Bring out all the whistles and the bells,

Turn up in your dancing shoes and your glad rags,

Let’s have the bottles of wine and cookies,

Some decadent chocolates, cakes and ice-cream would do too,

All the good vibes that’s on your mind.

It will be happening live.

Let’s jiggle and mingle

And show some love

#It’s a love thing connection time.

I hope to see you at this party

‘Cos it will be blog-hopping 🙂

♥ ♥

© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha

Source: Let’s Have ‘An I Love You’ Party…

Dear Jacqueline,

I have silently and faithfully gone through your photos on the “Echoes of my neighbourhood”. I was there when you brought up the idea. I was excited about it but I did know that I would be reluctant to share pictures of my neighbourhood.

You have beautiful places to show of Dubai. What I have pales in comparison. I have pictures on my phone and I stare at them and scroll to the next picture. Who wants to the dusty streets? Colourful gates of that primary school, the part of Oshodi market that has been destroyed, or BRT bus stops, beggars that line up the road etc.

There are of course beautiful places in Lagos but those places are not my neighbourhood.

Well, I wrote this just in case I got you wondering.

Sincerely,
Deb.

We are approaching the commercial month of love, though I am of the opinion that love should be a practiced existential part of our everyday lives. Sometimes, I kinda feel that the commercializing of valentine is a bit much, but that’s just my opinion.

Why don’t we have a lovely, lovey-dovey blog hopping party weekend :0))

If you are interested, I can be the hostess. Just sending out feelers.

There will be lots of candles and flowers, cakes and chocolates too *at least virtually* and we can share loads of links to our soppy love stories – non-fiction or fiction, poems, lyrical prose, pictures etc.

Posts that tugs at the heartstrings,  plasters smiles on our faces and makes you bring out your scented tissue box.

Let’s make it a date ‘cos I am falling in love with you 😉

If you think it’s a worthwhile idea, please indicate below.

My  day job consists of telling people, “No, the FBI is not going to call you up and demand money be wired to China” and “I don’t care what they told you, no one is down the street with a car for you, waiting on you give them your credit card number for ‘taxes’. You didn’t win a car. It’s a scam, I promise.”

What does this have to do with writing? Actually, a lot. Scamming happens in the writer’s world just as much as anywhere else. And if you’re a writer, especially an indie writer, you can’t afford to lose your cash to scammers.

So, here’s a Top list of scams to watch for:

Vanity “Contests”

This type of scam is almost as old as writing itself. The most common are the “poetry contests” that you enter with a nominal fee ($2-$10), but then the author gets a letter…