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Talia Gryphon's Interests
General
Writing, Psychology, Travel, Ancient & Medieval History, Wayward Heroes, Archery, Swordfighting, Wildlife Conservation/Preservation, Animals, Space Exploration, Vampires, Paramortals, Elves, Sidhe, Shifters, The Fey, Comparative Religions, Criminal Justice
Music
Classic Rock, Metal, Regional, Tribal, Celtic, The Rat Pack, Classical, Folk, Country. The Beatles, Elvis, Robert Goulet, Fleetwood Mac, DragonForce, Helen Trevillion, Brobdinagian Bards, The Queen's Gambit, The Monkees, Pink, Gwen Stefani, Joan Baez, The Temptations, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sir Elton John, Bob Marley, The Doors, Madonna, Martina Mc Bride, KISS, Blue Oyster Cult, Scorpions, Brad Paisley, Osmonds (yes I said it), Toto, Lynard Skynard, ZZ Top, Jim Stafford, Reba McIntyre, Dolly Parton, The Bilge Pumps, Bon Jovi, David E. Maracle, The Cars, Queen, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Bobby Darin, The Doors, Vivaldi; Musical Theatre
Movies
LOTR Trilogy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow, Some Like It Hot, What's Up Doc, Harry Potter, Galaxy Quest, 007, Van Helsing, Monty Python, Jurassic Park, The 10th Kingdom; The Haunting (original not the crappy remake), Time After Time, Tombstone, to name a few.
Television
Star Trek TOS, LOST, CSI, Frasier, Iron Chef, Animal Planet, NCIS, Discovery, Bravo, A and E, Boston Legal, Gray's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Star Trek TNG, PBS, Travel Channel, History Channel
Books
Laurell K. Hamilton, Christine Feehan, Gaston Leroux, The Decameron, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, J.K. Rowling, Cherry Adair, Christian Jacq, J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Moore, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Carl Sandberg, Omar Kayyam, Geoffrey Chaucer, Terry Pratchett, Aristophenes, Jim Butcher, Christopher Stashaff, Margaret Wise, Tracy Hickman, Piers Anthony, Robert Asprin, Orson Scott Card, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey, Harper Lee, David Bischoff, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Jordan, James P. Hogan, C.J.Cherryh, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, Stephanie Burke, Rosemary Laurey, Katie MacAlister, Alan Dean Foster, Stephen R. Donaldson, Dara Joy, Vonda McIntyre
Heroes
J.R.R. Tolkien, Jane Goodall, Walter Cronkite, Apollo Astronauts, Johnny Weissmuller, The Men and Women of the United States Armed Forces, Police Officers, Fire Fighters, JFK, Martin Luther King, Jr, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, George Washington, Sally Ride, William Wallace, John Sigismund, Francis David, Abraham Lincoln, Margaret Bourke-White. On the fictional side: Batman, Spiderman, The Lone Ranger, Roy Rogers, Dorothy, Alice, Atticus Finch, Hermione, Aragorn, Gandalf, Eowyn, Winnie the Pooh.
About me: Talia Gryphon makes her home in the Central US with her Elven children, several assorted rescue dogs and cats and various mythological critters. Her interest in both the Paranormal and in Paramortals has been lifelong, stemming from her first readings of Dracula, Frankenstein, Phantom of The Opera, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and Trilby beginning around age eleven and nurtured by a love for Hammer Horror Classics. A large number of her family and friends who have proudly served in the Peace Corps, Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, have served both as inspirations, advocates and advisers for her life and her books.
During a fifteen year career in the non-exact science of mental health, it occurred to her that supernatural and preternatural beings she'd read about would have problems and issues of their own to deal with, but had no one to listen or take them on as patients or clients, so she began sketching out her thoughts, speculative psychological profiles, and possible diagnoses. Thoughts became notes, notes became pages, pages became books: hence the Gillian Key, ParaDoc Series was developed. She is a member of the American Psychotherapy Association, Science Fiction Writers of America and Horror Writers of America.
Who I'd like to meet: Viggo Mortensen, Gerard Butler, Goran Visnjic, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, William Shatner, David Wenham, Judy Garland, Cleopatra, Nichelle Nichols, Mary Shelley, Gaston Leroux, Edgar Allan Poe, Louis Jourdan, Alain Delon, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Esther, Josh Bernstein, Susan B. Anthony, Johnny Depp, Kahlil Gibran, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Ganesha, Buddha, Ghandi, Mozart, Daniel Boone, Edvard Grieg, Johann Pacalbel, Loretta Lynn, James Spader, Christopher Walken, William Peterson, John Laroquette, Craig Parker, Scott Cohen, Whoopie Goldberg, George Eads, Sacagawea, Sir Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Hugh Jackman, Jim Carrey, Cary Elwes, Jude Law, Robbie Coltrane, Sir Richard Burton, Dick Van Dyke, Lucy Lawless, Davy Crockett, Denzel Washington, Wes Studi, Harriet Tubman, DeForest Kelley, Sean Bean, Nelson Mandala, Fess Parker, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Oded Fehr, Vladimir Kulich, Dennis Storhoi, Pocahantas, Mel Mermelstein, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Spider Sabich, Gene Kelly, Dermot Mulroney, Jim Morrison, Fess Parker, Mike Rowe, Arthur Kent, Walter Cronkite, Gregory Peck
Hello my wonderful darling friend! I've missed talking to you and Megan so much has been going on these last few months, need to play catch up! I wanted to tell you thank you for the best birthday present ever, my dedication in your hot new book Key to Conspiracy !! which you didnt have to do but I thank you from the bottom of my heart ;) it isn't hard to have unwavering faith in a person , when that person is unbelievably talented. There was never a doubt in my mind of your success. I am not ashamed to admit that i squealed and jumped around and showed everyone i know :P It's almost as good as having my own book published! love you always Sharie aka Nix
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. ~ Cardinal Mermillod
There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Adabella Radici
Hi Talia. There are truly no words worthy of expressing the difference that is made by a mother's selfless and unending love and sacrifice for her children...but something like that just doesn't go unnoticed :) Enjoy YOUR day!!
Benny Writeman was a peaceful artist who lived in a small Indiana town with his lovely wife, Autumn. But, when his wife is murdered, then returns from the dead and reveals her murder must be avenged before she can truly rest, he drags her ghost across the country on the hunt for the vampires responsible. With the help of his brother, Jack and their father, Frank, they leave an ever mounting trail of carnage behind as they confront nightmarish creatures around every corner, only to discover a heartbreaking truth at the end of their journey.
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Dear friend, I cannot thank you enough for your kind support and friendship! Welcome to our ever growing family of friends. I'm really happy you have decided to become friends of the Wake Up (to child abuse) MySpace Music page. Just by adding us to your friends you have already demonstrated that you have a good heart and are willing to take a step towards ending the hidden suffering of so many.
We also dare to hope you will be able to persuade some of your other MySpace friends to join our just fight against child abuse by adding us to their friends too. The larger our family of friends becomes, the more people we will be able to reach and educate about this terrible ‘disease’ sweeping across the world which blights the lives of more children than you may imagine. Please take a moment to read some of the statistics on child abuse highlighted on our profile and within our blogs. I am sure you will be just as shocked and appalled as we are when you find out the full extent of this scourge.
The innocent children suffering such terrible abuse need all the help they can get. Increased awareness of this foul concealed crime will help to prevent more children living through the agonising torment which I was forced to experience.
I hope you have a great day and look forward to hearing from you soon with your views and comments on this important issue,
