Winning Writers Lists Mouse, Alliteration; Mouse Reviews Requested

It’s from the January 2024 WINNING WRITERS NEWSLETTER, a useful listing of “the best free literary contests” that writers might enter each month, plus a few things more. So I’d let them know specifically about AVOID SEEING A MOUSE AND OTHER TALES OF THE REAL AND SURREAL, and a few other matters, for their Subscriber News section. And there it was, a listing with my name amongst others, and a link two paragraphs down labeled “Learn about our subscribers’ achievements and see links to samples of their work.”

So plunk the magic twanger and then, under the aegis “Recent Honors and Publication Credits for Our Subscribers,” there IT was: Congratulations to James Dorr. His story collection Avoid Seeing a Mouse: And Other Tales of the Real and Surreal will be published this month by Alien Buddha Press. In other news, his poems “The Worm in the Wood” and “The Westfarer” were included in the anthology Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival, edited by Dennis Wilson Wise and published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Visit Dorr’s website for more information about his many books.

Of course, you’ve read it here before (see January 8, et al.; and December 15 2023, et al.) but all publicity helps. And the listing has live links too under the books’ two titles, the one for MOUSE leading to its Goodreads listing, as well as the word “website” which, if pressed, will lead you back here.

So go ahead, try it. To see “Recent Honors” etc. click here. And then, if you wish, explore around WINNING WRITERS itself. The newsletter can be subscribed to free, and you may find it worthwhile.

And then one more announcement: as of last notice, two of three reviews of AVOID SEEING A MOUSE on Goodreads have also migrated to its Amazon listing. But they would like company (or, as noted above, all publicity helps — and that even includes less than five-star ratings)! So to all readers, please check the book out for yourself — it can be found on Amazon by pressing here — and consider a purchase. It’s good for gifts too and, at $12.99, it’s modestly priced. But buy, beg, or steal it (or borrow it from your quicker-to-buy friend), if you’ve read the book please consider reviewing it, even if it’s just a sentence or two, and sending it to Amazon and Goodreads both.

It would really help.