M.J. Rose

“Mysterious, haunting, and tragic, Seduction emerges as a suspenseful alchemy of potent ingredients, beautifully blended, that ignites your senses and leaves you aching for more.” —Jamie Ford, NYT bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

 

My newest novel is about many things: Victor Hugo and the secret séances he attended, Druid ruins, grief, ghosts, reincarnation and the lengths we go to for love.

 

And scent.

 

Below is a descriptions of the magical fragrance I imagined Jac L’Etoile smells in Seduction.

 

I haven’t ever smelled it except in my mind – but if it reminds you of a perfume tell me which one in the comments. I’ll go smell them all and the one that comes closest will win the owner a the manuscript page from the book – signed by me.

 

And  if you want to join a  “by invitation only” Seduction book club on Facebook where I’ll be talking to readers about the book during the month of May – email me a recipt of the book and I’ll sign you up. MJRoseWriter@gmail.com

 

And here is the msytery scent as described in the book:

 

But there was something else Jac smelled. A rich and spicy perfume that combined roses, ylang ylang and oak moss. Trapped in the pages for how many years, a fine French perfume was escaping.

 

It was the kind of scent she had grown up with. 

Nothing like most modern mass-produced fragrances, but
beautifully articulated and rounded. She sniffed at it. There was one note that she couldn’t quite figure out, and that note was similar to the mysterious note in Ash’s cologne.

 No, not similar, it was the same note. It was that curious amber she’d found in Fantine’s  studio.

 

Was this another of Fantine’s scents? Was the amber note her signature? The way vanilla was Jean Guerlain’s? The way tuberose was her grandfather’s?

 

Have you ever smelled a scent like this? Just tell me below.

 

And to pre-order Seduction so you can join the book club buy Seduction – (only $13.48) – at Amazon or at BN.com    Or order it from your favorite indie store and shop local!!

 

“A luxurious, sensual experience for the reader. This atmospheric tale of suspense is fully engrossing.” —Library Journal (starred review)

 

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Here is a follow up to the fascinating stuff happening right now in the world of species De-Extinction…

 

Your brain might melt if you watch this. In a good way. For example, did you know that it is possible to be your own parents? And also check this out: The “ips cell transformation” technique described in this talk by Dr. Robert Lanza could be used to create germ cells for infertile people, or even create eggs and sperm for same sex couples to reproduce together! Welcome to the future!

 

The use of cloning and stem cells to resurrect life: Robert Lanza at TEDxDeExtinction

 

 

To learn more about de-extinction, please visit Revive & Restore (the organizer of TEDxDeExtinction) here.

 

Related Museum of Mysteries post about Dr. Lanza’s work here.

 

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A friend recently explained to me that octopi are intelligent – very, very intelligent. I decided to look into this bizarre claim. Read on and be flabbergasted –

 

Deep Intellect

Inside the mind of the octopus

 

BY SY MONTGOMERY

Published in the November/December 2011 issue of Orion magazine

 

 

“ON AN UNSEASONABLY WARM day in the middle of March, I traveled from New Hampshire to the moist, dim sanctuary of the New England Aquarium, hoping to touch an alternate reality. I came to meet Athena, the aquarium’s forty-pound, five-foot-long, two-and-a-half-year-old giant Pacific octopus.

 

 

For me, it was a momentous occasion. I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange. Here is someone who, even if she grows to one hundred pounds and stretches more than eight feet long, could still squeeze her boneless body through an opening the size of an orange…”

 

The rest, here.

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