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Our latest review — from Portland Book Review

06/16/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Here's out latest review.  It is from the Portland Book Review. Solace in So Many Words Edited by Ellen Wade Beals Weighed Words LLC, $20, 228 pages How do you define solace? How do you find it? Author Ellen Beals sought answers to these questions and put a call out to writers for fiction, poetry, and essays. The result is a moving anthology, edited by Beals, titled Solace in So Many Words. Everyone experiences loss, whether of a family member, pet, or a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Blood & Honey Review, Ellen Bass, Ellen Wade Beals, Kathryn Franklin, Poetry, Portland Book Review, publication, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Susan Spaeth Cherry

Our next reading event and contributor updates

06/11/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

The big news is there is  another reading event  for Solace in So Many Words-- it will be July 21, Thursday, at 7 pm at The BookMarket, 2651 Navy Blvd, Glen Town Center, Glenview (phone: 847-904-7304).  Contributors who will be reading include: Joan Corwin, J. Scott Smith, Kathleene Donahoo, D. J. Lachance. Weighed Words celebrated the short story in May -- the winner in the collection giveaway was Erika Dreifus although the two runners-up also received Solace in So Many … [Read more...]

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Everyday is a gift

06/11/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Everyday is a gift so says the plaque on the powder room wall. Of course, there should be a space between every and day.  It is each and every day that is the present.   But the everyday is a gift too, wrapped in plain paper addressed in Papermate blue, bound in time and string, left on the doorstep near the mat, common as dirt and dust, ordinary as tap water, easy to miss.   When you return to the table at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, appreciation, Ellen Wade Beals, Everyday is a gift, gratitude, poem, Poetry, publication, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, thanks

Last days to celebrate National Short Story Month and win a book

05/30/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Weighed Words is participating in The Collection Giveaway Project, which has been organized By Erika Dreifus at Fiction Writers Review. I found out about it from Dan Wickett of Emerging Writers Network. Like the other participating publishers, Weighed Words will give away a book of short stories. We chose Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir by Joe Meno because Joe is also a contributor to Solace in So Many Words. As a bonus, a copy of Solace in So Many Words will also … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: "Lynlee Floats", Anthology, Contributors, Erika Dreifus, fiction, J. Scott Smith, National Short Story Month, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, Win free books

Short story collection giveaway–you could win!

05/20/2011 By Ellen Beals 2 Comments

I will get better at posting every day. Lately the blog has been taking a backseat to my other duties as publisher, like working on the e-book and planning the launch and readings of Solace in So Many Words. But I can be remiss no longer, and I will now update the information on The Collection Giveaway contest, and since I missed about twenty posts, I will give you twenty reasons that show short stories are the bomb. Here's the skinny: Weighed Words is celebrating May as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Alice Munro, Amy Hempel, Another Chicago Magazine, Anthology, Bernard Malamud, Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir, Chicago Works, Contributors, Dan Wickett, Daniel Chacon, Emerging Writers Netweok, Erika Dreifus, Fiction Writers Review, Frank O'Connor, Hourglass, J. D. Salinger, Jim Shepard, Joan Corwin, Joe Meno, John Updike, Katrina Kenison, Kerry Langan, laurie Levy, Mavis Gallant, Melanie Rae Thon, Michael Constantine McConnell, Patty Somlo, Paula W. Peterson, Roald Dahl, Rochelle Distelheim, Ron Hansen, Solace, Stuart Dybeck, T. C. Boyle, Weighed Words

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