Sonny Galas is an only child being raised by his mother-a widow—and the loving help of his grandfather, also widowed. Living in a Santa Monica apartment complex owned by ‘Grandpa’ all is well and average for this close-knit family until a certain French family come into the picture, in need of a place to rent. They soon show their colors in various ways, topping it off by slapping a suit on their patient, kind landlord. Sonny’s family sees no better option than selling their only asset-the apartments-and getting far away from their Lawyer-packing tenants. Far, as in ‘leaving the country’, and this is where their true adventure begins. South of the border becomes their new home.
From their journey through third-world narrow roads, small towns where no English is spoken, to long, hot unending desert roads and through humid coastal towns they continue toward their big city destination, Guadalajara, where their life begins and they encounter everything and everyone from kind helpers to con-artists and crazies and from strangers to good friends, both Mexican and American. From young boy to teenager, as the years pass, Sonny sees it all: his family’s ups and downs, the country’s ups and downs with its own political third-world corruption, and his own transformation from a simple boy in a new country to a growing youth, fully fluent in Spanish; a devilish yet fun-loving teenager now with roots firmly planted and sprouting happily in his new home, his new country. From the adventures and joys of boyhood with his friends and pals to the wild days through grade school, junior high and high school with the opportunities given him as a bi-lingual kid to living through the set-backs that could trouble any family-Mexican or American-even scare of the faint of heart, he takes it all in; after all, now he’s Mexican. The fiestas, the friends, the awesome busy modern streets of Guadalajara in the early Seventies to the early Eighties, Guadalajara, the country’s capital of Mariachis.
When 16-year old Quin’s best friend Harper fails The Beck’s assessment, will she ever see her again?
Regular appraisals are part of life in The Beck, a walled-in community constantly threatened by floodwaters. But when the shocking results of the most recent test are revealed, Quin knows her world is about to change forever.
Wrenched from Agric, where she has lived and worked for years, Quin finds herself thrown into the unfamiliar Patrol Sector. Yearning for her lost friend, struggling to adjust to her new surroundings, she begins to question the society she thought she knew.
And then she meets the mysterious Cam, who seems willing to break the rules for her. Determined to find Harper, Quin enlists his help. But when she discovers the horrifying truth, it might just destroy her.
If you devour fast-paced, addictive stories with compelling characters who inhabit intriguing futures, you’ll love The Flow Series.
It’s been three months since Quin transferred to Patrol and discovered the terrifying truth about the community she lives in. Citizens of The Beck are disposable and those in charge are capable of terrible cruelty. Vowing to protect those around her, Quin has joined the Resistance. But she knows she is risking everything.
Rebellion of any kind must be secretive and clever. Gathering enough people to fight seems like an impossible task. When those closest to her are directly threatened, Quin knows she has to act. But time is running out. Governance will stop at nothing to protect the world it has worked to build. In the end, Quin must decide how far she is prepared to go to rescue the ones she loves.
Break is the second in the Flow series, which follows Quin as she struggles to carve out a future in the harsh regime she was born into.
Quin believed that a life away from The Beck would make her happy. But when a cruel twist of fate forces her to leave sooner than planned, she struggles to come to terms with her new reality. Haunted by memories of the people she left behind, she finds herself wishing she was back in Patrol, with Cam by her side.
Cut off from The Beck, the escapees carve out a new existence on a small island. Tentative bonds are formed, but as disputes surface and rebellion is threatened, Quin quickly realises that their new home isn’t the sanctuary she had imagined. And when one of her fellow citizens is willing to go to desperate measures to save those he loves, he puts the entire community in danger.
As they hatch a daring plan to save themselves, Quin is faced with a terrible choice: protect her friends or follow her heart.
Drift is the third in the Flow series, which follows Quin as she battles to forge a new life in unfamiliar territory without the man she has come to depend on.
Having survived the deadly virus that endangered her new community, Quin is devastated to learn that the same sickness threatens The Beck. With Adams and his Shadow Patrol in charge, Cam and her friends are in mortal danger.
The rebels know they’re not strong enough to take on The Beck’s government alone. The only way to succeed is to join forces with The Ridge. But their alliance is built on tenuous threads: one wrong move could destroy their hopes forever.
As Quin steels herself for the final battle, a shocking revelation leaves her wondering what she is willing to sacrifice in the name of freedom.
Quell is the fourth and final book in the Flow series, which follows Quin and her allies into the ultimate battle to save The Beck.
Clare Littlemore is a young adult dystopian and sci-fi author who thrives on fictionally destroying the world in as many ways as she possibly can.
She was born in Durham, in the UK. Her parents were both teachers, and she grew up in a world surrounded by books. She has worked for most of her life as a teacher of English at various high schools in England, where she has shared her passion for books with hundreds of teenagers. In 2013 she began writing her own fiction, got totally hooked, and hasn’t stopped since.
Clare lives in Warrington in the North West of England with her husband and two children.
Second Chances is an adult fiction romance novel: Hunter O’Conner has a rough childhood, so it’s not surprising when he turns down the wrong path. Growing up with an abusive father, we can’t help but feel sorry for him and wish, as he does, that “Mr. Wilson was his father” instead. He’s not, but this father figure helps teach Hunter some lessons which will ultimately help him turn his life around when he gets a proverbial “second chance.” It is a captivating story that teaches us it’s never too late to change and do the right thing.
He has been writing short stories and poems since a child. Now his writing entertains and contains current social messages taken from the pages of today’s headlines. His poetry and books have won national awards in 2018, 2019 and his writings have seen their way into several anthologies. He has proven his mettle as an established author worthy of reading. His books are found at online book stores and his social media and author sites.
“Five of us stand between a vengeful God,
his monsters and end of the world.”
As Queen of the seas, the fate of the world
now rests upon my shoulders. My powers are raw and untapped, I must learn to
harness them quickly before my father kills me and everything I love.
With just four weeks before Poseidon plans to
wipe out all of humankind, my men and I must work together to formulate a plan
to destroy him, adding one more problem to the mix could make or break us.
As a Selkie army moves closer and closer and
other outside forces threaten to destroy all that I hold dear, can we
survive long enough to put that plan into action?
Should we fail, it would mean the end.
⚠️ This is a reverse harem novel suitable for over 18’s ONLY. Rape and domestic violence are mentioned in this book. Sexually explicit scenes. Heavy M/M scenes. I would love for you to read this book, but please be aware of these advisements. Mental health is extremely important. ⚠️
About the Author:
Amelia Oliver lives at the seaside in England
with her husband and son, Oliver. When she’s not busy being a mum and wife, she
writes. Luckily, her husband supports her 100% and helps her bring life to the
characters in her head, who demands she writes their story. If there’s one
thing Amelia doesn’t like it’s to choose, and neither does her fictional women.
That’s why she’s writing in the reverse harem genre, where her heroines will
never have to choose just one guy.
Amelia is no stranger to mental and physical
health problems, so she loves writing about women who overcome struggles.
Amelia is a self-proclaimed potty mouth with a naughty sense of humour.
Seriously, who said “he/she said” jokes aren’t funny???
Dave Harvey and I met through a mutual acquaintance. We both write science fiction.
Author Bio
David Harvey has seven books published on Amazon. The first three books are a Trilogy, a fictional / science fictional series. He started writing in June 2014 and long before conclusion was reached, realized it was better suited to a Trilogy.
A lover of animals, his life is managed by two very active, very large dogs and every morning at 05:30 they drag him to the beach individually. It was a painful learning curve to find out that individually, they react differently to other dogs on the beach, but collectively they ‘pack’ and have managed to cram enough stress into his life to last several lifetimes.
Tell us about yourself.
I was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1951. I spent my early years in Linbro Park, a suburb of Johannesburg, on a small holding of peach trees, asparagus and rhubarb, exploring the long disused next-door cemetery, avoiding snakes and grandpa’s beady eyes. (And they were eyes that missed nothing). From there the family relocated to a farm in Chingola, Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Given the farm was carved out of virgin forest, it was back to avoiding snakes and other denizens of the thick bush – but all good learning curves. From Zambia the family relocated to Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe) and from there I attended university in South Africa. Somehow it seemed that all my school years were spent at isolated boarding schools, buried deep in the bush in both Northern Rhodesia and Rhodesia. After University I was called up for military service and essentially spent the next five years involved in the Rhodesian bush war. When it finished, when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, I emigrated back to South Africa where I now live in Cape Town.
When did you know you wanted to be an author?
In 2006 a series of traumatic
events occurred in my life which turned it completely upside down. It took
several years to recover and one way of coming to terms with it was, I
believed, to write about it. That never really happened but in 2014, I decided
to write a novel and somehow incorporate my life story into the novel. That
thought turned into a Trilogy, “When the Sun Blinked” in which I
am one of the characters who survives the devastating plane crash.
What genres do you like to read? Are these the same genres you write in?
I only read fiction. My Trilogy, “When
the Sun Blinked” is a partial science fiction/fiction. My second
series, the Retribution books are fiction.
Is your book for adults, young adults or children?
“When the Sun Blinked”
Trilogy is open to young adults and adults, with some very mild sex and very
little bad language, but the Retribution series is really only aimed at adults.
We’re talking here about a drug Cartel after all. Language for them is as it
comes.
What is your current release or project?
Book 5 of the Retribution
series.
Tell us about the key characters
Mmm. The key
characters range from Benito Alfieri who is the psychopathic head of a drug and
poaching Cartel in Cape Town, South Africa. With him is his equally
psychopathic nephew Dimitri who looks after cocaine distribution through the
Night Clubs in Cape Town they provide security to. Then there is Cesar Quevedo
who is an out and out killer and is responsible for the poaching operation.
They poach abalone and export it to China. However, Cesar has discovered love
and a softer side to him has emerged. He still kills without even thinking
about it, but he is in love.
On the other side are three main characters who collectively
own a muscle car restoration business in Hout Bay, just down the road so to
speak from Cape Town. They ran afoul of the Cartel very early in Book 1 and
have been fighting a low-intensity war with them ever since. They have made it
their mission to bring the cartel down, as a result.
What is your blurb or synopsis of the book?
For the current work in progress,
I don’t have one yet, so I have included the blurb for Book 1 Seeds of
Revenge as that sums up the start of the trouble between the two groups.
Retribution Book 1 – Seeds of Revenge
Hout Bay and Camps Bay, two suburbs along the beautiful
Atlantic seaboard next to Cape Town, South Africa, become the setting of three
childhood friends, now adults who, relocating from America thanks to a dual
American and South African heritage, establish their long- cherished dream
business in Hout Bay, a short distance away from Camps Bay.
With ready cash from early investments in Bitcoin they pay
for their business, their cars, houses and lifestyle up front, in full, using
their profits. Which in turn unwittingly attracts the attention of a family
kicked out of Colombia by authorities cleaning up the drug trade. They
re-establish themselves in Camps Bay, taking aim at the growing heroin trade in
the Western Cape.
The Colombians believe the Hout Bay business is a front for
drugs and therefore competition and an initial low-scale approach to establish
their version of the truth escalates when abalone poaching is thrown into the
mix.
Sucked into something totally at odds with their world, the
Hout Bay dream is threatened by the Camps Bay drug and abalone world.
Because the Colombians have their own dream – a world of
drugs, violence and now abalone poaching. They don’t care who gets hurt or what
it involves to grow their empire. After all, they’ve been doing it for a long
time and no-one is going to stop them.
Share an excerpt.
Ivan Lipsky took his hands from the table, reached behind
him and in a swift movement, placed both hands back on the table, this time
holding a Glock pistol, on its side and mostly hidden by his hands. His
movements suggested he’d had some experience in the heavy stuff.
Oscar looked at the gun and then at him and said.
‘Seriously?’
Paulie meanwhile leaned forward slightly and placed his huge
hands on the table, relaxed but alert and waiting to see how Oscar wanted to go
forward.
‘Please understand,’ Ivan Lipsky said. ‘This is nothing
personal but,’ he shrugged, ‘business is business.’
‘So where exactly are you going with the gun thing? I mean
you heard my phone conversation with my boss. He wants nothing to do with you,
so how does …’ Oscar bent his head sideways and leaned it close to the edge of
the table, looking to see where the Glock barrel was pointing, then sat up
straight again, ‘ … pointing a gun between myself and Paulie help you achieve
what you can’t. I mean you could sneeze and accidently shoot us, not so?’ He
looked at Paulie for confirmation.
‘He could yes. Probably be very noisy and messy though.’
‘Exactly, so what does shooting one or both of us do to
advance your cause here?’
‘You don’t think we’re serious, do you? I mean, are you two
are like the local comic act? If I shoot you, then maybe Tom and Jerry and
Trevor downstairs understand that their happy little cushy life here is over.
Then we move to the next establishment and the next until we control
Stellenbosch.’
‘The two of you?’ Paulie asked.
‘We’ll get the understanding settled for now yes, and then
others will follow.’
‘Okay,’ Oscar sighed. He looked at the time and said. ‘Look,
I really do need to get back to Cape Town, so here’s what I think.’ He leaned
forward slightly and looking at Ivan Lipsky, beckoned him closer. ‘I reckon you
have about a ten percent chance of pulling the trigger before there’s a hundred
percent chance of my hurting you very badly. And of course then there’s Paulie.
So that’s where we are.’
Ivan Lipsky’s face whitened in anger and he started to say
something as Oscar’s right hand moved in a blur to his pocket, he pulled out
the collapsible baton and as it came forward and snapped out, the solid heavy
steel pipe hit Ivan Lipsky’s gun hand and smashed it. As he screamed in agony,
Paulie’s hands snaked out, wrapped themselves around Victor’s head and smashed
his face into the table. Then he stood up abruptly, lifting the table and
pushed it over, on top of the two hapless men.
‘Should we?’ He looked at Oscar who nodded and both men
jumped on the overturned table further crushing the two men underneath. Then
they stepped off, lifted the table and pulled the two unconscious men out.
Do you have a favorite scene?
When my ‘good’ characters are
practicing a deception act that will enable them to place a bomb behind the
petrol tank of a truck filled with a ton of cocaine. They have already ambushed
two of the Cartel trucks, destroying the contents. This time they want the
Cartel to discover the bomb, so they know they are being very specifically
targeted.
What advice would you give a beginner?
It is hard, hard work. You create make-believe worlds, fill
them with make-believe people who have make-believe conversations in
make-believe situations. Then, as if that is not bad enough, you have to sell
it.
If you are serious, keep plugging away and never give up. It
is not an instant road to success, but you can keep the dream alive by
believing and working and believing some more and working even more. Readers
will review your work, if you are lucky. Some will like it, some will ate it
and some will pan you in reviews. Suck it up and keep believing. Keep the
faith!!
Have you ever wanted to do something that everyone said was impossible? Then you’ll love BLACK & BLUE. Loosely based on the author’s own life, this coming-of-age novel will inspire you to pursue your dreams.
For as long as she can remember, “Toady” wanted nothing more than to play football. But for Toady, the love of football is bittersweet – because Toady’s given name is Christine. She’s a girl, and girls “can’t” play football. Despite her exceptional abilities, she watches bitterly as the boys play on the high school team and win scholarships. Reluctantly, she gives up her football dreams and moves to New York City – where she finds that life is full of surprises. Christine hears about a group of women playing flag football, and she joins their game. The players are so good that before long, they’re invited to become part of a professional women’s tackle league.
For Christine, this is the chance she’s always dreamed of. Not only does she play football, but she raises enough money to become the team’s owner. But that’s when the real challenges begin. Does Christine have the guts and the stamina to spite the odds? BLACK & BLUE will leave readers cheering as Christine doubles down to fight for her dreams and for the women who want nothing more than to play their favorite sport. If you loved Bend It Like Beckham or A League of Their Own, you’ll adore BLACK & BLUE.
About the Author
ANDRA DOUGLAS is a native of central Florida and a graduate of Florida State University and Pratt Institute. A national champion athlete in rugby and women’s tackle football, she was the owner of the New York Sharks Women’s Pro Football team for nineteen years and is the founder of the Fins Up! Foundation for Female Athletes, a non-profit to benefit at-risk teens. In addition to her love of football, Andra is a professional artist and served as a Vice President/Creative Director at Time Warner for many years. Today, she lives with her parrot, ‘Pie’ in New York’s Greenwich Village where she creates mixed-media artwork. To learn more, visit: www.andradouglasart.com.
A witty and acerbic novel for our times about corporate greed, the
hubris of bankers, contradictions of the clean energy economy and
their unintended consequences on everyday people.
Finance, environmentalism, rare-earth mining and human frailties collide in a
complex of flawed motives. We follow Peter Mount, the self-made Chief
Executive of a London-based rare-earth mining company as he and his
business are buffeted by crisis-torn Royal Bank of Scotland and by
his own actions, real and imagined. Meanwhile in Oregon, Amy Tate and
her group of local environmental activists do their contradictory
part to undermine a component of the green economy, unwittingly
super-charged by the Chinese state. The repercussions of events in
pristine Oregon are felt in the corporate and financial corridors of
New York and London with drastic consequences. This is a deeply
involving novel about the current workings of capitalism,
miscommunication, causes and unexpected effects, love and survival.
Keith Iain Carter was born in Scotland in March 1959, second son of Marian
van Westendorp and Ralph Carter. He attended a variety of bog
standard state schools in northern England and in 1978 went up to
Cambridge to read Economics, taking a First in 1981 when he was
elected a Scholar – too late to enjoy the privilege of walking on
the grass.
Other than corporate annual reports, he has not previously been published,
unless you count a letter printed in Business Week deploring the
widespread use of the word ‘wannabe’ and this quote in Investors
Chronicle: “I used to be a banker, then I went straight”.
As an investment banker Keith worked for three now-disgraced
institutions – he denies that any causation is associated with this
correlation – Lloyds, Drexel Burnham Lambert and NatWest (RBS). A
corporate financier, he ended up by specialising in pharmaceuticals
and, in 1998, was part of a team acquiring a small vaccine business
from GSK. As CEO he took the company public in 2004. Since 2010
Keith has worked as a business consultant to healthcare companies and
as a writer, which he prefers.
Keith lives in London, Yorkshire and aboard a boat currently in Greece. He
is a French-speaking Europhile who also loves America, travel,
politics and economics, reading and writing, music, sailing of all
kinds and food and drink.
The first time I saw her she melted the ice in my soul.
Malak is a tiny beautiful five-year-old girl child. She lives in a cave in
dire poverty with her drunkard father and her Saharoui mother and
sister. Her enemies are all the towns children who victimize her and
her sister because of their race and condition. Her only friend is a
single mother named Latifa, and Malak´s grandmother Jeeda Hazzah who
dies of cancer.
But Malak is the champion of her family against a violent father and the
children of the Zoco who she fights singlehandedly. This is a magical
and often mystical story of a young girl and the people she stumbles
upon, as she is rushed away by her uncertain destiny, to the land in
which her mother was born, the Sahara Desert. The unravelling of
Malak’s story is also the unsnarling of the web of intrigue
surrounding the North of Africa, and it´s peoples and history, and
the reasons for many current dilemmas in this land of witchcraft and
mystery.
The tale begins in earnest when a wandering ex-warrior happens on the
child and is struck by her magnificent courage and beauty. After a
significant episode with her drunken father and his cronies, having
interceded on the family´s behalf, he flees with them on a stolen
high-speed cruiser heading for Western Sahara and freedom. In the
course of their errant journey, they are taken into threatening
custody by the Algerian police. Malak´s personality and mystic
nature make of her the flux in an adventure which begins as a race to
return her to her maternal grandfather´s family. A flight of mercy
will become a race against time as Malak and her friends take on the
impossible. In this, they enlist the help of many tribespeople. Some
tribes known to all and others lost in the wastes of the mysterious
desert and the annals of history.The story comes to an emotional and
pent up conclusion in the least expected possible fashion.
Paul O´Garra was born in Gibraltar on the 8th May 1952. Paul and his three siblings were the
children of schoolteachers and were reared with English discipline, immersed in romantic
literature on the one hand, and a large local family of uncles,
aunts, cousins and a doting grandmother, who was Spanish from Cadiz,
on the other.
Childhood was spent roaming across the Up South,
Rosia, and Europa point areas of Gibraltar engaging in childish games and
adventures, reading extensively books such as Enid Blyton’ adventure series, ‘Famous Five,’
‘Secret Seven,’ ‘Swallows and Amazons Forever,’ John Buchan and the ‘Gorbals Die-hards.’
Saturday mornings were a day for avoiding the displeased grimaces of
monocled and overweight colonels, delving and searching through the shelves of the old
Garrison library to discover new horizons, characters, and
stories. The journey of discovery that had begun with Baba the
Elephant eventually began to grow richer as the classics were devoured.
In 1967, he looked on as fellow students of Jewish persuasion prepare to leave for Tel Aviv
to defend Israel. Shortly after, the arrival of General Moshe Dayan at the gates of Cairo, signaled to the world
that Israel´s direst moment had been overcome. Paul, at the earliest time
possible, set off in a steamer from Tangiers, sailing to Southampton.
After a spell in London, he left the UK to discover his roots in Malta.
He alternated callings as a tour guide of Morocco and recoverer of
broken down rented cars in the desert, tour guide of south Spain and
eventually running a flamenco club on the Costa del Sol, in the days
when the Costa was still a new and exciting place to visit.
Eventually, he set off again to discover new places in the Middle, the Far
East and the Philippines, and when Perestroika and Glasnost finally arrived at the hands of
Mihail Gorbacheff and the Soviet Union was open, set off to discover
the East there. He studied Russian at St Petersburg and spent time
travelling to the Republic of Udmurtia, Kazan, Siberia and up an
uncharted river to meet Tribes that still lived in the area. Later to
Nizhny Novgorod and the South Volga, then to the Ukraine travelling from city to city,
falling more and more in love with the great Russian writers and
painters as he went. Seventeen years ago at the age of fifty, Paul
contracted renal cancer.
He was operated on successfully at the Bullfighters Hospital in
Pamplona in North Spain. Metastasis was practically impossible the
surgeons happily reported. Two years later the cancer metastasised to his lungs on which
he was duly operated, and half of his lungs were removed.
Later for reasons undefined he suffered strokes in both eyes and lost
partial sight in one eye and total in the left which he duly
recovered by swimming and praying. Seventeen years have gone by since
the renal cancer was first discovered, and seven years since his last operation and
everything is fine, remission seems to be total.
Paul’s still swims at least one or two kilometres per day all year round,
travels, practises martial arts and fervently believes that the Lord
leads him by the hand. After leaving the hospital
he spent some time in Tangiers, hairless, gaunt and on crutches, but
enjoying the warmth and affection of many new friends there. Then off
to Prague to study filmmaking, made several shorts but finally
decided that he would first write and then make movies when the time came.
It seems silly but I was checking out my book on amazon.com to see how it was doing and if my paperback was available and what do I discover? It is available in paperback. I used the createspace.com to provide a POD (print on demand) version of my romance novel. Here it is!
I’ve also tweaked the description to be a bit more modern and romance novel like rather than – hey I need 5000 characters to describe my book. It may not seem like a big deal to people but it is important to write this description, edit it and go through the normal writing process. Actually it might be even more important to get this right because it is the window into your book. What you put down in those 5000 characters can draw a reader in or completely turn them off.
Now my book is available three different ways! It sounds like a cliché for me to say I’m am super excited but I am. This is the fulfillment of a dream. I know the work isn’t done – I still have to work on marketing and getting people to come to my website http://eileentroemel.weebly.com/. At the same time I need to move forward with the next volume I want to publish… on to my Moon Affirmations book which is a meditation book based on the moon’s phase. Moving forward means I’ll be juggling a lot of different aspects of writing and publishing. I’m ridiculously excited and almost giddy with anticipation of moving forward. At the same time, I’m trying to make good business decisions about my brand and the products I’m creating.
This first publication has given me ideas for other publications – like publishing some short stores and some poetry. However, I want to make sure I’m putting out a really good product so people know that when they pick up one of my books it will be well edited and produced even if they don’t like the story or stories that are inside the book.
Getting this first book out there has been a boost to my confidence and belief in myself.I noticed tonight that one of my customers was from Japan.This couldn’t possibly be a relative or friend because I don’t know anyone in Japan.That means that the description I wrote drew them in enough to have them buying the book.That is an accomplishment for me.
With the health issues going on in the family, I’ve not paid any attention to my writing. I can tell I’ve not been writing again, my dreams are more vivid and my focus is a bit scattered because my mind is always wandering to the stories in my head.
I just came across a grant I want to write. I probably won’t get it but it is worth trying for. I also came across a contest that I want to submit. I’ve entered it before and done okay.
In order to get these two projects done by the submission deadlines, I have to sort through my piles on my shelves and get them organized so I can pull the manuscript for the contest. I need to get through all the edits on the paper copy. Then read it again to see if it needs editing again. Aside from the tweaking of the manuscript I need to write a 500 word description of the story, take a 5000 excerpt, and follow all the other directions.
For the grant, I will have to pull together a lot of information of what I’ve had published and what my project would look like. There are so many steps there I don’t even know if I can list them all.
The contest has a deadline of March 3 and the grant has a deadline of March 12. This means I am going to have to get my act together over the next two weeks and get a lot of stuff done. It will be insane. I also think I will thoroughly enjoy it.
This weekend after all the errands, I hope to sort through yet another pile in my office and figure out where I’m at with my manuscript so I can work on it for the contest submission – little time and lots to do.
