Shelagh Watkins's Blog

Susan Whitfield, author of three published novels, Genesis Beach, Just North of Luck and Hell Swamp, interviewed Shelagh Watkins on her blog on Monday 12th October:
[image error]Shelagh Watkins is writer, editor and publisher at Mandinam Press, and author of two books: Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine and The Power of Persuasion. She set up the Children's Fiction group on LibraryThing, the Published Authors group on Goodreads, and the Published Authors Network group on LinkedIn. Shelagh also created the...

Abe F. March: Guest Author | Visual Arts Junction

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By Shelagh Watkins Today's guest, Abe March, has an interesting and varied background that led to the writing of his first book, To Beirut and Back.

Interview of DK Christi on Visual Arts Junction:

Guest Author: D.K. Christi

Today, I received this review of Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine:

Fantasy is deftly combined with realism in this tale of two children, Emmelisa and Dell Planemaker. Science and metaphysics blend together as Dell and Emmelisa deal with troubles ranging from the tragic loss of their father to the agony of coping with school bullies. They begin to find solutions to these real problems when they happen upon their father's old computer, and, with the help of their mysterious family cat, Cosmos, find

Preston FM is about to serialise Mr. Planemaker's Flying Machine for the daily morning programme, Chat City.

The time: 8.20am every morning Monday to Friday

The place: Chat City on Preston FM

The starting date: May 11th 2009

5-8 min daily episodes will be repeated in an omnibus edition at 5pm each Sunday.

Listen live online on http://www.preston.fm/

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This collection of stories and poems, created by members of the Published Authors Forum on the world wide web, reflects the bond of friendship between writers from all over the world.

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This collection of stories and poems, created by members of the Published Authors Forum on the world wide web, reflects the bond of friendship between writers from all over the world.

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Anthology by members of the Published Authors Network and Forum

The anthology is out at last! In May this year, members of the Published Authors Network and Forum came up with the idea of an anthology to celebrate friendship between writers on the world wide web. I edited the submissions and compiled the anthology, Forever Friends.

From the many submissions, I selected thirty-one short stories and twenty-nine poems from forty-seven contributors. The attraction of this collection of work lies in

The Power of Persuasion is on the list for Wales Book of the Year, an annual prize administered by the Welsh Academy:

Yr Academi Gymreig – The Welsh Academy is the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society of Writers. The Academi runs events, courses, competitions (including the Cardiff International Poetry Competition run with the support of Cardiff Council and offering a first prize of £5000), conferences (see details of the forthcoming Belfast Meets Wales conference here), tours