Spring Cleaning starts…NOW!
Dear Reader,
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You will notice a few major changes in the emails that you receive from this moment forward. I wanted to do a bit of Spring cleaning to make things easier to digest on a month-to-month basis:
NEWS & UPDATES
Monthly News are now Sneak Peeks. This email will now be focused on future plans. Sharing any pre-order news, especially.
Twice Monthly Updates [new email]. Every 1st and 3rd Saturday of the month I’m going to share what you may have missed from the previous 2 weeks.
COMMUNITY WRITING
#pentober52 & Free Writing Friday are now OPT-IN to participate. If you have never opted-in to received the Wednesday #pentober52 then chances are you will NOT receive the 1st of the month Free Writing Friday emails. So, make sure you OPT-IN to “COMMUNITY WRITING” so you won’t miss these great emails and ways to collaborate and participate in writing activities within the community.
APRIL 2024 CALENDAR
Dates and emails are subject to change.
THE FIRST 100 RELEASE PARTY!
As of tomorrow, April 2nd, The First 100 is no longer in Pre-Order or just an idea on my computer but you can hold it in your hands. I did the “math” and if all of you, my most loyal of subscribers, were to purchase just one copy of my book it would more than cover purchasing all the remaining 13 bookcases I need to possibly unbox all of my books for the first time in nearly a decade! Wow! Not that I’m in a rush to put together 13 bookcases all at once! But it would truly mean a lot and you could own the very first 100 stories I wrote when this crazy journey started back on May 1st, 2023!
Click the button below to order on Amazon US (but you can certainly find it on other online booksellers as well):
100 WORD STORIES IN APRIL
This month in certain writing circles is “Poetry Month” and so I’m preparing to write 30 days worth of poems. Till now I’ve only written a few poems that were exactly 100 words so this will definitely be a challenge.
REMINDER: All previous 100 Word Stories are now in ARCHIVE for Paid Subscribers only.
SLEIGHT OF HAND
As this is an email where I’m only allowed to look forward I will say that April will include two very special stories that I’m excited to share with you:
The first is a short story for paid subscribers only, The Private Lives of Hannah and Amelia. I give you a closer look at the two old biddies who travel to and from work in the carriage with Charisma and Flossie. I hope you enjoyed their brief appearance in Sleight of Hand because this is your chance to learn an important secret about them. [April 8th]
The second is a part of the “A History” portion of Wondermere and is free for everyone. I love writing these really short stories because it gives me a chance to share a bit of history with you that will hopefully convince you (if you aren’t already) to become a paid subscriber and get unfettered access. In this third installment I’m going to tell you the history of The Caretakers of the colosseum. Who are the Pomroy women and how exactly did they come to have such an important job as managing the colosseum? [April 22nd]
ANATOMY OF TYPEWRITERS
With two stories down (I realize I neglected to release Part III and the Epilogue of Night Shift, but fret not, both are coming this week to catch-up). I seem to be getting more and more excited with each story I come up with to tell. As you know, each story will feature a typewriter in some way, hence the name of the anthology. In April I’m going to delve deeper into a scenario I’ve always been fascinated by; heredity.
A woman has just buried her father. If that wasn’t difficult enough, in his will he left her a letter explaining that she was adopted when she was just three months old and her birthmother left her a house. But it comes with conditions; she can never sell it, she can only leave it to her child (should she choose to have one). Why? What she uncovers in this home about the mother she never knew will shock her and make her question the rest of her life.
