IWW Members' Publishing Successes

Still going strong! Here are the winners for last week.

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Peter Bernhardt

You may remember that my thriller The Stasi File, Opera and Espionage: A Deadly Combination received a permanent Best Seller slot with YouWriteOn.com, which recently published the book. Since then the novel, my first, has been written up in The Write Word, by the Society of Southwestern Authors, and the information was also picked up by The Brain Pan.

Let the buzz begin!

Also, Amazon has just activated its Look Inside feature for this novel.


Victor Chimenti

For the second month in a row a submission of my novel Sensitive Man placed in the top three at Zoetrope Virtual Studio. Sensitive Man Part 2, took third place for February 2009 in the Novella Wing and is posted there now for members at www.zoetrope.com.

Thank you to all the critters here in the Novels-L group that have been so much help in getting this material into shape!


Peggy Duffy

Thanks to Barry for his utmost patience and for selecting this piece, "My One and Only Grandmother," to appear alongside some other fine pieces at Camroc Press Review. Scroll down a little.


Alice Folkart

The editor of 7Beats has again asked for the use of one of my recent poem, "Five Observations." Actually, the poem consists of five haiku-like very short poems written about a week ago when I was sure that I didn't have a poem of any sort in me. These are not wonderful poems, but they go to prove that if you write every day you'll at least have something to show for your time.

My poem is the fifth down. Scroll until you see a slim, horizontal photo of water.

The thing I enjoy about 7beats is that it is educating me, introducing me to poets I might never otherwise meet. Check out the work by Joan Brossa, a Catalan poet.

And yesterday I received my first check for a piece of my writing--from Big Pulp Magazine. I may make a copy and frame it.


Kathy Highcove

I have been editing the newsletter of the California Writers Club of the West Valley for about six months. We lost our newsletter editor in the fall when he became too busy to keep it up, and I volunteered to learn the process. The club bought me the Microsoft Publishing System, and I dived in to learn the software.

I've had lots of fun being an editor and I enjoy the design and display of my fellows' and my own writings. I've been told that every month I improve as an editor, and that's good to hear. The President of the club backed me up when I asked to do a PDF form and avoid the mail and postage costs. The members learned the Adobe Reader feature of their computer systems and we forged on! I have help editing for typos and glitches and the InFocus comes out on time each month... hopefully. (We mail out a couple black and white copies to the email diehards - or the rare member with no email.)

The PDF allows me to have a ball with color, several pages and illustrations of all types that I can copy and pasted into the articles, poetry and essays. I send on the website of our CWC/WV and the newsletter is in the menu.


Mel Jacob

Found someone in India has Train To Yesterday for sale (imported edition). Funny because my publisher has remaindered the title, altho' the Large Print edition is still available.


Wayne Scheer

Flash Me Magazine just notified me that my story "Morning Routine" will be their Feature Story for their next issue. That means $20, and fame. "Morning Routine" was originally written as a Practice exercise, so thanks again to the group for your inspiration and fine critiques.

Rumble Magazine will publish an old story I re-entitled "Teach Your Children Well." Rumble is a good place for stories under 500 words that are slightly off-kilter. Read an issue and you'll see what I mean.

My story "The Old Man" is up at Long Story Short. It's listed as fiction, although it's more creative nonfiction.

Thanks to all.


Joanna M. Weston

A piece of real flash fiction, "Winger," up at Six Sentences.

This is a fun site indeed.
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