{"id":5978,"date":"2014-01-21T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/?p=5978"},"modified":"2014-01-21T19:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T19:02:55","slug":"hug-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/2014\/01\/hug-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hug it out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I am happy to post “The Kiss-Me-Quick,”<\/strong> <\/a>a story by Rochelle Distelheim,<\/strong> which I first fell for when it appeared in the Visiting Hours<\/strong><\/em> anthology put out by Press 53<\/strong>. I’m happy to say that Rochelle and I are in the same writing group so I have had the privilege of reading her work for some years now. It’s been enough years that I have read her novel Jerusalem As a Second Language<\/strong><\/em>, witnessed how it was crafted to win the 2012 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition<\/strong><\/a> for the Novel category. I look forward to when you can read it too. Rochelle is working on another novel now and it is just as captivating.<\/p>\n

I contacted Kevin Watson<\/strong> of Press 53 <\/strong>who originally published Rochelle’s story, and although Visiting Hours<\/em><\/strong>, the anthology where this story appeared, is now out of print, Press 53<\/strong> is going stronger than ever. He writes: “We have a lot going on at Press 53<\/strong>. Our online journal, Prime Number Magazine<\/em><\/strong>, has taken over the Open Award<\/strong><\/a>. It is now called the Prime Number Magazine Awards<\/strong><\/a> and is running now through the end of March. We have over $2000 in prizes (all in prime numbers).\u00a0 On April 1 we will launch our inaugural Press 53 Award for Poetry<\/strong><\/a>, which will be run like our Press 53 Award for Short Fiction<\/strong>, which wrapped up Dec 31.”<\/p>\n

Readers and writers should check out the Press 53 bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I did not know until I checked Facebook but today (January 21)\u00a0 is National Hug Day<\/strong><\/a>. I asked Brendan Coudal<\/a> to share the whimsical image in Glimpse of Solace<\/strong><\/a>. Brendan’s cat cartoons are just a part of his portfolio. His work can be described as contemporary and retro-style; his prints and wood signs celebrate old Florida. He also does portraits of aquatic life; some of which can be seen in the work he does for Reel Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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How fortunate today is National Hug Day<\/strong> for I could use one and I could do with giving one too. The poignancy of Rochelle’s story hit me even harder this weekend as one of my dearest friends experienced a medical crisis. So boys (and girls), hug ’em if you got ’em.<\/p>\n

Peace, love, and solace<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today I am happy to post “The Kiss-Me-Quick,” a story by Rochelle Distelheim, which I first fell for when it appeared in the Visiting Hours anthology put out by Press 53. I’m happy to say that Rochelle and I are in the same writing group so I have had the privilege of reading her work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,60,410,1940,12,1949,990,1950,1938,1948,1946,7,16,22,1941,32],"class_list":{"0":"post-5978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-anthology","8":"tag-appreciation","9":"tag-brendan-coudal","10":"tag-cats-hugging","11":"tag-ellen-wade-beals","12":"tag-fragility-of-life","13":"tag-friendship","14":"tag-hug","15":"tag-national-hug-day","16":"tag-rochele-distelheim","17":"tag-shoe-shopping","18":"tag-solace","19":"tag-solace-in-so-many-words","20":"tag-thanks","21":"tag-the-kiss-me-quick","22":"tag-weighed-words","23":"entry","24":"has-post-thumbnail"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5978"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5978\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solaceinabook.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}