Published "Morning"

A poem by yours truly was accepted in Havik Anthology - Las Positas College.
The title is "Morning" and it describes the thrill of a mother's waking up.
I hope you get a chance to read it and enjoy.

New website

Time to get real... so I am opening a new website:
https://chrisyellowwrites.wordpress.com/

Hope you like it!

Considering publishing a poem

I am considering publishing a poem.
I have checked where is the best place to do so, but in all cases it has to be something never before published... new material.
So first I am gathering the inspiration for a new poem that has a better version of my writing so I can get it places.
Don't get this the wrong way.
I am still interested in writing words to the wind, but just once I hoped this would be a less passing puff of air... that my words had a chance to be received.
Any suggestions?
(silence)
See what I mean... I am starting to feel like a lunatic talking to myself... in writing. 😅

New cover

Please let me know if you find that this is an improvement on the previous version.

I hope it conveys the dark mysterious and romantic atmosphere I was going for without giving too much away.  I honestly think this is a good art work from my friend Natalina and a good face to my book, what do you think? Please, leave comments if you care to.
ps - I am still reviewing and rewriting the ending, but that doesn't keep me from improving the whole package ;-)

Resumed publishing

I must say, after a second child and finding it hard to balance it all I am again reviewing my book.
I have fresh new ideas for the graphics and realize that there was still some polishing to be done.
I also want to re-twick the ending, finding that on the back of my mind I was never fully satisfied by the description of the events then.
I will let you know when I am done... should be able to publish it on amazon, for hard copy and download availability by the end of the year.

So stand by for news.

Hi

Short and tiny story contest

This week I bit my pride and sent a short and a flash stories to an international contest.

This Christmas as I lay in bed, waiting for my husband to wake while thinking of the good fortune I meat, I decided that I should thank my mother, for the spirit she bred in me. Thus I wrote a short story revealing my resilience to tragedy. To my fascination two pages were enough to watter my father's eyes.

Thereafter, when the news meat me that the publisher I applied my book for was a vanity-publisher, I realised that I should sell myself before my book. No serious agent or publisher will give a proper chance to my book if I am no one anyone ever heard of.

I found the perfect contest though it might be way out of my league, but since the aim is also to recognise my league I filled myself of virtual courage and put myself out there. The contest had three categories, one that fitted my short story perfectly and another that sounded like an amazing challenge, the flash story. They consider for this contest purpose that a flash story is bellow 500 words.

-"Challenge accepted!" - I had to free myself from description, for it extends the action beyond the limits, and I discovered that focusing on the story gave it such an extraordinary power.

So now I am not hoping for one story to make the best thirteen of the world, but also a second to make the best five. My nerves won't last and I will try focusing elsewhere, on my second book. I don't know when the results will be revealed, but the prize is awarded in October. I shall prevail non the less!

Cross your fingers for me. If you know of any contest for new writers let me know. :-)

vanity-publishing no!

Hello again,
It is decided. It seems this is not the natural path of a writer.
It is called vanity-publishing (to pay to publish) and it bounds my book to oblivious.
Therefore I decided to let it take a more natural and longer course.
I will apply to some contests, to see if I catch the eye of an agent.
And in one year from now if I haven't, I will publish it myself (self-publishing) on Amazon.
In the mean time, as promised, the book won't die without a brother and the second one is now on its 3rd chapter.
I will keep in touch.
Greetings to all.

I was thinking of writing a book...

But that never really happens. And even if it did, I would have to have it always with me so I could continue writing...
I am not saying it is worth reading or the space in google's computer, but I had no better way to have it in hand to write whenever I would like... So here it goes! I hope to be writing a lot, mostly nonsense and attempts of small chapters in this quest for my book!