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August 20, 2015
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Eight
The final week of SSS is happening now over at LCP. The prompts are two of my favorites from the entire round.
The phrase from The Gantean is “do not speak of our magic,” another Gantean expression, one that sums up the traditional Gantean relationship to magic–the Gantean Elders feel it must be preserved, kept secret, and kept safe, but they face a changing world where their magic will either die out or become known.
This image is this lovely, dark circle of standing stones and a shadowy fig...
August 13, 2015
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Seven
This is the second to last week for SSS 2 over at LCP. Don’t miss a chance to win your badge!
As always the line prompts come from my book, The Gantean. This week’s prompt, “death comes to everything,” is a Gantean expression one of theGantean Elders says to Leila, the book’s main character, to explain the necessary balance in the natural world.
I picked the image because it reminded me of Leila, who is teased and called “birdgirl” by other Ganteans because she is small.
I can wait to see wha...
August 11, 2015
Seven Questions: Charles Bane, Jr.
For my August edition of Seven Questions I welcome poet Charles Bane, Jr., the author of The Chapbook (Curbside Splendor), Love Poems (Aldrich Press), and Three Seasons: Writing Donald Hall (Collection of Houghton Library, Harvard University). He created and contributes to The Meaning Of Poetry series for The Gutenberg Project, and is a current nominee as Poet Laureate of Florida.
His latest book,The Ends Of The Earth: Collected Poems, will be released by Transcendent Zero Press in early Augu...
August 6, 2015
Summer of Super Short Stories Week Six
Week Six prompts are up overat Luminous Creatures Press. This week we head into magical territory with an evocative image and a phrase prompt straight out of The Gantean: “six crystal pillars.”
The six crystal pillars in The Gantean are huge, colored spires that are the anchor points of the hexagonal walls that gird the High Palace of Lethemia. They have lots of magical energy and mystique. Each one has a cavern garden carved into its top.
Here are the prompts. You can submit a story of up to...
August 1, 2015
August Goals
It’s the first of the month and so I find myself doing my monthly accounting of goals. Last month I set out to complete the following goals:
1) NEW WRITING: Yes, I completed this one easily. Although I didn’t get to a conclusion on ToB&L 7, I did add about 10,000 words to it, started that new story about twins, and began a new Pilates blog.
2) THE CEDNA:Check, the revision ended up being a bigger one than I thought (of course) but I finished and sent it out!
3) PROMOTE THE GANTEAN: It was oog...
July 31, 2015
Seven Questions: KT Hanna
Today I welcome author KT Hanna to answer my seven questions. I met KT on Twitter. Her book, CHAMELEON, the first in a science fiction series, comes out in a few short days on August 4th.
Here’s a bit about KT in her own words:
KT Hanna has a love for words so extreme, a single word can spark entire worlds.
Born in Australia, she met her husband in a computergame, moved to the U.S.A. and went into culture shock. Bonus? Not as many creatures specifically out to kill you.
When she’s not writi...
July 30, 2015
Pedal Zombies: New Rewards
I am offering some seriously awesome rewards for the Pedal Zombies Kickstarter.
Look for the rewards in the right hand column of the page, where my offerings are:
Signed and doodled copies of The Gantean!
A full MS edit (global, line, copy), PLUS professional grade ebook formatting for mobi and epub (this is such a deal, people)!!
One very rare passive stretching session that must be used at my Pilates studio in Fairfax, CA. I offer only about 15 of these sessions a year beyond my regular cli...
Summer of Super Short Stories, Week 5
Prompts are up forLCP’s fifth week of summer story writing fun. This week the mood shifts darker, with an image and a line prompt that evoke possible horror stories in my mind. I picked the line prompt by doing a word search for “fear” in The Gantean‘s manuscript. Then I selected a likely phrase from the many options.
Post your stories of 350 words or less in reply to this post on LCP’s site. Flash fiction marvel Nancy Chenier is judging. Here are the prompts:
“this creeping fear”
July 27, 2015
New Pilates Blog
I’m finally getting it together to make a separate Pilates blog. As of today, this WordPress site will be all about my writing, and my Pilates information (which was always very sparse) will head over to a brand new blog on tumblr, Emily’s Pilates:http://pilatesejs.tumblr.com/
Go ahead and check it out of you are interested in learning more about my Pilates life. I’ll be posting 1-2 new home exercises a week, plus other thoughts about physicality. In the photo above you see my long time clie...
July 23, 2015
Summer of Super Short Stories, Week Four
The prompt for SSS Week Four is up at LCP.You can submit stories of up to 350 words at LCPand secure a chanceto win a print copy of The Gantean.
This week Margaret Locke is judging.
The lines prompts for the contest come from The Gantean, and this week’s is:
“You have a choice”
Choice is a big theme in The Gantean— choosing one’s destiny, choosing one’s path, choosing what one will and will not believe–so I’m especially looking forward to the entries this week.
The photo prompt is very pretty...
