Shark Bytes and Tales

Win this beautiful windowpane afghan, edged in the colors of your choice, on my birthday In progress, made by me, finished size appr...

  A month or so ago I entered a short story in the first-ever venue for writers at the Grand Rapids Art Prize. I entered a story I like a l...

There are now 400 likes of Anastasia Raven Mysteries on Facebook. As promised I will give away four copies of News From Dead Mule Swamp. Th...

So, I've heard that Facebook is cracking down on some pages that are using likes as a way to run contests. They are particularly ...

We received our length and topic paragraph at noon Central Time today. Length is not to exceed 850 words. Entries are due by noon Sunday. T...

Escape Into Life is excited to announce its First Annual Fiction Contest, judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler. The ...

I've decided to enter the 24-hour short story contest sponsored by Writers Weekly. It could be fun and the prizes are good. The entry ...

Winner of a free copy of News from Dead Mule Swamp is Ivy of Spinning Lovely Days . She found all 15 names and thus earned two entries, on...

The Star City Blog sent me a message. "We regret to inform you that due to insignificant participation, Star City Blog was forced to ca...

I'm not sure why people are having so much trouble finding the names of characters for the contest to win a copy of News from Dead Mule ...

I'm working on the formatting of News from Dead Mule Swamp for publication on Smashwords and Amazon . Right now, everything is on sch...

Here it is... a way that you can win a free copy of News from Dead Mule Swamp. I will give away a number of copies in proportion to the n...

The short story is sent off to the Star City Blog Short Story Contest . Another writer friend read it as well, and she thinks it's pre...

Accepting criticism, even constructive criticism, is a learned skill. No one really likes to be told that they haven't done a good job. ...

I got my act together and have written an entry for the Star City Blog Short Story Contest. It's their second annual contest, and entrie...

OK, I did it. The short story submission in on its way. I can't say anything else about it, because I don't want to identify the con...

{EAV_BLOG_VER:d11ce7e6f2f3fce0} (just ignore this- it's a verification code for Empire Avenue) Just happened to notice that this is my ...