Freda's Place

Words With Freda Under The Sheets:  Stories From The Lighter Side of the Dark Side January 22, 2PM PST Book Island, Second Life Freda continues readings from Under The Sheets with the short story, "A Diva Scorned," about a Broadway and movie dynamo gone to seed and 'round the bend.  Time permitting, there will also be a pair of poems to make your spine tingle.  Please have local voice enabled so that you can hear the stories. 

Words With Freda Under The Sheets:  Stories From The Dark Side January 15, 2PM PST Book Island, Second Life

Friday, December 11 at 2 pm and 7pm (US Pacific Time) Writers' Block Café on Book Island, SL Please join Freda Frostbite for a performance of her book, Ermengarde The Expansive.  The third edition of the book, with new illustrations and a slightly changed plot, will be published within the week.  The event will take place in The Writers' Block Cafe on Book Island.  Please have local voice enabled so that you can hear the tale told.  Illustrations will be displayed. 

Friday, August 21, 10 AM PST Freda In Progress:  Escape From Pig Hill by Stephanie Mesler Local Voice Writers' Block Café, Book Island, SL It's not the end of Donny's story but it is the end of Escape From Pig Hill, first book in The Ballad of Donny Granger.   This is the week Donny and Mags finally make the break from those who have tried to hold them back and keep them down.  Jeremiah Adelbaum will receive his just reward and Daddy Granger will have one less son to mold into his own image.  Join us on Book Island in Second Life to learn how Donny and Margaret will make their escape from Pig Hill.  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/211/219/36

Monday, August 10, 10 AM PST Live Literature:  Llola Lane, Picture Stories Local Voice Writers' Block Café, Book Island, SL http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/211/219/36 LLola Lane of Ozland fame in Second Life and Inworldz will present some of her lovely picture stories.  Always inspiring! 

Monday, August 3, 10 AM PST Live Literature:  Batfishing In The Rainforest by Randy Wayne White Local Voice Writer's Block Café, Book Island, SL http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/211/219/36  Randy Wayne White is the author of, among other things the Doc Ford and Hannah Smith mystery series.  White is a Florida author, a former TV personality, and fishing guide.  He also owns the restaurant chain, Doc Ford's.  Batfishing In The Rainforest is his "collection of strange tales of travel and fishing."  This collection was born of the writer's work as a columnist with Outside magazine.  White is a great story-weaver with interesting life adventures to share.  Batfishing in The Rainforest is just the tip if the iceberg.   

Friday, July 31, 10 AM PST Freda In Progress:  Escape From Pig Hill by Stephanie Mesler Local Voice Writers' Block Café, Book Island, SL http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/211/219/36 It's going to be another rough week for Donny Granger.  First, a run-in with his uncles, which threatens to turn ugly.  Thank goodness, one uncle is kinder than the others!  Then, Donny's worst fear is realized-- his secret is out.  How will Daddy Granger respond?  What will Donny do?

    Monday, July 27, 10 AM PST Live Lit With Marita DeCosta, Book Island, SL A Gift From The Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/128/128/0?title=Book%20Island   Meditations on life, love, marriage, solitude, peace and contentment.  Written while on holiday by the sea. 

Friday, July 24, Freda will continue reading from her novel, Escape From Pig Hill.   This week, the Grangers lose Mama and Margaret Adelbaum loses a close friend and protector.  Join us for the reading on Book Island at 10 AM, US Pacific Time.  Slurl to:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/211/219/36   Read previous chapters of Escape From Pig Hill online or get your copy on Amazon.    

This Friday, July 17, Freda will continue reading from her novel, Escape From Pig Hill.   This week, Margaret returns to her home in the aftermath of personal horror.  With the help and support of the Granger family, she has the upper hand...for a while.   Meanwhile, Kathleen Granger is getting sicker and weaker.  It is clear that her end is near.  At least she is going out on her own terms.  Join us for the reading on Book Island at 10 AM US Pacific Time.  Slurl to:  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Book%20Island/211/219/36   Read previous chapters of Escape From Pig Hill online or get your copy on Amazon.    

After a brief hiatus, Freda Frostbite returns to Second Life.  This Friday, July 10, she will continue readings from her novel, Escape From Pig Hill.   This week, Jeremiah Adelbaum, deals with the consequences of his choices and his daughter, Mags, spends a happy holiday with the Granger family on Pig Hill.  As always, Donny, stands by her through the hard times.  Together, they try to make things better.    Read previous chapters of Escape From Pig Hill online or get your copy on Amazon.    

I am slipping gingerly back into virtual worlds activities after several weeks when The SL Decades Festival ate my time and a week of hospitalization (Unrelated. I think.).  Tomorrow will bring my first reading from Escape From Pig Hill in three weeks, so we have some catching up to do.  Monday, I'll be hosting Marita Decosta, as she begins a four-week stint on Book Island.  Marita will be reading  Anne Morrow Lindberg's A Gift From The Sea .  And Saturday, I'll be back at Circe's in SL for the first time in a year or more.  I'll be sharing some new poems and one of the first stories I published, Ermengarde The Expansive.  If you are unfamiliar with Ermengarde, now is the time to make her acquaintance.  She is the princess Disney should have created decades ago and still hasn't.    Friday, July 10, 10 AM PST Freda In Progress, Book Island, SL Escape From Pig Hill   It's Christmas on Pig Hill.  Margaret is dealin...