Its hard to imagine that last year, 2006, this publication was only a wild concept in my mind. My original idea was to show professionalism, objectivity, and usefullness.  Not only for the general reader, but for the librarian, the book store owner, and the publisher.  Now, thanks to you, our loyal readers, on the net, in the papers, at libraries, at the publishers .... we are begining to see many more suggestions about what you want to find when you open our pages weekly.  Our visit statistics from our ISP and our bandwidth usage are both climbing significantly.   Thank you all for recommending our site to all of your friends.  Please continue to do so!

One of the changes you are going to see starting in April, is that I am slowing down the official update publication from a weekly to bi-weekly basis.  The increased work with the new additions and new professional and academic critics beginning to submit to this site, has become a bit much for me to edit and get into layout weekly.

And of course, as always, I'm constantly looking for those rare reviewers who are hunting a home for their independant critics.  If that happens to be you, write to me via the address below.  Actually, when I take 30 seconds to ponder, ... if you want to help in any way possible, write to me.  We will figure something out.
Mike

Calender of Upcoming Events is open to everyone. We especially encourage writing groups to list their events and contests here. The event must relate to writing, reviews, or publishing.  If you would like your event included here, please send an email to MD Johnson.  Please include the following information.   Event Title, Time Frame, short description, and if you have full press release, please attach that as well.

Industry leading, award-winning ebook publisher Whiskey Creek Press celebrates its fifth anniversary during March 2008 with weekly free ebooks for all customers, books on sale, a huge scavenger hunt featuring many author sites and prizes, and great new releases. 

The current Fiction Open competition closes March 31. (Note: This is a category that allows more space, but in no way requires it. We truly welcome stories of any length for the Fiction Open as long as they don't exceed 20,000 words. The high word cap is just meant to relieve you of that constraint.)

This is a fee based competition for FICTION based on true family events.  Judging fee is $15.  Lengths of allowable submissions is between 1K and 12K words.

Little Red Leaves is announcing a call for responses to the work of John Taggart. These will be collected for one of the next few issues, and can include anything you consider "responsive": essays, reviews, poems, visual work, video/audio work, etc. Feel free to query C.J. (cm49600 at gmail dot com) with questions/suggestions/proposals.

The key to writing well is reading well; devouring prose across all genres, and learning from each to form an original voice. So let loose! Send us anything from rap lyrics to lullabies, sports stories to eulogies, fiction, non, travel, politics, sci-fi, verse, plays, how-to, whatever.  Our only request is that you keep it under 600 words.  Send your best work in the body of your email, no attachments, to wordslaw@gmail.com  Thanks, and keep on writing!

We would like to expand on the support for the creation of anthologies. If you are a budding anthologist or a publisher who is exploring open calls for submissions, we encourage you to list your efforts here.   If you are an author looking for some place to market your shorter works to, look here.  All anthologies listed are assumed to be either revenue share or advance pay per the standard EPIC contract.

To list your call for anthology submissions, send an email to queries@pencraft.biz  with the words Anthology Listing in the subject area.  Please include in your email:  When the call for submissions expires, the suggest title of the Anthology, who the Anthologist will be if you know other wise list it as TBD, the Publishing house if you know or TBD, the genre, the length of submission you will look at, a link to a web page where authors can get more information and an email address for the authors to Query their ideas to you.

Guest Blogs are open to all readers and authors.  You retain all copyrights and distribution.  We have a hard word limit of 700.  Our Policy is to post for 30 days.  Queries about posting your blog should be sent to queries@pencraft.biz . Please put Blog Submissions in the subject.  When we ask for your blog, please include your publicity photo and your mini-bio.

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Title	Reviewer
Death Takes A Holiday	MD Johnson
The Apocalypse Troll	MD Johnson

Title	Reviewer
Digging Holes In Paradise	MD Johnson
Dragon Lovers	MD Johnson
Luke Dawson:  Wells Fargo Gun	MD Johnson
Mistral's Kiss	MD Johnson

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