Catching UP!

Books that went to press, or back to press, this week this week

Haunted Circles, by Robert Kanehl

    Most freshmen at the university swear that there are ghosts on campus, but Hannah Pitkin Griswold knows the truth. There is one ghost seeking help, the kind of help only Hannah can provide.

    Life travels in circles that connect through time. These circles need to meet if spirits are to ever rest. Entering her freshman year of college Hannah runs headlong into a ghost striving to complete a circle of life derailed a hundred years ago.

    Can Hannah help the spirit realign her path? Will this spirit be forever searching for a love missing since World War One?

    More importantly will Hannah herself complete a circle that has been haunting her since eighth grade?

THE FLYER, Legacy Series, Vol. 4, by Elena Dorothy Bowman

     It was the flyer that brought Victoria Caldwell to Jacob’s Cove and ultimately to Adams Point where she met Ethan and Abigail Becket the owners of the Inn at Adams Point which the flyer             had described in such detail that intrigued her and also and their devoted friend Tony Harrington. 

Apologies everyone for all the delays...

Galleys That Went Out This Week

LAKE EERIE: Haunted Homicide, by Thornton Parsons

   The police photographer snapped pictures of the body in the rowboat. Special Agent McCreary ruminated on the initial K that Renda had written in her own blood—she had recognized her killer! Trapped in a dark future between here and the hereafter, Renda Rousseau finds that even in death, she cannot escape the weasel with the Coke-bottle glasses who murdered her at the lake house. But, why? Renda will capture your heart as you join her on her heart-stopping quest to leave her ghostly realm and join David and her children in Heaven. But how? Is she doomed to haunt the lake house for all eternity?  Despite her ethereal rage, she is unable to contact her twin sister, Brenda, who knows that Renda holds the key to the mystery of her death.

Cover not Set

WILD AMYTHYST, Poetry by Bobbi Sinha-Morey

   Call it ballet with the grace of verse, and that’s what you get inside this book. A whiff of enchantment; a touch of fantasy. Paths that lead to wondrous places and faraway lands.  Days of spring like weather and escapism. Some of Bobbi’s poems reflect real life, others imagined, and you’ll read her most genuine musings, thoughts and tales that reveal

her inner character. She draws from experiences in her past, paintings she likes to rest her eyes upon. You’ll find nature, a little dream imagery. The beauty of autumn.

   Come experience her most poignant words and the dance of sunrise in her pen.

Cover Not Set

Work continued on the folowing

BACKWOODS MEMORIES, by Shelley Abbott    

   A collection of essays and Memoirs from noted Eastern Shore Singer-Songwriter, Shelley Abbott.

JACK'S NEWS

and

Gossip Column

Hi Everyone,

    The Writer's Bloc will meet Saturday, April 21, in room 3 of the Salisbury Library.

    Roger and Arline are down for eye surgery  next week. His is far more serious than hers. Don't worry -- me and Spunky will take good care of them.

Please take time to let us know what's going on .

Just send an e-mail to 

arline@mail.com

with

"News for Jack"

in the subject line, and I'll see it gets posted

right here for all

the World to see! 

Catching UP!

No books went to press this week

Galleys That Went Out This Week

THE FLYER, Legacy Series, Vol. 4, by Elena Dorothy Bowman

     It was the flyer that brought Victoria Caldwell to Jacob’s Cove and ultimately to Adams Point where she met Ethan and Abigail Becket the owners of the Inn at Adams Point which the flyer             had described in such detail that intrigued her and also and their devoted friend Tony Harrington. 

Apologies everyone for all the delays...

LAKE EERIE: Haunted Homicide, by Thornton Parsons

   The police photographer snapped pictures of the body in the rowboat. Special Agent McCreary ruminated on the initial K that Renda had written in her own blood—she had recognized her killer! Trapped in a dark future between here and the hereafter, Renda Rousseau finds that even in death, she cannot escape the weasel with the Coke-bottle glasses who murdered her at the lake house. But, why? Renda will capture your heart as you join her on her heart-stopping quest to leave her ghostly realm and join David and her children in Heaven. But how? Is she doomed to haunt the lake house for all eternity?  Despite her ethereal rage, she is unable to contact her twin sister, Brenda, who knows that Renda holds the key to the mystery of her death.

Cover not Set

WILD AMYTHYST, Poetry by Bobbi Sinha-Morey

   Call it ballet with the grace of verse, and that’s what you get inside this book. A whiff of enchantment; a touch of fantasy. Paths that lead to wondrous places and faraway lands.  Days of spring like weather and escapism. Some of Bobbi’s poems reflect real life, others imagined, and you’ll read her most genuine musings, thoughts and tales that reveal

her inner character. She draws from experiences in her past, paintings she likes to rest her eyes upon. You’ll find nature, a little dream imagery. The beauty of autumn.

   Come experience her most poignant words and the dance of sunrise in her pen.

Cover Not Set

Work continued on the folowing

BACKWOODS MEMORIES, by Shelley Abbott    

   A collection of essays and Memoirs from noted Eastern Shore Singer-Songwriter, Shelley Abbott.

JACK'S NEWS

and

Gossip Column

Hi Everyone,

   Heard from Irma Albrecht, that her husband C.M is under the weather.  He writes some of my favorite mysteries, like the one above. We are all thinking of him here and wishing him the best.

    The Writer's Bloc has chosen the theme for their new Anthlogy. Meanwhile, sales are going well for last Year's entry... NOIR.

   Bloc president, Tom Taylor, sent the following guidelines for submissions:

Hey all,

We are starting the process for our fifth anthology which is themed... Voices.  

So the submission guidelines are as follows and if i have missed one or two, please indicate to the group with my apologies.

Members can submit one short story or up to three works of Poetry,  up to 2500 words.

Manuscript format  -- name and contact info in the upper left corner, word count and publishing rights in the upper right corner, double spaced 14 pt Times New Roman or equivalent font, pagination start on second page

one inch left margin, top and bottom, unjustified right margin, no hyphenated words.

Poems with a particular format should be indicated with such...

submissions should be submitted for critique electronically to the editorial board.

rename folder as the name of the piece with last name of author first_title_date submitted  ... Taylor_Hearing Voices_03202018.doc

If the piece is not ready for submission, keep it til it is.

Submissions will be critiqued by all participating members, and the suggestions should be weighed to their inclusions. 

Final submissions shall be submitted electronically to the editorial board  as  Taylor_Hearing Voices, Searing Vices_ Final_03202018.doc

Each submission needs a piece of art to accompany it, royalty free, sketch or picture. or original artwork, submitted electronically with same title.jpeg

One for each piece submitted and please indicate by renaming them as the title of submissions

A bio is also submitted with the same margins as submissions... 100 words

Editorial Board will assign foreword and aftword assignments

Back cover blurbs will be accepted for recommendations of text.

I think i covered most everything.

please submit questions and any desire to be on the editorial board.

thanks

tom t

Not sure why Tom is against hyphenated words (or caps). Arline and me have no objections. Also, I believe submissions are only open to members of the Bloc, or Eastern Shoremen, or both. Correct me if I'm wrong, Tom.

Meanwhile, here at home not a lot is going on except their visits to the vets. They are both set for something called CAT-er-act, surgery on the 25th.  But I'm sure they will be okay.

Can't be too bad if it starts with a "cat."  Right?

Please take time to let us know what's going on .

Just send an e-mail to 

arline@mail.com

with

"News for Jack"

in the subject line, and I'll see it gets posted

right here for all

the World to see! 

Catching UP!

Books that went to press, or back to press, this week

Haunted Circles, by Robert Kanehl

    Most freshmen at the university swear that there are ghosts on campus, but Hannah Pitkin Griswold knows the truth. There is one ghost seeking help, the kind of help only Hannah can provide.

    Life travels in circles that connect through time. These circles need to meet if spirits are to ever rest. Entering her freshman year of college Hannah runs headlong into a ghost striving to complete a circle of life derailed a hundred years ago.

    Can Hannah help the spirit realign her path? Will this spirit be forever searching for a love missing since World War One?

    More importantly will Hannah herself complete a circle that has been haunting her since eighth grade?

Cat and Mouse Press and Browseabout Books are sponsoring a beachy short story contest with a $10 entry fee for a shot at a cash prize and publication. www.catandmousepress.com/contest/ 

Galleys That Went Out This Week

THE FLYER, Legacy Series, Vol. 4, by Elena Dorothy Bowman

     It was the flyer that brought Victoria Caldwell to Jacob’s Cove and ultimately to Adams Point where she met Ethan and Abigail Becket the owners of the Inn at Adams Point which the flyer             had described in such detail that intrigued her and also and their devoted friend Tony Harrington. 

Apologies everyone for all the delays...

Work Continued on the Following...

LAKE EERIE: Haunted Homicide, by Thornton Parsons

   The police photographer snapped pictures of the body in the rowboat. Special Agent McCreary ruminated on the initial K that Renda had written in her own blood—she had recognized her killer! Trapped in a dark future between here and the hereafter, Renda Rousseau finds that even in death, she cannot escape the weasel with the Coke-bottle glasses who murdered her at the lake house. But, why? Renda will capture your heart as you join her on her heart-stopping quest to leave her ghostly realm and join David and her children in Heaven. But how? Is she doomed to haunt the lake house for all eternity?  Despite her ethereal rage, she is unable to contact her twin sister, Brenda, who knows that Renda holds the key to the mystery of her death.

Cover not set.

WILD AMYTHYST. Poetry by Bobbi Sinha-Morey

   Call it ballet with the grace of verse, and that’s what you get inside this book. A whiff of enchantment; a touch of fantasy. Paths that lead to wondrous places and faraway lands.  Days of spring like weather and escapism. Some of Bobbi’s poems reflect real life, others imagined, and you’ll read her most genuine musings, thoughts and tales that reveal

her inner character. She draws from experiences in her past, paintings she likes to rest her eyes upon. You’ll find nature, a little dream imagery. The beauty of autumn.

   Come experience her most poignant words and the dance of sunrise in her pen.

Cover Not Set

BACKWOODS MEMORIES, by Shelley Abbott    

   A collection of essays and Memoirs from noted Eastern Shore Singer-Songwriter, Shelley Abbott.

JACK'S NEWS

and

Gossip Column

Hi Everyone,

  Heard from Ann Foley with some contest news this week.

   Cat and Mouse Press and Browseabout Books are sponsoring a beachy short story contest with a $10 entry fee for a shot at a cash prize and publication. www.catandmousepress.com/contest/ 

   Not much going on here at home. We had 4 nor'easters in three weeks and Roger picked up all the fallen branches every time. His pickup truck is FULL of wood. We had a snow storm, too -- they predicted  8 inches, but we only got about six.

Well, folks . Have a 

HAPPY EASTER

from all the Chases

Please take time to let us know what's going on .

Just send an e-mail to 

arline@mail.com

with

"News for Jack"

in the subject line, an I'll see it gets posted

right here! 

Catching UP!

No Books that went to press this week

Galleys That Went Out This Week

THE FLYER, Legacy Series, Vol. 4, by Elena Dorothy Bowman

     It was the flyer that brought Victoria Caldwell to Jacob’s Cove and ultimately to Adams Point where she met Ethan and Abigail Becket the owners of the Inn at Adams Point which the flyer             had described in such detail that intrigued her and also and their devoted friend Tony Harrington.

     When she arrived at Jacob’s Cove she settled in at the Mariner where the Proprietor gave her a short description of the Inn at Adams Point and the strange happenings that were occurring there. In passing he mentioned the last group that were interested in the Inn and about the flyers they held in their hands. He said that an ominous wind had sprung up from out of the calm morning, ripped the flyers out of the strangers’ hands and as he watched, the flyers turned into wispy feathers floating across the water toward the Inn at Adams Point and were never seen again.

Work Continued on the Following...

Haunted Circles, by Robert Kanehl

    Most freshmen at the university swear that there are ghosts on campus, but Hannah Pitkin Griswold knows the truth. There is one ghost seeking help, the kind of help only Hannah can provide.

    Life travels in circles that connect through time. These circles need to meet if spirits are to ever rest. Entering her freshman year of college Hannah runs headlong into a ghost striving to complete a circle of life derailed a hundred years ago.

    Can Hannah help the spirit realign her path? Will this spirit be forever searching for a love missing since World War One?

    More importantly will Hannah herself complete a circle that has been haunting her since eighth grade?

Apologies everyone for all the delays...

Work Continued on the Following...

LAKE EERIE: Haunted Homicide, by Thornton Parsons

   The police photographer snapped pictures of the body in the rowboat. Special Agent McCreary ruminated on the initial K that Renda had written in her own blood—she had recognized her killer! Trapped in a dark future between here and the hereafter, Renda Rousseau finds that even in death, she cannot escape the weasel with the Coke-bottle glasses who murdered her at the lake house. But, why? Renda will capture your heart as you join her on her heart-stopping quest to leave her ghostly realm and join David and her children in Heaven. But how? Is she doomed to haunt the lake house for all eternity?  Despite her ethereal rage, she is unable to contact her twin sister, Brenda, who knows that Renda holds the key to the mystery of her death.

Cover not set.

WILD AMYTHYST. Poetry by Bobbi Sinha-Morey

   Call it ballet with the grace of verse, and that’s what you get inside this book. A whiff of enchantment; a touch of fantasy. Paths that lead to wondrous places and faraway lands.  Days of spring like weather and escapism. Some of Bobbi’s poems reflect real life, others imagined, and you’ll read her most genuine musings, thoughts and tales that reveal

her inner character. She draws from experiences in her past, paintings she likes to rest her eyes upon. You’ll find nature, a little dream imagery. The beauty of autumn.

   Come experience her most poignant words and the dance of sunrise in her pen.

Cover Not Set

BACKWOODS MEMORIES, by Shelley Abbott    

   A collection of essays and Memoirs from noted Eastern Shore Singer-Songwriter, Shelley Abbott.

JACK'S NEWS

and

Gossip Column

Hi Everyone,

  Heard from Barbara Garro this week, a fine poet, even though she hasn't yet followed my suggestion that she try a poem with Cats in it.

    LOVE BITES: Poetry by Barbara Garro, 

   Now in her eighth decade, Barbara Garro, at the early death of her mom, became powerfully propelled into poetry. Poem after poem, flows through her as she shares the spirit of a lifetime in innermost love thoughts, fears and dreams. Love Bites is Garro’s debut poetry

collection, first in a Series.

Now that's the kind of Gossip I call GOOD!

Please take time to let us know what's going on with you.

Just send an e-mail to 

arline@mail.com

with

"News for Jack"

in the subject line, an I'll see it gets posted

right here! 

Catching UP!

Books that went to press this week

Haunted Circles, by Robert Kanehl

    Most freshmen at the university swear that there are ghosts on campus, but Hannah Pitkin Griswold knows the truth. There is one ghost seeking help, the kind of help only Hannah can provide.

    Life travels in circles that connect through time. These circles need to meet if spirits are to ever rest. Entering her freshman year of college Hannah runs headlong into a ghost striving to complete a circle of life derailed a hundred years ago.

    Can Hannah help the spirit realign her path? Will this spirit be forever searching for a love missing since World War One?

    More importantly will Hannah herself complete a circle that has been haunting her since eighth grade?

Apologies everyone for all the delays...

Galleys that went Out this week

LAKE EERIE: Haunted Homicide, by Thornton Parsons

   The police photographer snapped pictures of the body in the rowboat. Special Agent McCreary ruminated on the initial K that Renda had written in her own blood—she had recognized her killer! Trapped in a dark future between here and the hereafter, Renda Rousseau finds that even in death, she cannot escape the weasel with the Coke-bottle glasses who murdered her at the lake house. But, why? Renda will capture your heart as you join her on her heart-stopping quest to leave her ghostly realm and join David and her children in Heaven. But how? Is she doomed to haunt the lake house for all eternity?  Despite her ethereal rage, she is unable to contact her twin sister, Brenda, who knows that Renda holds the key to the mystery of her death.

Cover not set.

WILD AMYTHYST. Poetry by Bobbi Sinha-Morey

   Call it ballet with the grace of verse, and that’s what you get inside this book. A whiff of enchantment; a touch of fantasy. Paths that lead to wondrous places and faraway lands.  Days of spring like weather and escapism. Some of Bobbi’s poems reflect real life, others imagined, and you’ll read her most genuine musings, thoughts and tales that reveal

her inner character. She draws from experiences in her past, paintings she likes to rest her eyes upon. You’ll find nature, a little dream imagery. The beauty of autumn.

   Come experience her most poignant words and the dance of sunrise in her pen.

Work in Progress

Cover Not Set

THE FLYER, Legacy Series, Vol. 4, by Elena Dorothy Bowman

   Finally! The last volume in the ever-popular Legacy Series, a 4 volume time-travel series that is every bit as intriguing as Outlander. 

Cover Not Set

BACKWOODS MEMORIES, by Shelley Abbott    

   A collection of essays and Memoirs from noted Eastern Shore Singer-Songwriter, Shelley Abbott.

JACK'S NEWS

and

Gossip Column

Hi Everyone,

   Looks like the medicine finally worked. Anyway, after two weeks of misery, they're starting to look more lively. Arline was back working on covers for Elena Bowman's FLYER, That's not an easy concept to put into illustration, and so far the idea Elena gave her is the only one that is working. Meanwhile, Roger is out picking up all the tree limbs that didn't survive the three (count them, THREE!) nor'easters we had in a row.

MEANWHILE

If you have any news

Or Really Good Gossip

Don't forget to let us know...

And speaking of good gossip, Andy Nunez almost sold out of copies of his new GHOSTS III of the Eastern Shore at the National Outdoor Show in February and he's planning lots of other shows  and meetings to go so he can show it off. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, This is the best one yet!

Now that's the kind of Gossip I call GOOD!

Please take time to let us know what's going on with you. 

Just send an e-mail to 

arline@mail.com

with

"News for Jack"

in the subject line, an I'll see it gets posted

right here!