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Featured: The authors of Women Behaving Badly

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:24:38 +0000

Women Behaving Badly was first published in 2004 by Paper Journey Press. The stories form a cohesive whole that together tell the stories of women who can be at once courageous, funny and even a little frightening. Many of the authors have gone on to successful careers in education and publishing. Here below these wonderful talents in the burgeoning flash fiction genre. It is available for purchase for $12.95 on Amazon.

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Nina Gaby, “Seating Arrangements”

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Marsha Kysor Sray, “The Ice Wizard”

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Julie Ann Jones, “Working Girl”

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Sally Haxthow, “Sky of Diamonds”

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Ariana Sophia Kartsonis, “What She Took Out of Here”

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Brandy Foster, “Bookish”

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Jenny Ruth Yasi, “Oh, to Lie in Your Arms”

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Mark Foss, “Dykes to Watch Out For”

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Car(o)l C. Smith, “She Swam the Channel”

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Liesel Jobson, “Recipe for Sedition”

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Laura Schuett, “The Exit Meeting”

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R. D. Larson, “Freak”

Win Neagle’s Full Count

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:04:02 +0000

First published in 2005, Full Count is a topsy-turvy black comedy featuring the conflicted professional baseball player, Billy Overby who begins to question the nature of love and his own capacity for intimacy after he falls in love with baseball fan Cameron. Unfortunately Cameron is involved in a complicated relationship with shot-gun toting Amanda.

This ironic and quirky title is set to be reissued will a new look early next year, but you can purchase the limited first edition now on Amazon.

Peggy Rambach

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:06:55 +0000

Peggy Rambach is the author of Fighting Gravity, a novel based on her marriage to writer, Andre Dubus, and a collection of short stories entitled When the Animals Leave. She is the editor of Seeds of Lotus; Cambodian and Vietnamese Voices in America, also published by The Paper Journey Press. She was twice awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant in Fiction, was the recipient of the St. Botolph Foundation Grant in Literature, was a Fellow at the MacDowell and Yaddo Artist Colonies and named a 2005 Literacy Champion by the Massachusetts Literacy Foundation. Ms. Rambach, is a resident teaching/artist in healthcare with grant support from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center as part of the Healing Arts; New Pathways to Health and Community project in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Vermont Arts Exchange.

Her essay “Painting Amy’s Nails” was recently featured in the UK Guardian.

She lives in Andover, Massachusetts.

Sean Lovelace

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:05:54 +0000

Sean Lovelace is a professor of creative writing at Ball State University. He writes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Recent publications include Willow Springs, Diagram, Sonora Review, and Black Warrior Review. His works have won several awards, including the prestigious Crazyhorse Fiction Prize.

Sean has two short stories in the popular Paper Journey Press publication, Women Behaving Badly – available for purchase through Amazon.

Pam Calabrese MacLean

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:04:29 +0000

Pam Calabrese MacLean lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Her award- winning poems have appeared in literary journals in Canada, Great Britain, and the US. Calabrese’s first play, Her Father’s Barn, was produced by Festival Antigonish’s Late Night Series (2002). Her first piece of fiction appeared in Women Behaving Badly (2004). Calabrese will be a featured poet in Spring 2006 issue of Artistry of Life where some of her poems may now be seen. Twenty Four Names For Mother is her first collection of poems.

Win Neagle

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:04:14 +0000

Neagle lives in Raleigh with his beautiful wife, Rebecca, and two spoiled dachshunds. He has been a college writing instructor for 15 years. He has published two novels with Paper Journey Press, Full Count and Smoke and Gravity.

Robert Wallace

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:03:43 +0000

Robert Wallace is a previous recipient of NC Arts Council and Durham Arts Council grants. He has published stories in the Raleigh News & Observer, the Bryant Literary Review, and the O. Henry Festival stories, among other publications and anthologies. He lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife and daughter. “A Hold on Time” is his first novel.

Bob Peace

Webmistress — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:00:55 +0000

Bob Peace is a NC State Professor and a former Marine who lives in Raleigh. He is married to Sandra DeAngelis.

Women Behaving Badly

Webmistress — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:25:59 +0000

was published in 2004 to avid acclaim as a trailblazer in the new genre instant or flash fiction. The book features 50 stories written, at the time, by new and upcoming writers. Many of those writers have now come into their own like Sean Lovelace, Robert Wallace, Pam MacLean, Julie Ann Jones, and others. The stories form a cohesive whole that together tell the stories of women who can be at once courageous, funny and even a little frightening.

Price: $12.95
Purchase this title on Amazon.

All That Matters

Webmistress — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:19:32 +0000

A memoir from the Wellness Community of Greater Boston is an anthology by writers whose lives were changed by cancer. These eight diverse essays, celebrate life’s simple pleasures, complicated relationships, periods of despair and moments of grace; and they illuminate the human capacity to draw from hardship, enduring wisdom. Written under the guidance, Peggy Rambach, author of Fighting Gravity an autobiographical novel about her life as the wife of Andre Dubus, Sr., this collection of memoir is a unique resource for healthcare professionals, cancer patients, survivors, and their families. But anyone can gain from reading these poignant, and life-affirming memoirs by authors who know, without a doubt, what really matters. Ms. Rambach, is a resident teaching/artist in healthcare with grant support from the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center as part of the Healing Arts; New Pathways to Health initiative in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Vermont Arts Exchange. She lives in Andover, Massachusetts.

Price: $14.95
Purchase this title on Amazon.