Hallelujah!

My job is on a partial year schedule-- it has concluded!  Loved it for the most part but there were days. . .

Anyway time to write.
 Write
Write and write.

Writing quote for 5-10-2013

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do  not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anais Nin

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives or serve humanity.

~~Sandra Cisneros

Stories are medicine.

~~Clarissa Pinkola Estes

THE MOM EGG

Mother Tongue is here!  A mother murmurs to her infant son. Mother’s words hold power to hurt or heal. A new immigrant struggles to learn English; later generations, to cling to remnants of language and culture. Mother Tongue speaks out. Mother Tongue has been silenced—and freed. Mother Tongue names. Mother Tongue tastes and plays. A must-read for mothers and lovers of language, and a fabulous gift for every literate, creative Mom.

Spring Reading and Launch Party 4/21--Please join us! Sunday, April 21, 2013 at 6 PM at Le Poisson Rouge  in the Gallery 158 Bleecker Street, New York City Free admission—full bar menu http://www.lepoissonrouge.com

Listerature 2 From Little Fiction-- I've got a story in there

http://littlefiction.com/beta/Listerature_files/ListeratureVol2_Mobile.pdf

obit. from Pure Slush available

Pure Slush's sixth print anthology is obit., released in March 2013.

The idea is this: an obituary was written by William Henderson.

 Other writers contributed stories about the same person, about different parts of this character's life, etc. They took incidents or ideas or traits or other characters mentioned in the obituary ... and sometimes their stories refuted them. Stories could be wholly about the obit's subject or maybe only in passing.

Writers included in the anthology are Erin Zulkoski, Michael Webb, Sally Reno, Matt Potter, Martha Rand, Susan Tepper, Matt McGee, Jaylee Alde, Maude Larke, Andrew Stancek, Dusty-Anne Rhodes, Gill Hoffs, Joyce Juzwik, Meghan K. Barnes, Mira Desai, Teresa Burns Gunther, Kyle Hemmings, Joanne Jagoda, Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz, Andrew Stancek, Jennifer K. Dick ... and William Henderson.

Go here to purchase: http://www.lulu.com/shop/pure-slush/obit-pure-slush-vol-6/paperback/product-20937474.html

I've been reading

short stories and about the craft of writing. Doing some research but not a whole lot of writing like in Feb. Think I blew a gasket. Several rejections and some publications. A photo was in the final rounds for the cover of a print journal but no cigar. Ah, well.

Writing quote for 1-31-2013

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. ~~Honore de Balzac

Reprieve!

Deadlines extended for two anthologies and one magazine. Yay! 'Cause I am not ready. Still have some submissions to go out today and tomorrow. So it's back to work.