DANGEROUS SUPPLEMENT -- MMS+citric acid=industrial strength bleach!

From a British newspaper:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11404218

Alert issued on danger supplement

Food watchdogs have issued an alert after finding that a chemical marketed online as a health supplement was similar to industrial-strength bleach.

'Miracle Mineral Supplement' is 28% sodium chlorite (UK spelling) - which becomes bleach when mixed with citric acid.

Even taken as instructed, experts say it can cause severe vomiting and diarrhea - and mixing it wrongly could lead to respiratory failure.

So if you've gotten away with this so far, STOP TAKING IT!

Book View Cafe is celebrating Banned Books Week

It’s Banned Books Week and Book View Cafe is getting in on the action. Join our crack blogging team all week as we celebrate banned books and how they’ve impacted our lives. Banned book bloggers include Sherwood Smith, Brenda Clough, Nancy Jane Moore, Amy Sterling, Judith Tarr, Sarah Zettel, Jerry Weinberg, Deborah J. Ross, and more. Grab your can of lighter fluid and join us at the Book View Cafe blog: http://blog.bookviewcafe.com.

You regulars know that I wrote a bite about censorship in the BVC blog back here:

My original summation:

http://blog.bookviewcafe.com/2010/08/21/the-season-of-censorship/

And found the coda here:

According to the Guardian, the Humble, TX Teen Book Festival 2011 has been canceled.

Guardian Article: http://tinyurl.com/29ffawr

If anyone has found a later interview of some of the folks involved, post the link, will you? I am up to my eyeballs in copy edits for the book coming out Thursday (I hope!) so no time for browsing.

Crazy copy editing!

Due to ARGH! I am still in the last third of copy editing the e-book FIRES OF NUALA. http://www.ke-kimbriel.com/firesofn.htm for sample!

The joys of copy editing....

So I am doing a last minute copy-editing on the formatting of an e-book. I fear I'm nailed to the wall -- the structure of the novels is not fond of e-book. I think Vonda and I have it figured out, and Vonda is not only a great writer and fine person, but she's possibly a saint. It's been that big a pain in the butt to deal with this book. Without her, next year, maybe, this book would have hit the Internet. And not looked as good. Copies are needed soon for Library Thing reviewers, so I hope all goes smoothly from the short list I sent her.

I've discovered in the flurry of the past month that I do not have the energy to work a normal shift on anything. Discouraging. I am healing...not healed. So, doubt the Facebook gets started tonight because my eyes have looked at a computer screen too long.

So...for now, pass along that the FIRES OF NUALA sampler is located here. If we get a Facebook group page by Thursday, you'll be the first to know!

And...anyone who read the Nuala books and remembers that they liked them? Now is a good time to post a review at Amazon saying "Good stuff. Recommended." Or whatever your version thereof.

If you hated it, I appreciate your continuing silence!

Dreaming Again --

I am a channel for the creative power of the universe. (My Monday Intention from some of those power of positive thinking folks....)

Let's see, now...dreams.... (Just put the ADD patch on -- hurray! If I could only always remember it.) Sleep was bad Thursday and Friday night -- like waking every 30 minutes. Yes, you DO get sorta psychotic sleeping like that. Saturday a little better, but not a lot. So I finally surrender, when a stack of stuff that usually helps is not helping, and email my doctor. Who says increase the dose of XX. So I do.

Intensely vivid dreams, large chunks of....are you ready for this? (Icon is explained!) A sequel to HIDDEN FIRES, one of the NUALA books.

No, S, you may not have a sequel to HIDDEN FIRES unless enough E-books sell to justify a sequel. I just write too slowly, most of the time.

It was very strange to suddenly have this huge story just POURING out at me. All this stuff my backbrain has apparently been writing for years, and sitting on, waiting for me to heal so it could tell the forebrain about things.

Now -- my cable is hosed again, so time to call Time Warner.