Anthology update

Thanks for that NoElle! Good to see that you are still interested in how the anthology is going.

I have now sent out a first draft of an edited submission to twenty-three contributors to the anthology. The anthology is set up and now has 172 pages and 54,462 words. If you haven't heard from me, you should be hearing soon. Not everyone has replied. If you have received an email from me, please reply if you haven't done so already.

Latest Update:
I have now sent out edited material to thirty-three contributors. The total number of words so far is 59,104 and the number of pages is 189.
The book has the following sections (in alphabetical order): Animal Friends, Childhood Friends, Family Friends, Real Friends, Renewed Friends, Romantic Friends and Spiritual Friends.
I have listed the contributors in alphabetical order but this is not how they appear in the book. I have listed the categories alphabetically but they are not listed in alphabetical order in the book.

Short Stories
Animal Friends

Abe. F. March
Melinda Reynolds
Dick Stodghill

Childhood Friends

Elysabeth Eldering
Donald James Parker
Carol Troestler

Family Friends

William Butler
Rhett DeVane
D. J. Stephens

Real Friends

Cynthia Brackett-Vincent

Renewed Friends

Maggie Bendar
Helen Wisocki
Jim Woods

Romantic Friends

Karina Kantas

Spiritual Friends

Grace Bridges
Melinda Reynolds

Poems
Alphabetical list of contributors:

Connie Arnold
Doris Anne Beaulieu
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Malcolm R. Campbell
Zada Connaway
Glata Grindstaff
Suzanne Hanley
P. Gordon Kennedy
Kelly Komm
Gabriel Landowski
Anne Lebrecht
Mary Muhammad
Rainbow
Dana Rettig
Virginia Terry
Megan Troestler
Shelagh Watkins
Billy Young

Songs

John C. Keohane

Some of the poems have been added to the friends sections listed above, but some have still to be placed. The final placing of the poems in sections will be decided when all the submissions are in.

Hello! I just kinda landed here from the Ning site and it's a big surprise to find my story in the anthology so very very soon! Lovely to meet you all - look forward to getting to know you

Welcome to the forum, Grace. Be sure to introduce yourself and to join in on the chatter here. It's a very friendly place. Some of us bark a little, but no one is allowed to bite.

Except me, of course. Lovely to see you here Grace. You will be a great addition to the forum.

I thought I posted a comment on the cover, but maybe it got lost in
Cyberspace, so it's totally, awesomely, phantasmagoricaly absolutely
the bee's knees oh blessed Queen of the Forums, it's a knockout!

Just a thought:

Conceived, Edited and Compiled by Shelagh Watkins Queen of the Forums

You deserve nothing less your Queenship!

I can't wait to see the finished product, Shelagh. You've put in a lot of work. Thanks bunches.

Be well,
William

I feel lazy sitting here while you do all that anthology work, Shelagh! Looks great.

Malcolm

You look lazy in the picture too, Malcolm. But we all know better, don't we?

Terrible Sue calling poor Malcolm lazy. Don't worry Malcolm we don't believe her.

hahaha I said he looked lazy. But you can see there is substance underneath that diarming body lounging in the chair.

Shelagh wrote:

Latest Update:
I
have now sent out edited material to thirty-three contributors. The
total number of words so far is 59,104 and the number of pages is 189.
The
book has the following sections (in alphabetical order): Animal
Friends, Childhood Friends, Family Friends, Real Friends, Renewed
Friends, Romantic Friends and Spiritual Friends.
I
have listed the contributors in alphabetical order but this is not how
they appear in the book. I have listed the categories alphabetically
but they are not listed in alphabetical order in the book.

Short Stories
Animal Friends

Abe. F. March
Melinda Reynolds
Dick Stodghill

Childhood Friends

Elysabeth Eldering
Donald James Parker
Carol Troestler

Family Friends

William Butler
Rhett DeVane
D. J. Stephens

Real Friends

Cynthia Brackett-Vincent

Renewed Friends

Maggie Bendar
Helen Wisocki
Jim Woods

Romantic Friends

Karina Kantas

Spiritual Friends

Grace Bridges
Melinda Reynolds

Poems
Alphabetical list of contributors:

Connie Arnold
Doris Anne Beaulieu
Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
Malcolm R. Campbell
Zada Connaway
Glata Grindstaff
Suzanne Hanley
P. Gordon Kennedy
Kelly Komm
Gabriel Landowski
Anne Lebrecht
Mary Muhammad
Rainbow
Dana Rettig
Virginia Terry
Megan Troestler
Shelagh Watkins
Billy Young

Songs

John C. Keohane

Some
of the poems have been added to the friends sections listed above, but
some have still to be placed. The final placing of the poems in
sections will be decided when all the submissions are in.

As I'm sort of laid up at least until I see the nuerologist (or however
you spell it!) on aug 5 (see Chatter Box - Is there a doctor in the
house for details) I'm going to do a video trailer for the anthology,
which will be on you tube, as well as on all my sites, so everyone can
get the embed code to, as it were, stick it where you will and I'd like
to include a picture, or avatar and a website url, or contact info for
each of the contributors. If any of the contributors wish to be
included, each one will have their own slide in the video, please send
me a jpg of yourself (or how you would like to be shown) and a
website url, or contact info to me:

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I've looked on the members list, but couldn't find all the contributors, cooee where are you?

To see my showreels i.e. the 8 videos I've already produced for my books

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No casting call for this production, the excellent cast list of the
coolest authors this side of the known universe are shown above,
wardrobe is your choice, the producer and director is ready, errrm
that's me! Let's get this blockbuster into cyberspace and get a buzz
going for Our Queenship and
Our Anthology

Rainbow,

Thanks for doing this. You won't be able to complete it for some time. I'm still wating for five more submissions (stories from Zada, Sue, Betty and two members from the network) so until all the submissions are in, you won't be able to add the video to any sites.

You'll have to be as patient as me.

Shelagh--Did you not get my story? I sent it a week or more ago!

Sue, I was watching the grass grow. It's a lost art.

Malcolm

Shelagh wrote:

Rainbow,

Thanks for doing this. You won't be
able to complete it for some time. I'm still wating for five more
submissions (stories from Zada, Sue, Betty and two members from the
network) so until all the submissions are in, you won't be able to add
the video to any sites.

You'll have to be as patient as me.

No problem, apart from the cover and some blurb, each slide thereafter
will have a contributor, their picture or however they want to be shown
and whatever website url they would like on the slide, so as long as
Zada, Sue, Betty and 2 members from the network are confirmed I can
always make a first cut as it were and edit it as it develops, so come
on peeps send me your bits! If'n ya git's ma drift!

zadaconnaway wrote:

Shelagh--Did you not get my story? I sent it a week or more ago!

Hi Zada,

I've just found your story in my spam folder. I found both files and I'll get back to you about the updated file soon. Thanks for sending the story -- I'll look forward to reading it.

I could have told you that, Malcolm, but you didn't ask me. I watch the grass grow. Hubby cuts it. I still like watching it.

I know there is a story in there somewhere!

How's your story for the anthology coming along?

Well People of the Anthology I have completed the first part of the
trailer and when this list of contributors is finalised I will add the
contributors who send me their jpgs and we address or contact info,
once again

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finalised I will add the contributors who send me their jpgs and we
address or contact info,
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that should be web adresses not we, it's been a long day!

Shelagh, if it is me you are asking about my story, it is coming slow, but it is coming. I am working on it. I can't get it just the way I want it. Not coming easy for me for sure. It is something I need and want to do. I won't wait til the last minute though, so don't worry about that.

Is it possible for you to post the names of the stories already submitted so that there are no duplicates?