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Announcing the winners of the Goodreads Giveaway

I just wanted to say congratulations to the following people who won an autographed copy of Woman on the Edge of Reality:

Dreena, Margaret, Kara, Tialisa, Karla and Katey.

Your copies will be winging their way to you tomorrow from the UK. They will go out either first class or airmail and hopefully will be with you all in the next week or so (Royal Mail dependent).

I'd also like to say a big 'thank you' to everyone that participated and I'm amazed that 424 people showed up to join in - thanks everyone.

If you'd like to keep in touch send me a message and let me know, alternatively you can find me on my blog of the same name at Woman on the Edge of Reality

Linda
:-)

Novel, Short Story and Poetry Writing Competitions Update – May 2012

I’ve just added SIX new competitions to the Writing Competition Listings Page, they are:

FBT Sports Writing Competition
The Word Hut Short Story Competition
The ‘Page is Printed’ Prize
Segora Short Story 2012
The Flaneur
2012 Spilling Ink Short Story Competition

FBFT Sports Writing Competition

Please submit prose or poetry, fiction or non-fictionup to 1500 words in length and must be related to sport in some way. They would like to seesports writing that is original, exciting or somehow out of the or...

6 Copies of Autographed Book Giveaway Ends Tomorrow

My very first giveaway here on Goodreads ends tomorrow .. the book Woman on the Edge of Reality

If you would like to enter then you just have to click here goodreads.com/giveaway/show/23291-woman-on-the-edge-of-reality to do so.

I'm looking forward to who actually gets the books tomorrow.

Linda

“Loquacious” is The Weekly Word – let’s see what interesting uses we can make of our wonderful language

I’m introducing a brand new section to the blog and I’m going to call it the Weekly Word. Most of the time it will come on a Monday morning but this week it’s going to be Friday – other things got in the way this week unfortunately!

So, the plan is that I share a word of the week and people can submit the unusual, imaginative or completely accurate usage of the word in a single sentence or a paragraph.

This weeks word is LOQUACIOUS,it is an adjective pronounced’lo-kway-shus’
It means full of exc...

Friday Fictioneer’s – Torn Flesh Rendered Mute

This post is for the weekly challenge set by Madison Woods called Friday Fictioneers. The idea is that you submit a 100 word flash fiction story that is associated with the picture challenge added the previous Wednesday. You can find out more, and see the picture, on Madison’s Blog here:http://madisonwoods.wordpress.com/flash-fiction/barbed-wire-and-bulls/

Soft flesh yielded to the impact, pain slamming through the densely packed nerve endings resulted in a long, low moan of fear combined with...

“Eloquent” is The Weekly Word – let’s see what interesting uses we can make of our wonderful language

I’m introducing a brand new section to the blog and I’m going to call it the Weekly Word. Most of the time it will come on a Monday morning but this week it’s going to be Friday – other things got in the way this week unfortunately!

So, the plan is that I share a word of the week and people can submit the unusual, imaginative or completely accurate usage of the word in a single sentence or a paragraph.

This weeks word is ELOQUENT it is an adjective pronounced’e-lo-kwent’

It means to have forcefu...

The Thursday Throng – Meeting Meaghan Delahunt, award winning novelist

‘Throng’ isn.- A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

Welcome to a new section of this blog which I’m callingThe Thursday Throngin honour of the throng that waits eagerly outside the book store when a new author is doing a book signing event or appearance.

This will take the form of a ‘Meet the Author‘ online event with some information about our author’s latest book and an interview. If you would like to take part in the Thursda...

Writing Competition Updates and a Story of How Social Media can succeed

I've just added two new posts to my blog today, the first is the April Update to my writing competition calendar:

Writing Competition Update April 2012

The second is a simple story that demonstrates quite clearly just how the whole social media thing works in practice to help businesses grow. I know it's true because it was something I was involved in this very morning:

Social Media in Practice

So, here’s a personal story about how social media works in practice to give you and your business exposure

Here’s a simple story of how social media works in practice and how I found a new supplier on Facebook quite by accident.

Things to Note First:I also run a social enterprise called The Hysterectomy Association. We have a Facebook Page. I also have a public Facebook Page for me as Linda Parkinson-Hardman the author etc …. (this isn’t the same as my very private personal profile which is for close friends and family only).When I comment on the Hysterectomy Association, I use my public Facebook P...

Novel, Short Story and Poetry Writing Competitions Update – April 2012

I’ve just added THREE new competitions to the Writing Competition Listings Page, they are:

York Festival of Writing
Christmas Ghost Story Annual
May Poetry Competion

York Festival of Writing Novel Competition

Submit the synopsis and opening chapter of your novel to: Writing Magazine Festival of Writing Competition, Warners Group Publications, Fifth Floor, 32-32 Park Row, Leeds, LS1 5JD or by email to: laurnr@warnersgroup.co.uk with the subject line: Writing Magazine Festival of Writing Competition...