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Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 2:00pm

Cassandra will be discussing her book Seven Years Of Surrender.

Now on Kindle, Nook and in Paprback!

“The wildest ride with the biggest kick in the ass!”

Swamps, alligators, deadly snakes. Illegal fishing, bad booze, and a river they called Blackwater. It’s a place where a boy can dream…. The summer of 1965. That’s the year Mikey would never forget. It was the year he became a man. He’d been ten-years-old when Uncle Cotton finally managed to convince Mikey’s overprotective mother that what her little sissy-boy son needed was to spend the summer with a real man. Mikey was all too eager to comply. In their small Florida community, Cotton’s penchant for wildness had made him a celebrity, and there was nothing in the world Mikey wanted more than to get close to all that craziness and experience it for himself. Under the tutelage of this local legend, Mikey steps into a world filled with the sort of adventure he’d only imagined. But, by summer’s end, the innocence of youth is tarnished when a single chilling act shatters the boy’s idealistic view of his uncle.

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Blackwater…awesome!

C.D. Blizzard’s writing skill so successfully drew me into the story that I forgot I was reading a book, which is something no other author has achieved for me. The characters are so strongly imprinted in my memory that I will never forget them. All of my five, and maybe six, senses were fully engaged. I can still smell the horse, see its long eyelashes, hear its soft nicker. I can still picture Cotton’s one-of-a-kind truck, and the barn, too. What mysterious secrets lurked in its cool, dim-lit interior? I can sense Tank’s hatred of the man: Cotton. I taste Mikey’s Fresca, feel the chocolate of the Moon-Pie melting in my own fingers, and smell the fear oozing out of Jimbo’s pores as he sits next to me. I experience the jealousy and the joy of being near Shelby. Even Aunt Ruthie, Cotton’s wife, touches my sympathy in her humble acceptance of her lot in life. I can hear Cotton’s demonic cackle, ringing out across the lake above the roar of the Lycoming. My stomach lurches at the memory of that dark night’s wild ride on the lake in the airboat, as they tried to escape the law. Cotton demanded maneuvers of that airboat no ordinary mortal would dare try. I can feel my fingers clutching the seat so tight–hanging on for dear life–that my hands seem locked there. And then there is the Blackwater itself, that broad and wonderous river, lazily flowing along with a tide all its own. I still have a sharp vision of climbing up into the long abandoned lighthouse keeper’s domain, perched up on steel pilings like a big bird at the mouth of the river, and gazing out across a lake so huge the opposite shore is invisible. Who can forget discovering that Cotton has Mikey fishing on that lake right up next to an active military bombing range, illegal fishing at that. I thought my soul would leap out of my body and fly away right then and there. Yes, even the Blackwater has a character, strong and compelling, making one desire to be on it or near it, savoring its vast wildlife riches forever. There’s so much more to this book. Incredible. I became Mikey, the boy and the man. I experienced everything he experienced. I felt the trauma of the event that literally slammed him out of his boyhood and into manhood, changing him forever. Give me more, more, more from C. D. Blizzard. If you want the ride of your life, read this book! You’ll get it, in more ways than one. Signed, S. K. Van, reader enthusiast.

Excellent!

Hands down, Blackwater has gone to the top of my list of all-time favorite books. I was totally caught up in these characters. This is one heck of a good book.

Powerful says it all!

Powerful is the only word to describe both the book and the characters. It does have some punches, but I guarantee it is a book you will not put down and forget. It stays with you! Best seller in the making or I will eat my hat!

Good Book

This is an excellent book. The kid in this book is so alive that I can almost feel him breathing down my neck as I’m reading. And Cotton is a real kick in the pants. Even if you don’t like some things that happen in this story, you will agree that this writer can get the job done in spades.

It’s Wild!

This book is probably not for everyone. But I will say this. I’ve never been more drawn in by a story. This one will be on my shelf,so to speak, for a long time because I’m sure I’ll be reading it again. It’s wild, funny, deadly serious. It’s so many things rolled into one. I cannot recommend it enough.

Best Bang for your Buck

Blackwater is just a plain ole get down, nitty gritty Southern adventure with a serious wallop in the end. I love these characters. They really speak to me. This book is about life, fun, hero-worship, and tragedy. You may not agree with some of Cotton’s quirks, but you will be totally absorbed in these characters. Prepare to be sucked in and live an adventure that will stay with you for a long time to come.

A … ‘MUST’ READ BOOK

I just finished reading this book,and I did not want the story to end!! The author brings the reader into the story, with wonderful detail and lets you get to know the characters. The added humor of a young boy’s thoughts is joyously funny and well written. This is a ‘must’ read book that should be on everyone’s to do list!

Blackwater

Powerful. That’s the only word I can use to describe this book. C. D. Blizzard knows these characters inside and out and portrays them so well that I felt like I was right there on the scene with them. The airboat ride is a real scream, and if you don’t cringe when Cotton….. Well, I better not give it away. That would take all the fun out of it. I highly recommend this book, but, be warned, it does have some very serious scenes in it.

Blackwater

This is what literature is all about. I was so drawn into the characters that I was there, a part of the story. This story moved me on every level, and the characters are so well developed that they live and breathe. This author definitely has my attention.

The autobiography is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble in Kindle and Nook eBook formats respectively. Seven Years Of Surrender is readable on an array of devices including PC’s, and most smart phones and pads.

Accompanying the release of her book, Ms. Blizzard has also launched a new website (http://cdblizzard.com) to welcome her readers. This latest book marks the seventeenth book available on Kindle by the author, although it is the first non-fiction book in her collection. Cassandra Blizzard has been writing fiction since the age of fifteen, with more than thirty titles to her name. She has written in many genres; Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance, Action Adventure, Science Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Suspense and Mainstream Fiction. She writes under the pen names C. D. Blizzard, Cassandra Ormand and E. J. Deen.

Cassandra Blizzard is not only an author, she is also a renowned Psychic Medium with clients around the world. From Seven Years Of Surrender: “I never ‘learned’ to be psychic. I was born knowing. But knowing doesn’t mean I was always smart enough to listen to my personal intuitive hits, to trust and to follow without question. Learning to trust and follow didn’t come easily. But it would become paramount. This is a true story. It could happen to anyone. In the telling of this story, I have changed the names of everyone involved, except, of course, for my own. This is the beginning of the Journey Series, the beginning of true wisdom, which I will share with you in the books that follow. These pages will take you through the event that spun my life into oblivion and back again. Into the beginning of knowledge.”

Cassandra Blizzard
Psychic Medium Cassandra Blizzard
(386) 523-7265

http://cdblizzard.com

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Elliott Grey refuses to believe. As a top-notch journalist for a Seattle-based magazine, he is trained to have an open mind. But he simply refuses to believe extra-terrestrials actually exist. After a disturbing interview with a man who claims to have been abducted by aliens, Elliott is plagued by nightmares of his own abduction. Terrorized and tortured by entities he cannot understand, Elliot has come face to face with his unbelief. He is a marked man, and he soon learns it is futile to run. There is no escaping the malevolent force that has targeted him. He can trust no one, no thing. Only himself.

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Seven Years of Surrender is the story of a fateful event that turned Cassandra’s life upside down and forced her to re-evaluate everything she held dear, everything she had been taught to believe, and her reasons for being alive. When Cassandra was 31 years old she fell victim to a neurotoxic poisoning that took her mobility away from her and left her bedridden for seven straight years. Everyone eventually feels the sting of tragedy, pain, heartache, loss. It’s what they learn from it that makes all the difference. Cassandra is one of the world’s most detailed evidential mediums. Despite being psychic, she too has known what heartache and loss feels like firsthand. Journey with her through this inspiring true story and you too may discover that nothing is impossible.

This is the beginning of her Journey Series of books.