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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...]

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Win books as part of Short Story Month

05/02/2011 By Ellen Beals 5 Comments

I found out from Dan Wicket of Emerging Writers Network that May is Short Story Month. Erika Dreifus at Fiction Writers Review came up with idea to celebrate with  The Collection Giveaway Project, urging bloggers interested in the short story to participate. So we are! Weighed Words is recommending Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir (Triquarterly Books/Northwestern) and we’ll give it away on May 31 to someone who responds to the blog. This book is by Joe Meno (his first … [Read more...]

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