Elizabeth Taylor for one -  have passed on to the big stage in the sky or are ancient!

But I do know the actors I want for my novel's screenplay, "City of Redemption."  Read about the story that takes place during the Summer of Love 1967.

 I've searched wide and far for that right one! for each role.

 There are two main females roles and a smaller role.

LIZ MACKAY: Scottish actress Mhairi Calvey is a purrrfect match for my sassy, sorrowful and when she's needed, brave Liz. Writing the screenplay it was Mhairi in my vision.  Liz's 8 yr old son, Patrick dies under mysterious circumstances and Liz seeks solace in San Francisco, seeking to loss herself amongst the groovy people. 


She's not just a pretty face. Mhairi has that edgy energy - that Glaswegian cheek.





Toni Bourdeaux, my tough sensible Black Panther member, was a quite more difficult to cast.  Lauren London is a beauty, but can she be tough when needed?

Toni is also vulnerable when...have you read the novel yet?  I do love Annie Ilonzeh too. Both women are true beauties, which will wear the largest Angela Davis Afro?



Cat is a great character! Ditzy and sweet. What will becomes of her being that cad drug dealer's girlfriend?

Katie Garland, a young actress I met when in LA four years ago for my other novel. Katie, like Cat, is funny and sweet but Katie is a sharp talented actress.  I hope she doesn't steal the show!

Come on back so we can talk MEN! There are five male actors: The male The handsome often silent watchful Sam, Ricky a dangerously handsome Latino, a great gay guy named Mason Decauter Perry,  the intense Black Panther boyfriend of Toni Bobby and Chaz a big meanie undercover cop. Will upload them in a later blog.

Please read the overwhelming positive reviews of "City" and my other one, "The Skye in June", at Amazon.com, Goodreads.com as well as at June Ahern comments.

A JOLLY GOOD TIME: MAYHEM AND MURDER SUMMER OF LOVE

SHE CAME FOR A JOLLY GOOD TIME. FATE HAD OTHER PLANS.

 Liz MacKay’s lies lead to her son’s death and a man’s murder. The once cheeky Liz leaves
Scotland in a fog of grief to lose herself in the crazed days of the of the Summer of Love.

In San Francisco, thoughts of a “jolly good time” evaporate and she’s in over her head with dope-smoking roommates and a plot to bring down the Black Panthers.  

“City of Redemption” is a about a lonely woman with a shameful past in a city seemingly full of free love and groovy people only Liz is drawn to the dark underbelly of violence and devastation. 

My books continue to receive an overwhelming five star reviews since since publication.

"City of Redemption" combines strong plotting and  dialogue to create a memorable and revealing exposé of seedy side of the Summer of Love.

A film is planned for this story.

Read more at june ahern dot com.

Paperback and ebook. Amazon.com ebooks Smashwords.com For personally autographed copy through author's website www.june ahern dot com.

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MY CITY - BAGHDAD BY THE BAY

In San Francisco's newspaper, The Chronicle renowned columnist, Herb Caen, coined the term Baghdad-by-the-Bay for San Francisco's exotic multicultural, multi-crazy citizens in my city.

I hear some natives who have long moved away from the city, talk about how it's not like it used to be!

That is true because the city on the bay is a place of constant change -- people sail in, sail out and the beat goes on.

My novels, The Skye in June and City of Redemption, set in this interesting city tell of times gone past. What hasn't changed are the hills the characters climb up and down, in and out of shops nestled the valleys as fog lingers nearby. The history.

Mission Dolores, Dolores Street, SF

A visit to Playland (no longer there but most remembered) to listen to the hysterical Laughing Sal (now seen at Santa Cruz boardwalk) is a reminder of an amusement park that remains in many memories.

A writer can't tell a story about San Francisco without taking readers on a cable car ride with a clang, clang of bells and end  at Woolworth's store on Market. 

The city is full of history of unsavory characters and wild happenings. When the bloom of Summer of Love, 1967 in the Haight Ashbury paled, the squalor was left for those who called San Francisco home.

Some of the older generations cried, "them dam hippies!" - and then strangers ones came; The Castro grew new life, different kinds of people, ones like the home-grown city people never saw.  Did the world end? Did the city crumble? No. Baghdad-by-the Bay stories flew far and wide. The beat went on. And will.

Memories continue to be made, changes never cease. Like it or not. Like San Francisco, my stories, my books about the city will be around for a long, long time, long after I pass on to the big party in the sky. Readers will know what life was like back in the day - they will will know a bit more about my city - my Baghad-by-the-Bay.

Read about my novels that take place mostly in SF The Skye in June and City of Redemption at june ahern dot com

Watch my ghostly San Francisco historical walks with The Haunted Bay Part One and Two on Youtube - 

JUST A NORMAL WITCH

NORMAL, ILLINOIS

Just a everyday normal person who happens to talk to dead people, see others' past, present and future events and enjoy casting an occasional normal witch spell. 

Since October ('12) I've been studying "The Seven Spiritual Laws to Success: A Pratical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams" by Deepak Chopra.  It's a rather small book, only 115 pages. 

Each sentence, sometimes even a word stops me to reflect, remember and imagine myself in a situation where I rise above judgement, blame and need of approval from others. 

Easy to say, not always so easy to practice. 

It can be simple so easily said "Gee, look at that one!" just because that person might not be attired or coiffed as I might. 

Blame: Them dam Yankees! when my baseball team loses to them. If the Yankees weren't so dam good, my team would have won. The book advises not to allow the approval or disapproval of others to affect your goals or intentions. To be with those who support and encourage them. Indeed! Easy to say, but when  your creation - precious work, and actions are judged as you deem unfairly, it smarts!

The approval of others, oh how many times have I said, "I don't care what they think!" whereas indeed I do care. It was difficult to come to that admittance. 

I admit, when something nasty is said to or about me, it hurts. Being a warrior woman, I anger and wonder why I was so harshly judged or unfairly blamed? No one asked about my thoughts, or reasons for my decisions. Do you stop and ask someone when they differ from your way of thinking or life choices? Do you want to learn about another so that maybe you will learn more about yourself? Do I care? Yes, I do care when I'm attacked - or feel attacked. I'm just a normal feeling human being - a normal witch, a normal psychic. I fail at times (well a lot actually so I learn). I blame at times when hurt. and I get angry then realize what a waste of my energy that is. From this book I'm learning to pay attention to how I might be giving as I am receiving. Like in magic, returned to me 3x fold times whatever I acitivate.

Back to reading the steps to successful living...

My well appreciated novels and paranormal, parapsychology non-fictions are ready for your reading delight. Read more at https://juneahern.com  june ahern dot com

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Here a POD, there a POD

I traveled to the Isle of Skye while writing my novel to get the true "feel" for my story. It is as mysteriously beautiful as I hoped for. The  magic of the isle flowed to my debut novel, "The Skye in June" and continues today with on-going positive reviews of the book. 

Indie aka POD authors - this can be helpful in selling books. My books are selling all the time!

Bookstores don't often cater to POD authors - not all bookstores though. I've been quite lucky in the Bay Area to have indie bookstores embrace me, though not too tightly. Bookstores aren't the only place people shop.

Just like music CDs are selling at a big coffee shop chain as a POD and unknown author, you can also spread out your venues. This information is useful for POD authors that have bought their own books and are storing. Here's what I've done and it's working so nicely, thank you very much. My books are at these shops and businesses: gift, beauty salons, specialty antique, coffee and spa.

Because my novels are often of interest to females (of all ages I've learned) the businesses where females spend at, are eating the books up. My mother (yes mothers can be helpful) sells it to her signing group at a reduced price for their money-making events. Soon I'll be giving a book signing at my local Postal Annex where I copied and mailed much of my manuscript. People who own these businesses have been along with me during the process. Where do you shop and have personal relationships with owners/managers/workers that might carry your book?

Thank goodness for e-books! I still personally like a paperback but from my sales - ebook is the way. Offer "free" ebooks on Amazon.com kindle for a specific time. That source has helped me expand my readership worldwide to over 50,000 readers in 2012 (for all three books) followed by big sales! 

As you are writing share your experience with the staff and/or owner. Offer the same discount price that is given to bookstores, which is a 60-40 split with you being the 60 % part. My books sell weekly - maybe it's a book at a time, but they are selling. I'm telling you, it's worth a try. Whew! Selling books is an adventure. Get on board.

See what readers are saying about my newly released novel, "City of Redemption" and my first novel, "The Skye in June" at june ahern dot comJune Ahern dot com as well as at Amazon.com U.S., U.K & France and Goodreads.com - the books are receiving an over all five & four star reviews.

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LOVE IT ALL LIGHT AND DARK

Through love, we conquer fears and free self to experience a more fulfilling and balanced life.

Oftentimes people believe if only they met the right person, a person to love and hold them as a jewel in life, they'd find happiness. It could happen.

As a tarot reader when people see the cared The Lovers, they think that is it! He or she, their lover is going to fix it all. That's really not what the card's symbolic message is about. It's about the love of self and  love of one's uniqueness.

The opposite of love is self-loathing caused by a false belief we are unlovable -in the tarot The Devil (number 15) represents that and our fears - whereas The Lovers (number 6. 15 = 6) is how to love fully, self and othes.

Looking at the two cards side-by-side: Both form a triangle with a powerful being on top (devil or Pan) and in The Lovers, archangel Rafael. In each corner stands a man to the right and a woman to the left; the man gestures with his hand to the woman (his need to connect to the female energy) and the woman (the emotion/psychic self) has two reactions: in the Lovers she’s open handed – accepted what the man offers or inviting his offerings and opened for guidance from the angel. In the Devil both hands are not open. Between them is a pull, in the devil the pull is cardinal. The man is enflamed by the force of the devil; perhaps thriving off chaos; the female  by the fruits of desire, but she doesn’t look to the devil, rather stares out to ? nowhere? Whereas in the Lovers she looks to the angel for guidance and connects the spirit with the conscious mind.

While the Devil represents the lower form of humans – the downfall of cardinal desires –the Lovers represents living with a higher or spiritual form of purpose. In the Lovers behind the man is the Tree of Knowledge; the woman, The Tree of Wisdom. She looks to the higher self to connect  the knowledge attained on the earth with inner wisdom to a greater purpose, thus the triangle of self and/or the balance of purpose or life.

When have you used and/or are using your knowledge (education) wisely to satisfy your needs materially and spiritually? Doing so is to live your authentic self through the positive use of your unique talents and abilities.

To live wholly or fully is a balancing act of accepting the shadow-light energy or the yin-yang.

Free yourself from the chains of your fears: prejudices, phobias, judgments, and lack of self-love. LOVE YOURSELF as in the Lovers.

Looking at the two cards makes a lot of sense for they represent us – the good, the bad and the ugly. You can transform your fears into a higher purpose.

I recently did. I have had a cherished goal but believed it would take too much time and money to accomplish. I meditated on The Devil  and realized my fear: I wasn’t valuing my talents. I wasn’t investing in myself as I invested in caring for others.

Meditating on the Lovers, I realized a balance place. Release certain responsibilities and people to focus on what brings me joy. I’m following a Higher Voice of Conscious and learning to write a potentially successful screenplay.

What is chaining you to the darkness of chaos, unhappiness and/or stagnation? How can you love yourself and life more so? Tell me what you did today to move beyond your fears into the love light.

My novels; City of Redemption - about hope and release of fear - The Skye in June - acceptance and love of those different from us - read more. Ebook and paperback. My website june ahern dot com and Amazon. Read the reviews - also on Goodreads.