cj Sez: My gas fire log gave up the ghost last winter, which
was not unexpected because it had more than outlived its one-year warranty. (I
will confess to using it almost twenty additional years after I purchased the house which listed the fire log as one of its selling points.)
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Sharing sad news to reportRamona DeFelice Long, teacher, writer, editor extraordinaire, and dear friend to many authors has passed away.
Learn more about Ramona’s literary achievements here: https://ramonadef.com/
Why it’s good to read anthologies
Question: When you’re reading a story that drags you deep into the plot, do you wonder how the author could have imagined all those twists and turns? I do because I know personally that writing a coherent story is a difficult and exacting task, and I get a ton of inspiration by reading. In fact, a writer has to be a reader, especially in the genre they write.
Because I also like to read the works of different authors in
multiple genres, I find reading anthologies filled with short stories appealing
for many reasons, but the top three are:
1) they don’t require a singular lengthy commitment;
2) they provide a lot of variety; and
3) they often introduce me to a new favorite author.
I say three cheers for anthologies and their short stories! (Try
it, you’ll like it.)
I’ve been fortunate
to have short stories published in three different anthologies in 2020—VALENTINE’S
DAY PIECES, BIENVENUE TO THE CHATEAU ROUGE, HALLOWEEN PIECES—and there’s a
fourth one in the editing process, HOMEROOM HEROES.
All the anthologies
offer readers all around good reading in a variety of themes and styles.
In the Mobile
Writers Guild latest anthology,
HALLOWEEN PIECES, there are eighteen pieces from seventeen authors, ranging from ghost and paranormal stories to poems and even a play.
The anthology is available
on Amazon (free on Kindle Unlimited), and several of the authors have signed some copies
that are now available from The Haunted Bookshop (see where to order below).
Add the following anthology to your shopping list also:
I’m in the process of going through edit cycles for my short story, “The Substitute,” in Bienvenue Press’s annual charity anthology, HOMEROOM HEROES. Here’s a teaser:
When the principal
assigned Melanie Andrews the job of helping the new substitute teacher with his
charges, she learned how to turn her can’ts into cans and her dreams into
plans.
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Question: When you’re reading a story that drags you deep into the plot, do you wonder how the author could have imagined all those twists and turns? I do because I know personally that writing a coherent story is a difficult and exacting task, and I get a ton of inspiration by reading. In fact, a writer has to be a reader, especially in the genre they write.
1) they don’t require a singular lengthy commitment;
2) they provide a lot of variety; and
3) they often introduce me to a new favorite author.
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HALLOWEEN PIECES, there are eighteen pieces from seventeen authors, ranging from ghost and paranormal stories to poems and even a play.
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I’m in the process of going through edit cycles for my short story, “The Substitute,” in Bienvenue Press’s annual charity anthology, HOMEROOM HEROES. Here’s a teaser:
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