The Ultimate Flash Fiction Package Contest!

Robert Swartwood, editor of Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer, is running a great contest over on his blog.  The winner receives eight - yes, eight! - anthologies of short fiction, including the fantastic Hint Fiction Anthology, and five runners up will get the amazingly superb Hint Fiction anthology (can you tell I'm a little biased?)

It's easy to enter, so if you'd like a chance to win some free books, check it out here!

The HINT FICTION Anthology Has Arrived -- But Not At My House

It has, however, arrived at editor Robert Swartwood's house.  Here's a sneak peek:

Ack!  Somewhere between those green covers, somewhere in those pages, is my story, 'The Empty Nest."  But I'll have to wait until November to find out where exactly!  Thank goodness for pre-ordering.

Motivational Monday!

The older I get, the more I find myself quoting "Seinfeld."  I used to worry about this until I read agent Nathan Bransford's post, "Writers, Authority, and The Keith Hernandez Rule."  Not only did it make me feel better to see someone cool and hip and groovy reference "Seinfeld," but the post also made me laugh out loud.  Oh, and it taught me something about writing, too.  

Congratulations go out to Stacy Post, whose story will be up at Smories this September.  This is the site where cute kids read the stories out loud.  I can't wait to hear it!

Editor Robert Swartwood announced that the Gotham Writers Workshop has a Hint Fiction writing contest going this fall - check it out if you're interested in trying your hand at some hint.  Oh, and the special Hint Fiction issue of Wigleaf  is out - Swartwood called it "a literary appetizer of sorts."  (I can't wait for the Hint Fiction anthology - and not just because I'm in it.  I mean it.  Really.)   

Now go forth and write!  And read!  And laugh!  And eat some chocolate!  And write some more!  And...