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October 26, 2014
Anthology To Raise Money For Guide Dogs – An Update And A Request
This post is by way of an update on the anthology to raise money for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association (GDBA), the UK based charity which trains dogs for the blind without receiving any financial support from the government. Thus far I have received contributions from the following people:
Sue Vincent – http://scvincent.com/
Kev Cooper – http://kevs-domain.net/
Anju – http://cupitonians.wordpress.com/ and
Sally Cronin – http://smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com/
Many thanks to Sally, Kev, Anju and Sue for their contributions. Thanks also go to Dave Higgins who is editing the anthology free of charge and to everyone who has offered to provide a story, poem or other contribution. The anthology is still in need of contributions. If you can provide a poem, story or other animal (preferably dog related but it doesn’t have to be) content then please do get in touch. You can contact me by e-mail at newauthoronline (at) gmail . com (the address is rendered in this manner to try and defeat spammers).
Kevin
October 25, 2014
Fall
This is a beautiful poem and I would recommend checking out Brandy’s other poems.
Originally posted on Awkward Girl.:
Sweet fall
Come and take me away
Towards the dark womb of winter
Kill the light of summer
And chase the sun astray
Beautiful fall
Come and take me away
Towards the dark womb of November
Lay down your veil of leaves
And bless us with your shade
Blackbird
The singing of a blackbird stops me dead in my tracks. Enraptured by his music I stand wallowing in beauty.
The cloak of evening softly creeps over the land. His music continues and still I stand.
“Are you OK?” a voice, as from another world asks.
“Yes” I reply.
The magic broken I go on my way.
He, later to family perhaps,
“I saw a strange man today. He stood, head cocked, listening to I know not what”.
October 23, 2014
Beach
I see you, bare feet leaving traces in the damp sand.
Lost in beauty, you watch the gulls as they wheel and cry.
The salt sea caresses your sun kissed skin.
The birds continue to scream overhead.
The sceen overpowers, your tears mingle and are lost in the great atlantic.
In my dreams I glimpse you, a girl walking along the beach.
Voice actor looking to record flash fiction… for free!
A chance for authors to have their flash fiction recorded free of charge by a professional actor.
Originally posted on MorgEn Bailey's Writing Blog:
Hello everyone. I’ve had the following request from a Canadian voice actor who is looking to build his portfolio. If you have some flash fiction (under 1,000 words) that you would like recorded… free of charge… do let him know.
Hello,
I am a voice actor from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
I am hoping you can help me find a few flash fiction authors that would be open to having an audio production made for them for free. I am trying to flesh out my portfolio at the moment and using flash fictions seems like an effective way to hit a few genres in a short amount of time.
I have been in numerous video games and a few technical writing works, but I have yet to narrate a short story. Finding an author that is willing to have their work transformed to audio form has proved to be a harder task…
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October 21, 2014
Update to my About page
I have updated my About page to include links to my recent guest post Managing online distractions on Butterfly on a Broomstick, my author interview on Author Interviews, and my two poems Vampire and Dalliance on Calamities Press.
Visit my About page here: http://newauthoronline.com/about/
Update to Author Central page
I have at long last got around to updating my Amazon Author Page. I have added an additional photograph showing my guide dog Trigger and I outside the Roebuck pub in Richmond. I have also added a link to my Author page on amazon.com.
To visit the Author Page please click here http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B00CEECWHY
October 20, 2014
Autumn Wind
The wind gusting, mocking order, laughing at our pretentions. Our sterile lives shaken, purified by your mighty breath.
Like sand you slip through our fingers, beyond control. Certainties shaken. Life giver and destroyer. Bringer of freedom, turning the world upside down.
October 19, 2014
An Organisation Helping Support #Writers and #Authors: Please Pass On
This brought a smile to my face. I hope it makes you chuckle to. Kevin
Originally posted on Cate Russell-Cole: CommuniCATE:
Every day, one in three authors will prepare to work, just to discover that they have run out of coffee. Medically, this leads to a short-term, debilitative state known as cafea ademptus. Long term, it creates a serious cultural vacuum in literature. Beans for Books is a non-profit initiative, which aims to stop this loss by providing community awareness, prevention strategies and research into eliminating cafea ademptus.
The effects of cafea ademptus aren’t limited to physical impairment, it also causes distress and is responsible for great losses to the International literary community. For example, it is a little known fact that Mahatma Gandhi, despite the encouragement of Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy, never got to write his thriller, “Dark Nights in Natal.” Historians have linked this loss to a voluntary lack of coffee consumption. [Ref] We have to ask ourselves how many other great treasures have been lost as a result of…
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My Author Interview On Authorinterviews
Many thanks to Fiona of Authorsinterviews for publishing an interview with me on her blog. You can find my interview here (http://authorsinterviews.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/here-is-my-interview-with-kevin-morris/).
