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April 10, 2012
Sharing with Writers
A newsletter that is also a community. Share your ideas. Learn from theirs! Associated with the multi award - winning series of HowToDoItFrugally series of books for writers, www.howtodoitfrugally.com


From the Desks of
Carolyn Howard - Johnson
and Sharing with Writers Subscribers

In the spirit of the advice I give in the Frugal Editor - - that is to use an extra pair of eyes whenever possible - - this newsletter is voluntarily copyedited by Mindy Phillips Lawrence ~ mplcreative1@aol.com ~ www.freewebs.com/mplcreative. I also tell writers to be patient with other writers when they make editing booboos. We're all human. This letter comes out weekly (except when I'm traveling or on deadline) and it's long!
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Contents
Special Edition
For Mothers. Women Who Are Mothers. Women Who Have Mothers
~Note from Carolyn with Special F r ^^bie offer.
~Carolyn's Appearances and Teaching
~Wordstuff ™

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Note from Carolyn

Dear Subscribers:

My poetry partner and coauthor of the Celebration series of writers and I are planning a Mother’s Day special for our Celebration series this year. It is a fr ^ ^bie plan for anyone who has a mother or is a mother or anyone who knows a mother to send them a chapbook of poetry via e - mail.

That chapbook is, of course, Magdalena Ball’s and my chapbook She Wore Emerald Then. That’s a phrase taken from one of my poems about my own mother when she was very young - - and so was I. ( - :

Here are the details.
Go to:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=she+wore+emerald+then

The promotional price is: $0.00
Use the coupon code: KT98C
It expires: May 14, 2012

Here is a recent review of She Wore Emerald Then: Reflections on Motherhood published in Poetry Market just to get you in the mood to drop by and get it for a mom in your life.

Review by LB Sedlacek

This poetry book is split into two sections: "The Genetic Code" (Ball) and "Dandelions in Autumn" (Howard - Johnson) with each section title
page perfectly accompanied by one of Lattanzio's pictures.

In "Coil of Life," Ball punctuates her "The Genetic Code" section with a jolting look at creation. "Take a single cell/tinier than the tip of a pencil/in its nucleus the DNA blueprint/six billion pairs of nucleotides." The poem continues further on with "Binary fission/mitosis and cytokinesis/the
cervix thins and dilates/the dreaming
and waking cerebral cortex/already perfect signals uterine contractions/the Big Bang."

Each poem weaves vivid layers (somewhat of a verbal voltage) of life and existence. From "The Fading" comes, "eyelids closed tightly against life/you create your own shadow/the steel bars/of your deviant past/shatter the illusion of freedom." Ball writes with a punch - - you won't fast forget her words.

The "Dandelions in Autumn" section (Howard - Johnson) is more focused on the later years of motherhood and/or mothers themselves. In "Mother and Daughter, The Thing I Learned from Depends and Other Events," Howard - Johnson's poem deals with a daughter taking care of an elderly mother "... she cannot find/her words, or the beans/on her plate. Now merely a leafhusk,/I cannot find the strength/ to place her head upon a pillow./I pre - order stew with chunks/chopped to the size of peas."

Each poem seems to pull from days gone by capturing a daughter's journey from child to caretaker of one's mother. The visuals - "offers us her favorite dish, whipped/cream, crusted Heath bars, melted/Marshmellows (without the rum Mother/would have added)" from "Across the Hall from Mother" - are stunning and leverage accordingly within each line.

Lattanzio's pictures add a blast of scenic flavor to the book. They are chosen and placed at just the right spots.

She Wore Emerald Then is a tribute to mothers everywhere.

~L.B. Sedlacek's poems have most recently appeared in "Ginosko," "Pure Francis," and "Testing the Waters" poetry anthology. L.B.'s latest chapbook is "I Am My Neighborhood Watch."
Read more at http://wordpress.lbsedlacek.com
www.lbsedlacek.com
Twitter: @lbsedlacek

~This review first appeared in The Poetry Market Ezine: Each monthly issue features poetry markets and poetry contests plus news and a review of a poetry book or chapbook. Free to subscribe. To subscribe, send any email to poetrymarket - subscribe@yahoogroups.com or log onto http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poetrymarket/join For general infomation visit our website at www.thepoetrymarket.com or email tpme@thepoetrymarket.com


Here is one of the poems from that chapbook: For your Enjoyment. Please feel free to publish it with a credit line about our chapbook if you wish.

Dandelions in Autumn

By Carolyn Howard - Johnson
From She Wore Emerald Then by Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard - Johnson (www.budurl.com/MotherChapbook).

Yellow petals, pollen - soft
like monarchs' wings.

Little lions' manes
like illustrations in childrens'

books, not like roaring
Serengeti cats

or the MGM logo lion, harmless
these. I pick them, bunch them,

hold them under Mama's chin
to see if they light her throat

yellow, and if they do, delight!
Mother, you like butter! My squeal

bright in mountain sun. When small
I saw a dark mother, wondered

would my flowers of fortune
show yellow on her throat

and if not, wouldn't that be sad
for her child, there in her arms

fat fingers caressing
her soft earlobe. Today

the golden flowers sprouted
into silver balloons, turned

to seed, hoary. I haven't spread
seeds in years but I pick one.

It tears milk where I tear its stem
as if it knows it's late.

I blow, gently, vaguely
satisfied that, weeds

or not, their seeds fly on my breeze,
plant wonder on other hills

Joy, Happy Writing, Editing, and Promoting
Carolyn


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Come to the Book Publicists of Southern California meeting at Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City. All are welcome. A salmon/chicken/vegetarian buffet with salad, drink, and dessert (amazing desserts!) is only $29. if you mention my name. (Members' price.)
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And when you come, introduce yourself to Irwin. He has been the guru behind many a bestseller. He'll have you talking on so many radio programs, you'll be dizzy.

PS: Yay! You get a rest from Sharing with Writers. I’ll be out of the country until mid May so you’ll have to do without me. Maybe it will give you a chance to go back and reread (and actually follow up on) all the tips and ideas you’ve been neglecting from past issues.

PPS: Those of you who live in Southern California will want to mark April 11 on your calendar to hear Carolyn Howard - Johnson talk about how to make book fair booths sizzle at the Book Publicists of Southern California meeting at Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City. All are welcome. A salmon/chicken/vegetarian buffet with salad, drink, and dessert (amazing desserts!) is only about $29. If you mention my name. E - mail PR guru Irwin Zucker with your reservation (IrwinZuckerPR@aol.com). There will be a free paperback copy of The Frugal Editor at every table.

Wordstuff ™

Something to Make Writers Smile
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(Fun with language from The Washington Post and other publications.)

PHILOSOPHER: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.



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http://www.SharingwithWriters.blogspot.com, a blog on all things publishing
http://www.TheFrugalEditor.blogspot.com, all things grammatical and ungrammatical. On editing, formatting, and craft.
http://www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, a blog focused on YOUR reviews
http://www.WarPeaceTolerance.blogspot.com War. Peace. Tolerance. And Our Soldiers.
http://www.sizzlingbookfairbooths.blogspot.com, a blog where you can learn to get some mojo behind your own booth by learning from the successes and mistakes of others. It is no longer active but there are lots of ideas you can use here, just the same.

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