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December 17, 2012
In God's Hands You Go - Original Song by 13 year-old Lacee Jenkins
By Cindy R. Williams
This blog is all about writers. This includes music writing as well.
This is incredible. The young lady in this video is one of my guitar students. In her lesson last week I asked her to write a Christmas song, and then the horrible tragedy happened at the Elementary School Friday, December 14, 2012. Lacee wrote this. She is just that amazing.
Her mother told me Lacee's heart was aching for the children and their families. Her little brother is in kindergarten so it hit home. This song can bring great comfort. I hope it reaches those left behind with broken hearts.
This is really worth three minutes to have your heart strings played.
May we all be a little more kind and hold our loved ones close this Season.
Merry Christmas to all and peace to your hearts.
November 7, 2012
SPINSTER'S FOLLY, Marsha Ward's Long Awaited 4th Book of the Owen Family Saga Is Finally Here!
Author and friend, Marsha Ward, is hosting a celebration for her fourth book of The Owen Family Saga. SPINSTER'S FOLLYIt is ready to venture out into the wide world on November 10, 2012.*You can join the fun by clicking herehttps://www.facebook.com/events/333393153425853/336142156484286/
Here is some information directly from Marsha. Are you excited? Ready to dive into another world? Eager to stay up all night to read a suspenseful tale peopled by the Owen Family and their neighbors, and perhaps a few vecinos, too? (For those among us who speak only English, vecinos are also neighbors, but they mostly speak Spanish.) Here's a little description to whet your appetite even more: "Marie Owen yearns for a loving husband, but Colorado Territory is long on rough characters and short on fitting suitors, so a future of spinsterhood seems more likely than wedded bliss. "Her best friend says cowboy Bill Henry is a likely candidate, but Marie knows her class-conscious father would not allow such a pairing. When she challenges her father to find her a suitable husband before she becomes a spinster, he arranges a match with a neighbor's son. Then Marie discovers Tom Morgan would be an unloving, abusive mate and his mother holds a grudge against the Owen family. "Marie's mounting despair at the prospect of being trapped in such a dismal marriage drives her into the arms of a sweet-talking predator, landing her in unimaginable dangers." Whew! Prizes available at the Release will include several print books from other authors, and yes, ebook and print copies of Spinster's Folly! I can hardly wait!* (Foul Weather Contingency Plan: If I get knocked off the grid on Saturday due to a heavy storm due to arrive here on Saturday, we'll have the party on November 17. In that case, go search on Amazon and smashwords.com under my name, Marsha Ward, for ebook copies of Spinster's Folly. I won't hold off on releasing the book if it storms. I'll just do the celebrating a tad bit later.)
November 4, 2012
American Night Writers Association Writers Conference 2013- TIME OUT FOR WRITERS
Announcing the Premier Writing Conference of the year ANWA Writers Conference February 21 - 23, 2013at the Hilton Hotel in Mesa, Arizona
Faculty two full days with industry professionals including: agents, editors and many authors, local and national.
This writers conference caters to beginning writers as well as advanced, men, women, youth, all nationalities and faiths.
There are opportunities offered to pitch your work to well known literary agencies.
Author book signings and sales.
Enter the BOB contest (Beginning of Book)
REGISTER HERE Brought to you by ANWA - American Night Writers Association. For more information and to sign up see www.anwa-lds.com
October 29, 2012
No Holly For Christmas by Julie N. Ford
Hi Writers Mirror Readers,
Here is the blogging info received for a new release titled "No Holly for Christmas."
No Holly for Christmas is a women’s fiction/romance with elements of suspense. It’s the second novel by fiction author Julie N. Ford, a talented new writer who had three novels released in 2011, including No Holly for Christmas and the Whitney Award nominated, Count Down to Love. Visit her website at JulieNFord.com. Synopsis:No Holly for Christmas Widowed, practically penniless, and reduced to shopping at WalMart, Holly is dreading the approaching Holiday Season. However, her angst isn’t due to her husband’s untimely death the previous December 25th, but because of a secret that could reveal itself unless she can find a way to avoid the coming Christmas. As Brian McAlister struggles to move past being jilted not once, but twice by the only woman he’s ever loved, he’s all but given up on relationships. Then, on special assignment for the DA’s office, he crosses paths with ex-socialite turned social worker, Holly Cavanaugh Winter—and romance blossoms. Love at first sight quickly turns frigid for ADA, Brian McAlister, and social worker, Holly Winter, when Holly gets pulled into a manhunt for an accused murderer who now has his sights set on her. His case unraveling, Brian finds himself tasked with keeping Holly and her two daughters safe while bringing an assassin and the powerful man who hired him to justice. A heart-warming story of suspense, healing, giving and receiving, No Holly for Christmas is the perfect addition to everyone’s holiday reading list. There is a book bash and give-away. Send email to: bloggers@vbooktours.com A few comments about "No Holly for Christmas" from Writers Mirror."It is evident that Ms. Ford knows how to write characters that are supposed to likable inspite of their flaws. She also knows how to write the bad guys, bad enough to scare you.
Bridget, Holly's little girl, was particularly adorable. She jumped off the page with her endearing banter.
Although Holly began as quite a snob, her character arch brought her the understanding of what is really important in life. Brian, the other protagonist, seemed like quite a hunk, although his views of life in general were on a different plane.
There were a few uncomfortable swings taken at conservative Bible believing people for not accepting the morality views of world. A character with an alternate life style voiced her opinion that her sister, with higher standards than the general populous, was self-righteous.
Ms. Ford takes the reader on a journey where characters do some serious soul searching in order to make a better life for themselves and those around them.
September 15, 2012
A Few Great Quotes
Masterpieces are not written, they are edited.James Owen - Author
Don't cry because it's is over. Smile because it happened.Dr. Seuss
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
Don't cry because it's is over. Smile because it happened.Dr. Seuss
All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.Walt Disney
August 31, 2012
What a Ride!
by Cindy R. Williams
My last blog two weeks ago was a detailed walk through what I consider one of the greatest horrors to a writer . . . the crash of your hard drive on your the most critical writing tool, the revered lap top.
If you read that post, you know that after several long days of panic as I worked to capture all my files and emails, it all came together. Note after all my many hours of working with Sony, my talented 22 year old nephew showed up at my house. He just happens to be a computer genius and was able to pull things out of my hard drive that other companies bid at $900 - $3,500. Thanks to Yuri Burkinshaw, said nephew, I have recovered EVERYTHING! Everyone needs a Yuri Burkinshaw. What an amazing young man.
This week brought another challenge, as life will right? On Monday afternoon, my husband came home early from work. That's not the challenge, although, it is quite unusual. He said he felt he needed to be home. Then at 3:55 pm, just like flipping a switch, the right side of my abdomen and back started screaming --it might have been me doing the screaming. I know the exact time because I teach guitar, piano and harp, and my next student was due to arrive at 4. Two of my sons were home from school and while my husband rushed me to the ER my sons contacted the rest of my students to cancel music lessons for the rest of the week.
I won't go into detail about my enforced hospital vacation and surgery over the next four days. Suffice it to say that I am the proud mother of a kidney stone named Isaac, after the hurricane.
As I lived every slow motion painful minute this week, I prayed and often. I received more peace and comfort from prayer than I did from any medicine. Feeding my spirit became more important than feeding my body.
My lament over my computer hard drive crashing two weeks ago paled compared to this new adventure. I wonder what the next two weeks will bring before I post again.
My last blog two weeks ago was a detailed walk through what I consider one of the greatest horrors to a writer . . . the crash of your hard drive on your the most critical writing tool, the revered lap top.
If you read that post, you know that after several long days of panic as I worked to capture all my files and emails, it all came together. Note after all my many hours of working with Sony, my talented 22 year old nephew showed up at my house. He just happens to be a computer genius and was able to pull things out of my hard drive that other companies bid at $900 - $3,500. Thanks to Yuri Burkinshaw, said nephew, I have recovered EVERYTHING! Everyone needs a Yuri Burkinshaw. What an amazing young man.
This week brought another challenge, as life will right? On Monday afternoon, my husband came home early from work. That's not the challenge, although, it is quite unusual. He said he felt he needed to be home. Then at 3:55 pm, just like flipping a switch, the right side of my abdomen and back started screaming --it might have been me doing the screaming. I know the exact time because I teach guitar, piano and harp, and my next student was due to arrive at 4. Two of my sons were home from school and while my husband rushed me to the ER my sons contacted the rest of my students to cancel music lessons for the rest of the week.
I won't go into detail about my enforced hospital vacation and surgery over the next four days. Suffice it to say that I am the proud mother of a kidney stone named Isaac, after the hurricane.
As I lived every slow motion painful minute this week, I prayed and often. I received more peace and comfort from prayer than I did from any medicine. Feeding my spirit became more important than feeding my body.
My lament over my computer hard drive crashing two weeks ago paled compared to this new adventure. I wonder what the next two weeks will bring before I post again.
August 18, 2012
A Writers Nightmare
by Cindy R. Williams
The tools of a writer used to be pencil or pen and paper. Simpler times, yes, but I find hand writing messy and disorganized since you can't delete, copy, cut and paste with just a touch of your finger tip. On paper you have to shuffle papers, cross out, circle and draw arrows, or cut the paper and tape paragraphs here and there. I like order too much, so this makes me crazy, although I do keep notebooks everywhere to jot ideas down as the pop into my head.
The most current tool of a writer today is, of course, the computer. We not only use computers to type our stories on, but as Internet research along with email others for information. Then we use the computer as our storage facility for our working stories and our completed babies. We won't even venture into the marketing ability of computers. That's another blog.
However, these wonderful, convenient and ingenious computers have a HUGE black whole.
The hard drive crashes.
If you've been a victim of a hard drive crash, you know exactly what chaos this causes. If you're not prepared, you could lose your entire book, years and years of work.
This week was my THIRD crash of my hard drive in five years --three different lap tops, three crashes.
I could have kept the computers and purchased a new hard drive to the tune of $430, along with a $50 replacement disc plus a $200 battery (the old battery has worn out and only holds a 10 minute charge.) But, now I'm up to $780 to repair my computer.
Or . . . I can purchase a new computer for around $600 with all the bells and whistles and the new technology and most current *Word System.
I did my research, and ordered a . . . drum roll please ############
sea shell pink *- - - - , - - - - E 15.5" screen E Series. It weighs five pounds and is amazing. I think the pretty pink color will inspire my muse. Plus, I'm the only girl left in the house--three sons at home, my darling dear, two gigantic boy gold fishies, and two goofy boy doggies. None of them will try to steal my PINK computer.
I now give an EXTREMELY DIRE WARNING: PLEASE USE AN OFF-SITE BACK-UP SYSTEM!
Sure, go ahead and use flash drives, but remember, flash drives are easily damaged and sometimes fail. What if there's a house fire? One of my good friends copied her novel to a flash drive then put it in a safe place . . . so safe, she can't find it.
You can also email your stories as attachments to a friend. But, now you have to rely on them to create a file and guard your WIP's, and you have to do this often because if your computer crashes, you will have to back to what you last sent them. Also consider that their computer can crash.
You can email your stories and novels to yourself. Again, you must do this on a weekly schedule if you write often so that you will have your recent work to fall back on.
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR COMPUTER IS CRASHING?
Sometimes you hear grinding of the mysterious innards, not me though. I was forewarned in each of my three computer crashes by the dreaded "blue screen of death." Your computer shuts down on its own and then when it restarts, a blue screen appears with white text that tells about checking this and that. You can still work for awhile, but the shut downs and blue screen appearances get more frequent.
My first computer crash, I had adhered to the practice of emailing stories often to my husband on his office computer so I had a back up.
Before my second crash, I had become complacent, feeling that hard drives crashing were much like lighting strikes, I had been hit once, so I was now safe. Not so. It cost $500 to have a professional service pull my files out of the dead hard drive plus the cost of a new lap top.
This third time, the blue screen of death warned me and I acted. First I contacted my lap top technical service and we tried an online patch. It not only didn't work, but gave the error code 332 - which translated means "hard drive failure." So I contacted a company that extracts files from dead hard drives. The rates have gone up. They wanted from $900 to $3,500, depending on how many pictures and files I needed rescuing. After I picked my mouth and stomach off the floor, I chose to spend the day trying to salvage what I could. I emailed all my files to my hotmail.com, live.com and my husband's office computer once again. I also purchased a 64 GB flash drive for $40 and downloaded all my files and 4,000 pictures. I could have downloaded all of these things in about an hour and half if my computer had been functioning properly. I was actually very lucky that I could get my computer to work for two or three minutes at a time, because it was just enough time to email a group of files before crashing again. This went on for a solid 12 hours, much like labor pains, when my computer finally TOTALLY DIED. I'm lucky once again. I have ALL my files.
Not so lucky about my emails though. I had all my son's two years of mission emails saved in one of my emails. They are GONE as are all the pictures he emailed me. I'll call *email company and see if they can hook me up with their back-up system to retrieve them. If not, my son has the pictures on disc, and I have three binders with all of his emails I printed out each week.
I will now be without a computer for TWO WEEKS. Thank goodness my two college sons have computers along with my husband so I can at least get my three articles written and turned in for the * newpaper I write for, but my writing will be on hold.
This is killing me. I write everyday. I am more of a "pantser" than a plotter (Scottsdale writer, Larry Brooks, would scold me for sure.) However for this next two weeks, I will be a model student and plot. I have several story not written for my Seven Scary Stories book - you know, scary campfire like stories. I'll plot the other three out. I'll plot my latest MG fantasy adventure.
I'm putting this in writing . . . I WILL NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN. I have researched and am going to set up a back up plan with *- - - - -.
PLEASE, MY WRITER FRIENDS, BACK UP YOUR FILES AND PICTURES. Don't let this happen to you.
*I was just warned not include commercial messages, so I can't write company names here. Email me if you would like to know.
The tools of a writer used to be pencil or pen and paper. Simpler times, yes, but I find hand writing messy and disorganized since you can't delete, copy, cut and paste with just a touch of your finger tip. On paper you have to shuffle papers, cross out, circle and draw arrows, or cut the paper and tape paragraphs here and there. I like order too much, so this makes me crazy, although I do keep notebooks everywhere to jot ideas down as the pop into my head.
The most current tool of a writer today is, of course, the computer. We not only use computers to type our stories on, but as Internet research along with email others for information. Then we use the computer as our storage facility for our working stories and our completed babies. We won't even venture into the marketing ability of computers. That's another blog.
However, these wonderful, convenient and ingenious computers have a HUGE black whole.
The hard drive crashes.
If you've been a victim of a hard drive crash, you know exactly what chaos this causes. If you're not prepared, you could lose your entire book, years and years of work.
This week was my THIRD crash of my hard drive in five years --three different lap tops, three crashes.
I could have kept the computers and purchased a new hard drive to the tune of $430, along with a $50 replacement disc plus a $200 battery (the old battery has worn out and only holds a 10 minute charge.) But, now I'm up to $780 to repair my computer.
Or . . . I can purchase a new computer for around $600 with all the bells and whistles and the new technology and most current *Word System.
I did my research, and ordered a . . . drum roll please ############
sea shell pink *- - - - , - - - - E 15.5" screen E Series. It weighs five pounds and is amazing. I think the pretty pink color will inspire my muse. Plus, I'm the only girl left in the house--three sons at home, my darling dear, two gigantic boy gold fishies, and two goofy boy doggies. None of them will try to steal my PINK computer.
I now give an EXTREMELY DIRE WARNING: PLEASE USE AN OFF-SITE BACK-UP SYSTEM!
Sure, go ahead and use flash drives, but remember, flash drives are easily damaged and sometimes fail. What if there's a house fire? One of my good friends copied her novel to a flash drive then put it in a safe place . . . so safe, she can't find it.
You can also email your stories as attachments to a friend. But, now you have to rely on them to create a file and guard your WIP's, and you have to do this often because if your computer crashes, you will have to back to what you last sent them. Also consider that their computer can crash.
You can email your stories and novels to yourself. Again, you must do this on a weekly schedule if you write often so that you will have your recent work to fall back on.
HOW DO YOU KNOW YOUR COMPUTER IS CRASHING?
Sometimes you hear grinding of the mysterious innards, not me though. I was forewarned in each of my three computer crashes by the dreaded "blue screen of death." Your computer shuts down on its own and then when it restarts, a blue screen appears with white text that tells about checking this and that. You can still work for awhile, but the shut downs and blue screen appearances get more frequent.
My first computer crash, I had adhered to the practice of emailing stories often to my husband on his office computer so I had a back up.
Before my second crash, I had become complacent, feeling that hard drives crashing were much like lighting strikes, I had been hit once, so I was now safe. Not so. It cost $500 to have a professional service pull my files out of the dead hard drive plus the cost of a new lap top.
This third time, the blue screen of death warned me and I acted. First I contacted my lap top technical service and we tried an online patch. It not only didn't work, but gave the error code 332 - which translated means "hard drive failure." So I contacted a company that extracts files from dead hard drives. The rates have gone up. They wanted from $900 to $3,500, depending on how many pictures and files I needed rescuing. After I picked my mouth and stomach off the floor, I chose to spend the day trying to salvage what I could. I emailed all my files to my hotmail.com, live.com and my husband's office computer once again. I also purchased a 64 GB flash drive for $40 and downloaded all my files and 4,000 pictures. I could have downloaded all of these things in about an hour and half if my computer had been functioning properly. I was actually very lucky that I could get my computer to work for two or three minutes at a time, because it was just enough time to email a group of files before crashing again. This went on for a solid 12 hours, much like labor pains, when my computer finally TOTALLY DIED. I'm lucky once again. I have ALL my files.
Not so lucky about my emails though. I had all my son's two years of mission emails saved in one of my emails. They are GONE as are all the pictures he emailed me. I'll call *email company and see if they can hook me up with their back-up system to retrieve them. If not, my son has the pictures on disc, and I have three binders with all of his emails I printed out each week.
I will now be without a computer for TWO WEEKS. Thank goodness my two college sons have computers along with my husband so I can at least get my three articles written and turned in for the * newpaper I write for, but my writing will be on hold.
This is killing me. I write everyday. I am more of a "pantser" than a plotter (Scottsdale writer, Larry Brooks, would scold me for sure.) However for this next two weeks, I will be a model student and plot. I have several story not written for my Seven Scary Stories book - you know, scary campfire like stories. I'll plot the other three out. I'll plot my latest MG fantasy adventure.
I'm putting this in writing . . . I WILL NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN. I have researched and am going to set up a back up plan with *- - - - -.
PLEASE, MY WRITER FRIENDS, BACK UP YOUR FILES AND PICTURES. Don't let this happen to you.
*I was just warned not include commercial messages, so I can't write company names here. Email me if you would like to know.
July 7, 2012
Ray Bradbury - A Great Inspiration!
By Cindy R. Williams
(Also posted on ANWA Founder and Friends Blog)
One of my favorite authors, Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5, at the transit of Venus. He was 91 years old.
If you are Ray Bradbuy fan, that will make sense to you.
If you don't know his books, you probably know the hit TV series based on his works - Star Trek.
Many I know are "Trekies" including myself.
I don't know too many facts about the man's personal life other than the only person he ever dated became his wife and they had four daughters. He won a Pulitzer. He wrote many, many books and seemed to be nice fellow.
I do know he said some inspiring things about writing.
Here are a few:
“I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.”
"If you don't like what your doing, then don't do it.""My stories run up and bite me on the leg- I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off."" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a compolete ecucations for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thoughsand stories.""I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me." “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
"Remember: Plot is more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations."
My favorite line of all time from Star Trek is said with two fingers, pointer and tall man, split in a "V" . . . "Live long and prosper."
(Also posted on ANWA Founder and Friends Blog)
One of my favorite authors, Ray Bradbury passed away on June 5, at the transit of Venus. He was 91 years old.If you are Ray Bradbuy fan, that will make sense to you.
If you don't know his books, you probably know the hit TV series based on his works - Star Trek.
Many I know are "Trekies" including myself.I don't know too many facts about the man's personal life other than the only person he ever dated became his wife and they had four daughters. He won a Pulitzer. He wrote many, many books and seemed to be nice fellow.
I do know he said some inspiring things about writing.
Here are a few:
“I don’t believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously.”
"If you don't like what your doing, then don't do it.""My stories run up and bite me on the leg- I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off."" I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a compolete ecucations for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thoughsand stories.""I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me." “Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.”
"Remember: Plot is more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations."
My favorite line of all time from Star Trek is said with two fingers, pointer and tall man, split in a "V" . . . "Live long and prosper."
July 4, 2012
Open letter from FIREFLY- A Hot New Musical Group With Incredible Talent
Dear Family and Friends, We are seriously so excited about the opportunity to write and record with Grammy Award winning producer Chad Carlson and engineer Mills Logan in Nashville this summer!
To fund the project we have launched Kickstarter campaign..we have just 30 days to meet our goal... SO, if you have a moment today please...
Visit Kickstarter (see the link below) and watch our video (not pro, but with clips and pictures from our journey)
Pre buy your cds and other fun stuff Post on Facebook and email your friends--inviting them to light up their summer too with Firefly!! Visit the Kickstarter site often to see how close we to reaching our goal!!
We have learned so much over the past 4 years—and feel so incredibly thankful for YOU!! We could not have come this far without your support.
Love and gratitude,
Melanie, McKenzie, and Madelyn
Firefly
Here's the link to the Kickstart project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2115403863/firefly-debut-album < http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2115403863/firefly-debut-album >
http://iheartfirefly.com
Firefly
PO Box 9158
Chandler Heights, AZ 85127
Management and Booking
gaylene@iheartfirefly.com
602-570-5727
480-455-7503
Note from Writers Mirror The staff of Writers Mirror has spent time with the three Marchant sisters and their family. Several hours were spent watching them rehease and create a new song. A word Cindy suggested was actually used in one of their new songs. Not a big deal, but fun anyway. These three sisters are amazing. Their voices blend as only siblings voices can. Their harmonies are tight. They are lovely with gifted voices and incredible talent on many different musical instruments. Follow them to the stars!
July 2, 2012
Writing Contest - Deadline: Midnight August 15, 2012
"Courage to Thrive"
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Submission Guidelines:
1.) A Separate Cover Sheet for each entry
should include:
a) Full Name and Date of Birth
b) Email address and Phone Number
c) TITLE (IN ALL CAPS PLEASE)
d) Indicate the category you are submitting to
Accepting all topics including cancer:
*Women's Fiction/Chic Lit / Romance*General Fiction / Mystery / Westerns / Suspense /
Thriller*Science Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal *Young
Adult General / Speculative / Dystopian *Non-Fiction /
Inspirational / How to / Editorials *Memoirs / Essays / Biographies
*Poetry / Lyrics*Non-Fiction Children's Picture Books – Middle Grade
*Children's Literature - Fiction (Picture Books - Middle Grade)
2.)Manuscript to be submitted separate as a Word or RTF document either
via e-mail at writersunitetofightcancer@gmail.com
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or
snail-mail to:
Writers Unite to Fight Cancer Charity
Writing Contest
1146 N. Mesa Dr. #102-233
Mesa, AZ 85201.
3.)All contestants must be eighteen (18) years of age.
4.) All Entries must be received by midnight August 15 th, 2012.
5.) Do not mention your name on the manuscript portion. Use double space
formatting with 1 inch margins and number the pages. Place Title on the
left side of header and page # on the right side of every page.
6.) Submit only 4000 words. Entries exceeding this limit will be
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Submission Guidelines:
1.) A Separate Cover Sheet for each entry
should include:
a) Full Name and Date of Birth
b) Email address and Phone Number
c) TITLE (IN ALL CAPS PLEASE)
d) Indicate the category you are submitting to
Accepting all topics including cancer:
*Women's Fiction/Chic Lit / Romance*General Fiction / Mystery / Westerns / Suspense /
Thriller*Science Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal *Young
Adult General / Speculative / Dystopian *Non-Fiction /
Inspirational / How to / Editorials *Memoirs / Essays / Biographies
*Poetry / Lyrics*Non-Fiction Children's Picture Books – Middle Grade
*Children's Literature - Fiction (Picture Books - Middle Grade)
2.)Manuscript to be submitted separate as a Word or RTF document either
via e-mail at writersunitetofightcancer@gmail.com
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANWABulletin/writersunitetofightcancer@gm\
ail.com>
or
snail-mail to:
Writers Unite to Fight Cancer Charity
Writing Contest
1146 N. Mesa Dr. #102-233
Mesa, AZ 85201.
3.)All contestants must be eighteen (18) years of age.
4.) All Entries must be received by midnight August 15 th, 2012.
5.) Do not mention your name on the manuscript portion. Use double space
formatting with 1 inch margins and number the pages. Place Title on the
left side of header and page # on the right side of every page.
6.) Submit only 4000 words. Entries exceeding this limit will be
disqualified.
7.) Sponsor reserves the right to combine categories due to
insufficient numbers.
8.) Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any entry with lewd, obscene or other inappropriate content. We will not read / judge erotica or horror.
9.) Pay the $30.00 entry fee on-line using PayPal on the web page OR send in your check with your manuscript
via snail-mail. Returned checks automatically disqualify the entry.ï‚· Winning contestants must be willing to work with WUFC editors to prepare their project for publication in the WUFC Writing Contest Anthology.ï‚· Contestants may submit as many entries in any or all categories.
Each entry is $30.00 which will be donated to the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center.ï‚·
Contact for Questions:
Margaret L. Turley
WUFC Administrator
480-586-7902 cell /480-773-7087 phone
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