IWW Members' Publishing Successes

It's big this week! Lots of our friends to celebrate.

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Bill Barnes

My novel The White Cockroach will soon be published by POD leader Booklocker. Thanks to all of you who helped me so much.


Mark Budman

Pank magazine, a pub of Michigan Technological University, accepted my story "The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe," which was reviewed by IWW members.


Jeri Dube

After a very long time, I have a yahoo to report. Camroc Press Review posted a flash that I wrote based on last week's practice group exercise. Talk about immediate gratification. Special thanks to Peg Frey and Alice Folkart for comments that helped me improve my original piece. And an extra special thanks to Alice for her note of encouragement...I wish the voice in my head would talk to me like that!


Alice Folkart

My six-sentence story Not With a Bang, But a Bleat is up at Six Sentences. Scroll down to read it. A foray into speculative fiction.


Rebecca Gaffron

My micro piece "The Broccoli Incident," critted at IWW a year or so ago, has found a home at Camroc Press Review. (Scroll down a little.)

It's an honor to be in the company of so many fine writers. Thanks to everyone in Fiction for their help, especially Wayne for encouraging me to keep subbing this one. And also to Mr. Basden for his quality publication.


June Gallant

My nine- minute speech, yahooed here last week, took Atlantic Canada with its second performance on Saturday afternoon. It's off to the Nationals in June.


Ellen Kombiyil

My poem "Dennys: A Confession" has been published in the latest edition of Tattoo Highway. The poem was originally subbed to Poetry-W under a different title, and has since gone through many transformations. Many thanks for all who critiqued it in its nascent stages, and helped light the way of where to take it.

Tattoo Highway publishes poetry and prose, and each issue is organized around a theme. Submission guidelines can be found here.


Adam Lowe

This is a double Yahoo!

1. I've been invited to make my first poetry reading at a local event called Letterbomb. I'll be taking pamphlets with me and hoping to get some fans, at long last.

2. I've finalised an official event at Manchester Pride Festival, which will be a writing workshop for the LGBT community and their friends.

I can't wait for either!


Victoria Mixon

My guest essay on "How History Affects Fiction" just went up on Rebeca Schiller's site Exiled at the Beach Book Reviews.

Thank you, Rebeca!


Anand SaiRam Rainman

My story "Water Grave" has been published at Big Pulp.


Dennis Rizzo

An aticle, "The Bold Defenders of Timbuctoo," based on unused material from a book I completed last November for History Press got E-published. No pay, but first E-zine article, and they did a review of the book for me as well.


Bob Sanchez

My first Amazon review of Getting Lucky is up, and it's a good one! Please check it out. Several members of the IWW responded by saying they were ordering my book, and between March 26 and March 28 my Amazon ranking increased by 474,377 places!

Those rankings are mighty volatile, of course, but such a big gain is a sight to see. It shows how getting and leveraging one review can make a difference.

The Bluestocking Guide has published my guest post entitled "Where Do a Writer's Ideas Come From?" Please check it out. The site owner, Brooke Bonett, has also posted a podcast of a phone interview we did, but do you think I can get it to work? Nooo. So when I figure it out, I will yahoo that as well.


Wayne Scheer

I'm on a roll now.

Still Crazy, a print magazine for, by and about people over 50, has accepted my story "Choosing to Live," which was reviewed in Fiction. I guess getting old pays...although the magazine doesn't.

Every Day Fiction accepted my story "Starting Over" for future publication, and my story "Fantasy Woman" is up at their site today. "Fantasy Woman" was critiqued in Fiction and Mira and Rasana offered particularly useful help with Mumbai details.

The site publishes an under 1,000 word story a day, so they need a lot of stories, and they pay a big $3. Not much money, but a good site with good editors.

The story I announced last week, "A Change of Heart," accepted at Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) that they said would be up in a few weeks is already up.

Also, my only poem, "Cousin Harold," has been accepted as a reprint at Shine Journal, which no pays $5. The editor is incredibly kind and enthusiastic, so if you have flashes or poems and want to make the big bucks, consider her site. My poem is slated for the July issue.

Both "A Change of Heart" and "Cousin Harold" began in Practice, so a special thanks to the Practice critters.


Mithran Somasundrum

I've got a review of a short story anthology called "Touching The Monkey" up at The Short Review.

For those of you who like short fiction, The Short Review is a website purely for reviews of short story collections. They've been running for over a year now, so there's quite a lot of stuff up there and also author interviews. You can search by genre as well as by author.


Mona Vanek

IMO, there can't possibly be any greater thrill than knowing your grandchildren prize your books enough to encourage their children to value them, too. Today, our eldest grandson told me his daughter, seven year old Alivia, read my books! Ali probably "read" the pictures in the three volumes of regional history, Behind These Mountains. The hundreds of photographs in them, from the homesteaders private albums, "show" fur trapping, steamboat and river travel, Northern Pacific Railroad construction, hunting, fishing, USFS activities, including how the first Ranger and his family lived, fire lookouts, parties, timber industry, first schools, churches, horse races, grizzly bear, mountain sheep, deer, wagon and horseback transportation, first automobiles etc., etc.

The who, where, and how of settlement in the valleys and mountains of the Bitterroot and Cabinet Mountain ranges is northwestern Montana. A microcosm of American expansion during the late 1880's-1930. No doubt Ali flaunts her knowledge at school, too.


Joanna M. Weston

Two poems in a small print magazine, Rain Dog, from Manchester, U.K., And a 2nd prize for a poem in a previous issue of the same magazine, in the Reader's Poll!

And three poems up at Seven Beats. Scroll down way past Jack Kerouac and Allen Itz--I'm next after Ai.
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