August 2010 Blog Posts (223)

On my blog on my website I have several tips for writers. This week Tip # 23 is all about the Hook and the Cliffhanger. Stop by for a visit. Add your own thoughts and comments.

www.kellyabellbooks.com

Look forward to seeing you there. Join the site while you are there so you don't miss anything.

Kelly Abel

Solstice Publishing – The Turning Point in Great Fiction announces it’s call for submissions to the Celebrate The Season Contest. Send your short story entries to submissions.solstice@yahoo.com…

Here's my latest blog posting: http://lynndove.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/cobwebs-on-my-vacuum-cleaner/

Blessings,

Lynn

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Self-Publishing--Is it an option?

Coming August 20 Dawn of the shadow(The shadow series) will have five free ebook copies available. I am inviting anyone interested to Join the following website and give me a shout out for a copy. The giveaway lasts only one day so if your interested check out the book then join the site. All of this is to make way for the coming soon print release of Dawn of the shadow coming soon to Amazon.com.

Here is the site to Join plus the amazon page where the book is…

There’s an exit off of the Interstate just past Grand Island, Nebraska where there is nothing there. You get off the not very busy Interstate and there is just a long, lonely road that

goes into the deep dark night to the north and south. We made a right, heading

south, and drove for a little while until we came to a clearing next to the

road where there…

The Funny Side of Lung Cancer

Thomas Palfy

CreateSpace (June 3, 2010)

9781453685853

40 pages



The Funny Side of Lung Cancer by Thomas Palfy is part memoir and part inspirational. In the days after lung…

My daughter's story will be featured on Animal Planet's show "Monsters Inside Me" on Wednesday August 25, 10-11pm EST. The episode number is 210, Shape Shifters (unless they change it between now and then, but this is what they emailed me today).

I wrote Manisha's story in my book Children of Dreams, and to celebrate her incredibly inspirational adoption and healing from a devastating illness, I am offering a free copy of Children of Dreams on each of my websites from now until…

Why is it so difficult to publish short story anthologies. Writers have been publishing short stories for centuries, yet I'm finding publishers reluctant to publish anthologies because they claim people don't read them. Of course it's always an eye to the bottom line, especially in this economy.

Why short stories? I always loved the stories of O'Henry because the endings were so surprising. The most famous sci fi authors wrote short stories…

Every summer we have a nesting pair of birds to set up residence in the birdhouse in our backyard. For many years, it was a purple martin house, though purple martins never used it. Great crested flycatchers found it and returned year after year. We knew they had arrived when we heard them in the trees. If they thought I was watching, they would fly away. Toward the end of the summer when the babies had fledged, the squirrels…

Truly honored to have my book Lost Angel Walkabout –One Traveler’s Tales in the Book Passage Store for the Travel Writer’s Conference in Corte Madera, California,the nexus of the plexus for travel writers and photographers. Proud to say that Tim Cahill, “ America’s Best-Loved Adventure-Travel Writer” and the headliner for this event, gave me an…