Friends and Story Calls

Georgia Ruth's and my writing paths continue to cross. After meeting at the High Country Festival of the Book, our stories now appear in the July/August issue of the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable. The two competitions where our submissions were accepted have each sent out a new call. The Bethlehem Writers Roundtable seeks food stories of up to 2,500 words for its 2015 Short Story Award, opening on October 1, 2014.

Buddhapuss Ink announced it will accept 3,000 to 7,000 word submissions for the Mystery Times 2014 competition beginning July 15th to October 31, 2014. See my guest blog at: http://buddhapussink.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-writers-competitive-edge-or-how.html.

Meeting Georgia Ruth

PGB and Georgia Ruth

Georgia Ruth and I met as members of StorySuccess, the online critique group sponsored by the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime. By email, we communicated about stories and other matters, but did not meet in person until I attended the High Country Festival of the Book in Boone, NC. We took a picture with each of us holding a copy of Mystery Times Ten 2013, the anthology that published Georgia’s “Dear Courtney” and my “Confidence in the Family.” In the July/August issue of the Bethlehem Writers Roundtable, our stories appear together again. Please check them out at: https://sites.google.com/site/bethlehemwritersroundtable/apple-s-lure

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Buddhapuss Ink Mystery Short Story Competition (2013)

For the third year Buddhapuss Ink has conducted a Mystery Short Story Competition. The winners of this year’s competition were announced on Monday, August 12, 2013. My story, “Confidence in the Family,” received honorable mention and will be published as a bonus story in the Kindle version of the anthology, Mystery Times Ten 2013. Information about all the winners is found at:

http://buddhapussink.blogspot.com/2013/08/and-winners-are.html

One of my online critique partners, Georgia Ruth, won and will be in both the book and Kindle version of the anthology. Her story is “Dear Courtney.” Barb Goffman’s “Truth or Consequences” appeared in the 2011 anthology.