So during lockdown I have been working as usual but also thinking about new writing projects. I’ve decided to go back to my roots and start writing shorts again. Short stories are always creeping up on me when I least expect them and lately I have been excited by the short stories of such writers […]
Writing Shorter Tales
I’m happy to announce my essay for a symposium on Jewish writing has been published in the summer issue of the RRA Connection, the newsletter of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
Am I a Jewish writer? Are my books Jewish books?
And what determines a Jewish book anyway?
I am a rabbi. My protagonist is a rabbi. My Rabbi Aviva Cohen mysteries are Chanukah Guilt, Unleavened Dead, and Yom Killer. My work-in-progress is Killah Megillah. One of my nonfiction books is Talking Dirty — in Yiddish?
When I first was trying to find an agent for Chanukah Guilt, an interested agent, Jewish, told me I had to change the title, that no one outside of the two coasts would get the pun. A friend of mine, then an aspiring novelist, was advised by another agent to make her novels “less Jewish,” to take out the Yiddish words and make the characters…
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Hey guys and guyettes, I FINISHED rewriting Nwa Pante Rising! Woot! I’m editing for grammar issues and I have some beta readers looking things over. If anyone here would like a copy to preview and help with any errors… Let me know! I also have found a job! Thankfully! It’s in a small office and […]
An update!
We currently have 2 anthologies we are accepting content for. Both will be published in October. We look forward to your submission!
Is your goal to reach the moon? or something that feels nearly as impossible? tell us about it, artistically.
The above image is the Cover.
Requirements:
Art/Photography: Up to 5 each must be printable quality
Poetry/Haiku: up to 5 each
Flash Fiction: 600 max word count.
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Due by August 31st, 2020:
Fae Dreams — goals/dreams/plans are the theme.
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Submissions email to Faecorpspublishing@gmail.com with a subject of Fae Dreams.
Editing is provided. If your story is in draft form it is still acceptable, however it must be readable. We are here to showcase good indie authors, and are more than willing to help those just getting started.
This anthology reward is a free Ebook copy and the opportunity to order author copies of the printed version.
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
Looking for a place for your Horror fix? Nightmare Whispers is going to be the best of Horror we can find.
The Image above will be the cover.
Requirements:
Short Story word count min/max: 3k/5k
Art/Photography: up to five must be printable quality
Poetry/Haiku: up to 5 each per topic
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Submissions email to Faecorpspublishing@gmail.com with a subject of Nightmare Whispers.
Due by August 31st, 2020:
Nightmare Whispers —
Horror theme. Short stories/Poetry/Art/Haiku/Photography.
This is a paid anthology. You will if you get in receive a portion of the royalties…however you will be expected to assist in the marketing of the anthology.
Editing is provided. If your story is in draft form it is still acceptable, however it must be readable. Gore is acceptable, however do keep it reasonable, no one wants to read gore for gore’s sake. We are here to showcase good indie authors, and are more than willing to help those just getting started.
If you have any questions feel free to ask.
Thank you for agreeing to let me interview you again. This time is about Sam’s Story, the second book in your Wiccan Romances series.
Was it easier to publish book 2 & did you do anything different to how you published book 1?
It was much easier to publish book 2 as I already had a lot of the formatting saved on my memory stick from writing the first one, so where it took me a good couple of weeks to get the formatting correct on Amelia’s Story, it took probably half a day instead. The hardest bit about formatting is the cover and I know mine don’t quite match but I didn’t realise that until after I pressed print, so I’m stuck with it for these two but I’m hoping to make the next ones match one of the two covers.
Was writing the second book in a series…
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My short story “Searching For A Sign” will be available for free download on Saturday.
The free promotion will last for one day.
From Saturday 25th July 12:a.m PDT until 11:59 PM PDT.
| Starts: Saturday, July 25, 2020, 12:00 AM PDT | Ends: Saturday, July 25, 2020, 11:59 PM PDT |
Here’s a link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BX9CS72
Or you can search for “Searching For A Sign” by Zeina Abi Ghosn on the kindle app.
If you want to read an excerpt:
https://writingwithanopenheart.blog/2020/07/22/searching-for-a-sign-short-story-excerpt/
Hope you all get a chance to download and read. And hope you like the story 😀
I spent about 2 weeks with pneumonia and a sinus infection…at the same time. THEN I had to get tested for Covid. But then good things happened! I got a puppy and I now have a new car! So needless to say, my writing, blogging, and everything else has been put to the wayside. The […]
Sickness and Busy Days
Dear J, I should have left this town when you asked me. It has been two months since I received a letter from you, and I’m starting to worry. I wonder, though, if things are the same where you are because strange things are happening here. Since David disappeared last January, others are mysteriously disappearing. […]
They – Part 1
…my friend to come by a couple times a month and tell the tale of my time in the world of Ereth.
We were talking a while back about fantasy books, which she loves to read, and I just couldn’t help myself.
The story started coming out.
She, of course, was hooked, and always wants to know more, I can’t write it fast enough for her <eye rolls>, Lol.
“Do other worlds exist, you ask? Yes, they do.
I know this for a fact because I have been to another world; one not of this time and nothing like this one.
Perhaps that’s why I am so disenchanted with this world. I didn’t mean to return to Earth. I would have gladly stayed on Ereth for the rest of my life (which incidentally would have been much longer than it will…
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Your identity is unkown It scares me Can I trust you? Can you leave me alone? Why do you terrorize me? Why do you haunt me in my dreams? Moving things without permission Whispering in my ears Every sound feels off My heart is raising Can’t breath normal Can’t sleep I can feel your presence […]
Ghosts
Fae Corps Publishing 