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The Choice Matters Available May 22nd.

My new anthology called The Choice Matters will launch May 22nd on Amazon in print and as an eBook. The prices are discounted for this launch. If you plan on ordering it and everyone does so on the 22nd, we have a chance of it becoming an Amazon bestseller.

The book is a good graduation gift. Each essay and story is only 500 words, and the outcome of the choices people have made are relatable plus promote thought about the importance of making decisions.

Topics vary from moving location and/or school, changing jobs, life and death situations, helping the homeless, racing with a celebrity, relationship communication, and more.

Eight poems are included with titles like, “White Shoes,” “Time,” “Their Pool of Pandemonium,” “Whispers of the Lake,” and “If You Want to Exist Do Not Choose Left.”

Mark your calendars to get the print or eBook at a discount price on launch day, May 22nd, Wednesday. Here is the Amazon link: https://amzn.to/2YNZMz1

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The Choice Matters Anthology Front Cover

No, this door knob is not the cover image, but it’s a clue. Check out the real cover on https://jkcorwin.com/2019/04/22/front-cover-of-the-choice-matters/

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Multiple Projects Can Get Out Of Hand

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I’m a Type A personality, always busy, never bored.  A writing friend calls me Nutzoid when I take on another project. She’s right.  A cliche says “proof is in the pudding”, for me “proof is in the projects on my plate right now”  (yes, another cliche and one in the title).  Sometimes it’s fun to break the cliche rule.

 

My writing projects:

  • Blogging a completed novel, Hada’s Fog, chapter-by-chapter about once a week.
  • A multidimensional novel, Norman in the Painting,  half written
  • A YA novel, Lilli. with only chapter one done
  • An anthology, Choices, needs polishing
  • Newest book, Spotlight Stories, in planning stage

Part-time jobs:

  • Two days a week help my husband in one of his offices
  • Two days a week, one hour each, work with a dear SMH student
  • One half day a week teach a writing class 45 minutes away
  • One half day every other month supervise a student intern working on a teaching credential
  • One afternoon a month volunteer leading a social media group
  • Write when I can
  • Daily interact in multiple social media sites
  • Promote my anthology, Written Across the Genres

Here is the real Nutzoid part:

I have enrolled in 5 high-end, year-long, on-line programs with homework involved.

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I have faith that everything will get done at the right time because I love doing all that I do.

 

 

Are you a Type A? What are your projects?

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of Hada’s Fog

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Look For The Promise In A Story

Promise keep itIn my writing class today, we talked about the story’s promise. A few members brought in novels and read the promise on the first page, often in the first paragraph. I asked if the author followed up with the promise to the end. They assured me the authors did. The examples were across genres, a mystery, a family in danger, an historical novel, and another  historical novel mixed with fantasy.

Yesterday I wrote that the Tri-Valley Branch of the California Writers Club will have a book launch for their anthology tomorrow. I searched for the promise in some of the stories in Voices of the Valley: Word for Word. 

Jordan Bernal’s A Faerie in the Glen, has this first sentence: “The Faerie Glen on Scotland’s Isle of Skye was reputed to hold secrets…and more.”

Gary Lea’s promise in “Too Small” is in the third paragraph, “Why the shirt, I wondered, why just this one shirt? There were a lot of things that would have reminded me of Dad.”

Anne Koch’s “Christmas Lost and Found” has the promise in the title as well in the first paragraph, first line: “I lost Christmas. How in the world did that happen? I knew it wasn’t all at once. It was more like the slow fading of a black and white photograph.”

My essay titled “Life Support” starts with “My visit to Shelly in the hospital became a routine before I entered her ward.”

The above examples give story promises of secrets, a specific shirt, a lost Christmas, and a hospital visit.

The promises were kept.

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Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of Hada’s Fog

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Book Launch Party For Voices of the Valley: Word for Word

TVW Word for Word AnthologyCalifornia Writers Club, Tri-Valley Branch hosts a launch party for their anthology, Voices of the Valley: Word for Word, in Pleasanton, CA on Tuesday, March 1, 2016,  7:00 – 9:00 p.m.   Several writers will read excerpts from their prose or  poem.

Refreshments will be served, and copies of the book will be available for sale and signing.

I’m pleased to say my essay “Life Support” is included.

We thank Towne Center Books for providing space to have our party.

I hope to see you there.

 

 

Julaina Kleist-Corwin

Editor of Written Across the Genres

Author of soon to be released Hada’s Fog

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