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Connie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-43279086890532028812016-10-14T00:30:00.000-07:002016-10-14T00:30:08.767-07:00What Makes a Novel Memorable? by Connie VinesThe best stories connect with readers on a visceral level. They transport us to another time and place and put us in a different “skin,” where we face challenges we may never know in life. And yet, the commonality of the story problem draws us onward and, in solving it vicariously through the protagonist, changes us.<br />
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Another feature of a memorable story is characters that live off the page. One of the highest compliments I’ve never received for my novel “Lynx”, Rodeo Romance came when one reader told me she thought about my story constantly. She said that Lynx and Rachel’s story seemed so real, so heart wrenching, and their love so very enduring. She said that she was going through a difficult time in her life and my story gave her hope. Hope. Hope for someone during a desperate time—I felt blessed that she shared her story. I was also humbled. It is moment such as this that I know just how powerful worlds and stories are to our readers.<br />
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While I never sit down at the keyboard and say, “I think I will write a powerful, life-changing story today.” What I do, by nature, is select a social issue for the core of my stories. Since my stories are character driven and often told in the first person, the emotion has a natural flow.<br />
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How do you create this type of engagement with your story?<br />
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Go beyond the five senses. Your reader must feel your character’s emotions. Your reader must forget there is a world outside of your story.<br />
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Embrace idiosyncrasies. As teenagers everyone wanted to fit in, be one of the crowd. Your character isn’t like anyone else. Give him an unexpected, but believable trait. In “Here Today, Zombie Tomorrow”, my heroine, a Zombie has a pet. Not a zombie pet. Not a dog, or a cat. She has a teddy bear hamster named Gertie.<br />
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Make them laugh. It doesn’t need to be slap-stick. Just a little comic relief when the reader least expects it to happen.<br />
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Make them cry. Remember the scene in the movie classic, Romancing the Stone, where Joan Wilder is crying when she writes the final scene in her novel? I find this is the key. If you are crying, your reader will be crying too.<br />
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If you are writing a romance, make them fall in love. Make the magic last. The first meeting, first kiss, the moment of falling in love. These are the memories our readers savor, wait for in our stories.<br />
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Don’t disappoint them.<br />
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As Emily Dickinson, said so well:<br />
There is no frigate like a book<br />
To take us lands away,<br />
Nor any coursers like a page<br />
Of prancing poetry.<br />
This traverse may the poorest take<br />
Without oppress of toll;<br />
How frugal is the chariot<br />
That bears a human soul!<br />
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Enjoy the month of Halloween, my lovelies!<br />
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Connie<br />
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ConnieConnie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0Big Bear Lake, CA, USA34.2438963 -116.9114215000000234.138888800000004 -117.07278300000002 34.3489038 -116.75006000000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-33619532918916268072016-07-25T00:30:00.000-07:002016-07-25T00:30:04.362-07:00Goth Monday--How do you Define the 'new' Goth Genre?Good day,<br />
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It's Goth Monday!<br />
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While scanning websites I located so interesting material.<br />
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Wikihow.com gives instructions on 'how to write Gothic Fiction;.<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Gothic-Fiction">http://www.wikihow.com/Write-Gothic-Fiction</a><br />
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Have you read this article? Do you agree? Disagree? Is there a template of excellent fiction?<br />
I believe the elements in each genre are what a reader is hungry for. However, the storyline, can never be developed from a template.<br />
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What about the genre itself?<br />
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Has the genre evolved since "Dracula" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" was written? Or, in your opinion, has it spun into an entirely 'un-gothic direction?<br />
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Is "<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjZgaPZt-fNAhUL22MKHVlmDr8QtwIIIjAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-mHAk28kS1M&usg=AFQjCNGiODaIZ3pCmYEj0X0vnO52fNEjhg&sig2=aVR31LuWuRwIQ1vWqam-4w&bvm=bv.126130881,d.cGc">American Gothic" </a>the new Gothic?<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?genre=Gothic+Film&perpage=10">Top Ten Gothic Films </a> Agree?<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickchart.com/Charts.aspx?genre=Gothic+Film&perpage=10">Worst Gothic Films</a> I liked 'Mary Reilly'. Even though I am not a Julia Roberts fan, I found the take on the story very thought provoking. I also felt that"Lady Frankenstein", it was a little disturbing (I have difficulty with Frankenstein and the abandonment issue evolving around of Victor and the Monster, anyway). However, I didn't think is should be on this list.<br />
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ConnieConnie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-6993052565690525902016-07-18T15:16:00.000-07:002016-07-18T15:16:01.058-07:00Goth Monday--Gothic RoseAll~<br />
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It's Goth Monday!<br />
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I located a website with a tutorial program (free) if you are interested in learning to sketch a Gothic rose.<br />
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I found this helpful, because I am not much of an artist. I like to add an additional touch when autographing my print books. http://www.dragoart.com/tuts/22325/1/1/how-to-draw-a-gothic-rose.htm<br />
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If you need additional tutoring (Connie is raising her hand), here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nUsb-C9o44<br />
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I located another site about Gothic Arcitecture. This site provided pictures and detailed information and photos of Gothic architecture. For those of us not inclined to visit overseas to verify specific details in our WIP. This site will provide a great way to complete that scene.<br />
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http://faculty.scf.edu/condorj/256/presentations/Gothic%20Constructions.pdf<br />
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Connie<br />
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<br />Connie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-28389736256648749662016-07-11T00:00:00.000-07:002016-07-11T00:00:24.184-07:00President's Message July 2016Hello Fanciful GothRom Writers,<br />
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I hope everyone is having a fabulous start to their summer. It’s July many of us (though not I) will be in San Diego at RWA Nationals Conference, July 13 – 16.<br />
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I would encourage you all to take advantage of the many opportunities we have for getting our chapter in social media. As you know from my email, are blog site, Facebook and Twitter accounts are up and running. If you are interested in writing a weekly/monthly article for our blog, please contact me.<br />
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As always fellow authors, thank you for all that you have done and continue to do. Your commitment to excellence is what keeps GothRom/RWA a growing chapter. Our sincerest thanks for being a part of this chapter where our motto is: “To encourage authors of Gothic romance through networking, inspiration, and provide a support network for those authors while submitting their work.”<br />
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With kind affection, <br />
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Connie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0Laguna Beach, CA, USA33.5422475 -117.783110433.3305085 -118.1058339 33.7539865 -117.4603869tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-79923450609780029132016-06-27T00:02:00.000-07:002016-06-27T00:02:06.253-07:00Goth Monday ! #6/26/16Good Day,<br />
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When writing our Gothic Fiction, fashion creates a sense of time and place.<br />
For accuracy I have provided links so that you will make certain your research is correct.<br />
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Wikepedia<br />
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_fashion">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_fashion</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-clothes.asp">http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/victorian-clothes.asp</a><br />
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Social Classes<br />
<a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/costume/index.html">http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/art/costume/index.html</a><br />
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For the Victorian Gentlemen<br />
<a href="https://www.gentlemansemporium.com/mens-late-victorian-clothing.php">https://www.gentlemansemporium.com/mens-late-victorian-clothing.php</a><br />
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From the British POV<br />
<a href="http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/mens-victorian-dress-code.asp">http://www.aboutbritain.com/articles/mens-victorian-dress-code.asp</a><br />
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And because food is also important in a story<br />
<a href="http://recipespastandpresent.org.uk/victoriancooking/">http://recipespastandpresent.org.uk/victoriancooking/</a><br />
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<br />Connie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-46519536760946941532016-06-23T00:30:00.000-07:002016-06-23T00:30:05.048-07:00President's Message for June 2016Hello GothRom!<br />
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How many of you caught a glimpse of the Strawberry Full Moon during Summer Solstice? I was fortunate to have a wonderfully view from by backyard. Amazing. The posted photographs did not do justice to the visual and emotional experience.<br />
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I wanted to take this time to remind everyone that it is membership renewal time.<br />
Please long onto our website. <a href="http://www.gothrom.net/">GothRom</a><br />
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Our Chapter continues to grow and I am proud to say our Twitter feed is now up and 'tweeting'. And, of course, we have our facebook page, website, and our blog site.<br />
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Our chapter is support network to those authors as they write and submit for publication.<br />
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I know we had have our favorite 'classic' gothic novels we loved to read and re-read while we were growing up.<br />
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I will list several of mine, please share the titles your favorites in the comment area.<br />
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I also discovered a website of interest. You may wish to visit the site to see gothic book covers and how the artwork has changed over time. <a href="http://flashbak.com/loads-of-women-running-from-houses-the-gothic-romance-paperback-150/">http://flashbak.com/loads-of-women-running-from-houses-the-gothic-romance-paperback-150/</a><br />
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Happy Reading & Writing,<br />
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Connie <br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connie Vines, President</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Karen McCullough, Vice President</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nikki Koekebacker, Secretary</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anna Taylor Swerignen, Treasurer</span><br />
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Connie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-36740271995609929872016-01-04T00:30:00.000-08:002016-01-04T00:30:12.344-08:00President's Message for Janurary 2016<br />
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Hello GothRom!<br />
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I do hope your Holiday season was filled with love and laughter.<br />
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It is now 2016! Can you believe it? I wanted to take this time to thank each one of you for your dedication to GothRom. Our chapter continues to grow and it couldn’t do that without our dedicated volunteers and members in general. <br />
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GothRom RWA where our motto is: “To encourage authors of gothic romance through networking, and to provide inspiration and a support for publication."<br />
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Happy New Year and may we all have a blessed year!<br />
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Best,<br />
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Connie Vines<br />
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Connie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0Romania45.943161 24.96676000000002240.289419 14.639611500000022 51.596903000000005 35.293908500000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-7106332535681218602015-12-28T00:30:00.000-08:002015-12-28T00:30:09.829-08:00Goth MondayA long walk down a dark corridor.<br />
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You shiver in your delicate nightgown, the ruffles fluttering. A draft makes the flames of the candles snap and dim, your fist so tightly clenched around the silver candelabra that your knuckles ache.<br />
Glancing out the window through a veil of fog mooting the shimmer of the rising sun,<br />
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The sent of damp wood, earthy clay, and the scent of rain. Exactly what you’d expect a haunted manor house to smell like, actually.<br />
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What was that sound you heard? <br />
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The clatter of china? Muffled footsteps?<br />
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Do to the holiday season, I thought I'd add a light touch to our Goth Monday.<br />
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Which brings us to this Monday's topic: <br />
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<i>Tea and Elevenses </i><br />
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Paddington Bear and The Wind in the Willows will probably have heard of such English meals as Morning Tea, Afternoon Tea and some mysterious snack called ‘Elevenses’.<br />
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What are they?<br />
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These typically light meals became popular among the English upper-and-middle classes during the Victorian era. Changing social and work-habits meant that mealtimes changed drastically. Women of the well-to-do classes would go visiting. It was the man’s job to earn a living. It was the woman’s job to make all the social connections.<br />
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Morning tea and afternoon tea centered around tea, naturally. This beverage was once so rare and expensive, women kept their tea-caddies locked and had the keys with them at all times. But with the opening of China in the 1850s, the import of Chinese and Indian teas became cheaper and it was now available to a much wider range of people.<br />
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Tea was designed to be light, refined, and relaxed. Enjoyed with close friends and relations, or business-partners and colleagues. Tea consisted of small cakes, biscuits, and sandwiches – and yes, the classic cucumber-sandwich. Light snacks not designed to fill you up, but to distract from hunger until the main meals of the day,<br />
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<br />Connie Vineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17835205487088200480noreply@blogger.com0Highclere Castle, Highclere Park, Highclere, Newbury, West Berkshire RG20 9RN, UK51.3265901 -1.360666000000037545.6859276 -11.687814500000037 56.967252599999995 8.9664824999999624tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7073911750706326060.post-81851239821905383132015-12-21T01:00:00.000-08:002015-12-21T01:00:00.217-08:00Goth Monday<span style="font-size: large;">A long walk down a dark corridor. </span><br />
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This Monday's topic: "What is Gothic Romantic Fiction".<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 18.816px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><i>"I will not let you go into the unknown alone." </i>Braun Stoker.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 18.816px; text-align: right;"><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: inherit;"><i>"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and where the other begins?" </i>Edgar Allan Poe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="line-height: 18.816px; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day."</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; line-height: 1.3;">Emily Brontë</span></span><br />
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Hello GothRom Members!<br />
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I do hope you have all had a wonderful start to December.<br />
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Here is southern California the weather is cold, and tonight the much need rain is a blessed event from the heavens!<br />
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This month is an busy month for our members. Not only do we have our very own chapter bog here on blogger,com but we have a newly created Facebook page, and we will soon be debuting on Twitter!<br />
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We are a growing chapter, and becoming more and more active in social media.<br />
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We are also looking for a member to volunteer for the vice president position of our chapter for 2016. Carmen will be stepping down in the near future and will be missed during our brain-storming sessions.<br />
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As always, it it a pleasure to hear of our members successes and online events and to interact with our talented authors, both published and pre-published.<br />
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I would like to thank my fellow board members: Anna Taylor Sweringen and Nikki Koekenbacker for their dedication and continued service to GothRom. <br />
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Once again, my fellow authors, thank you for all that you do and your commitment to GothRom/RWA.<br />
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Remember a full moon will light up the night sky on Christmas for the first time since 1977. The celestial phenomenon won't happen again on Christmas until 2034. The full moon will reach its peak at 6:00 a.m. E.T., according to ABC.<br />
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Sidebar: The last full moon of the year in December is called the Full Cold Moon, although it is also known as the Moon before Yule, according to the Farmers' Almanac.<br />
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Sounds like the perfect setting for a Goth Romance, doesn't it?<br />
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