Author Spotlight -Victoria Costello

Trained as a journalist, she began her career in Washington, D.C. working in community video and making independent documentaries for PBS. After a move to the West coast and a stint at the American Film Institute, She took on reporting assignments in Kenya and Nicaragua for the UN. With The Disney Channel and The National Audubon Society, She produced This Island Earth, which broke new ground by combining Kenny Loggins’ music and storytelling with Audubon nature footage to demonstrate the links between human health and endangered species, garnering three national Emmy Awards, one for her as the writer. On the way out of L.A., She spent six months in Wyoming where she made Wolf Nation, the story of the reintroduction of the Gray Wolf to Yellowstone National Park told from the point of view of The Arapaho Wolf Society.(* Taken from her website and adjusted for POV.)

Our Spotlight today shines on the lovely Victoria Costello, Author. A very talented writer with a good bit of worldly experience. We asked her what she does when Writer’s block hits, she responded that she waits it out. Currently she lives in the San Francisco Bay area, with two female cats, and hopes to someday be able to travel again.

Her list of accomplishments are something to be proud of, with quite the list of publications under her belt. We are so pleased to invite you to turn your gaze to her catalog and send her the love.

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Book Birthday – A Day Late

pattimouse's avatarPattimouse

books2read.com/HeartDrops

It released yesterday but by the time I finished with the flea market, I was so tired I couldn’t think straight. So I am posting it today. The beta readers all said this was a lovely volume. It is all love poetry and my art.

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Fresh Start

writingwithanopenheart's avatarWriting With An Open Heart

It’s time for a fresh start,
Time to leave the past behind.

It’s time to carry the positive moments with me,
To make the present moments magical,
And hold them close to my heart.

It’s time to love the people around me,
To be in the moment,
And remember that life is short.

Everything goes by fast,
And time is fleeting.

So no need to complicate things.
No need to keep wondering of what might have been.

I can see the light at the end of tunnel,
And I’ve noticed that that my life has more peace now.

Now I realize the one thing that could’ve broken me years ago,
Is the one thing that saved me.
©ZeinaA.G

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April PAD #3

What the Heck is a Chapbook

David J. Bauman's avatarDavid J Bauman

I’m glad you asked.

Outside of the poetry world nobody seems to know what a chapbook is. So when I tell them that I have published two chapbooks and a third as a collaboration with my son, they often nod in puzzlement, happy for me, but obviously perplexed by my wording. Sometimes they ask, “A chat book?”

In a local paper recently, it was announced that Micah and I would be reading from our new “chapter book.” Granted, at some point I may have used that analogy: Think chapter, rather than a whole collection, or novella as apposed to a hefty novel. But that’s not really quite right either, and it’s certainly not historically or etymologically correct. In any case, the library where we are reading (virtually) has the wording correct on their website and social media, so I’m assuming it was just a non-poetry-reading newspaper editor who made the…

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Follow Friday

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April P. A. D.

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