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Starting the New Year off right!


Norbert Brown

Happy New Year to All--

My latest review for Feel the Word was posted on Jan 1. This
one's a triple header, about recent film adaptations: The Golden
Compass, Beowulf, and Sweeney Todd. Once again--Gabriel's great
to work with and I highly recommend subbing to him.



Peggy Duffy

Just received an e-mail from Kristina Riggle, one of the fiction
editors at Literary Mama:

"I'm pleased to report that your story was chosen as one of our best
in 2007! Check out the list here: http://www.literarymama.com/bestof2007/

"Congratulations and happy new year!"

My story is listed under Fiction. Literary Mama has been very good
to me. The editor published two of my fiction pieces online, and this
story, "The Girl at the Side of the Road," also appeared in their
print literary anthology.


June Gallant

My "Fungus Art" article, which many of you on Non-fiction helped
make a success, is coming up in the Jan/Feb edition of Saltscapes
Magazine. I have been keeping this yahoo to myself since early
spring of last year. I do believe in Murphy's Law. A while back
someone on the Writing List posed the question "Are you
superstitious?" My late answer is :YES!

Saltscapes Magazine is an Atlantic Canada Magazine. Sold by
subscription and in stores. Pays 40 cents per word and pays for
picture use. Guidelines can be found online at saltscapes.com.
Staff is excellent to work with.


Kathy Highcove

Hello friends! I'm up in the January issue of Long Story Short. I
sent them "Even Trade," a flash fiction critted by the Practice List.

More "glory" this month--two articles in the North Valley
Community News: a restaurant review, and an article on a local Lip
Synch contest.



Ann Hite

My story "Who's Afraid of the Dark" will be published by Espresso
Fiction on the week of January 29th. This is a paying venue. So Yee
Ha!



Kristen Howe

Happy new year! Remember I told you last month that my year-old
submission, "Safe Return" was finally accepted by Real Eight Poetry
Ezine? Well, now it's online!



Ron Hurst

My piece "She Never fired a Gun But Won Her Battle" has been
selected as a finalist for the My Hero My Mom series. Fingers crossed for
the finals. Many thanks for the N-Fiction critters who worked so hard
on it.


Wendy Laharnar

Hi all,

Blessings on Novels-L and on all the wonderful people who reside
therein!

I've just signed a contract with Enspiren Press to publish my novel
The Unhewn Stone.

Stefan's story began life in 1999 as Tell the Truth on Novels-L, but I
abandoned it ("Don't flog a dead horse," a critiquer told me, and
quite rightly, too) until 2004, when I visited the Swiss location of my
story. Then I rewrote it in a month as a NaNoWriMo novel (53,000
words) and transformed it over the next three years with the help of
my Novels-L critique friends (117,000 words).

To all of the wonderfully talented and generous writers, past and
present, who encouraged, advised, objected, queried and corrected
me and to those who prodded and pushed and refused to accept my
"writer's block" excuses, I give my love and my heartfelt thanks. I
couldn't have reached this point without you.

Now the hard work begins and the ego must go into cold storage as I
begin work with the editor.


Wayne Scheer

A few of my stories are available for your viewing pleasure.
(Viewing them may go down easier than actually reading them.)

I have a sentimental (?) Christmas flash up at Apollo's Lyre.

And two stories up at Wild Violet--a humor piece about my
grandkids critiqued in Fiction ("One Down, Three to Go") and a
more serious flash, written for Practice, called "Aftershock."

Finally, Clockwise Cat has accepted a flash originally written for
Practice, "The Kindness of an Atheist." It's scheduled to appear in
their February issue.

As usual, my thanks go to all who helped improve these stories from
their pre-critique status.


Mona Vanek

My last sub, "RCC'S COMMUNITY SOCIAL A SUCCESS," a press
release, appeared in January 3rd issue of The North Palouse Journal--three
weeks after the paper received it.

Conclusions:
Apparently this local paper doesn't mind holding timely news and
publishing it weeks late. Their readers must not be complaining.


The story behind the press release might interest those of you who
know I'm a newcomer to this tiny town; and I have a thirty-year
background in small town news reporting. The Rockford
Community Center news item resulted from my goal to teach local
residents how to get news of their organizations' activities into NPJ.
Working closely with the secretary of RCC, I 'tweaked' her who,
what, where information.

Now that Mary-Lou has seen RCC's news in print, she quickly
caught on to the style that will evoke community interest in joining
RCC--which was the major goal of the press release. Subsequently,
she has written and sent to NPJ a good press release of the latest
"social afternoon," held on New Years Day. However, she delayed
long enough to miss the deadline. So it, too, will be stale news. LOL

My goal is to encourage each local organization to publish their
news. So this is a double Yahoo -- One organization is now
publishing their news! My challenge: Discover the local
organizations, and then contact and persuade each to follow Mary-Lou's
example.


Joanna M. Weston

Two reviews of poetry up today at The Danforth Review--Panofsky
and Zolf. The first is a treasure, the second not.

Happy days!

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