It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Sometimes even downright discouraging. You have so many ideas you want to share with the world. So many things you want to say. So much you want to try. But your job is demanding. You’re constantly juggling family schedules and obligations. You’re always heading off annoying interruptions. You wonder if you’ll […]
Date Of Event: October 3, 2019 (held annually the first week of October) Location: Downtown Salem (Congress St, Derby St, Front St, Washington St, Essex St, Salem Common) Summary: Salem’s Chamber Of Commerce kicked off the month long “Haunted Happenings” celebration for the month of October. Scores of heroes, monsters and kids came together to […]
via “Haunted Happenings” Grand Parade (Salem, MA) — New England Nomad
thousand shapes of love ~ through a stairway to your core ~ spiral through the night —© Lize Bard @ Haiku out of Africa
June Perkins © A coil of light/ patterns broken and remade/in the path to certitude -Poem by June “None have I sought nor any will I seek save Thee; no path have I trodden nor any will I tread but the path of Thy love. In the darksome night of despair, my eye turneth expectant […]
“Don’t be a ‘writer.’ Be writing.” —William Faulkner Ten steps to being a writer. Five rules to writing a great novel. Or seven rules. Or fifteen. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter how many rules, how many steps, how many lessons, who gives the advice, and what intentions they had behind it, because most of […]
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding […]
October hardly needs an introduction (especially from me), so let’s dig right in because there’s a lot to be excited about this Halloween season. There’s a release each week this month that you’ll probably want to check out, so mark your calendars (or just check back here) and start planning your Halloween-watching list. Some of […]
The 2019 BBC National Short Story Award, partnered with Cambridge University, has just announced that this year’s winner is Welsh writer Jo Lloyd for the story “The Invisible,” inspired by the life of an 18th-century woman from Carnarvonshire who claimed to be friends with an invisible family living in an invisible mansion. Jo Lloyd, photo…
via Welsh writer Jo Lloyd wins £15,000 BBC National Short Story Award. — Literary Hub
Horror Addicts, in honor of the new book release, Requiem in Frost, HorrorAddicts.net and Jonathan Fortin would like to invite you to a Twitter Watch Party! We’ll be watching the dark and brooding beauty of 1994’s The Crow, beginning at 8 pm PST tonight. So, pop your popcorn, take a seat, and get your tweet on. […]
via THE CROW Twitter Watch Party – Tonight — HorrorAddicts.net
I bring you another guest blog post. This one was written by Phil Rosen, and it is precisely what I envisioned when I set out to feature guest bloggers. It is an excellent piece, and more importantly, it teaches me something about writing. I feel compelled to wax-lyrical about this piece, but I shall let […]
via Your Language Determines Your Audience — Learning to write
The links below are to articles taking a look at the winners of the 2019 Ned Kelly Awards. For more visit:– https://www.booktopia.com.au/blog/2019/09/07/see-the-2019-ned-kelly-award-winners/– https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2019/09/09/138833/winners-of-the-ned-kelly-awards-2019-announced/
Scotland has seen a resurgence in tourism and literary interest due to books such as Outlander and Crime fiction novels. Scotland has a rich history in the literacy world from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson to Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. Scotland can lend itself to the supernatural or […]
via 6 of the Best Books set in Scotland — The Coycaterpillar Reads
Submitted by Melissa Martin, Ph.D, is an author, columnist, educator, and therapist. She lives in U.S Give your brain a workout—read a book. Pump up the muscle mass between your two ears. Reading is that important. And people in all countries around the globe deserve the right to learn to read. Literacy for All The […]
Books are like traditional search engines, lesser attractive than their flashy, digital counterparts but just as rich in information; only, you need to have to search for the info a little bit, unlike the direct answers you get on the net. However, while it is commonly stereotyped that information is only found in fat and […]
via Literacy Latitude: Books and what we learn from them. — The Creative Club
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 