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Prior Contest Winners — Flash Prose 2023

The Contest Winners Are Congratulations to all winners and honorable mentions. Being either a winner or a finalist is a great way to build your platform. Put it on your resume.  We appreciate reading your work and hope to hear more from you in future contests. In First Place is  The Grandeur of a Storm

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Fall 2023 ~~ Marketing Advice

Author Lloyd Devereux Richards of the BookTok hit Stone Maidens & the just released sequel Maidens of the Cave (Harper Collins, William Morrow imprint) Editors Note: I’m grateful for Mr. Richards’ important tip. Who do you know who makes BookTok videos? If you are a BookTok videographer, we’d love to talk with you.  Mobilize Readers

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Fall 2023~~December Writing Prompts and Writing Advice from Sol Stein & Raven Howell

“Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”   ― Mark Twain December Writing Prompts Set a timer for 20 minutes. Finish one of these sentence starts. Keep going. Go wherever the writing takes you. When the 20 minutes

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Fall 2023~~Writing Advice from Sol Stein

Flash fiction is trending. Have you given it a try? Author and editor Sol Stein offers some great tips to improve your writing below.  Pamelyn Casto shared these tips in Dave Lignell’s FlashFictionWriters@groups.io where we are both members. You can join by sending a message to the group owner FlashFictionWriters+owner@groups.io. We welcome new members. If you

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Fall 2023 –Contests and Markets

“Contests build your platform.” –Brenda Knight, Mango Publishing Group “They also build your credibility.” — B. Lynn Goodwin, Writer Advice October Contests–New Listings in November The following contests and writing opportunities have one thing in common. Their deadline is sometimes in the last half of October, 2023. Look for your genre. Click on the link.

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Fall 2023 ~~ Hooked on Contemporary Books

If you’d like to review books for us, please query with a sample of your work and your three favorite genres. If you’d like a review of your latest book, query us. We don’t take everything, but there’s no harm in asking.  “I wanted a rule book to navigate parenting race and adoption, but I

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Fall 2023 — Interviews

“I look for writing that reflects a narrator’s or character’s unique worldview communicated through specific use of senses.”    –Riham Adly Breaking Away  An interview with Riham Adly by B. Lynn Goodwin BLG: Tell us how you got interested in writing.  RA: I started writing since I was 11 as coping mechanism to help me vent

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Prior Contest Winners ~~ Flash Prose 2023

Contests help writers who are building their platform.  Congratulations to all and thank you to our judges! First Place: Butterfly Moments By Mark Holman-Lisney I stare out the rain-splattered window as conversation is difficult. She’s eaten all her chips but left the fish despite my cutting it up to encourage her. Bored with her food

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Summer of 2023 ~~ Marketing Advice

“Who will the book appeal to?”  ~~B. Lynn Goodwin   Try Groups, Reviewers, and More By B. Lynn Goodwin Of course you should write whatever you want. That goes without saying, but what if it’s not a general interest book and you’re not a well-know author? How do you market it? One way is to

Summer of 2023 — More Markets Than Contests

“Write a sentence as clean as a bone.”  ~~James Baldwin Fifteen Markets That Pay By B. Lynn Goodwin I have not submitted to most of these sites but if their requests match your writing, please give them a try. Please let us know how it goes using the contact box. What kinds of markets would