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Flush Fiction For the Reader on the Go

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So, finally, I can come clean. I’ve been sitting on this news for quite some time, and I refuse to waste another minute– I have a story in the just released Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction!

Whew. That felt good. It’s been so hard, keeping that in! But there’s more. The amazing folks at Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader have agreed to give away a copy of Flush Fiction to one of my lucky commenters! Isn’t that swell?

But of course, you want to know more about this quick fiction on the go! This collection of 88 short-short stories covers just about everything: mystery, horror, sci-fi, humor, romance, and adventure. The editors scoured the country for some of the best fiction writers around and stuffed them all into this one BIG book. Um…the stories, not the writers.

It’s a mystery what I’m doing in this book with such a group of esteemed writers.  But just like that eternal unanswerable question, “Who forgot to flush?” I suppose we’ll never know. We will, however, know who will win the copy of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction in exactly seven days. That’s when I’ll pluck a winner from the mess of names floating around in the comments. (Sorry, folks, you must be in the United States in order to win.)

And you might want to follow Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader on Twitter or Facebook for more info dumps.

(Okay, that went too far, didn’t it? But I seem to be on a roll and can’t stop.)

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Finding the Funny Along with the Sublime

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I had to share this post from Slush Pile Hell. (Which, I might add, is a funny spot to check out every day and not just when it happens to have a children’s related post).

The thing is, when you ask a bunch of Twitterers to come up with THE WORST CHILDREN’S BOOK…EVER, you’re going to get quite a few Tweets of an imaginary caliber. And the other thing is, I laughed out loud at almost all of the Top 25. So, that adds up to two things making this particular post a Keeper.

Now, calm down a bit because the next Keeper is a wonderful blog called “From the Mixed-up Files…of middle grade authors.” It basically says what you need to know in the title, but you can read here to find more of what these middle school authors have set out to do in the blogosphere.

And if you are a writer, as I am, you might want to read this overview. You’ll find out exactly what this bodacious blog has to offer you. Which I think is quite nice of them, don’t you?