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Our first review

04/19/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

In case you have not heard the news, Solace in So Many Words got its first review.  It is from The Midwest Book Review and was also uploaded to our Amazon page (thanks James A. Cox!) and is reprinted here: That bit of knowledge that everything will be alright is something not to be overlooked. "Solace" is a collection of essays, stories, and fiction compiled by Ellen Wade Beals as she offers the contributions of a wide range of individuals as they speak on the crises of … [Read more...]

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Generosity and my own case of going a little viral

04/14/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

I've been thinking about the word "generous" and how it can describe the well-known writers who responded to my letter pleading for submissions to Solace in So Many Words.  After all, if you have prize-winning books to your name, you don't need appear in a POD paperback edited by an unknown and published by an imprint with no track record.  My guess is that they liked the theme of solace. But I know also it is because they are generous. I won't lie. I Google myself. A lot. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Anthology, Between the sheets, Casa Poema, Ellen Wade Beals, generosity, Google, Judith Podron, poem, Solace, Solace in So Many Words, thanks, viral

What is new with contributors?

04/06/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

I could says thanks every day to my contributors and it wouldn't be enough.  That they answered my call for submissions and had faith in the project sustained me when my confidence wavered.  Solace in So Many Words wouldn't be anything without them -- not only are they generous artists, they're terrific writers, and I am not the only one who thinks so. Wally Swist's new book, Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love, was chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa as a co-winner in the Crab … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: American Poetry Review, Anthology, Binge Press, book, Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz, Crab Orchard Series Open Poetry Competition, D. I. Gray, Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Ellen Bass, fiction, gratitude, Huang Po and the Dimensions of Love, Kathleen Kirk, Pamela Malone, Patti Couch, Patti Patronite, Patti Wojcik Wahlberg, Poetry, Solace, T. C. Boyle, thanks, Wally Swist, Weighed Words, When the Killing's Done, Woman Made Gallery

I really am grateful

04/02/2011 By Ellen Beals Leave a Comment

Anyone who has worked on a project designing something, like remodeling a house, knows that sometimes it is not the big decisions that faze you, but the little choices.  The designer may ask something simple about doors or locksets, like “Knobs or latches?” and you’re way-laid thinking about something you never gave much consideration to before.  So it has been with me and front of the book stuff. One big stumbling block was deciding whether to have a separate page for … [Read more...]

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