Paying it Forward
Roxie's Blog: a site for writers, artists and illustrators, songwriters, and others seeking submission venues plus thoughts and snippets of interest
Sunday Funny: Soaring Spirits
Today I begin my vacation, and to kick it off, I thought I’d pass along an inspiring, relaxing video. Meet Ray Bethel, a multi-talented super senior.
Enjoy, and I’ll see you all back in about 10 days 
Special thanks and shoutout to
SIR RALPH at Bluefish Way.
Top Twos-Day: Winners
And the winners are…Jeff Kinney and John Green! Kinney won the 2013 Children’s Choice Book Award and Green received the honor teen book of the year. This event is the crown jewel of the charity event which benefits Every Child A Reader (more)…
Speaking of winners, what electronic reading device do you think tops the others? For Mother’s Day, I was given a Nexus 7 Tablet, and I am absolutely mad about it! Yes, I have an iPad, but this little pretty is oh, so, um…better! Yes I dare say it! Ok, forget that I can’t take pictures from two lenses, but the capabilities far outweigh dual pic abilities. And I adore the petite size the Nexus offers, especially with the FreeNote+ for marking files, awesome!! Discover the Nexus 7…
Sunday Funny: Happy (or not) Mother’s Day!
As my family awaits the first grandbaby, I think about my daughter and her future Mother’s Day gifts…I extend this to all moms, tongue in cheek, of course!
Need a last minute gift? “Wrap an empty box as a present, with a note inside that says, ‘Fill me, please.’” Details…
The cards you wish you could give, “Happy Mother’s Day to my mother-in-Law…Here’s to another year of fake smiles, passive-aggression, and barely tolerating one another.” Not that this suits anyone you know. More cards…
What you’re likely getting for Mother’s Day, from the family, “…age 12-17, aggressive indifference…” How about some suggestions for moms with rebound kids, taking a page from literature, “Hamlet’s Gertrude: Take [thy] clingy son out of [thine] house…” Read more…
In closing, the final word comes from Bridget, mother of two sets of twins, with her excellent post on what not to give on this special day for moms…
Happy Mom’s Day!
review seeks essays
The Vocabula Review
Seeks “…essays about issues related to the English language, culture, and society.”
categories accepting: personal essay, poetry, newsworthy, book excerpts, etc.
rolling submissions
Also sponsor a writing contest
Read guidelines carefully, fee only if more than one entry
(scroll down to find contest box: click)
Top Twos-Day: Make it a double!
A day late and a dollar short? Make it two! Very short on both time and papery things these days. 
I’m tardy, guilty as charged, but I’ve been bizy, hear the whining? Though good busy, for sure.
Preparing, oh yeah, for my daughter’s baby shower, a week ago Sunday, despite the torrential rain and wind. She wanted a high tea, pictured above, and what my little girl wants, she gets, LOL. Hard to believe she’s now a mom-to-be.
And then there’s the meetings, oh my! Lawyers, web designers, authors, and others, to set up the publishing company. Plus the upcoming prep for the SCWW conference in a little over a week. Join us, if you’re in the area: register here.
Onward, to the two items of interest this week, which we can call Top Thursday, hmmm… doesn’t have the same ring, does it?
Here we go: Still the biggest news to cross my desk in the last eight or so days, O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference for Publishing (TOC) will sadly come to an end. Tim O’Reilly stated in his column, “For the past few years, we’ve been focusing on development of a platform code-named Atlas, and bringing that to fruition is central to our future plans. Atlas is a tool for collaborative writing (currently being used by authors of about two-thirds of the books in our pipeline), one-touch publishing in all formats (including print-on-demand), and an interactive online reading platform that takes full advantage of the digital realm.” Ahhh, so that’s what’s up their sleeve!
Also in the news: ta da…..my publishing company’s site is up, though we’re still modifying and constructing it! Our name is Sunscribe™. Come over for a quick preview and then we’d love to have you stop back for the official opening of submissions: I’ll keep you posted at http://sunscribe.net. The team pictures are not up yet, more fun than herding cats, gathering those bios and pics! So, *deep sigh* much to look forward to. We are proudly Forward Focused™ on Facebook and Twitter, stop by and say “hi”!
Just one more picture, before you go…
Sunday Funny: Shakespeare’s Swine
A very talented writer, of Shiteki Na Usagi , mentioned a must-see video. OOOOhhh, she’s absolutely right, totally worth your time.
You’ve never heard the THREE LITTLE PIGS like this!
If you’re in the South, why not stop by?
I’m getting ready to speak at the South Carolina Writer’s Workshop (SCWW) Intensive on May 18, 2013. If you’re in the area, I want to extend an invitation to you! This workshop, Bridging the Publishing Abyss, is open to anyone who is a writer, interested in becoming a writer, or may be curious about the process of writing and getting published.
This year we welcome four speakers: Jonathan K. Rice, an award winning author, editor and publisher of the Iodine Poetry Journal; Lee Q. Miller, author, historian and an adjunct professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Gerontology on Aging, Death and Grief at Winthrop University; Roxie Hanna, editor, publisher and ghostwriter who this year has launched a traditional publishing firm featuring children’s books, fiction and non-fiction including poetry; and Craig Faris, a seventeen-time published author of short fiction, one-act plays and thriller novels.
We offer sessions for poets, children’s writers (picture book to YA), memoirists, as well as fiction, and nonfiction writers. Sign up for up to four of thirteen one-hour sessions by visiting the website http://www.rockhillscww.org/.
The event includes lunch and is only $15.00. Feel free to pass this along to your friends who may be interested as well!
The schedule:
8:45 – 9:15 Registration and Opening
9:15 – 10:15 Session One
- Celebrating Life through Memoir part one: be sure to sign up for part two in Session Two
- The wrong way to get published
- Children’s Picture Book Perplexities
10:15 – 11:15 Session Two
- Celebrating Life through Memoir part two: be sure to sign up for part one in Session One
- Make your writing pop and grab attention
- Fabulous Fiction Falsehoods
11:15-11:30 break
11:30 – 12:30 Session Three
- Nuts and Bolts of Creating Legacy: an introduction
- Drowning the Agent
- How to get your poetry published
- Young Adult Enigmas
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch and Book Signing
1:30 – 2:30 Session Four
- The wrong way to get published
- How to get your poetry published
- Nonfiction Fibs
2:30–4:00 Book Signing and Readings by SCWW members
I’d love to see you there!
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