Email Connect Commercial & Double Negative
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Email Connect (EC) is not a Newsletter. I have no news. "So what do you have?" "Thanks for asking."
*A Featured Follower each month.*Gifts and Giveaways. *Short, but hopefully helpful tips for writers and readers and other humans. (Next EC has some interesting stats on ads.)
Sign up today for your chance to win a digital copy of Gadget Girl by Suzanne Kamata, my Featured Follower in November. I'm reading it now and it's good!
I've been so neglectful of my Young Adult books lately, that I thought I'd give one a bit of press. So here's . . . the Story Behind Double Negative
READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY. IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTANDING THE REST OF THE POST. BUT NO PRESSURE.
#anT t# re#d #nd #nj#y # g##d st#ry? Wh#T #f y## c##ldn#t do th#t? W##ld y## b# fr#str#t#d? #ngry? S#cr#t#v#?
You could probably figure out the message, but was it easy? Did it take a while to decipher the words, and when you did, did you forget all about meaning because you were picking through it so slowly you forgot where you were going? And what about the NO PRESSURE part? Did you ignore that?
Here's what it said: Want to read and enjoy a good story? What if you couldn’t do that? Would you be frustrated? Angry? Secretive? Maybe act out with anger?
In 2010 I stumbled on an article that said in L.A. County 33% of the residents were illiterate or low-literate. That brought me up short. Wasn’t the inability to read an emerging nation issue? An issue in back-country regions of the U.S.? I guess not!
Bryant Doughtery is definitely Hutch. Hot and naughty. Lots of potential.
That article was the beginning of Double Negative. Hutch, then Fat Nyla and Maggie slowly evolved into the characters, then came Father Kerry, Moss and Meeker. All destined to play a part in a story about a kid who can’t read well enough to get through high school, but has the heart of a winner. All he needs is a pair of glasses and someone to believe in him.
Evernight Teen"My life was going, going, gone, and I hadn't been laid yet. I couldn't go into the slammer before that happened." —Hutch McQueen.
Quote of the Week: "Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book." Anonymous
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Sliding on the Edge, C. Lee McKenzie, WestSide Books, Spring '09
The Princess of Las Pulgas, WestSide Books, Fall '10
The First Time, Fall '11 (Anthology story: Premeditated Cat)
Alligators Overhead, Outskirts Press, Fall '12
Two and Twenty Dark Tales (Anthology story: Into the Sea of Dew
Email Connect (EC) is not a Newsletter. I have no news. "So what do you have?" "Thanks for asking."
*A Featured Follower each month.*Gifts and Giveaways. *Short, but hopefully helpful tips for writers and readers and other humans. (Next EC has some interesting stats on ads.)
Sign up today for your chance to win a digital copy of Gadget Girl by Suzanne Kamata, my Featured Follower in November. I'm reading it now and it's good!
I've been so neglectful of my Young Adult books lately, that I thought I'd give one a bit of press. So here's . . . the Story Behind Double Negative
READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY. IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTANDING THE REST OF THE POST. BUT NO PRESSURE.
#anT t# re#d #nd #nj#y # g##d st#ry? Wh#T #f y## c##ldn#t do th#t? W##ld y## b# fr#str#t#d? #ngry? S#cr#t#v#?
You could probably figure out the message, but was it easy? Did it take a while to decipher the words, and when you did, did you forget all about meaning because you were picking through it so slowly you forgot where you were going? And what about the NO PRESSURE part? Did you ignore that?
Here's what it said: Want to read and enjoy a good story? What if you couldn’t do that? Would you be frustrated? Angry? Secretive? Maybe act out with anger?
In 2010 I stumbled on an article that said in L.A. County 33% of the residents were illiterate or low-literate. That brought me up short. Wasn’t the inability to read an emerging nation issue? An issue in back-country regions of the U.S.? I guess not!
Bryant Doughtery is definitely Hutch. Hot and naughty. Lots of potential.That article was the beginning of Double Negative. Hutch, then Fat Nyla and Maggie slowly evolved into the characters, then came Father Kerry, Moss and Meeker. All destined to play a part in a story about a kid who can’t read well enough to get through high school, but has the heart of a winner. All he needs is a pair of glasses and someone to believe in him.
Evernight Teen"My life was going, going, gone, and I hadn't been laid yet. I couldn't go into the slammer before that happened." —Hutch McQueen.Quote of the Week: "Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book." Anonymous
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #1d2129; -webkit-text-stroke: #1d2129} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #1d2129; -webkit-text-stroke: #1d2129; min-height: 17.0px} span.s1 {font-kerning: none} Beware the White Rabbit (Anthology: They Call Me Alice), Leap Books, Summer '15
Sliding on the Edge, C. Lee McKenzie, WestSide Books, Spring '09
The Princess of Las Pulgas, WestSide Books, Fall '10
The First Time, Fall '11 (Anthology story: Premeditated Cat)
Alligators Overhead, Outskirts Press, Fall '12
Two and Twenty Dark Tales (Anthology story: Into the Sea of Dew
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