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List of all Alyssa Day books in reading order:
POSEIDON’S WARRIORS SERIES:
Halloween in Atlantis
Christmas in Atlantis
January in Atlantis
February in Atlantis
March in Atlantis
April in Atlantis
May in Atlantis
June in Atlantis
July in Atlantis
August in Atlantis
September in Atlantis
October in Atlantis
November in Atlantis
December in Atlantis
THE TIGER’S EYE MYSTERY SERIES:
Dead Eye
Private Eye
Travelling Eye (a short story)
Evil Eye (coming in 2017)
THE CARDINAL WITCHES SERIES:
Alejandro’s Sorceress (a novella)
William’s Witch (a short story)
Christmas in Atlantis is up for preorder!!
The Gift of the Magi…in Atlantis
Warrior-turned-pirate Dare is the black sheep of all of Atlantis. He’s enraged Poseidon,
the sea 
god, so much that he had to forfeit his ship and the water spirit who inhabits it. For Dare, being denied the ocean is worse than death. Until he meets a woman who drowns him in waves of hunger more powerful than the sea.
After the accident that killed her parents and blinded her, Lyric discovered she had a special gift—that of song sight. She now sees the world in her own unique way, and is able to discover the rarest of artifacts. One, containing a single Wish, could make all her dreams come true. Or it could deliver to Dare—the man she’s falling in love with—the thing he most desires.
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When Jaime & Liam try to solve the mystery of the queen’s stolen jewels, sparks fly, secrets are revealed, and Halloween has never been hotter!
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My (awful) sense of direction & simple common sense…
So we’re sitting in the family room, me, Navy Guy, and College Ninja or, as I like to say, ACIMH [Edited T0 Add: Navy Guy says I have to tell you that ACIMH means Actual Conversation In My House, but I said you know that, but he’s making me do it]:
College Ninja: Mom, can you help me with a homework assignment for my ancient Greece class?
Me: Sure. (thinking writing/Greece/Plato/Atlantis, I got this)
College Ninja: It’s mapping locations in ancient Greece.
On one writer and depression, aka life in the black pit of hell
I’ve had so many hundreds of people talk to me about their depression and what they’re suffering, and how they’re afraid to go public with it, that I thought it was time to republish my “coming out” blog when I told the world that I suffer from depression. It was scary as hell to do, and humiliating — I had to admit that I’m not Superwoman — but I’m so much better off for having done it. The support and encouragement from everyone in the writing and reading communities has been amazing. I think, perhaps, that coming forward may have saved my life. Here it is:
Friday Mental Health Check In – on Naysayers
Friday Mental Health Check In: (and please share this post with everyone; it’s so important!)
Today I want to talk about the issue of naysayers. Mental health deniers. The Tom Cruise “post-partum depression doesn’t exist” kind of thing. The neighbor who tells you that meds are bad and she was sad once but sniffing tulips while singing about sunshine cured her.
This can be a serious problem; it can crush us. But it’s worse–FAR, FAR WORSE — when the person doing the naysaying is OUR OWN DOCTOR.
On setbacks…
You may have seen that I just learned to swim 2 weeks ago, after 40 years of being terrified of water. (dad/lake/near drowning).
I was moving right along, swimming more and more laps, until today. Today, swimming alone, I inhaled some water & was right back there. Three or four years old and drowning, almost forgotten by my stupid father & his drunk friends.
Today I flashed back to that & almost cried. So, gulping air and hyperventilating, I made it to the end of the lane and clung for dear life. It was the deep end, naturally. But I used Lamaze breathing until I calmed down.
It’s the little things…college orientation & robo-laundry
Had college orientation with Princess last week, and it’s always the little things that get me. So, the person describing how the student ID/cash card works says that you pay for laundry/washers & dryers with it, and then the APP SENDS YOU A NOTIFICATION WHEN YOUR WASHER OR DRYER IS DONE.
Every woman in the room said OOOOHHHHHH. The men probably didn’t say it because the guys in my dorm never cared if their clothes were a wadded-up ball of wrinkles when they finally came back for them and somebody had pulled them out of a washer and shoved them on a table, but the girls? We cared!!
I DID IT!!! I LEARNED TO SWIM!!!!
If you’ve been following my terror/learn to swim saga on my FB page, there’s the video proof that TODAY I DID IT!!!! Check it out HERE!!! And here’s the rest of the story…
Thank you EVERYBODY for the cheers on me learning how to swim today!!
As you might imagine from the victory videos, there was more to the story…
First, I was scared to death. I actually felt sick driving to the pool. There are now fingernail marks in Judd’s arm.
When we got there I almost didn’t get in the pool. I was so scared I was hyperventilating a little bit. When we did get in there, a kid splashed me and I got water up my nose & almost cried. (My dad nearly drowned me when I was a kid & I’ve been terrified ever since.)
Navy Guy had to keep reminding me I was IN A POOL. And that it was only 4′ deep (I’m 6′ tall). But when I couldn’t figure out which way was up (I kept closing my eyes), I was terrified.
Also, my lungs did not want to let me breathe out underwater.
Because my lungs said: YOU ARE UNDERFUCKINGWATER, OKAY?? HOLD ONTO THAT AIR!!!!
So I almost drowned again (except for the being in a pool part, and for a very patient Navy Guy right there next to me, but it could have happened. If anybody could figure out how to screw something up, we all know it would be me…)
BUT I persevered!!! I breathed underwater (mostly out; breathing IN underwater=BAD, I learned this today). I swam a breast stroke & a frog kick thing & even ON MY BACK. I swam LIKE A BOSS.
I am so proud of myself that I burst into tears in the shower. All those years of terror…DONE. I am brave. I GOT this.
Please, PLEASE be brave with me. Find something that has always scared you and find a way to face it. Let’s kick fear’s ASS. Tell me about it & I’ll cheer the loudest for you. ‘Cause I’m a SWIMMER, y’all. I’m on your side all the way.
xoxoxoxxo
Alyssa