Anthology | Cathy C. Hall Writes

Okay, I know it’s freezing all over the country, but when the temperature drops to 30 in my Georgia backyard… baby, it’s cold outside! So, I thought I’d find something to warm the cockles of my heart. Feel free to warm your cockles, too (whatever a cockle is).

I’m still looking for all those favorite websites I had stored, and subsequently lost, in the computer fiasco of ’09. Today I remembered “Anthologies Online.” Check it out here for articles and anthology call-outs. I found a call-out for A Cup Of Comfort for Fathers.

A few days ago, I found the Cup of Comfort blog, which dang near made my day. Not the blog, so much, but a post about the latest C of C to be released: Cup of Comfort for New Moms. My story was listed in the index. Big deal, you might think. After all, I’d filled out a contract and sent my edited version back. But a contract and edited version does not automatically mean your story’s going to end up in the book. Trust me.

Anyway, check out the Cup of Comfort website (The blog’s there, too). You’ll find all the info for the Father’s book. Deadline is April 1, 2009. That’s plenty of time to write a heart-warming little essay about dad, right?

And if you want to warm up your children’s writing, you might want to check out the hot new happenings from Children’s Book Insider. If you have a CBI subscription, you can get into their new CBI Clubhouse. But you can get their hot e-zine delivered to your inbox FREE! if you go to the Write4kids website. I’m still catching up on end-of-the-year and first-of-the-year newsletters and e-zines (like CBI). I got way behind, you know, on account of the computer fiasco of ’09.

Do you get the feeling that you’re going to be hearing about the computer fiasco of ’09 for quite some time to come? Well, there you go…just one more thing you found out today on Finding Something Friday. Now, off you go. Start warming those cockles (whatever they are).

Technically, I did not find the Writer Mama, Christina Katz. But, I did find her latest book, Get Known Before the Book Deal, in my mailbox. (Oh, and Writer Mama, too!) And I plan to read it, maybe share a few tips with you. Now, if I just didn’t have all this pesky writing to do…

Here’s some pesky writing you may want to consider. Cecil Murphey and Marley Gibson are looking for true Christmas Miracle stories for their book…wait for it…Christmas Miracles! It’s planned for a late 2009 release, so those miracle stories need to be written, polished and submitted by December 24th. The good news is, you will be paid. And you only need 900 to 1200 nicely polished words. The bad news is, your story must involve a miracle and the Christmas season.

That’s kinda tough, isn’t it? I wonder if Cecil and Marley will count getting Christmas shopping done, a scrumptious feast prepared, a gorgeous tree put up, everybody to church on time, and sharing the holidays without at least one major blowout as a Christmas miracle? Not that I’ve ever actually accomplished that.

But maybe you have. Or maybe you have something even better. Check out all the details here if you want to write about your Christmas miracle. I think I’ll just read Christina’s book.