It's the weekly roundup from Jane Dougherty's most recent poetry challenge. Links are provided for each entry. I hope you'll stop by Jane's blog to check it out, and while you're there, you might want to give her blog a follow.
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Thoughts on Aging
Photo courtesy of tiverylucky @FreeDigitalPhotos.netI recently turned forty-five. For some reason, this age bothers me a lot. It's not the age, really. It's the process of aging. I know forty-five isn't old, but I'm beginning to feel my age. And, to add insult to injury, I've had a couple people accuse me of being older … Continue reading Thoughts on Aging
The Light is Gone
Tonight's poem comes from Jane Dougherty's Weekly Poetry Challenge. This week's challenge was to write a trilonnet inspired by the photograph above. She's asked participants to begin our poems with "The light is gone." Well, I can't say my poem has much to do with the lovely photo, but here's what I've come up with: The … Continue reading The Light is Gone
Think You Couldn’t Possibly Lose Your Amazon Publishing Account? Think Again.
A warning to authors!
There’s this indie author I know a little bit from the Kboards.com forum. Her name is Pauline Creeden, and she’s an ordinary midlister, like so many of us. I remember PMing her some time ago and gushing about how particularly beautiful one of her book covers is — the one for Chronicles of Steele: Raven.
Here, I’ll include an image. Gorgeous, eh?
Anyway, today I tuned in to Kboards and noticed that Pauline had started a thread. It contained what’s surely the worst news possible for an indie author: Amazon had closed her publishing account. All her ebooks had been taken off sale. Permanently. Here’s the email she got from Amazon:
We are reaching out to you because we have detected that borrows for your books are originating from systematically generated accounts. While we support the legitimate efforts of our publishers to promote their books, attempting to manipulate…
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Rainbow Tears
My heart goes out to the people of Orlando, to those who lost their lives, and to those who are left behind trying to make sense of such a senseless tragedy. This haiku doesn't begin to express my grief. Our hearts are broken A billion eyes are crying Rainbow tears tonight
Tricia Drammeh 