SBB – November 5, 2009 Newsletter #6

November already? Where has this year gone?

2009 is swiftly coming to a close, the holiday season is just around the corner and holiday gift shopping will soon reach a frenzied state...SBB has 8 fabulous gift ideas!
- Silver Boomers - a collection of prose and poetry by and about baby boomers (SBB)
- Freckles to Wrinkles (SBB)
- This Path (SBB)
- Bluebonnets, Boots and Buffalo Bones (LCP) by Sheryl L. Nelms
- Poetry Floats - New and Selected Philosophy-lite (LCP) by Jim Wilson
- Song of County Roads (SBB) by Ginny Greene
- Slender Steps to Sanity - Twelve-Step Notes of Hope (EWP) by OAStepper
- Writing Toward the Light - A Grief Journey (EWP) by Laura Flett
and coming in November/December:
- not so GRIMM - gentle fables and cautionary tales by Becky Haigler
- A Time for Verse - Poetic Ponderings on Ecclesiastes by Barbara B. Rollins

In addition to these great book ideas, we also have a holiday special on the three anthologies, (Silver Boomers, Freckles to Wrinkles and This Path.) Now through December 31st, when you place your order for all three anthologies here: SBB Sale, use this code:
SBB BLOGLETTER and you will receive 50% off. That's just $21.00 (+S&H) for all three titles! (US addresses only) Additonally, SBB is also offering the first anthology, Silver Boomers, at a greatly discounted rate of $5.00 (+$2.00 S&H.)

If you haven't seen the current calls for submissions, take a look now. Silver Boomer Books, Eagle Wings Press, and Laughing Cactus Press.


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Author Thelma Zirkelbach, a contributor to the Silver Boomer Books anthologies, has started a new blog she would love to share with her fellow authors. View Thelma's blog here.

Cathy C. Hall, another contributor to the Silver Boomer Books family, is a proud contributor to A Cup of Comfort Book of Christmas Prayer. To read more of Cathy's writing, visit her blog.


We have several signings coming up. Mark your calendars.
November 14th & 28th, December 12th - Hastings Books and Music 4701 South 14th Abilene, Texas - 1-4 pm. We will have all our titles available and several authors will be on hand.
In addition, if you are in the Dallas-Ft Worth area, please come by Connections Bookstore 2428 Forest Park Blvd Ft. Worth, Texas - November 21 1:30-3:30 pm.
Any of our authors in the area please come by, say hello, have a chat, sign a few copies, and buy a copy of the books you don't have.

Even editors get the blues. Even the BIG houses sometimes make editing errors.
We're not perfect. We sometimes make mistakes. Unfortunately, we made two mistakes in the early formatting and editing process of This Path. "At Play with the Mouseketeers" was accidentally edited in half, a portion nicked out, which the fine eyes of the editors did not catch. We have posted the piece, along with our apologies to the author, Anthony J. Mohr, here.
Also in This Path (actually, NOT in This Path) we overlooked the biography of one of our dear authors, Peter Goodwin, please take the time to get to know Peter, and all of our authors from our third anthology, This Path.


Tuesday, November 3rd, Karen (aka Kerin) was a guest speaker at Hardin Simmons University. Mrs. Alicia Floyd and her English class gave a warm and inviting welcome. Karen was honored to share some of her poetry and to answer questions such as: What inspires you? What do you do when you get writer's block? Did you always want to be a writer? Who were some of your early influences? Karen hopes that the students left that day feeling a bit inspired, hopeful and self-assured that their own writing does not have to be perfect right out of the gate, that's what revisions and edits, rewrites and more edits are for!
Karen's note: In a serendipitous moment before heading off to HSU, I was reading through the blogs I follow when I happened upon this headline: You Don't Have to Be A Poet to Write Poetry. Thank you Diana Raab! for the additional notes of inspiration to share with the students!