Next time you write in your journal, switch the pen to your other hand and write. I know. I know. You can’t write with your other hand. Never mind. Try it anyway. Writing with our non-dominant hand can have interesting results because it confuses our brain. Part of that protest you just put up about [...]
Sneak Preview
Everyone loves a sneak preview, right? Third Person Press is happy to announce that Volume III of The Speculative Elements Series is in the final stage of production. Our largest anthology to date, this collection is brimming with 21 awesome stories. Our contributors are: Mona Anderson, Walter Carey, Ken Chisholm, Wesley J. Colford, Kerry Anne [...]
Listen to my story
The Quillians is an online writing group that meets in Second Life. We are fortunate to have as one of our members, John Lambert, who in addition to writing, has a lot of experience with podcasting. With his experience and hard work—along with co-moderator, Sherry Ramsey—The Quillian Chronicles podcasts came into being last year. Last [...]
New from Third Person Press!
Announcing the publication of Third Person Press‘ latest release: To Unimagined Shores, Collected Stories of Sherry D. Ramsey. Sixteen stories were previously chosen for publication in an impressive array of international magazines, collections and anthologies including On Spec, Simulacrum, Fantasy Magazine, The Day the Men Went to Town (Breton Books), Michael Stackpole’s The Chain Story [...]
The Men’s Breakfast
Breton Books has a new collection of short stories from Cape Breton, called The Men’s Breakfast. I am delighted to have my story, Her Top Forty, included. I’m in great company with stories from Julie Curwin, Russell Colman, Phonse Jessome, D.C. Troicuk, Victor Sakalaukus, Paul MacDougall, Teresa O’Brien, Frank McDonald, Bill Conall, Dave Doucette, Tim [...]
A Reading in SL
I, in the guise of Aplomb Pomilio in Second Life, will be reading my original short story “NetWorld” this Saturday evening (February 19th at 6pm SLT). This story originally appeared in Undercurrents, published by Third Person Press. This is the fifth of The Quillians Fantasy and Science Fiction Workshop monthly readings and other special events, [...]
Anti-Valentines Day Challenge
Sherry Ramsey, fearless, interim, co-leader of our online, Second Life writing group affectionately known as The Quillians, issued a writing challenge last week. We were to write an “anti-Valentine” poem. Here’s my tongue-in-cheek, bumpity-thumpity response: heart words: an anti-valentine poem february 14, 2011 thump beat beat-beat-beat heart beat-beat-beat up beat-beat-beat thump lump skippity-beat beat thump [...]
Authors with Glasses
It is Airborne night next Tuesday, February 15 at Governor’s Book Pub: Authors with Glasses starting at 7pm. Come hear Sherry D. Ramsey and Julie A. Serroul read from their stories published in Third Person Press’s Airborne. There’s also an open mike and, just so that the three-legged entity that is Third Person Press doesn’t [...]
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The Nashwaak Review
Check out my short story, “Worker Bee” in the new double issue of The Nashwaak Review (St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick). From the website: “The list of international award-winning contributors in this issue shows how far our magazine has come,” says Stewart Donovan, Professor of English Language and Literature and Irish Studies at St. [...]
A New Chain Story!
The Cost of a Tasmanian Tiger The Chain Story is pleased to release its twenty-third story, The Cost of a Tasmanian Tiger by Paul Genesse. Click on the story title to read to the tale. Paul Genesse is the author of several short stories featured in anthologies such as Steampunk’d, Fellowship Fantastic, The Dimension Next [...]
Book Review: Remnant Population
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ofelia is an old woman who only wants to do just what she wants with the rest of her days without criticism or interference from anyone else, including her own inner critic. When the colony she’s lived in for forty years is evacuated for [...]
Book Review: Steal Across the Sky
Steal Across the Sky by Nancy Kress My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Atoners–an alien race–has set up a base on Earth’s moon and asked for volunteers to “witness” human populations on distant planets. They admit to having committed a wrong against the human race 10,000 years earlier. Having these Earthlings visit settlements is [...]
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