tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-240298612024-03-08T00:57:22.075-08:00wild embers titlesa literary press founded in Taos, New Mexico connect with us watersongs @gmail.comantoinette nora claypoole, editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385471672658548560noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24029861.post-86796523394224632492009-03-18T16:26:00.000-07:002011-10-09T18:06:56.824-07:00Chamiso second printing, spring 2009<a href="http://chamisopieces.blogspot.com/2006/06/from-part-one-of-lost-in-chamiso.html"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6254/688/400/web%20chamiso%20front.2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 305px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 268px;" /></a><br />
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</span>antoinette nora claypoole, editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385471672658548560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24029861.post-1158812516113139742006-09-20T21:21:00.000-07:002006-09-20T21:52:36.496-07:00Lost in the Chamiso excerpts....<span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >more?<br />scroll down or<br /><a href="http://thechamiso.blogspot.com/2006/08/lost-in-chamiso.html">click here</a><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > <span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">click on image</span></span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);font-size:78%;" >for</span> excerpts</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.chamisopieces.blogspot.com"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 335px; height: 400px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6254/688/400/%20chamiso%20photo%20merge%20NEW%20%20.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.chamisopieces.blogspot.com"><br /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.chamisopieces.blogspot.com"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Lost in the Chamiso</span> </span></a><br /><a href="http://www.chamisopieces.blogspot.com"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">by</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Amalio Madueno</span></span></a><a href="http://www.chamisopieces.blogspot.com"><br /></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.chamisopieces.blogspot.com"><br /><br /><br /><br /></a>release date <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">Sept. 2006</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.embersreviews.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;">click here </span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">for</span> Press Release</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51); font-weight: bold;">excerpts.</span>.. <a href="http://www.chamisopieces.blogspot.com">click here</a></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102); font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />Praise for</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Chamiso</span></span>..<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.</span><a href="http://www.embersreviews.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">here</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"> Amalio</span> <a href="http://www.amaliobio.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102); font-weight: bold;">BIO</span></a><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:100%;">to order </span>special edition</span> </span></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">green initiative copy-- recycled paper---no chlorine etc etc</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >w/online discount,</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><a href="http://embersales.blogspot.com/2006/05/support-embersbuy-titlesartwork.html" style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">click here</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-size:78%;" ><br />CONTACT<br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-size:78%;"> CONTACT<br /> watersongs@gmail.com</span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.fetchingsky.blogspot.com">la Puerta, Taos</a><br /><a style="font-family: courier new;" href="http://www.riversblip.blogspot.com">rivers in her eyes</a></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.wildembers.blogspot.com/">Home</a></span>antoinette nora claypoole, editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385471672658548560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24029861.post-1154834087641074642006-08-05T20:10:00.000-07:002006-08-19T21:13:52.686-07:00Lost in the Chamiso<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">"Reina inherited the right to tell the story...."</span></span></a></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://chamisopieces.blogspot.com/2006/06/from-part-one-of-lost-in-chamiso.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 305px;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6254/688/400/web%20chamiso%20front.2.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Lost in the Chamiso</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">by</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">Amalio Madueno</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" ><br />release date <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);">Sept. 2006</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://www.embersreviews.blogspot.com"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;">click here </span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">for</span> Press Release</span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><a href="http://thechamiso.blogspot.com/"></a></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51); font-weight: bold;">excerpts.</span>.. click on image</span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102); font-weight: bold;">Praise for</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Chamiso</span></span>..<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">.</span><a style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://www.embersreviews.blogspot.com">here</a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span> Amalio</span> <a href="http://www.amaliobio.blogspot.com"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102); font-weight: bold;">BIO</span></a><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:100%;">to order </span>special edition</span> </span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">green initiative copy-- recycled paper---no chlorine etc etc</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >w/online discount,</span><span style="font-size:78%;"> <a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);" href="http://embersales.blogspot.com/2006/05/support-embersbuy-titlesartwork.html">click here</a><br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-family:verdana;">review copies to MEDIA now available</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-size:85%;" >freelance writers, radio/TV online considered </span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 102); font-weight: bold;">to request a review copy </span></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:verdana;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-size:78%;" >CONTACT<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-size:78%;">watersongs@gmail.com</span><br /></span></span></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.henrymiller.org/poetryweekend.html">upcoming event w/Amalio click here</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><a href="http://www.wildembers.blogspot.com">Home</a></span><br /></div>antoinette nora claypoole, editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385471672658548560noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24029861.post-1142309875833320992006-03-13T20:15:00.000-08:002006-06-01T17:46:01.723-07:00Wild Embers is proud to announce a new title<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6254/688/1600/571292-R1-00-0.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6254/688/400/571292-R1-00-0.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:78%;" > photo </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);font-size:78%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102); font-weight: bold;">"road to magdalena" </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:78%;" >by <a style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-style: italic;" href="http://antoinettewritings.blogspot.com/">antoinette nora claypoole</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"> </span><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;" >from the cover of</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><br />Lost in the Chamiso</span></span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">by</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Amalio Madueno</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">this is the first full length book of poetry published by Madueno, a long awaited epic poem, a romp through the lives of Garcia and Reina Rosa.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102); font-style: italic;">"Curioso it is the heart that connects us"</span>...</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-size:78%;" ><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />(Publishing date is late summer, 2006)<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">what folks are saying about Chamiso</span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="font-size:85%;">from<br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-size:130%;" >Sam Hamill<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"> poet/editor</span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/report_medellin.asp"> <span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Poets Against the War: </span></a></span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;">"Amalio Madueno's </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">Lost in the Chamiso</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"> follows in the great tradition of William Carlos Williams's </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;">Paterson </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;">and Charles Olson's </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;">Maximus Poems,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"> and like those forerunners interweaves the personal with the historical and the mythical to create a rich fabric of the imagination. With great good humor, seriousness and candor, Madueno speaks from the inter-lingual borderlands that shape our future. His vision and message are vital."<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);">from </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Alma Luz Villanueva</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">poet/author winner of</span> </span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;">American Book Award </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);">for Fiction<br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"><br />her titles include</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);"> THE</span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);font-size:85%;" > ULTRAVIOLET SKY, NAKED LADIES (winner of PEN Oakland Fiction Award), and poetry included in CALIENTE, THE BEST EROTIC LATIN AMERICAN WRITING</span><br /><br />Alma writes....</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><br />"LOST IN THE CHAMISO is a tidal wave of words, images, experiences, joy, anger, humor, great sorrow, great ecstasy, stories leaping from poem to poem in the 'five parts' of this epic poem. Amalio Madueno reaches to Juarez, Mexico, to the women in black mourning the desparecidas, the young women who've 'disappeared'...in ten years, 400 young women...<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">"They disappear and then we find them,</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">"</span> he tells us.<br /><br />Further on, he tells the story of his Tia Lalo<br />who was told by a white woman during the depression:<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">"No wetback should have shoes like that in times like this!"</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />And then further on, Madueno writes of the assimilation of the 50s </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;">(I remember this well, when I was punished for speaking Spanish- my first language- at school).</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />In the poem, </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">How Old Am I, <span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);">he</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);"> </span>writes,<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">"Remember and mind and</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);"> remember"</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Exactly, this is it- do not disappear, do not assimilate, and DO wear those shiny new shoes that love to dance. He writes, "The most important thing is transformation," and that's what these poems do- all five parts- they are in constant transformation, to remember and mind and remember, to transform.<br /><br />In the poem, <span style="font-style: italic;">Pocho Deer Song,</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">After The Yaqui Traditional</span>- Madueno sings:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">"I am a Pocho alive in the fantastic wilderness...</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">It is still going on, the wilderness still listens,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">Listens to itself- even now."<br /><br /></span>As a sister Yaqui Pocha, who now lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico (with the very poor Indians begging on the streets, to the wealthy who buy art that would support them for years), these poems/stories have reached me on the trade route winds. The ancient trade routes that knew no human borders for centuries...these poems reached me across the imaginary border of Mexico/USA."<br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(153, 51, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102);">more </span>chamiso<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"> excerpts/<span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;">famous blurbs</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51); font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 102, 51);">(coming soon) </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153); font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 153, 51);font-family:trebuchet ms;" ><br />VISIT <a href="http://www.embersales.blogspot.com"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 102); font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >advance ordering</span></a></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102); font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span><br /><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.wildembers.blogspot.com">back home</a>antoinette nora claypoole, editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18385471672658548560noreply@blogger.com0