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Had an essay air on WUWM’s Lake Effect about a reMARKable date my daughter had a few years back. Let’s just say it was a bruising experience for me!
Please join me and fellow author Jason Lee Norman who will be reading from his book Americas, this Monday, July 23rd, at 7 p.m. at Riverwest Public House, 815 E. Locust St. in Milwaukee. Sure to be entertaining! Here is a link for the event: http://riverwestpublichouse.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/author-reading-july-23-7pm/
And, my flash piece, “There’s No Place Like Home” was published in Thrice Fiction’s summer issue, page 36: http://www.thricefiction.com/pdf/ThriceFiction005X.pdf
I’m very excited to have been accepted to the Solstice MFA program in Creative Writing at Pine Manor College near Boston! Many thanks to those who have supported my writing through the studio all these years (You know who you are! :-)). Looking forward to all I will learn, write and share with the other writers at RedBird-RedOak.
I was more than pleased to learn that of my three submissions to the April/May 2012 HumorPress.com National Writing Competition, one made it to the Finalist category, and two made it to the top five (paying real money, albeit not much) in the Winners category.
Since I don’t have an editor or a an agent yet, I rely on the sharpened pencils (wouldn’t pay to sharpen a pen) of Kim Suhr and my fellow members of her Wednesday morning Roundtable Critique Group; the feedback I get not only helps with a specific humor piece, it usually gives me things to bear in mind while working on other pieces.
My appearance on a panel at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books apparently made headlines–Publisher’s Weekly headlines. Yahoo! http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/beyondherbook/?p=6433&cpage=1#comment-136905
Wisconsin People & Ideas, Spring 2012 magazine has an article about Flash Fiction and four of my short fiction pieces! Very grateful to Jason A. Smith, editor extra-ordinaire. Here is the online link:
http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/magazine/flash-fiction-101
I have a couple things to report. My reminiscence, “In the Rough,” will be published in the Great River Review in Spring 2013. Thanks to all who helped in Redbird roundtables. A speech I wrote for work, “The Extra Point,” received first-place award in state-of-institution category from Vital Speeches, website: cicerospeechwritingawards.com
I have a two book contract with Cervena Barva Press! A poetry chapbook, Microtones, possibly out by summer, 2012. Then a full-length of my short fiction to follow. Here is the web-site: http://www.cervenabarvapress.com/
Lit mag Lost in Thought accepted my piece called “Scherzo.” One of my favorites, it’s a bit of one person’s fantasy all mixed up with another’s reality. By the way thanks Kim Suhr for catching the Kabuki error a long time ago!
I’m reading at Boswell’s Tuesday June 12 at 7 PM, as the opening act for Alyson Hagy – author of “Boleto” at Boswell’s books on Tuesday, June 12. I get 10 minutes!
I had to submit a work published in 2011, which I did last September, and once accepted, wait to be paired up with an author – I’m not sure what the matching criteria are but I waited about 6 months to be paired with an author.
METAL MOM, my new ebook, which is actually a screenplay, will be available from Amazon starting April 7, and free from April 8-10.
I’m a “guest instructor” on Romance University, writing about how to get to the heart of the opening of a novel. http://romanceuniversity.org/2012/04/06/carve-out-a-better-beginning-with-dave-thome/
If you like short stories, check out my collection
“Poached Is Not an Option.” It’s up on Kindle now and
will be on more sites,soon. Thanks to Judy and Dave and all who encouraged me along the way.
My brother who doesn’t like to read,liked the first story and plans to read one a night until he gets to the end. Thanks, Jim, for the great review.
I’m giving away five copies of FAST LANE in a Goodreads promotion. Entries accepted through April 21. Drawing the next day. http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/22608-fast-lane
Man Writing a Romance, my chronicle of the writing of Fast Lane, is a free download from Amazon through Valentine’s Day. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005YU8GRK
My first published book, Flash Fiction Fridays, is an anthology of 34 stories from 31 various talented writers, more than half of them local, from the Midwest. Also several Redbird- Redoak writers/friends included. Please consider supporting my dream by getting a copy for yourself or for a friend:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/flash-fiction-fridays/18854615
Updates from here up for the next WWA newsletter. (Reminder to self- check books by our authors link next time — any adds?)
Thanks to the wonderful feedback of the Wednesday morning Roundtable group, my essay, “Why I am Happy Surgery is not a Spectator Sport,” will be published in the next issue of The Examined Life: A Literary Journal of The University Carver College of Medicine (http://theexaminedlifejournal.blogspot.com/.
I’ll be on WUWM’s “Lake Effect” at Valentine’s Day for the second straight year. Last year I read an essay on weird love songs. This year it’ll be an interview about my romance novel FAST LANE, which I read at Roundtables for a couple of years. Here’s a link to last year’s show: http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=7015
I have two collaboration pieces in this Exquisite Quartet Anthology- 2011, edited by Meg Tuite, and published monthly at Used Furniture Review:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/exquisite-quartet-anthology–2011/18809515
My short story, “If It Wasn’t for Sylvia”, appears in The Dead Shoe Society Anthology. http://www.amazon.com/Dead-Shoe-Society-Jonas-Saul/dp/146808142X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1326307596&sr=1-1
Just today, the anthology received its first review: 5 stars!
My “Fast Lane” blog tour continues with an interview by Karen McQuestion on her blog, McQuestionable Musings. http://mcquestionablemusings.blogspot.com/
I finished my second “novel” (50,000+ words) in November, titled “Time Sensitive” while participating in NaNoWriMo. I want to continue working on it after the holidays, and bring pages to roundtables. I’m excited!
My short fiction, “Wrestling with Genetics,” is up at Necessary Fiction. Thanks guest editor for December, Kathy Fish!
http://necessaryfiction.com/writerinres/WrestlingWithGenetics
Donna McDonald, a romance writer who’s self-published six novels, gave Fast Lane a rave review and interviewed me for her blog. Go to http://donnamcdonald.blogspot.com/2011/12/dave-thome-talks-about-fast-lane-guest.html and find out what I think about women not shaving their armpits and legs.
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My novel, “Fast Lane,” is now on sale at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Lane-ebook/dp/B006BF06FC/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1322086703&sr=1-2 and Smashwords.
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/104991. It’s only available as an ebook at the moment, but I plan to make it available in print as soon as I can.
I read “Fast Lane” from cover to cover at Roundtables over the past two years. There were times when I didn’t feel like writing much, but also didn’t feel like showing up with nothing to read. And so the TRs helped keep me going. And the feedback was great, too. So, thanks, RedBird/RedOaK!
My short story, “One Letter Off”, earned third place in the Wisconsin Writer’s Association Jade Ring Fiction contest last month. Sarah White did a great job coordinating this year’s contest. This morning, I read “Snapshot” on Flash Fiction Fridays http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=8231#share. Many thanks to Stephanie Lecci and Robert Vaughan. “Snapshot” is also up at Pank Magazine, http://www.pankmagazine.com/snapshot/. My thanks to editor Roxane Gay. Most of all, thanks to Redbird-Redoak, my writing home.
Man Writing a Romance, The Free Ebook, which contains most of my Man Writing a Romance blog and some extras is now available from Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/98192. It’s available in several formats, so you don’t need a special reader.
NOTE – this is the last piece submitted for the WWA newsletter. From here up, goes next time.
Just got accepted to the MFA in Writing and Lit. low residency program
at Bennington!
What fun to read all the Redbird news!
I want to thank everyone who came to my event at Boswell Book Company on September 8th. Scheduling it during the first Packer game of the season wasn’t my smartest move. I would have been sunk without my writer friends.
My big excitement is that I have a kids’ book coming out on November 8th. It’s called Secrets of the Magic Ring and it’s a sequel to Celia and the Fairies.
My flash fiction “Dreamcatcher” was recently accepted at Litsnack. It can be viewed at http://www.litsnack.weebly.com/fiction.html right under Robert Kaye’s piece, which is also worth reading. That makes 3 online publications for me since joining RB-RO – Judy have you patented those magic, red pens??
As a longtime Redbird (1990 – 2009) alumnus I thought I would inform you that I had a business profile/article for a company called Trissential LLC published in The Business Journal’s Fastest Growing Firms special edition this past August. Also, FYI I have started my own writing blog which includes many pieces started in Redbird sessions. Don’t know what, if anything, you want to do with this information, but I thought I would at least pass it on. Thanks.
Just got word that a memoir I wrote about my parents will be hitting the March 2012 issue of More Magazine. I’ve got another one, ‘in the hopper,’ which is better than being ‘in the circular file.’
My short story, “Rink Rat,” earned an Honorable Mention in the Wisconsin Writers’ Association’s Jade Ring Contest. Many thanks to Sarah White, the contest organizer, the many entrants (I think there were 55 in the Adult Fiction category this year.) and the organization for its ongoing support of Wisconsin writers!
I returned yesterday from the inspirational and well-organized WWA Writer’s Conference in Steven’s Point. I can’t help crowing about my 2nd place win in the First Chapers Contest with my novel, THE TEN CENT CAFE.
Thanks to my Redbird West Critique group for helping me to tighten my writing and for all their encouragement.
I have an editorial in today’s Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “Respect, please, for job applicants.” You can find it at http://www.jsonline.com/
The Journal Sentinel is going to run my most recent cranky and politically incendiary letter to the editor on Sunday, Sept. 18. http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/.
Romance author Donna McDonald thanks me on her blog for interviewing her for mine. I didn’t even know Donna until she found ManWAR. Now she’s as big a fan of Fast Lane as anyone in the Tuesday night Inkslinger Roundtable. To see what Donna wrote, go to http://donnamcdonald.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-makes-rules-anyway.html.
To see what I wrote, ManWAR is at http://manwritingaromance.blogspot.com/
Sept 6th at Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark St. in Chicago, as part of the the Tuesday Funk eclectic monthly reading sessions, Edison will be reading from his recently completed novel “Undead Vikings in Love” and signing copies of his earlier novel “The Original Artificial Stud.”
Edison’s flash fiction story, “The Big Time”–from the annals of Chicago Rock and Roll goes live at Pure Slush on September 1st.
The Racine Journal-Times ran a feature interview with me, highlighting my July 24th presentation there on the spirituality of climate change. And a very full house at Olympia Brown Unitarian Universalist Church for that presentation, “Our Ferocious Love of Life vs. Catastrophic Climate Change”.
See this URL for the Journal-Times interview
http://www.journaltimes.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/article_1f4574ee-a993-11e0-8a1b-001cc4c002e0.html
Kim, I thought I had already sent this in, and if so, please disregard.
At Robert’s urging I submited to Pure Slush online journal. My essay, Watery Delight,was published August 4th. This was my first attempt to be published online.
Lois
I’m published in 15 Chicken Soup for the Soul books now. My latest story, about retirement, is in the book INSPIRATIONS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART.
I miss classes at Redbird!
Two short fiction pieces, “Deer Camp” and “Necessary” appear in the July 2011 edition of “Full of Crow Quarterly Fiction.” http://www.fullofcrow.com/fiction/2011/07/quarterly-fiction-july-2011/
With many thanks to Robert Vaughan and the Thursday evening Roundtable for helping me revise them — and to “Crow” editor, Paul Corman-Roberts, for his gentle and wise guidance for strengthening my work.
My essay, “The Lingering Goddess Speaks,” was on Lake Effect this morning. It can be heard at: http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=7809
My flash fiction “That’s The Way The Ball Bounces” is up at Metazen! http://www.metazen.ca/?p=7848
Congrats, Joanne, on your recent publishing success.
And congrats to Carol Bacwar, as well, for placing in the WRWA Humor Essay contest this past spring. I have had the pleasure of being in workshops with both of these talented women.
Be sure to scroll all the way down to see our writers’ “victories” of 2011. Half-way through the year, and we have 51 posts. Not too shabby! 🙂
Wonderful things arrived in my mail box last week. First a copy of the Wisconsin Poet’s Calendar 2012 with my poem “Who Do You Tell” in it, and a copy of the magazine Spirituality & Health with my essay, “The Chant at this Sacred Ritual is ‘Cheers!'” in it.
You gotta love mail!!