In case someone wants to take part.

This was sent to me by Carolyn Howard-Johnson. I'm not a cover artist, but in case someone reading this is, I'm passing it along.

M E D I A R E L E A S E



CONTACT: Carolyn Howard-Johnson e-mail: HoJoNews@aol.com
CONTACT: Magdalena Ball e-mail: maggieball@compulsivereader.com

For Immediate Release

Award-Winning Poets Seek Artwork for New Chapbook

World Wide Web-- Poetry Partners Seek Artwork for Fifth Chapbook

It's been said (quite a few times!) that a picture is worth a thousand words. Even though Magdalena Ball and I are poets, we think the original author may have underestimated, and we'd like you--if you're a painter or a photographer--to prove us wrong.

We are the coauthors of the Celebration Series of chapbooks of poetry.
They include Cherished Pulse (for anyone you love) , She Wore Emerald Then (for mothers on your gift list) , Imagining the Future (for Fathers), and Blooming Red, a Christmas chapbook. Chapbooks have been a tradition in the poetry world since Elizabethan times. The Celebration Series goes beyond the cliched sentiments in most greeting cards - and does it for about the same price.

All four of our chapbooks are illustrated by artists making each a triple effort.
Cherished Pulse and Blooming Red feature artwork from California artist Vicki Thomas. She Wore Emerald Then features photographs by May Lattanzio and Imagining the Future a photo by celebrated composer Ricky Ian Gordon.

We are planning a fifth chapbook lauding women's issues and feminist themes. We are looking for submissions to be used on its cover. Yes, it's a contest. The winner's work will be featured on Deeper Into the Pond: A Celebration of Femininity to be published later in 2011. There is no pay but since Ball runs respected review Web site The Compulsive Reader (www.thecompulsivereader.com), and Howard-Johnson is the author of a multi award-winning series of books for writers including The Frugal Book Promoter, they can promise a wide distribution of the cover image, credit and a biography of the cover artist in the book, and tons of marketing exposure.

See the other chapbooks' covers at www.howtodoitfrugally.com/poetry_books.htm.

Here is a poem from that chapbook:

Ariel

Memory's two voices,
the you-girl
suffering the moment
and the you-now
who interprets.
You promise yourself
you won't fear the secrets,
won't tell what happened
without the feelings.
You deny yourself that
and you become Ursula
stealing your own song,
leaving yourself gurgling
under the sea. You need
the music to tell your story,
to find it, to understand it
to know the truth,
to reach above the
ocean's surface
where
others
live.

If you have something you'd like us to see, please e-mail your creative work to Ball at maggie_ball@bigpond.com with SUBMISSION: DEEPER INTO THE POND in the subject line. We hope to have a decision by June 1, 2011 and we reserve the right to select no winner. If a winner is selected, we may also choose runners-up so those acknowledgments may be used by the winners for purposes of marketing. There is no fee for entering, and only the honor and publications for being selected. Oh, yes. And two copies of the finished chapbook. We hope to hear from you.

Post Blog Jog Day.

It was a great day. Not only did I discover some great new blogs, I had almost a hundred folks jog by and gained five new followers.

It's a chilly morning, well chilly for the central coast of CA, only 41 degress, yes I can hear some of you groaning.

My husband's home now for a week. I guess that will give me some idea of what it will be like in a couple of years when he retires.

That's going to take some adjustment on my part.

How have the rest of you dealt with it?

Randolph and I had sent Ice to LL Publications. We didn't receive an offer of a contract yet. But Zetta Brown sent us a wonderful email listing the strong and weak parts of Ice, along with an invitation to submit again. So that's what we are working on.

I'm not happy with what is goign on with Dancing With The Stars. I know it is a popularity contest also, but at least in the past years the winner was the best dancer...this year it's looking like a farce.

I haven't decided if I will bother to watch tonight, or not.

Blog Jog Day!

It's here. I hope you are having a great time visiting the other blogs. Next on your jog should be...

Me vs. My Muse http://mevsmymuse.com/

Contact Roxann Conger roxann@mevsmymuse.com.

Isn't that the way all writers feel at times...it is us versing our stubborn muse on some days.

A thought about your older titles.

In October I attended ARCHON in St. Louis. I was on some panels, did an autograph session and so forth.

I'd taken A Spiral of Echoes with me, as well as my older titles from my Daradawn series.

A book store owner in the dealer's room let me put them among the others he was selling.

And that's the books I sold and autographed. The Blue Flame and The Emerald Dagger, books one and two from my series., as well as Shadow Worlds, the science fiction suspense that I co-wrote with Darrell Bain.

I didn't take The Silver Angel with me, but was contacted after I returned home by someone who wanted a copy.

So don't write off those earlier releases of yours, mine are still selling. In fact I've just signed three contracts with Desert Breeze Publishing to release the titles of my series books again.

They became orphains when Tigress Press closed its doors.

Blog Jog Day is tomorrow.

Come out and jog with us. You just might find a blog you want to follow. And discover some ways to make your's stand out.


You can start with mine and follow the link to the next blog.

Blog Jog's Coming!

Last years Blog Jog was great.

It's time to do it again! This fall season event has been scheduled just before the holidays so if you have products or books to promote you have a better chance of sales.

Participating may bring to you . . .

*More unique visitors to your blog
*More subscribers
*More comments
*More inbound links
*More followers
*More exposure and sales
*Grow your daily hits

All which look great to Google, Yahoo, Bing, and the other search engines!

If you want to include your blog in the job, please e-mail Carol at chipanugget@gmail.com

No LImits

Don't miss my blog talk radio show today if you are looking for frugal tips on marketing and promoting.

Also will have some intriguing insights concerning modern day Gypsies.

Here is the link. The show airs at 3:00 PM Pacfic Time today.


http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rrradio/2010/08/12/red-river-writers-live-no-limits

Red River Writers Live--No Limits

On my upcoming August 12th show I have two outstanding guests, Carolyn Howard Johnson and Sonia Meyer.

Sonia is a fiction author with a passion for the plight of modern day Gypsies. I look forward to finding out how she became involved with them.

Carolyn has written three books dealing with frugal promoting, editing and her latest making Twitter work as a marketing tool.

She will be sharing some of her best tips with us.

All the fun begins at 3:00 Pacific Time. Here is the link to the page on Blog Talk Radio.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/rrradio/2010/08/12/red-river-writers-live-no-limits

Stop by and give us a listen. I'm sure you won't be disappointed.