Wow, thanks Mandy I forgot how to retrieve this blog! A year or two has past since I last wrote anything here and I've read hundreds of books, not an exaggeration(sic) since then! Okay, so some of those books were ones I've reread ten or twenty times, but it still counts, at least in my book. My blog, my rules!
I've not only read many books during my absence from this site, but I've contributed to a couple. Mostly poetry, but I am also writing short stories and working on a dozen or so novels. I guess I believe in quantity, but not over quality. Ripple Effect, the first anthology that I was ever published in - well if you don't count the book through international poetry society/poetry.com that I, a high school student at the time, had one poem in that my father purchased and that I lost long ago and that just for the record I don't even count and only mentioned it to be strictly accurate - is now available at the Jackson District Library. I am borrowing the circulating copy right now, but after I am finished you can check it out! I am not saying that because my work appears in it, but because a lot of talented and wonderful authors and artists are also found between the covers of this charitable anthology. All the profits - the contributors didn't recieve a cent or even a free copy of the book - go toward the rebuilding of New Orleans Libraries. Great cause. The publisher of Ripple Effect is an organization called Tears Of the Phoenix. Ripple Effect is their first antholoy too, but not their last. Tears of the Phoenix publishes anthologies and a literary magazine to support various literary related causes. On an interesting God's in His Heavens type of note the brand/big name author included in Ripple Effect is Rachel Caine of Weather Warden fame. I was reading her books just before I quit blogging here the first time. She went on to write the Morganville Vampire series, but I am not a fan of those books. Much prefer Stephanie Meyer's Cold Ones. Take a page out of my book, keep reading.
