CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS!

Pearl Street Press, based in New Haven, CT and edited by Lisa Siedlarz and Vivian Shipley, is seeking submissions from all perspectives on the many challenges of menopause. Submit up to 3 poems (not to exceed 6 pages) and essays (not to exceed 1,000 words) for their debut publication Rising from the Ashes. Email submissions as a single Word document to PearlStPress@gmail.com. Please include a short bio. The submission deadline is January 31, 2024. There is no reading fee.

Liberty States Fictions Writers Annual Conference is March 23, 2024

Mark Your Calendar for the
13th Anniversary
Liberty States Fiction
Writers Conference
March 23, 2024

Hilton Garden Inn, Hamilton, NJ


Liberty States Fiction Writers 13th Annual Conference will feature a line-up of more published authors and industry professionals who will share their expertise and experience. Located at the Hilton Garden Inn in Hamilton, New Jersey, we offer a full day of education and networking for those who are published or want to be published. Workshops will focus on craft, business, promotion and indie-publishing. Love to write? Want to get published? Join us on March 23, 2024.

Liberty States Fiction Writers is now accepting Workshop Proposals for its 2024 Conference

We are now accepting workshop proposals for the 2024 Liberty States Fiction Writers Conference on March 23, 2024. Submit your proposals here no later than September 30, 2023. Looking for craft and industry proposals, so get them in!

Happy Pride Month!!

Happy Pride Month

To all my LBGTQ friends and to those I’ve yet to meet, Happy Pride Month! So, where’s the party?

A New Direction

I heard somewhere in order to stay fresh and current, you need to reinvent yourself every ten years. I also read awhile ago it takes ten years or 10,000 hours to become a master at anything. Well, I’ve done both–invested both the hours and the years, plus more. So now it’s time to start the reinvention. And I’m starting by writing something new and moving on from what got me to where I am now.  And that begins with my representation.

I know the search engines would like to to remain where I was but to them I’m like–sweethearts, no matter what you say I’m overruling you right here. I’ve left my long-time literary agency, and not because they’ve done me egregious, but because I’m moving in a different direction and that’s not their forte. But look, I’m grateful for all the time and effort they put into me to make me a better writer. The time wasn’t wasted because I am.

So to those agencies visiting this as I begin my search, call me on it. If you have my query letter, ask to see more. Make me prove myself. I’m up to it and anything you can toss at me.

So let’s begin.

Jersey, My Jersey

Nothing really to add, just a lovely day down the shore in Surf City (yes, there really is a town by that name) New Jersey.  A little over two months from now Memorial Day will be descending upon us, and this tranquil scene will be mobbed. Enjoy it while you can, peeps.

Beware the memes of March

Since it’s Spring Break for me this week and my brain’s on vaca, you get to suffer through these for the Ides of March. Yeah, I know it’s a repost, but when you’re good, you’re good…

HOUSATONIC BOOK AWARDS NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

For more info, click here! 

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR, AND LET’S LOSE THE ROT IN 2023!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING (TO WHOMEVER IS LISTENING!)

Thought I’d drop back in to wish you a HAPPY THANKSGIVING before I take off in my (now electric) corncob car for parts afield. So here’s to you and yours for a wonderful holiday, and hope that all your NaNoWriMo dreams come true!

Seriously Snark