IWW Members' Publishing Successes~

Internet Writing Workshop members continue to find publishing success in all venues. Congratulations to this week's crew.

Barry Basden

Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) has put up Always Be Closing. Thanks to all who helped with it.

Issue #4 of The Legendary includes two of my pieces. Click here and then click on my name, and "Tell Me One More Time," a poem of sorts, will appear--at least that's how it's formatted.

Then go to their fiction page or here and you'll see "The Korean Bargain," which was critiqued not long ago on the nonfiction list. Thanks to all who helped make it better.


Peggy Duffy

Once again Barry Basden has been kind enough to accept one of my pieces for Camroc Press Review. This was originally critiqued on nonfiction, so thanks to all who offered input, and to Barry for having me streamline the piece to meet
his word limit. It is a stronger piece for it.


Ann Hite

This is just a small yahoo, but exciting to me. On a day when most of the personal news I've heard has been challenging, to say the least, I am proud to say Good Reads, a wonderful book sharing website, has added me as an official author for my ebook Life on Black Mountain, published by The Dead Mule. Every author wants a page on Good Reads. Check out my profile and the whole website. If you don't belong, you might want to join. It is a great way to keep track of what you read and to share books. Here's a link to my page.


Heidi Kenyon

My poem, "to have and to hold," appears in the April issue of Four & Twenty. The Table of Contents contains several familiar names from Poetry-L (from which I have been regrettably absent lately but hope to rejoin soon). Congrats to all!


Laurel Lamperd

My Roman Britain book Crossroads at Isca will be published in July '09 by You Write On. I put the book through novels as 'Way of the Eagles'.

Thanks to everyone who critiqued it.


Tom Mahony

Hi All,

A few recent yahoos:

Call Me Stone
Angry Loner
Alma Mater


Julie McGuire

Fellow Writers--

I'm pleased to note that my article "It's Your Job" has been published in the Richmond-area Work magazine. For "It's Your Job," I profiled a national employment "guru" with local ties. My article is in the print version of the magazine, so no link to it. If you're interested in reading a copy, please email me (off-list) and I can send you a .pdf.

I got paid for this one! Almost $200.


Kate Reynolds

Well, I'm soooooo stoked! I've been working my tail off writing two blogs highlighting deals in the Tucson area (and another blog about the Phoenix area). About a month ago, a local radio station asked me to do a 5-10 minute on-air segment. I did. They asked me again last Friday. On the air I went again.

Today I was called, and he asked me to do a regular slot--every other Friday!

After all the years and years of writing I've done . . . and it's paying off in this cool way. I'm really delighted . . . . and amazed. Who'd have thunk?


Wayne Scheer

I'm happy to report a flurry of activity the past couple of days.

Tampa Marketing Group will reprint my story, "Autumn Moon," in their print anthology, entitled Relationships: The Good, the Bad and the Funny. In return, I'll get $50 and four books.

Every Day Fiction will print two of my flashes, "Growing Up," and "When I Heard the Learn'd Marriage Counselor," (apologies to Walt Whitman for the title ). They pay three bucks a piece, so I'm racking up the big money.

I didn't win Poor Mojo's Almanac(k)'s travel writing contest, which would have netted me $33.33, but my story, "Prophylactica?" at least won Honorable Mention and publication in a future issue.

Finally, my flash, "Put Down that Shovel, Chester," is up at Cynic Online Magazine.

My flash, "A Balanced Life," is up at Camroc Press Review.

Long Story Short has accepted my story, "Drinks with Friends," for their July issue.

As always, thanks to everyone at IWW for your fine and helpful critiques of these stories.


Sandra I. Smith

Hi Everyone,

I'm very happy to announce that Write Words, Inc has accepted my novel, A Perfect Body, for publication.

A Perfect Body is scheduled for release on June 1, 2009 as an e-book.

Write Words, Inc. published Acts of Love for me in December 2008, and prior to that, published a re-release of Jenny's Legacy in June 2008. (Jenny's Legacy had been previously published as a hardcover by Five Star Expressions.)

I've found Write Words to be a good company to work with. They aren't vanity publishers, and my mss went through a stringent editing process. They are very open to cover suggestions from their authors, and so far, haven't changed my titles. (My titles are important to me :-)

Each of the books they publish has its own page on the site with a "buy this book" button. They also make it available on the other e-book web sites, such as Mobi and Fictionwise. Their books are also available as Kindle downloads, so I think they have good distribution.

They re-release some of the e-books later as paperbacks under their Cambridge imprint.

The first half of Perfect Body was critiqued on Lovestory, and after rewrites, the first few chapters were again critiqued on Novels. The book was immensely improved by the critiques, and I very much appreciate the time various people spent reading the chapters and making comments. Thank you all!


Clive Warner

Happy to announce that I have a chapter of my SF novel, Rebody, in CANTARAVILLE (Number 6), a print magazine published in California. It's just out and I can recommend it. See cantaraville.com for details.

Also, I just received a note that my piece on living in Mexico with the provisional title "It's in Spanish, but isn't Spain" (no doubt the subs will think of something better) has been accepted by the Daily Telegraph, one of the main UK daily newspapers.

And I also got a note from WeBook, that project-oriented book site that my three-chapter (about 10,000 words) memoir, Life and Death in Akure, Nigeria has been included for publication in Expat Diaries, a new book to be published by WeBook's publishing arm.

So I am not dormant, by any means! (I've also finished my next novel and am in rewrite at the moment. And I am reading submissions for Citiria if anyone wants to pass that on.)