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Edgar Allen Poe fans, my publisher Falstaff Books is putting together an anthology of stories inspired by EAP called ‘Nevermore’. I’ll have a new story in it with the title, “And They Will Rise from The Ocean”! They created a Kickstarter about a month ago to help launch it.
We’re about 3/4 of the way there for funding on Nevermore. If you like creepy stories written by people like Alexander G. R. Gideon, Jason Gilbert, John Hartness, Leslie Gould, Carol Gyzander, Nicole Givens Kurtz, ME and many more – please consider backing this project and/or sharing it with people in your community who might love this kind of work.
Your support will allow Falstaff Books to pay the authors $.05/word for their stories, significantly more than the $100 per story we are currently contracted for, and even more than that with stretch goals. In return for your preorder and support, you get mentioned in the book and can get rewards ranging from ebooks, paperbacks, hardcovers, or even your name in the book as a character.
AND for writers several AMAZING editors have rewards that will give you a critique of a query letter or manuscript for an unbelievable price.
Cool video and all details here: http://kck.st/42jY3BN
So if you love creepy stuff, and amazing books, you owe it to yourself to get on over to Kickstarter and back this awesome project! Feel free to share! TY!
Photo credit: Smithsonian Magazine
What are you doing today between 3-5pm (EST)? I’ll be a guest on Adam Messer’s live radio show. Come and ask us a question about the writing life! It’s going to be fun!
Here’s the promo: Join us live Sunday July 19, 2020 with guest Michele Tracy Berger on The Adam Messer Show from 3pm-5p EST on 107.5 FM Savannah ( wruu.org) Can’t listen live? Catch the podcast later on savannahmuses.com #radio #wruu1075
In late April, I started a YouTube channel. I have been populating it with short excerpts of me reading from recently published fiction. It’s been fun!
Reminder: Last Write-IN happening tomorrow: Thursday, May 28 (3-5 pm and 8-9 pm EST).
How it works:
You log on through a Zoom link, see me on Zoom (everyone one is muted, and video off) and I lead you through a 5 minute writing prompt, mindfulness exercise or gentle stretch.
After that, I turn on an online timer for 45 minutes. You write. At the end of 45 minutes, I come on and encourage you to take a break before the next session (i.e. stretch, drink some water, etc.). We do the same thing during the second hour.
To get the Zoom links for tomorrow’s Write-IN, go here.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to explore my feelings and relationship to the term ‘Afrofuturism’ in this recent essay for the online quarterly magazine South Write Large: Stories, Arts and Ideas for the Global South. Is this a term that you have heard a lot about? How do you engage with Afrofuturism?
My Unlikely Path to Afrofuturism
Afrofuturism is everywhere these days. From the staggering success of Black Panther to the revival of Octavia Butler’s works, especially the prescient Parable of the Sower written in 1993, to the award-winning novels by N. K. Jemisin, these books have ushered in a new moment. We’re not just talking about literature or film, but music, fashion design, visual arts, and social activism as well. What often gets lost or flattened, however, when a phenomenon enters the mainstream, is the nuance, history, and multiple viewpoints on said phenomenon. Read the rest of the essay here.