Flash Fiction Challenge: On Patrol

Every so often, we happen upon an image that screams flash fiction challenge. We then post it in our authors Facebook group and get out of the way. The following is one such image and the flash fiction it inspired our amazing authors to write.   PUNCH LINE BY...

Editor’s Notes: Getting at the Truth

BY JESSICA SHEN One of the best pieces of advice given to the beginning writer is write what you know. And, you should! Arguably one of the most difficult parts of writing is getting your reader fully immersed in your story. You are your own best resource, and drawing...

Featured Friday: Lone? Ranger

BY MEGAN WISEMAN They say that when you have a major heart surgery, when someone quite literally touches your heart, you may experience a profound change in your life thereafter . . . My first attempt at writing came mere weeks after my own open heart surgery at the...

Editor’s Notes: Learning the Language

BY PENNY FREEMAN In the digital age we live in, thoughts fly around the world at the speed of light, to last forever, buried away in some hard drive or other until it’s long forgotten; only to be unearthed at the most inopportune and embarrassing moments conceivable....

Editor’s Notes: A Book Is Born

BY TERRI WAGNER Getting your book to that final stage of publishing requires a lot of effort. You have to re-work, re-do, re-edit just to get to a final writing stage. But it doesn’t end there. Manuscript in hand, you search diligently for just the right publisher and...