Blog - Solace in a Book

Submit locally . . .

12/10/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

If your holiday activities don't overrun your schedule, consider these local calls for submissions. C. J. Laity of ChicagoPoetry.com is doing another anthology: JOMP 19: Poetry of Protest. Here are the details. Deadline is 2/28/16. Measure, Cleave, Silver -- these are the three elements needed in your submissions to be considered for the Spring issue (#10) of 3Elements Review. Submission guidelines are here. Whitney Scott's Outrider Press in affiliation with … [Read more...]

Glimpse of solace: Tis the season

12/04/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Does the news these days make you want to lose it? Me too. And like the other week when I posted after the Paris terrorism, I really don't have anything brilliant to add to the discussion. Too many people are quick to chime in but their comments don't add anything to the situation. I'll tell you one thing. And this is not earth-shattering but I hope it makes you feel better. I have been doing Classical Stretch with Miranda Esmonde -White and my favorite routine is the … [Read more...]

Happy Thanksgiving

11/26/2015 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for reading and making my wishes come true. Hope today you get the bigger piece of the wishbone. With GRATITUDE, peace, love, and solace … [Read more...]

Contributor updates and new submission leads

11/21/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Peace and love to you all. I usually wish this to you at the end of every post but today I want to extend it to you first thing. I have nothing smart or new or world-changing to say about current events so I'll just repeat myself: Peace and love to all. I heard from Kathy Donahoo last week. She lives in California now. She's had two pieces of fiction recently placed. "Joey" a short story appears in Water-Stone Review (Volume 18, 2015), which has the theme: All We Cannot … [Read more...]

Writing & submission info

11/09/2015 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Hey there -- howdy do. I know it's been more than a week since I last checked in. Happy November! November is a month when we are not supposed to shave but we are supposed to write a ton. I am sure you have heard of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Here's a pithy article with pointers on how to be most productive. It's by M.G. Leonards and titled: "How to write a book --top tips for National Novel Writing Month" and it appears in the November 3 issue of The … [Read more...]