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Cathy C. Hallhttps://cathychall.wordpress.com/I write, write, write. Then I rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. THEN I submit all those polished-up words out into the world and sell 'em. It's a plan that's worked pretty well.

Finding Something Friday on Nanoism Contest

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Oh, I found the perfect contest for a short and sweet post. ‘Cause I’m not gonna lie. I’m tired. If you can remember that scene in Blazing Saddles when Madeline Kahn sings about being tired, then you know exactly how I feel right now. If you can’t remember MK and her sultry song, well, I’m too tired to go into that.

I will go into the Nanoism Nanofiction Contest. If you can write nanofiction, a short, short, teeny, tiny bit of a story, then this is the contest for you. All you need is 140 scathingly brilliant characters. Not words. Not letters. Characters. That means spaces are included. If you Twitter, you’re already writing nanofiction, sorta.

Heck. You don’t even have to be a writer to pull this off. In fact, I don’t know too many writers who can (how to put this nicely?) “zip it” at 140 characters. But hey. I could be wrong.

So, prove me wrong. The First Prize is twenty bucks…that’s like a buck a word. See what I mean about short and sweet on Finding Something Friday?

Finding Keepers: A Blog, A Book, and a Market (Oh, My!)

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My, oh my. I love books! And I especially love winning books! So, when I saw that I’d won a copy of Crocodaddy by the gifted (and funny-face-making) Kim Norman, I was pretty much beside myself. Want to know how I won?

Here’s the scoop: I popped into Sally Apokedak’s blog All About Children’s Books. Where she just happened to be giving away Crocodaddy. All I had to do was leave a comment with my own version of a Crocodaddy poem. Actually, I wrote three poems, because that’s the way I roll. Not that it gave me a better chance to win. I’m just lucky at winning books. (Some day I’m going to figure out how to transfer that luck to selling books…but that’s an entirely different post.)

Sally reviews lots of books and participates in blog tours and such, and stopping by to see what she’s schmoozin’ about is a great way to get the scoop on what’s hot in the children’s world of literature. And you might meet a witty author, or win a great book.

And now, because a good market is hard to find, I’m throwing in the call out for Learning Through History. If you’ve got an idea for a thrilling article Ireland-related, circa 19th century, you have till June 15th to send your pitch. Remember that LTH is for readers aged 12 – 17 years.

As promised…a blog, a book, and a market. Oh, my. I’ve outdone myself!