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By Mary Schwaner | Originally published on Simone’s Blog » Promotion is the part we writers are dragged into kicking and screaming. After all, we want to write, not spend our days promoting. But promoting is mandatory, whether you’re independently or traditionally published, so take a deep breath and make a plan. It won’t cost …
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FICTION | By Lisa Duchesnay » “She’s not going to win this time! No way no how.“ Angie asserted, while her silent husband Gus swallowed his exasperation with his morning coffee. She meant Diane Swanson, the mayor’s wife who’d won the first prize for the last five years, with her …
Benefits of journaling: Get your worries, problems, nagging negativity out of your head and onto paper. Externalize the negativity. Your journal can be your friend, your confidante. Your journal can be your outlet for emotions that you can’t express with anyone else. Your journal doesn’t talk back, it doesn’t judge …
By Patricia Anne McGoldrick They lay there for months untouched except for the random roaming of a red fox in search of food Those fields are hard and brittle Frozen with cold Not summer soft to the footstep No earthy smells of green alfalfa and clover No tall stalks …
This story placed second in a short story competition hosted by Wynterblue Publishing Canada. FICTION | By Audrey Austin » “Well done, Carol!” her art teacher commented. “You are very creative.” Carol slunk down in her seat. She could feel the evil eyes of her classmates but she didn’t allow the …
FICTION | Sheal Mullin Berube » The smell in here is overpowering. It permeates everything around me. It’s the smell of fear that coats another smell I can’t identify right away, with a sweet yet sickening odor. My eyes dart back and forth and I pant uncontrollably. I’m in a small …
By Patricia A. McGoldrick I am visiting Kitchener City Hall todayAnd my eyes are drawn to a mammoth work of art.Three metres by two metres, the rectangular opus beckons.The wide wooden frame with its welcoming canvas waves to meI cannot refuse the invitation but wander towards it and I see …
REVIEW | By Ann Fields, author of Fuller’s Curse » Simone Da Costa’s children’s book, “A Silly Rhyming Alphabet Book about Animals from A to Z” is a delight for children and parents. In every sense, it is an instructional book but one which is cleverly disguised as a rhyming, animal book. …
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An excerpt from the new book by P.I. Kapllani. See author’s note at end of excerpt. It was right after midnight, when the first gunshots were heard in the little town of Paramythia. Abedin Shahini turned around in his matrimonial bed and opened his eyes, but did not understand what …