IWW Members' Publishing Successes

Some weeks the harvest is large, some small--but this time, it's a bumper crop!

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Kristy Bock

My story "With This Ring, I Thee Trust," that you all in the Poetry group helped me with, has been offered a contract from Highland Press, to be part of an inspirational anthology in a print book! How cool is that? I couldn't have done it without all of you! Thank you all so very much!


Steve Brezenoff

I have sold my first novel, Splinters, a YA, to Carolrhoda, the trade imprint of Lerner Publications.

My editor's blog is here.

Release date, etc., still to come.


Mark Budman

I am mentioned at Authorlink.


Norman Cooper

My prose poem "The Spirit Drummer" is now available at Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. After you've read my submission, check out the rest of the site. Lots of good writing here.


Mira Desai

I'm delighted to announce the publication on pratilipi.in of a short story translation, "The Battle of Manekgadh." The original, by Shri Pravinsinh Chavda, is in Gujarati. Mr. Chavda's writing is so sharp it draws blood, one can only try do some sort of justice.


Sue Ellis

"The Chasm"--a rant, really, up at Six Sentences.

I see a few edits now that it's online, but I dashed it out in thirty minutes and hit "send." Had a great time! Neat website and the challenge of six sentences is so much fun.


Alice Folkart

Hello all, my story "A Long Way From Home" is in the Sci-Fi section of the current issue of Big Pulp Magazine.

Not only is it a whizbang journal with lots of wonderful writing and a really neat look, it also pays--one cent a word. This story, which started out on Practice at 400 words, grew to 1,350, netting me my first writing-earned money, $13.50.

I am thrilled. Hope you have time to take a look and hope that you like it.

And my very short poem "Out of Ink" is up at 7Beats Here and Now. You can read it and a lot of other wonderful writing, not to mention great photos. You'll have to scroll down 13 pictures to find my poem. But dawdle along the way--there's all sorts of interesting stuff.


Alan Girling

My poem "one lucky, café Japonais" is now up at one of my favourite poetry sites -- ink, sweat & tears. Scroll down a bit if it's no longer at the top of the page.



Kathy Highcove

I occasionally review restaurants for local publications. I consume a fairly good meal, maybe a decent wine, reap a small remittance and usually have a very good time and receive red carpet treatment from the restaurant owners. This one wsa published in the Valley Scene Magazine in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles.

I took my daughter-in-law this time as photographer because I was assigned a new East Indian restaurant and, being from Belize, she likes hot exotic dishes.


Mel Jacob

The following reviews appeared this month:

SFRevu - Tracing the Shadow by Sarah Ash
A fantasy driven by politics, love, and vengeance set in a world with countries and cultures similar to thoe of the Middle Ages where the Inquisition seeks to stamp out all traces of magic and magis.

Gumshoe Review - Dining With Devils: A Tasmanian Thriller by Gordon Aalborg
A fun mystery set in Australia with a quirky cast of characters and a villain reminiscent of Hannibal Lector.
- The Wandering Ghost by Martin Limón
Two Army criminal investigators struggle to unravel the disappearance of a female MP and the death of another MP in a supposed accident in South Korea of the '70s.
- What Time Devours by A. J. Hartley
A high school English teacher investigates the mysterious deaths of a woman killed outside his home and of a former student who insists a copy of a lost Shakespearean play, Love's Labor Won, exists. Mayhem and violence ensue as others seek the play.

I also got a rejection from Baen for a sci-fi novel. Now I get to submit elsewhere and wait another year!

Working with my daughter to revise the draft of her first novel, For the Love of Ruthie, a comedy romance featuring a pot-bellied pig. We'd like to get it out by early summer, but her classes take a lot of her time.

Now on to more reviews and getting that novel out again.


Heidi Kenyon

Two poems, "Offering" and "Insight," are up in the finally-published March issue of Poet's Ink Review. Scroll down, I'm at the bottom.


Ellen Lindquist

Two flash fictions accepted by ClockWise Cat, a new e-zine edited by the indefatigable Alison Ross: "ProperlyPedigreed Snails" and "Eskimo Pie Psychosis" will appear in the Fall issue.


Randall Radic

Well, Publishers Weekly reviewed A Priest in Hell: Gangs, Murderers and Snitching in a California Jail. PW determined that it was third-rate writing, full of cliches, without passion, etc.
I sat down and cried. I didn't get that kind of abuse in jail. My publisher told me, "It's a PLUS to even get reviewed in PW. Most people don't."

It didn't make me feel any better.

On the other hand, my review of Target: Patton is up at Exiled At the Beach Book Reviews.


Anita Saran

I owe so much to this workshop for my 18,000 word story - "City of Victory." First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as a short of 3000 words, it is today a long story. People like Jayne Pupek (who followed it right through),Julie Winrich, Meg Westley, and Bob Zumwalt (and others) helped me hammer what I thought was a novel into a story. Recently, another of our members, a lady who lives in Hawaii, kindly offered to format it into an e-book for me. I have a little review from Edith Parzefall which I have put up on the site and Ann Hite has agreed to write one for the Feminist Review. Wow. Plus I just had my first sale -- an old friend I haven't met in years bought it. I must say it is not easy to place a story of this length, but I've done it. Thanks IWW!

And oh, yes, I forgot to add that what makes "City of Victory" unique (I hope) are the photographs I took of Hampi that grace each chapter as well as the cover. The real ruins and sumptuousness of a 16th century South Indian empire once "greater than Rome" in stark contrast.


Wayne Scheer

This week is shaping up nicely...

--Flash Me Magazine has accepted "Morning Routine" for their April 30 issue. All the editors accepted it, which means it's in the running for Feature Story and $20. "Morning Routine" began in Practice.

--Ox Family, formerly Stationaery, has accepted an old flash of mine, "A Redwood in the Yukon," for an upcoming issue, which will appear in print and online.

--Clockwise Cat has accepted "Quiet Rebellions" for their Fall issue. This story was critiqued in Fiction a while ago.

--Finally, Literary House Review has accepted "The Nude Beach" for an issue to be published sometime "before November." This story, too, was reviewed in Fiction a long while back.

Thank goodness for old stories and good critiques.


Jack Shakely

I have just been informed that my historical novel The Confederate War Bonnet has been selected as a finalist in the ForeWord Magazine 2008 Book of the Year Awards. The winners will be announced May 29, 2009.

I have no idea how many other finalists there were, perhaps millions, but in the meantime, to paraphrase "Seinfeld," it feels blog-worthy.

Yahoo, and wahoo.


Joanna M. Weston

I'm cheering madly: my poem "The Pattern" (Tower Poetry, Vol. 55#2) has been posted on the home page of the Tower Poetry Society website, and will remain there for one year. They first published the poem in the Winter 2006 issue. Many thanks again to the Poetry list members for their help.

Happy day!
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