Holiday Gifts from Sweet and Inspirational to Irreverent

Signed copies of all my new and re-releases are available for holiday gifts. Contact me for personalization and details about which anthology would best suit your intended recipient. I can also gift bag any combination of the books and send them directly if you'd like.

Grandma might not like Not Your Mother's Book: On Being a Woman, but then again, maybe she would. It's gotten five star reviews on Amazon as hysterical and a great present for all your (girl) friends.

"A Catholic Schoolgirl's Primer" is an excerpt of my memoir Someday I'm Going to Write a Book: Diary of an Urban Missionary.

For the less intrepid, a tribute to my dear Grandma Clo, who died on November 18, 1999, appears in A Quilt of Holidays, an anthology of sweet, inspirational stories. This one, along with other excerpts of Someday in Thanksgiving to Christmas and This Path, are work and family safe.

My new fiction: urban fantasy stories set in the world of my novels, featured in the Ten Tales Series Anthologies edited by Rayne Hall are very easy to gift since they are ebooks in all formats. And I can send you personalized gift cards.

Carole Ann Moleti is a nurse-midwife in New York City, thus explaining her fascination with paranormal and urban fantasy that infuses everything she writes. Her newest fiction is featured in Beltane: Ten Tales of Magic. Excerpts of Carole's memoir, Someday I'm Going to Write a Book: Diary of an Urban Missionary range from the sweet and inspirational in A Quilt of Holidays to the edgy and irreverent in Not Your Mother's Book: On Being a Woman.

Follow Your Conscience To The Polls

As you prepare to go to the polls, think about this: A Mitt Romney presidency and a Senate and House in Republican control will doom America to four years of old, white men making the rules. They are hell bent on subjugation of women, minorities, immigrants, and anyone else who believes that government is in existence to serve its citizenry, not itself. For women, a Romney presidency is the beginning of a real life re-creation of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, because their god insists women carry a pregnancy even if it endangers their life and that those who've been brutalized and raped accept a resulting pregnancy as a divine gift.

Their god, again no typo there, has been conjured up as one who champions their views, but the God that most of us believe in would never endorse those in power abandoning the less fortunate or failing to provide for those, both in this country and abroad, who are in need. And turning a blind eye to their poisoning and destruction of the Earth, human rights violations, and mass murder because a country has resources we need. Or relentlessly vowing to bulldoze through whatever little land Native Americans have left and through areas where the residents have emphatically said no to the Keystone Pipeline.

Mitt Romney has pledged to abolish FEMA. Even with the National Guard and Army Corps of Engineers, and federal loan and service programs, many of us in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut tri state area are stranded and shivering in the cold, wasting time on gas lines instead of getting back to work, school, and our lives. What would Romney do to help stricken areas? When asked, he didn't answer.

Think about that before you vote, because with climate change, another thing the Republican Party refuses to believe is real, the next big one might be headed your way, blowing up nuclear power plants and oil rigs in densely populated and environmentally sensitive areas. Hydro fracturing might pollute your water supply, poisoning you and your family before you realize it. You might find yourself ill, without a job and health insurance and no Medicaid or Medicare—if the Republicans have their way. Then what?

Fact is that George Bush got us into the situation we still haven't gotten out of—including two wars and the investment firm/banking debacle and economic collapse. 9/11/2001 happened on Bush's watch, so let's not let the unfortunate embassy attack on 9/11/2012 distract us from that—and the fact that Bin-Laden was taken down during Obama's. We've come a long way since 9/11, and Romney wants to take us back to the 1950s rather than onward into the 21st century.

We don't need more of those failed policies that serve the rich and debase and disregard the rest of us "freeloaders."  If you think Romney and the Republicans are are going to create jobs, ask next what will the price be, and just what those jobs will be. Will they be enough to pay your bills, including your medical tab, since low paying ones do not include adequate benefits?

Say a prayer to the real God or whomever or whatever you believe in as the guiding truth—then vote your conscience, which might not allow you to walk the plank with the party line. 

New Nonfiction-From the Sweet and Inspirational to the Edgy and Irreverent

Here is the official press release for my latest publications. Publishing Syndicate is planning a book tour for authors featured in the debut book in the Not Your Mother's Book Series.  I don't have details as yet, but will let you know where and when I will be reading and signing.

"A Catholic Schoolgirl's Primer" is an excerpt of my memoir Someday I'm Going to Write a Book: Diary of an Urban Missionary.  It appears in Not Your Mother's Book: On Being a Woman, which was released on October 9 and already has five star reviews on Amazon. Not for the easily offended, this book will make you laugh out loud and is a great gift for like minded girlfriends--and guys who really want to understand the down and dirty details of what being a woman is all about.

For the less intrepid, a tribute to my dear Grandma Clo, who died on November 18, 1999, appears in A Quilt of Holidays, an anthology of sweet, inspirational stories. This one is work and family safe.

The press release also contains links to my new fiction: urban fantasy stories set in the world of my novels, featured in the Ten Tales Series Anthologies edited by Rayne Hall.

I have copies to sign for anyone who'd like them so please email caroleATcaroleannmoletiDOTcom for details.

Carole Ann Moleti is a nurse-midwife in New York City, thus explaining her fascination with paranormal and urban fantasy that infuses everything she writes. Her newest fiction is featured in Beltane: Ten Tales of Magic. Excerpts of Carole's memoir, Someday I'm Going to Write a Book: Diary of an Urban Missionary range from the sweet and inspirational in A Quilt of Holidays to the edgy and irreverent in Not Your Mother's Book: On Being a Woman.

My Life Is A Three Ring Circus

In the First Ring:  Fiction. In the Middle:  Non Fiction. In the Third Ring: Doctoral Program. And I'm juggling the full time job, the per diem job,  one husband  three kids, a dog, a cat, and a garden.

Publicity tours, readings, signings-it's great to be famous.  Seriously, I love meeting readers and other writers. World Con rocked. So did the "Ghosts and the Afterlife" Panel in Portsmouth, N. H.  with Renee Mallet, Chelsea Cameron, hostess Terri Bruce, and Me.

Got to visit Salem gearing up for Halloween and Samhain.  (all right pay back was finishing and submitting my Philosophy paper with free in room Internet  at 1 am in the Courtyard by Marriott, Andover but you only live once).

So far, I'm keeping up. Staying up, too. Average bedtime is midnight with the outliers being 10 pm and 2 am. Wake up is 5:30 am, except for one Sunday in the last three weeks that I slept until 8.

Lost five pounds. That's good. Lot of aches and pains--all stres related. Not so good. Trying to schedule in some yoga and dance classes to limber up and lighten up the mood.

What am I reading? Ha! About 150 pages of peer reviewed research and academic articles a week, plus writing at least one major paper a week.  Sometimes two. In APA format. In third person, passive voice. In a scholarly voice. (The last one is the hardest)

New electronic medical records at work+ Lots of training sessions=Decreased productivity=Angry bosses+Cranky, tired midwife who doesn't get lunch or go to the bathroom all day.

How am I doing it? Not sure. But since I got a lot of writing done over the summer, most of my creative writing has been editing. And when I get the chance to write fiction, like the short story I polished yesterday called "Dance With the Devil," it's a relief rather than a burden.

There are three new releases out or coming out, and one in the pipeline. Here's the line up:

Kudos and Thanks to Rayne Hall for putting together yet another great anthology. My story "Mishmash Magick" is an excerpt of Boulevard of Bad Spells and Broken Dreams adapted to a short story format (as is "The Dhampir's Kiss" in Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires).  All Ten Tales books are PG13 and in most electronic formats.

Buy it here

Very suitable for all audiences, these gentle anthologies contain stories about life. This Path features two of my favorite excerpts of Someday I'm Going to Write a Book, including "The Dance Class" and "Endless Possibilities."
It was published a few years ago but just re-released as an ebook

A Quilt of Holidays contains "Artichokes," a tribute to my grandmother and family memories.

I have signed copies. Contact me for details.









And finally, on October 9, "A Catholic School Gir's Primer" will
be published in Not Your Mother's Book: On Being a Woman
Warning, this book, and my true life account about "becoming a
woman" is not for the easily offended.
But it's all true, edgy, and funny--if you have a sense of humor.

Stay tuned for details. There is a huge publicity tour in the works for this, one of the first in PS Publishing's Not Your Mother's Book Series.

And I'll catch you, and catch you up when I can!

A New Endeavor

Today was back to school day. For me! I logged on early this morning, worked out the technical glitches, and started my on line doctoral program at Walden University.

I have this coffee cup sitting in my closet, chipped, broken, stained.

It shows a harried woman in a business suit, holding a briefcase, baby hanging onto her ankles and toys scattered all around her.

The sentiment:

I am working woman

I hold down a job

I am nuts

Only now I have three jobs plus a husband, three kids,  a dog, a cat, a garden and a car sporting three bumper stickes: Peace, Not a Republican, and I'm in the 99%.

The black one with flashy red letters proclaiming "This IS My Brilliant Career"disappeared from the office I shared with about fifteen other people. Either someone stole it or broke it--but it doesn't matter. Fact is, I stepped off the fast track in 1990, when I was pregnant with my first child, knowing I could never do it all. And that a career is never as important as family. A lesson learned the hard way when my first marriage ended in divorce.


It's all in my two memoirs Someday I'm Going to Write a Book: Diary of An Urban Missionary and Karma, Kickbacks and Kids.

So, my am I going to spend the next 15-18 months researching and reading the most boring, dense, and academic material one can imagine then re-synthesizing it into my own theoretical framework for clinical research?  Because I know that my fledgling theory of management of psychosocial risk can help clinicians like me take care of the toughest, most vulnerable patients--and help them get off a path that leads either nowhere or to self destruction. And unless I prove it, no one will pay any attention to it.


So in about two years, I will be Dr. Carole Ann, and still be doing what I love: taking care of patients., focusing on creative writing, and reading for pleasure instead of work.  It goes by in the blink of an eye, especially when you're back on the fast track.

In the meantime, fiction sales are humming along. More about that on my other blog. I just got back from Chi-Con, the World Science Fiction Convention where I met up with many of my like minded writer friends

And non fiction ain't doin' too bad either.

Two of my favorite essays, "The Dance Class" and "Endless Possibilities" are in This Path, just reissued as an e book. And a tribute to my grandmother is coming out in A Quilt of Holidays in the next couple of weeks. Sometime this fall, an excerpt of Someday, "A Catholic Schoolgirl's Primer" is due out in Not Your Mother's Book: On Being a Woman. Not for the shy or easily offended, but I've never been one to sugar coat things.

Time to sign off now and get to that 150 pages of reading and two papers due by next Friday. I still owe my editor two short stories. It will all get done. It always does.

This Path: Free Today

This Path is a collection of essays that was just re-released today. It contains two of my favorites: "The Dance Class" and "Endless Possibilities."

If you'd like a free copy on Kindle, you can download it today only. If you have a Nook, contact me.

And please let me know what you think.

I have two new essays coming out this fall, so stay tuned.

After sending out six excerpts of Someday I'm Going to Write a Book, my next nonfiction project will be a book proposal for Silent Echoes, a collection of essays on pregnancy loss and the death of newborns, infants and young children.

I've worked in Perinatal Bereavement for many years and hope to edit an anthology that might offer comfort and closure to many families.

If you'd be interested in contributing, please let me know.