Fiction Anthology
Category: Writing and Poetry

Yes, it is finally done.  My apologies for taking so long!  But here is the cover and the link.

Enjoy!

Link:  http://www.lulu.com/content/2595840

Featuring the works of:  Anna Stephens, David Byron, Kevin Lucia, Remor Sless, A. J. Kirby, Desilu Shund, Jeremiah Coe, Jennifer Brown, Cindy Rosmus, Isaiyan Morrison, Dave Rex and Jennifer L. Miller and Ryan Lacy.

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Looking for suggestions
Current mood: adored
Category: Writing and Poetry

We're always looking for suggestions, aren't we?  Gosh, we're so needy!  Well, you'll get over that in time, won't you?    Actually, we hope you won't get over helping us out when the need arises, you are all so creative!

Okay, okay I'll cut to the chase.    We're planning a quarterly magazine and would like some feedback on the idea as well as...you guessed it... Title Suggestions!!!  Yay for you!

What will this 'zine consist of?  I'm so glad you asked!  We would like to include flash fiction, short stories (they can be continuous as this will be published quarterly) articles, interviews, book reviews, high tech gadgets that help the writer, ad space for new releases, editors...I'm assuming you get the idea here.  We're also going to include two major features each issue.  One will be of an artist and will include interview, artwork (two gallery pages) contact information, the works!  The other will be of an author and consist of about the same only instead of a gallery of artwork, we'll include stories and/or excerpts from their book(s).

So, title suggestions and any other queries can be sent to WWanthologysubmissions@gmail.com for now until we set up a new email for the magazine itself.  If you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to voice them as you always do!

Thanks everyone for your support!

Mel

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Guest Blog: Writer Moms by: Karen Harrington
Category: Writing and Poetry

Karen Harrington is the author of Janeology and is our featured author this week until May 18th, so be sure to check her out in our features section!

How does she do it? Moms who write.

Just how do moms juggle carpools, make lunches, fold laundry, wash the gray hairs away - and write and publish novels? There's no mysterious formula I know except to keep working at it.

I have kids (ages 3 and 4), a house, a lawn, and dust bunnies with squatters rights. All of these things make me a better writer. I write during naptimes and after my children go to sleep. My laptop is perpetually open on the kitchen counter. Sometimes it's ignored. Sometimes it's there so I can capture a thought I want to work on later. I don't have time for the muse to appear. I just write.

Joyfully, I am not the only writer/mama to employ this practice to great effect.

Here are a few more moms who discovered that if you love to write – you just might be more prolific after procreating.

JODI PICOULT, best-selling author of twelve novels and mother of three

"I would be with kids all day long and would write until ten or eleven at night. I learned how to write quickly and efficiently, and have never had writers block. Anyone who has ever been pressed to write knows you don't have the luxury of wandering around waiting for your muse. Some days, I write pure dreck, but I can always edit that the next day. I just plough through and then go back and edit.

As soon as my kids were in school, I had daytime hours to write even though I was interrupted, taking one or the other to and from school at different times. I was writing plots on laundry tickets!

For more check out: http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/sep01/picoult.htm

MARY HIGGINS CLARK, best-selling author of twenty-four novels and mother of five

"When my children were young, I used to get up at five and write at the kitchen table until seven, when I had to get them ready for school. For me, writing is a need. It's the degree of yearning that separates the real writer from the "would-be's." Those who say "I'll write when I have time, when the kids are grown up or when I have a quiet place to work," will probably never do it."

For more check out: http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=352932&agid=8

J. K. ROWLING, best-selling author of the seven Harry Potter novels and mother to one

"I wasn't a struggling single mother all the time that I was writing the first "Harry" book. It was only during the final year of writing that I found myself poorer than I'd ever been before. Obviously, continuing to write was a bit of a logistical problem: I had to make full use of all the time that my then-baby daughter slept. This meant writing in the evenings and during nap times. Nobody knows better than I do that I was very lucky -- I didn't need money to exercise the talent I had -- all I needed was a Biro and some paper."

For more check out: http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/03/cov_31featureb.html

So all of the writer/moms out there, I salute you. Put down that laundry right now and go write your next sentence. Maybe it will be about laundry angst. Maybe it will be the first sentence of the next best-seller. You never know. And then drop me a line and share your writing practices and what works for you.

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Attention Sci-Fi Writers!!
Current mood: creative
Category: Writing and Poetry

Word Weavers Sci-Fi Anthology is coming up SOON, and I see very few submissions!

Submission Guidelines:

          Word Count:  2,500 to 6,500

          Flash will be accepted, up to three stories, as long as they combined are under the 6,500 word count.

          Double Spaced

          One Inch Margins

          No Hard Breaks (Use ***** for breaks)

          Times New Roman 12 pt. Font

          Justified

No Erotica. A little spice is nice, but full blown erotica should be saved for our Erotic Anthology.

Please include a paragraph or so about yourself along with your submission (not in the body of your email, put it at the end of your story on the last page of your document) as well as any links to you/your work and/or email address you want printed.  DO NOT include personal addresses or phone numbers!

All Authors maintain the copyrights to their submissions.

All Authors will receive a free .PDF file of the completed anthology and will be expected to help promote the works.

Deadline for our first Sci-Fi Anthology is May 31, 2008.

Email to:  wwanthologysubmissions@gmail.com

With Subject Line: Sci-Fi Anthology Submission

PLEASE follow the guidelines! It speeds the selection and editing process. Also, if you don't use the correct Email Subject Line, your email may not even be opened!!

We look forward to working with you on this exciting project!

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Attention Romance Writers!!
Current mood: creative
Category: Writing and Poetry

Word Weavers Romance Anthology is coming up SOON, and I don't see one single submission!

I've found a wonderful editor for this anthology, and she is chomping at the bit to get started reading your short stories!

Submission Guidelines:

          Word Count:  2,500 to 6,500

          Flash will be accepted, up to three stories, as long as they combined are under the 6,500 word count.

          Double Spaced

          One Inch Margins

          No Hard Breaks (Use ***** for breaks)

          Times New Roman 12 pt Font

          Justified

No Erotica. A little spice is nice, but full blown erotica should be saved for our Erotic Anthology.

Please include a paragraph or so about yourself along with your submission (not in the body of your email, put it at the end of your story on the last page of your document) as well as any links to you/your work and/or email address you want printed.  DO NOT include personal addresses or phone numbers!

All Authors maintain the copyrights to their submissions.

All Authors will receive a free .PDF file of the completed anthology and will be expected to help promote the works.

Deadline for our first Romance Anthology is June 30, 2008.

Email to:  wwanthologysubmissions@gmail.com

With Subject Line: Romance Anthology Submission

PLEASE follow the guidelines! It speeds the selection and editing process. Also, if you don't use the correct Email Subject Line, your email may not even be opened!!

We look forward to working with you on this exciting project!

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Wanted: Your questions and comments...
Current mood: working
Category: Writing and Poetry

As most of you know, we're currently working on a new website.  We're going to have lots of banner ads, list all of our trading cards like we did before as well as list our submission guidelines.

So what do we want from you?  Well I'm sure you all have had questions about us before.  Who we are, what we do...that sort of thing.  We'll be listing a FAQs page and we'd like to know what all of your questions are/were so we can answer them on our page for our newest friends and the casual wanderer.

If you have any ideas, we'd like to hear them because Word Weavers isn't about us, it's about you!  We want your links, your ideas for your own banner ads, we want your suggestions, plain and simple.  We'll show off everyone, not just the best because everything deserves a chance, right?  Right!  So give us your ideas, questions and comments here in this blog and we'll go from there.

Thanks all!  We wouldn't be Word Weavers without you!

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It’s that time....Vote for a title!
Current mood: chipper
Category: Writing and Poetry

All right, we got lots of good ideas here.  And as a side note, if you suggested a title that you were going to use for something else...if it doesn't get picked you're free to use it.  We don't want to take titles away from anyone as good titles are so hard to come up with!!  Right?

Okay, I'll shut up now and list the titles. 

Stranger Than Fiction

No Strangers To Fiction

One of a Kind (With a cover using WW trading cards)

Addiction to Fiction

Fiction Addiction

Collected Tales

Life Under the Macroscope

World From My Window

Pleasure Principle

As the Rain Falls

Of Shadow and Substance

Reign of Imagination

Etched in Sand:  Poems and Stories From Distant Lands

Okay voting will last for one week!  If you have cover art, deadline is May 5th!  Cover art only is subject to contest and the winner will be picked by moi (Mel) as I am doing this anthology.  All covers are chosen by the person in charge of the anthology so it will change.  Winner will receive their choice of a prize worth $50 or the cash.  Who doesn't want the cash??

Thanks everyone for your title contributions!  Don't forget we have a Romance Antho and Sci Fi Antho coming up as well!  You can submit to any of our anthologies at any time, just make sure to put which anthology you are submitting to or we won't know.  What, we can't read minds...sheesh!

Mel

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Jenna says, "Read this Blog!!"
Current mood: artistic
Category: Writing and Poetry

As you all know, our fiction anthology will be coming out soon. We still need:

Title Suggestions

Cover Art

and someone to write a kick as introduction

The Fiction Anthology will be the second one. It is going to take the place of last years Compilation. All genres are included, including poetry (but not erotica). Check http://www.myspace.com/anthologysubmissions blogs for submission guidelines.

We'd like to see a title that reflects that the publication is all genres of all sorts, as well as be unique and catchy.

Cover Art is usually a contest, if we chose your submitted cover art, you may have either $50 deposited in your pay pal account or a prize of the same price.

Please, Please, Please let us know your ideas for titles and cover art.

Art should be sent to: wwanthologysubmissions@gmail.com with subject headings appropriate (  FICTION COVER ART SUBMISSION )

Titles should be left here in THIS blog to help us keep track of them. Then they will be put to a vote.

Parties interested in writing the introduction should contact Jenna or Mel here or at their personal email addresses: Mel = eirdubrusai@gmail.com Jenna = jennashewolf@aol.com

THANK YOU!! WE LOVE YOU!!

Jenna ~

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Next Gen Pulp Magazine call for artists
Category: Writing and Poetry

NexGen Pulp Magazine is currently seeking illustrators & artists to grace the pages of their upcoming magazine!  You will get full illustrator credit & we'll feature you in our bulletins & blogs!

Email a sample of your work to submissions@nexgenpulp.com ASAP for consideration in the upcoming issue!

We look forward to your submissions!
NexGen Pulp Magazine
www. nexgenpulp. com

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A little pre-launch
Current mood: hopeful
Category: Web, HTML, Tech

Now, I know there are lots of things missing from the old site, but I wanted to give you all a preview of our new website.
There is a section there for you to comment and send suggestions, links you'd like to see and all sorts of stuff.  I'd love to get your feedback as well as your suggestions.

Now with that being said, I am doing a little sumtin', sumtin' for you lot.  Bear with me as I'm taking on this task alone at the moment.

Paying members:  You get a free ad banner on our website.  I'll be more than happy to set you up with one if you don't have one of your own.  Just contact me!  (Eirdubrusai@gmail.com - that's me, Mel)

Non-paying members:  We do have adspace available.  I'll discuss prices with you when you contact me.

As always, you link to us and we'll link to you.  Easy as pie, baby.  On the home page there is a box there to sign up to our Yahoo! email group.  I don't know how many of you have noticed, but we've got well over 1,180 friends on our MySpace right now and we just *KNOW* you aren't all getting your bullies.  Right?  Of course I'm right!  So, sign up, join the email group and you will get every last bit of info that we post in bulletins and blogs.  You all get email.  If you don't...what century are you living in???

We also want your news and events.  We're going to have a page just for this sort of thing so if you don't get the e-mail....wow you're quick!  Go to the website! 

Again, this is a pre-launch peek.  (Say that five times fast)  Anything that needs tweaking, let me know!  Ready?  Set!  Go!!!

www.word-weaverspublishing.com

Mel

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