WRITING CONTESTS + more! : Fiction | Poetry | Art | Song | Video

Poetry on the Lake 10th Competition
Poetry. Prizes: €500 for first place. 5 x €100, designer bowls.
Closes 15th May 2010

Indiana Review 2010 Poetry Prize
Poetry. Prizes: $1,000 for first place.
Closes 16th April 2010

E.M. Koeppel $1,100 Short Fiction Award
Fiction. Prizes: $1,100 for first place.
Closes 30th April 2010

Annual Tupelo Press/Crazyhorse Award
Poetry. Prizes: $3,000 for first place. Also publication and national distribution.
Closes 15th April 2010

SouthWest Writers Competition
Fiction. Prizes: Cash prizes are awarded to the top three entries in each of 14 categories. In addition, first-place winners in each category compete for the $1,000 Storyteller Award.
Closes 1st May 2010 


Face of Compassion Arts Competition
Various Media- Art - Literary - Song- Video. Prizes: $500 First Place Award. Seven $100 Second Place Awards(one for each category)
 Closes 25th May 2010

Good luck! Remember to check out the websites for the full details of entry.  The Sunday Sassy Writing Prompts are coming later on today!

Sassy
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RYSHIA KENNIE: Dogs with Booties & Researching her Historical Novels

Sadly we will soon be saying goodbye to our Author in the Spotlight, Ryshia Kennie, although her spotlight page will always be available in our archives and posted in the sidebar. To give you a flavour of what has been going on, here are a few of the questions we asked about her book research in the AR Yahoo group. First, by way of introduction, Ryshia talks about her latest book:

My first book was a historical and "Ring of Desire" was to be too and then something happened, I think the medieval background was the perfect breeding ground for a little magic - and so was born the medieval paranormal.  Here's a blurb

Whispers of an ancient magic
drew them together …

In the medieval land of Hafne, a curse has swept through the land leaving it barren and without hope. As one of the chosen, Vala watches for signs of the prophecy and with it, the owner of a ring who is destined to fight by her side and drive away the darkness. The newly arrived Norman enemy is an unnecessary complication in Hafne—and in beautiful Vala's heart.

… An unspeakable evil fights
to keep them apart.

Giles arrives with his Norman men in time to rescue a mysterious woman from a watery death. Holding Vala in his arms, the stirrings of destiny and desire begin, binding him to a prophecy of which he surely wants no part—binding him to a search for his true origins and a fight to save his soul and hers.

On Research

Charisma Knight: How long did it take for you to research your historicals? I know you travel. Do you go to libraries when you travel to create that medieval setting, making readers feel as though they are in that time frame?


Ryshia: Libraries while I travel - now you have me intrigued, I've never done that however now that the seed is planted...  For medieval information I haunted local libraries and book stores for information on the era.  Getting the flavour of the medieval period was easy as I've always loved that time and so you could say I've done a lot of pre-research before the book even came into being.  Keeping readers in the period I felt was a matter of having the medieval period true and the facts accurate.  The leeway came when the Ancients and their magic was introduced.  For the keep that is central to the story while it doesn't match many of the castles and historic sites that I have seen on my travels, I did picture some of the ruins I had seen and rebuilt it based on both my imagination and the facts and superstitions of the time.

That's pretty much my research in a nutshell for "Ring of Desire" anyway, every book is different and I must admit that the medieval period was slightly more challenging than my first book where there were still people alive to interview.  :)

Sassy: How did interviewing people for your first book help? 

Ryshia: When I researched for my first book, it was a completely different experience.  "From the Dust" was set on the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression.  Besides books, I interviewed some people who had lived through the depression.  I started out with a book of interviews from a Canadian reporter, now out of print, but a surprise find at a garage sale.  And then I turned my attention to those around me.  I'm lucky to have a few generations of relatives alive and a couple of them had lived through the depression as young adults and they had friends who had done the same.  It was so much fun and I've never met so many spry ninety year olds!!  But what stories they told - and I can't believe how positively they looked back on such a black time.

Sassy: Do you have any favourite medieval research books, you'd like to share with us?

- The Dent Atlas of British History - Martin Gilbert (this book was awesome with giving a visual map as well as timelines for major events)
 It maps Britain from 50 BC to 1994 highlighting the politics of the day.  The maps aren't detailed but you get a good overall feel  of the time. 
- Between Pit and Pedestal Women in the Middle Ages, Marty Williams and Anne Echols - While it is not centered strictly in Britain and the eras range from 1100 to 1500, it does give a  fantastic overview of women, their place in society and how many belief systems that specifically affect women came into being. 

- 1066 The Year of the Conquest - David Howarth
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles - Translated and collated by Anne Savage
- Dark Justice A history of Punishment and Torture - Karen Farrington - a history of punishment through medieval to relatively modern times - with pics which is sometimes very helpful :)

- Oxford Concise Dictionary of English Etymology

On Writing

Sassy: Do you have a set writing schedule? Or a routine of perhaps, a daily word count? or X amount of writing hours?

Ryshia: My schedule - I don't stick to any word count. On the weekdays I write for about an hour every evening and on the weekends I devote the mornings usually about four hours to writing. The weekends have been invaluable as the habit is now there. I don't think I'd feel right if I didn't get up and write on Saturday or Sunday morning. I get up early so I beat the rest of the house and by the time the house is waking up I've already got a few hours done.


Sassy note: And non-writing related because I just had to share this very cute picture of Ryshia's dog: 

 

Awwwww! The winter outfit used for double digit sub zero days! 

Thank you, Ryshia for this inside look into your world.  Your pooch is adorable. :)

Ryshia's Website

Passport to Romance BLOG

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FRIDAY FINDS: The Forever War | Joe Haldeman | SF

 

Found over at BookWanderers place! Thanks TarynWanderer! This is the first of quite a few, and the picture above is one of many reprints and nothing like the covers available here in good old rainy England! So, here they are for your amusement...

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Book Summary:

Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.

About the Author:

Joe Haldeman was born in Oklahoma in 1943 and studied physics and astronomy before serving as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and won a Purple Heart. THE FOREVER WAR was his first SF novel and it won both the HUGO and NEBULA AWARDS, a feat which THE FOREVER PEACE repeated. He is also the author of, among others, MINDBRIDGE, ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED, WORLDS APART and WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME. 

Joe Halderman  

The Forever War S.F. 

Masterworks, 1974 

Obviously plenty of people must have already read The Forever War. I have a couple of other SF books that are pretty much classics in their own right, that I want to either read or re-read (and review), so I'll find out more about them and post them next week. 

Until then, what's your Friday Find? And have you read The Forever War? If so, what did you think of it? If you've reviewed it, please feel welcome to drop your link in the comments box below and I'll pop over to read it. Thanks! 

To join in with the Friday Find, please click the picture below!

Please do go and check out TarynWanderer's blog above! You never know what else you may find...

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THURSDAY 13: Novel 1st LInes | Part 3

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27. Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.

William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist, [1971]

28. Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later.

Gena Showalter, The Darkest Night: Lords of the Underworld, [2008]

 

29. The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us. 

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine, [1895]

30. The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World.

Libba Bray, Going Bovine, [2009] My Review | My Teaser Tuesday |Book Website

 

31. Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow. 

Stephen King, Carrie, [1974] (My edition is just "Carrie"- The list of Stephen King's previous books on the inside cover amount to a measly five! LOL)

32. Last Night I dreamt I went to Manderly again. 

Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca, [1938] 

 

33. Two former loves of Molly Lane stood waiting outside the crematorium chapel with their backs to the February chill.

Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, [1998]

 

34. It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.

Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers, [1980] 

35. When Mr Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

JRR Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, [1954] 

 

36. One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. 

Franz Kavka, Metamorphosis, [1912 ]

37. It's way too early in the morning for dead people.

James Patterson and Howard Roughman, You've Been Warned, [2007]

38. The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. 

James Patterson, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, [2005]

39. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way. [Oh, c'mon - what's not to love about this?]

Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities, [1859]

  What's your Thursday 13?

Sassy

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REVIEW: Sea Captain’s Ghost | Panthera Series BK 3 | Frances Stockton | Cerridwen Press

Title: Sea Captain’s Ghost
Author: Frances Stockton
Website of Author: http://www.francesstockton.com/
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Genre: Historical Romance/Paranormal
Publication date: November 2009
ISBN -13: 9781419923647
Length: 235 pages
Format: eBook
"Sponsored" Review Copy from : Publisher

Reviewer: Clayton Clifford Bye
http://www.claytonbye.com
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Headstrong Jocelyn Kincaid has posed as her brother and captained her father’s ship down the coastline of The Colonies in hopes of saving his shipping business. Things do not turn out that way. Jocelyn’s ship, The Emerald, is captured by the pirate Skelton Reed and she is revealed as a woman. About to be put to death, she casts her thoughts away, pleading for help. And she is heard.

Captain Don Adriano De Montoya, otherwise known as El Fantasma or The Ghost, hears her thoughts and comes to her rescue. Alas, her ship is lost in the battle and with it her father’s business and her reputation. But this is only the beginning of her problems...

Adriano Montoya is an Abcynian, part of a race of long-lived shapeshifters. In using some of he and his crew’s special abilities to rescue and heal Jocelyn, Adriano turns her into a half-breed. It also turns out that the reason he heard Jocelyn’s plea (and she heard his own prayer for redemption earlier in the day) is that they are natural mates, considered automatically married upon sharing thoughts.

The rest of the story revolves around Adriano’s pursuit of his nemesis, the man responsible for the death of his mother and his first wife. His desire for revenge eventually separates him from his new lover, placing her in great danger and causing him to reconsider what’s really important to him.

Sea Captain’s Ghost should be a joy for readers of historical romance and for those who like swashbucklers. Frances Stockton develops interesting characters, mixes solid story with steamy sex and adds just enough conflict to keep you turning pages. Her descriptions are vivid and the writing, in general, doesn’t get in the way of the reader.

There is very little to criticize with respect to Sea Captain’s Ghost: Stockton drops the reader right into the middle of conflict & action (a good thing), but not having read the previous two books in the series, I floundered during the first few pages. I also found the repetition of the words roar, roared, etc. early on in the book, somewhat irritating. There were also a few spelling errors near the end of the book.

I quite enjoyed the read.


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REVIEW: Going Bovine | Libba Bray | Random House

Title: Going Bovine Review
Author: Libba Bray
Visit Libba Bray's fantastic site - it's so cool!
Publisher: Delacorte Press/ Random House
Length: 480 pages
Format: Hardback
Reviewer: Sassy Brit
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Ever since Cameron was a child and had a near death experience he has never fitted in. Maybe it has something to do with his too-cool-for-school twin sister, one of the elite popular gang overshadowing his yet-to-be-revealed uniqueness? Maybe it's the funny shakes and temporary loss of the use of his limbs which makes him stand out from the crowd as odd? Maybe he's just an unpopular dope smoking, sixteen year old kid who loves his music and likes to swear a lot? A normal teenager, in other words. Sadly it's none of those things, which a trip to the hospital reveals. The reason he's been having problems lately is that he is Going Bovine. Somewhere he has caught BSE (mad cow disease) which will literally drive him mad and kill him if a cure is not found. And there isn't one.

Unless a pink-haired, boot wearing angel called Dulcie comes to you in your deluded dreams with a message that there is someone, a mysterious Dr. X, who can save you. This happens to Cameron and all he has to do is enlist help from his hospital roommate, Gonzo, and go on a road trip to find Dr. X to receive his cure. Easy when you know how, huh? Not quite. Dr. X is a little hard to find since he's into time travel and mistakenly left a crack in the wormhole and let something evil in. Something that will destroy not just Cameron and his chances of survival, but the whole damn universe. And they're hot, fiery, big fella's too!

"Omigod! This is SO cool!" Okay, I'm acting like one of the character's here, but it is the truth! How the author, Libba Bray, blends a story of a young boy suffering from a deadly serious mind degenerating disease, with Gonzo, a comedic hypochondriac dwarf, a warrior garden gnome named Balder, and a school project called Shithenge, I will never understand - but boy, does it work for me! [Does the happy dance!]

This is hugely funny, with characters that have individual, lovable voices, and a real purpose for doing what they do best – which really amounts to entertaining us. Oh, sorry, that's the author's job, but shush, don't tell her, I didn't even know she was there! These characters swept me away on their Ringhorn and I still don't think I've come back yet. Grumpy garden gnomes with attitude don't usually have me in tears. Neither do inhaler wielding dwarves with overprotective, and overbearing mothers and especially not sixteen year-old-boys who are into music, nervous about their appearance, and worried about dying a virgin, like Cameron. But this group of funsters, ganged up on me and I didn't get to speak or see my family for a few days until they'd finished with me. They even dressed me up in a pink dress and took photos of me in exotic places. Just read it, and it will all become clear.

Nothing is what it seems, yet everything fits in a totally random way. Honest, it truly does! From the Wizard of Reckoning, StephenfreakingHawkin and The Theory of Everything and A Little Bit More, Copenhagen Interpretation, the United Snow Globe Wholesalers bounty hunters, and the Church of Everlasting Satisfaction and Snack 'N' Bowl (CESSNAB) revolution; where nobody wants or waits for anything and satisfaction is served with a zombie smile. This might sound all a bit random, but like Dulcie says, everything is indeed connected, in seemingly random ways - just like this book and the way it all comes together at the end. "Read it and weep, Dude!" You might die laughing, but it will be worth it. Totally refreshing, and even better than microwave popcorn!

Meanwhile you can check out yesterday's Teaser Tuesday if you missed it. I used a tease from this book. Click here for the Going Bovine Teaser Tuesday! More details can be found there too, including Libba Bray's YouTubeVideo.

Sassy
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P.S. I tried to keep this review to a decent "shortish" length, but there was so much in this book I wanted to share with you. I didn't even mention The Great Tremelo


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	The Mythmakers by Robert Appleton Genre: Romantic SciFi-Futuristic, Fantasy-SciFi ISBN: 978-1-60504-906-9 Length: Novella Price: 3.50 Get it right now for 3.15! Cover art by Kanaxa The last will and testament of a forgotten Earth...
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TEASER TUESDAY: Going Bovine? Libba Bray is!

This week's Teaser Tuesday;

On the way back to the cab, Balder gives one last look at the cul-de-sac - the weedy yard, the rock garden littered with butts, the cars lining the block like conformity guards. He gives a small wave, and I think maybe he'll miss this place after all, but then his fingers slowly bend till only the middle one's left standing.

Going Bovine
Libba Bray
Delacorte Press
Pg260

I am interviewing Libba Bray, so watch this space! Well, not actually *this space* but you know what I mean. :) Meanwhile, watch THIS SPACE below :

Visit Libba Bray's fantastic site - it's so cool!

 

Teaser Tuesday, a blog meme hosted by MizB on Should Be Reading.

 

What's your Teaser Tueday?
Sassy
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IS YOUR NAME HERE? Bill Walker Giveaway Winner...

Good morning! It's my pleasure to announce the winner of Bill Walker's (print) book, A Note From an Old Acquaintance. Thank you to both Bill and Pump Up Your Book Promotion, for this opportunity.

[One moment - Steps out for a bit - comes back]

Okay, so I've just moseyed on down to Random.Org and picked a winning number! And the powers that be have said the winner is...

Congratulations!

tweezle!

Woot!

 - please respond to my email as soon as you can, and I'll forward your details onto Bill Walker. Thank you! 

If you review it, do drop by and leave the link, I'd love to know what you think of this book. I haven't read it - pout! Also, thank you Eleni, for leaving your link to your review of this book, and your interview with Bill Walker. Much appreciated, sweetie-chops!

Sassy

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