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New video for FLESH WOUNDS
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New Video for FLESH WOUNDS
Video for our a title on our new page presenting authors doing serials you can read online or subscribe for weekly RSS feeds.
Flesh wounds will be out in exciting new format of ebook before Christmas. Meanwhile, click to subscribe and read new installments of this disturbing, noir classic each week.
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Posted by Adoro Book Works on 30 June 2009 at 3:59am
Shameless plug for work
As you may know from seeing my profile I am, by day, a Graphic & Interactive Designer. If anyone would like a website creating, a logo or even a book cover then feel free to get in touch for a chat about it - times are tight with the credit crunch :) If you would like to see some of my previous clients and work then just visit:… Continue
Posted by AB on 29 June 2009 at 9:27am
50 free resources that will improve your writing skills
I came across this link whilst on a design website but some of these tools may be useful for non-technical writing:
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Posted by AB on 29 June 2009 at 9:21am
Lame Poetry for Critique
I suck out the marrow, but may I ask why?
For is it not life that causes me to die?
And if to be awake is indeed to be alive,
Then is to sleep also to die?
I am all alone in this forest
People are hell
I can feel my brittle breath
But cannot see my fragile self
Am I really here?
Because it is so hard to tell
These damned divine woods
Take me further from Hell
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LE MAIRÉAD
She turns my prose into poetry,
Speec… Continue
Posted by Jimmy Goodrich on 24 June 2009 at 4:32am
CANDY LOVE
by
Austin Girl
CHAPTER ONE
Granny’s Clay Pigeons
I hadn’t even picked up the double-barreled shotgun when my quirky granny reloaded clay disks in the skeet machine.
“Pull!” Granny Lucky hollered.
I raised an eyebrow and turned to her. My heavily-teased Crayon-yellow beehive hair stood perfectly still in the wind. The echo of a lone coyote billowed beyond the hill.
“Granny, I’m supposed to yell pull,” I said in my thick country twang. “That’s what the manual… Continue
Posted by Austin Girl on 19 June 2009 at 5:00pm
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Questions for Better Descriptions
Continuing with our description theme, we look at how questions can jog your memory to help you come up with key details. Ask yourself the most naïve questions possible to...Happy Fourth of July!
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Some of you may remember a blog post in April responding to a question from Jason, an Iraq War veteran who was working on his descriptions. The post inspired a...Writing Contests
Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize
americanbookreview.org/contest.asp The 2009 contest will be open from August 15 – November 1. Eligibility The Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Contest is open to any writer of English who is a citizen of the United States and who has not previously published with Fiction Collective Two. Submissions may include a collection of short stories, one or more [...]
2009 SPC Poetry Contest
Entry fee: $3 per poem Prizes: First, second and third prizes will be awarded — $100, $50, $25. 10 honorable mentions will receive $10 gift certificates. Poem Requirements: Please send two copies of each poem, one with your name and contact info, another without any identifying information on it. No restrictions on length, subject or style. Judges: [...]
Narrative Magazine Poetry Contest
Deadline: July 15, 2009 Entry Fee:$15 Web site: www.narrativemagazine.com A prize of $1,500 and publication in Narrative Magazine will be given annually for a poem or group of poems. All entries will be considered for publication. The poetry editors will judge. Submit up to five poems with a $15 entry fee by July 15. Visit the Web site [...]
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