Issue # 14 - Wednesday, August 1, 2001

Welcome to the ‘Dallas Hodder Franklin Newsletter’!

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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Editorial
2. Trivia/Facts
3. Websites for Writers
4. Riddles/Quiz
5. Potpourri of Websites
6. Worthy Notations
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I have articles, poems, and stories at Authors Den. PLEASE take a few minutes and choose one of these to read, rate and comment. Here’s my latest article:
Cheers to Beers! - http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=2883

Here’s my latest poem!
Fruitisms - http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?AuthorID=2883

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1. EDITORIAL:
Welcome back everyone! I hope this finds you healthy and enjoying the summer or winter, depending on where you live. Thank you, thank you to all who have read, rated and commented on ‘Time’s Tide’. I love it! I’ve had a very busy week but promised to put something new up at Authors Den this week, so have dug deep into the bowels of my files and nabbed an oldie that I wrote at Themestream. I hope you enjoy it. Brenda Ross has some new challenges up at her Web site so I did a new poem and I’m sharing that too! It’s posted at Authors Den. I’m also very happy to announce I bought my own domain name! There’s still a lot of work and ideas to produce but it should be launched by next month. You’ll find the ad sprinkled throughout this newsletter under ‘Coming Soon!’. *~:) Here’s hoping you find the Web sites I’m sharing this week useful for your writes or just a delight to browse through.

Blessings!
Dallas Hodder Franklin

http://www.authorsden.com/dallasfranklin
http://Dallas.scriptmania.com/
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2. TRIVIA/FACTS:

August 1, 1944 - 13-year-old Anne Frank made the final entry in the diary she had kept for two years while she and her family hid from the Nazis. Three days after this entry was made, the Grune Polizei raided the secret annex in Amsterdam, Holland, where the Frank family was in hiding. At the age of 15, Anne died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Did You Know? A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Did You Know? Acorns are poisonous to humans, and, if eaten, will cause kidney damage.
Did You Know? Roman statues were made with detachable heads, so that one head could be removed and replaced by another.
Did You Know? Hawaii has the highest percentage of cremations of all other U.S. states, with a 60.6 percent preference over burial.
Did You Know? In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, weaving skills are treasured, and a colorful, well-made shawl worn by an unmarried woman advises potential husbands of its wearer’s dexterity.

Source: http://www.uselessknowledge.com/
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3. WEBSITES FOR WRITERS:

NOTE: Please ALWAYS read the guidelines and terms for any of the writing sites given here.

http://www.powerprose.com/_pages/freelancer/writers/index.htm
PowerProse is committed to distributing quality content created by topnotch freelancers. We have a significant number of distribution contracts with clients who need large volumes of high-quality content. These clients offer you the potential for immediate and ongoing revenue, plus tremendous byline exposure. PowerProse will market your original and previously published material to its client base of web, print and specialty publications. The work will carry your byline whenever it is distributed to a client. Writers and other artists retain full copyright to all their works.

http://www.secondrights.com/
Secondrights.com links technology writers with editors who need technology articles. The goal is to help those writers re-sell articles that they own the rights to, while providing newspaper, magazine, and Web site editors with a source of inexpensive, quality content. There are countless editors at newspapers, magazines, or Web sites that don't have the budget to buy first rights, and are looking for inexpensive content. Secondrights.com is a way those writers and editors can find each other. This service is devoted solely to computer and technology articles: if you're an editor who needs them or a writer who writes them, Secondrights.com is for you. You don't have to sign a complicated agreement to use the site -- editors and writers negotiate directly with each other.

http://www.indipen.com/
Indipen is the first fully functioning online literary/press agency and syndication service. Our aim is to help professional and semi-professional freelance writers promote their work to thousands of publications worldwide, while simultaneously providing editors with a valuable resource for written material. If you’re a writer who either does not have a literary agent, or whose literary agent does not handle short material then Indipen is the ideal service for you. You can expose your work to thousands of magazines and ezines with a single digital submission and only publications registered with our site will be able to view and buy your work. Not only that, Indipen will actively seek to recommend your work with our registered publications.

http://www.sagebase.com/beasage.html
Everyone knows something - and someone wants to know what you know. You can be a Sage. As a Sage, you earn 50% of any revenue we generate through banners or book sales on the page your article is showcased on. You get full credit for your work and - best of all - steady pay. As a Sage, you'll also be given a free SagePage, where you can submit proposals and articles, verify the status of your existing proposals and articles, update your public biography and get information on paid advertising for your articles.

http://mouthshut.com/help/
MouthShut.com is India's first, largest and most comprehensive Person to Person (P2P) Information Exchange. We provide a platform for consumers to voice their opinions on thousands of products and services. Our goal is to empower the consumer. An educated consumer is the best customer. They help the manufacturers improve their product offering while helping other consumers decide what is good and what is bad. As India sits on the threshold of breaking into consumer culture, we want to offer the tools that empower consumers and businesses. But it isn't just boring facts and figures. The information you will find here is real-life experiences and opinions voiced by other people about a wide range of products and services. The reviews are written by people like you, who are members of our site. They share their experiences, their opinions and freely give their advice, so that other people can benefit. The reviews written are honest, unbiased and based on real life experiences. They are good or bad, depending on what the writer has experienced.

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4. RIDDLES/QUIZ:

LAST Week’s Quiz:
1. Which European city does the M25 motorway encircle?
ANSWER: London, England
2. At which Ohio University were four students shot dead in 1970?
ANSWER: Kent State
3. What country is bordered by Iraq and Saudi Arabia?
ANSWER: Kuwait
4. What was the name of Abbott and Costello’s most famous routine?
ANSWER: Who’s On First
5. In what book are Piggy and Ralph shipwrecked?
ANSWER: ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William Golding

WINNERS! {Check out the web sites they’re sharing}

Julie Lewis – http://www.unreligious.com/

Judith Flynn – http://www.scenesofvermont.com/winslowhouse/

Jeanne Rowse – http://www.dreamsalive.com

Rose Moss - http://pages.ivillage.com/louisamaydew/rosesphotosandarticles/

Marilyn Hodder

Janet Caldwell – http://www.authorsden.com/visit/author.asp?AuthorID=2906

Janine Ferrell – http://www.dreamjournal.org/

CONGRATULATIONS to them all!

This is an excellent way for YOU to promote your website for FREE! Know answers to the following quiz? Send them in and if you’re right on just one you’ll get listed in next week’s newsletter along with your favorite web site. Good luck! {You only need get ONE correct to be listed!} Don’t forget to include your favorite website!

THIS week’s Quiz: {***NOTE: Do not hit ‘reply’ to send your answers as I won’t get it. Instead send me an email to the address I share after the quiz. Thanks!}
1. What is the scientific name for the Northern Lights?
2. What is the capital of Canada?
3. What will next appear in our skies in 2061?
4. What medical procedure is said to work by manipulating the body’s electrical energy flow?
5. What does Mein Kampf mean?

Send your answers to Dallas at:
ericdbread@pdq.net

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I have articles, poems, and stories at Authors Den. PLEASE take a few minutes and choose one of these to read, rate and comment. Here’s my latest article:
Cheers to Beers! - http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=2883

Here’s my latest poem!
Fruitisms - http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?AuthorID=2883

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5: POTPOURRI OF WEBSITES:

http://www.dreamjournal.org/
Dream Journal is a free service that allows you to create and customize your very own online dream journal. You may update your dream journal as often as you'd like. Your journal may be kept private for your own viewing, or be made public. You are able to sign up anoymously, we only display the information that you want displayed. It's free, it's fun, and it's easy to use!

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pasquale/TTM/1/index.html
Welcome to my dreamworld! Inside you will learn how to control your dreams. Yes, that is really possible, and everybody can learn to do it! When you become lucid in a dream, you can have an interview with your pink monster, transform yourself into an animal, become invisible, fly away through a window, materialize a Ferrari in mid-air, step through a mirror or change your mother-in-law into a teddybear. In short: you can do everything you can imagine. In this dreamworld you will learn how to control their dreams. You can also find more background information about the phenomenon lucid dreaming.

http://www.imright.com/
i'm right you're wrong is an online entertainment company based in New York City. Our management and employees, which include seasoned hearsayers and licensed verbal pugilists [read: they are lawyers], are conflict enthusiasts. The idea for the site was born out of the knowledge that our expertise and ambition could make life easier for right people everywhere by giving wrong people the help they so badly need, and of course, the desire to wear pajamas to work everyday.

http://www.founddogtags.com/
This site has been created for the purpose of returning dog tags found from Vietnam to their respective families in the USA. In the near future we expect to have a complete list of all the recovered dog tags. Most of the dog tags recovered have additional information on them such as service numbers, social security numbers, blood type, etc. There are hundreds of them, and some of the families of MIA's are still grieving without closure of any kind.

http://www.edenfoods.com/
Since 1968 - Growing by supporting and promoting organic farms and offering food that nurtures health and happiness. Important facts, press releases, resources and more to help you become informed, involved and contribute to peaceful evolution on the planet Earth. If you can't find Eden Foods at a local store, we offer online the highest quality food with the most nutrition and best taste. Browse information about our soy milk, cooking with pasta, beans and other wholesome food. We also offer unique supplements, like our Bifa-15.

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6. WORTHY NOTATIONS:

Nan Jacobs winning short story ‘The Hook’ is now published in a printed anthology titled, ‘Flavor of the Short Story: A Collection of 15 Winning Short Stories’. Nan won a two year Website Design and Maintenance {value: $1200} prize for her entry in a short story contest. Check out the book! Fifteen short stories for $12!
http://redwritinghood.com/WritingContests/purchase.html

Freelancing Later in Life by Kim Ripley will soon be available in paperback format! Check for more information at:
http://www.homestead.com/freelancing1/index.html
Kim’s first Young Adult novel, Lily's Gift has been accepted by a division of Publish America and will be in print within a year. CONGRATULATIONS, Kim! *~:)Kim Ripley is a fulltime freelance writer and published author. Her work has appeared in Discovery Travel, Whispers from Heaven, Archaeology's Dig! Magazine, Vacations, and the May 2001 issue of Insider Magazine--featuring the cover shot of Tom Green. A wife and mother of five, her sense of humor toward her family's antics led her to write Breathe Deeply, This Too Shall Pass, a collection of thirty tales of trials and tribulations of parenting teens. It is available at:
http://www.booklocker.com/bookpages/kimberlyripley01.html

Ellen Dubois has her first published story accepted in the new book, God Allows U-Turns, Vol. 2 and will be available in the autumn of this year. Check out more of Ellen’s writes at:
http://writingsoftheheart.homestead.com/

Brenda Ross {aka Brerfox}, has missed the challenges we grew to love at Themestream. So she’s started a Challenge page at her website and invite you all to enter! Check out the entries and share your own!
http://www.geocities.com/brerfoxkaleidscope/challenges.html

NOTE: If YOU have any news you’d like to share here please send me an email and I’ll happily share it!

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I’ve also added new links to TimeLass Writes. If you aren’t in the outside links, please send me an email with the necessary information and I’ll gladly add you!
http://Dallas.scriptmania.com/

I have articles, poems, and stories at Authors Den. PLEASE take a few minutes and choose one of these to read, rate and comment. Here’s my latest article:
Cheers to Beers! - http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=2883

Here’s my latest poem!
Fruitisms - http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?AuthorID=2883

If you have any Suggestions, Comments, or Feedback please feel free to contact me. Or, if you have other Web Sites you would like to see in upcoming issues of this Newsletter, send me an email and it'll be considered! Thanks! All past issues of this newsletter are still posted at Authors Den.

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May blessings rain down upon you and may you enjoy a wonderFilled week!
Namaste!

ericdbread@pdq.net

©2001 Dallas Hodder Franklin