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My book Unveiled hit the top 20 in the reincarnation genre!

My book Unveiled hit the top 20 in the reincarnation genre!
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I feel like celebrating. It’s like working for years and finally seeing some results.

My book, Unveiled: Fanny Chamberlain Reincarnated, hit the rank of 20th in Kindle sales in the nonfiction reincarnation genre tonight, as well as 46th in paperback sales in the nonfiction reincarnation genre, and 70th in Kindle sales for Civil War nonfiction! That’s an improvement over the last time I checked! Yay! Happy dance! The last time I checked was January 17. I cracked the top 100 in Kindle sales for Civil War nonfiction books. I was ranked 29th in Kindle sales for nonfiction reincarnation, 78th in paperback sales for nonfiction reincarnation, and 100th in Kindle sales for Civil War nonfiction.

Granted, I’m no bestseller overall but in my genres, I’m doing decently. It’s very gratifying to see some results and that people are interested in my writing enough to put it on their Kindles. Right now, tonight, I’m outselling books about Marie Antoinette, Edgar Cayce and the Myrtles Plantation. Sales ranks change on Amazon every few hours depending on what your numbers are doing, so it goes up and down a lot, but right now I’m outselling big subjects. That kind of blows my mind. I hope my book is helping people somehow, whoever is reading it. That was my goal from the beginning before I ever committed a word to the page.

Writing this book was incredibly difficult for me and I almost backed out of doing it in chapter three, but Jeffrey Keene pressed me to continue. He wrote my introduction once the initial manuscript was finished. If you don’t know who Jeffrey Keene is, you had better read his book, Someone Else’s Yesterday, about his own reincarnation case of being General John B. Gordon in the Civil War. Tonight was my highest ranking to date. I hope this continues, only because my desire is for my story to help other people going through the struggle of involuntary past life memories. I had very little help or support until I was an adult. I don’t want other people to suffer the way I did. That’s why I told my story. Seeing people take it to heart and learn from it is more gratifying than anything.

If you’d like to read the book for yourselves, you can buy it on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004MDLSUC

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19th century picture of the day for 1-22-12

19th century picture of the day for 1-22-12
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I call this one, “Don’t hate me because I’m in color.”

 

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The king is dead

The king is dead
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On a cold January day in 1793, a middle-aged man, dressed in none of his former splendor, made his way to the guillotine. They brought him by carriage through hostile crowds to the former Place de Louis XV, named for his grandfather, but recently renamed Place de la Révolution for the new republic. The three guards accompanying him reluctantly allowed him to undress himself, untie his neckcloth, open his shirt and arrange it himself. He met the dreadful day with resigned dignity as he addressed the republican military, the cannons, the drums and the people who had all gathered to watch him die.

“I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge. I pardon those who have occasioned my death, and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France,” he said to the crowds.

Some say he desired to speak further but a man on horseback in the national uniform ordered the drums to drown out his regal voice. In a fleeting moment, the crowds shouted for his death and he was swept off his feet by the guards and forced under the guillotine’s blade. And so, the blade fell before anyone had a moment to draw in the ferocious scene. So quick was his death that no one accurately remembered if the blade fell once or required a second go at his princely neck. Gleefully, some later claimed quite falsely that a blood curdling scream erupted from his mouth upon his death, but was in fact impossible as the blade would have severed his spinal cord right away.

King Louis XVI died on January 21, 1793, stripped of all his titles. He died a simple man known to the new republic as Louis Capet.

A moment passed as his execution registered. Then, as his headless body was taken away, people came to the scaffold with handkerchiefs to mop up his blood. Gruesome and heartless, the people rejoiced in his death by taking his blood for their own souvenirs. This gourd still allegedly contains his blood.

 

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