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Apples of My Eye
What Indie author wouldn’t trade off the orchard for a coveted book award?
Still stunned, overwhelmed, thrilled, honored and humbled in gratitude—my novel, 'An Enlightening Quiche,' won 1st place for “Best Contemporary” in the 2017 Summer Indie Book Awards contest. My sincere appreciation to family and friends for your votes to make this achievement possible. Congratulations to all winners in 25 categories. To every nominee, best wishes moving forward.
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Moving forward, through continuing what I love best—writing, one apple of my eye is that of launching my next literary endeavor dedicated to my grandnephew:
'100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the 60s.'
Having finished editing, revising, and incorporating each memoir, I’m in the final round of proofreading. My cover by R.M. Designs is FAB-ulous! It won’t be long before everything is in apple-pie order for publishing both eBook and paperback formats.
Other apples of my eye to behold are the following contests I’ve recently submitted paperback copies of my novel:
The 14th Annual “Best Book” Awards in the genre of Fiction – Chick Lit/Women’s Lit. (Winners announced November 2017)
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The 2017 New Apple Book Awards for Excellence in Independent Publishing – General Fiction. (Winners announced February 15, 2018)
http://www.newappleliterary.com/
Fast approaching its first-year birthday on September 20th, my novel has achieved literary merit throughout its coming-of-age: Readers’ Favorite 5-Star Seal, ATAI Fiction Finalist, and 2017 SIBA: Best Contemporary for a story whose setting is American as apple pie.
Eva’s Byte #339 – A Clean Slate
Give or take a few days after launching my Contemporary Fiction, Etta’s Fishing Ground, I began scratching the surface on the clean slate of a blank page to fabricate my new Work in Progress.
A stickler for blurring the lines of demarcation between fact and fiction within the locale of my native state of Rhode Island, I went off on a tangent to set the stage in my prologue. Lest anyone think I’d plunk an arbitrary date to relate an incident from which my fictitious story will pivot—au contraire.
Conducive to staging reality for a backstory in 1971, I needed an Indian summer day for the seaside community of Charlestown. It also had to be on a weekend. Lo and behold—October 2, 1971 was ripe for the picking. The temperature was 85 degrees on that Saturday.
Depending upon how my electrical power holds out during the fall nor’easter, I hope to advance the prologue along the disappearing clean slate of the first page.
Whatever my imaginary characters dictate for me to make happen, the devil is in the details. I’d expect nothing less from myself.
An excerpt from a reader’s review for Etta’s Fishing Ground – “I felt the author knew many of the characters in real life and was relating what she had been told.”
*May attention to details make a world of difference in your creative endeavors.
My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
A stickler for blurring the lines of demarcation between fact and fiction within the locale of my native state of Rhode Island, I went off on a tangent to set the stage in my prologue. Lest anyone think I’d plunk an arbitrary date to relate an incident from which my fictitious story will pivot—au contraire.
Conducive to staging reality for a backstory in 1971, I needed an Indian summer day for the seaside community of Charlestown. It also had to be on a weekend. Lo and behold—October 2, 1971 was ripe for the picking. The temperature was 85 degrees on that Saturday.
Depending upon how my electrical power holds out during the fall nor’easter, I hope to advance the prologue along the disappearing clean slate of the first page.
Whatever my imaginary characters dictate for me to make happen, the devil is in the details. I’d expect nothing less from myself.
An excerpt from a reader’s review for Etta’s Fishing Ground – “I felt the author knew many of the characters in real life and was relating what she had been told.”
*May attention to details make a world of difference in your creative endeavors.
My sincere appreciation if you’ve read this far.
Eva’s Authors Den Page: https://tinyurl.com/yycm7d2w
