My third book from ReadTheseLips.com.
Evecho

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It's here!

Sweet Afters from ReadTheseLips.com is our third collection of distinctive
stories from talented lesbian authors. Joan Nestle—co-founder of the Lesbian
Herstory Archives and iconic lesbian activist—honoured us with a fascinating
story of one lesbian's joyous life celebrated by those who shared it. Janis
Spehr sent in a breathtaking narrative of a housewife struggling to escape a
dead-end life. J.E. Knowles, Georgia Beers, JD Glass and Amy McDonald each gave
a glimpse into the complexities of significant relationships. Vicki Stevenson
reminded us that happy beginnings can happen anywhere, and poet Natasha Carthew
offered three short but intense poems for all who have longed and loved. For the
first time, we are featuring a photographic exhibit by JRen, who also shot this
issue's beautiful covers.

Sweet Afters is about the last course, the indulgent pleasure afterwards. We
hope this issue of Read These Lips satisfies in the best way.

Now available for download from ReadTheseLips.com.
Enjoy the book.
Evecho and Linda Lorenzo
Editors,  ReadTheseLips.com

Does anyone know what happened to Lizzy Tendre's website?

----- Original Message -----

From: the_shadylady_629

To: the_sandbox101_updates@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:45 AM

Subject: The Sandbox 101 Updates Grouply SPAM

Do not accept any invitations from any person that says they are a
member of Grouply. This will cause a massage spamming of everyone on
your personal email list and completely consume what ever groups you
are members to. Please delete any emails from members you do not know
or which contain the invite to join GROUPLY

Thanks

Shadylady

Do not accept any invitations from any person that says they are a
member of Grouply.  This will cause a massage spamming of everyone on
your personal email list and completely consume what ever groups you
are members to.  Please delete any emails from members you do not know
or which contain the invite to join GROUPLY

Thanks

Shadylady

At ten a.m. EST on TNT is the ER episode that Adrienne Wilkinson did
called Suffer the Little Children. I know, I waited until eight
minutes from show time to tell yall, but better late than never. I'm
recording it.

Hidey ho yall!

I started a wee group for us Xena Fan Fiction Authors to throw around
ideas to one another, and get character ideas, and plot ideas and what
not in. If you get stuck and write yourself into a corner like I know
I've done a million times, or need help on how a xena character would
act in a certain situation, or say in a certain situation, this is the
place to find out. Can figure out how to get Xena to throw her
chakram, and do somethingelse at the same time? Maybe a fellow bard
can help you out. That's what I made this group fer. Come on by and
giver a looksie.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xenafanfictionauthorsforum

It's here!

Second Helpings from ReadTheseLips.com arrives with more stories and
an expanded scope. In our new anthology, incredibly talented writers
explore what it means to be lesbian and, in so doing, add definition
to ours.

Please welcome in Second Helpings the enduring pens of Lee Lynch and
Marianne K. Martin; the award-winning insights of Nicola Griffith,
Susan Hawthorne and Ruthann Robson; the dynamic voices of Erin Davies
and Lorenza Martelli; and the diverse contemporary adult fiction of
Ovidia Yu, Fran Walker, Stacia Seaman, Lois Cloarec Hart, Robin
Alexander, Fletcher DeLancey, Jac Hills and C.C. Saint-Clair.

Second Helpings is now available for download from ReadTheseLips.com.

But wait, there's more!

To celebrate the release of Second Helpings, we are giving away a free
e-book courtesy of Spinifex Press! All you have to do is send us a
picture of Second Helpings in a funny or unusual location. (Nothing
dangerous or X-rated please, as the winning pic will be posted on our
blog.)

Click this link to view Spinifex Press's range of e-books
http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/ebooks.php

Send us your picture and your contact details by 31 July in an email
to info @ readtheselips.com, with the subject line: Photo contest. One
picture per entrant.

The winner will be announced the week after.

Enjoy the book.

Evecho and Linda Lorenzo, Editors.
www.ReadTheseLips.com
http://readtheselips.wordpress.com/

Feel free to cross-post this. I'm one of the organisers of the
workshop and I can tell you that two of lesfics best editors are
practically giving of themselves for free.
Evecho

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Editing, Self-editing, and Beta-reading: Taking your skills to the
next level

Join us for a month-long educational experience where you'll learn:

* Tools to help writers craft better stories
* Ways for writers to get the best from their beta readers
* Storycrafting tips and research techniques
* What red flags editors look out for, serious enough to defeat a
manuscript
* Insights into the publishing process



This unique learning experience will not only give you important
feedback and new insights, but it will also take you steps beyond what
other beta readers and beginner editors can do.

In addition, you'll also learn:

* How real editors use style sheets to keep stories consistent
(and you'll learn more about these powerful tools that well-known
authors find essential in their work)
* How to avoid editorial pet peeves that can work against your
manuscript
* How to do research that'll take your art and work to the next level
* How to avoid the genre trap: make the formula work for you
* And more!


Don't think you know the beginning of what real editors do? This
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you ahead of the game. It'll take the guesswork out of many steps of
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techniques.

It'll take the mystery out of professional editing, answer your
questions, and give you an insider's perspective on how to make
stories and novels more coherent, easily read, and ultimately, more
sellable!

This is a can't miss opportunity!

Brought to You By:

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silver medal and a Golden Crown Literary Award for Erotic Interludes
4: Extreme Passions. Stacia edits everything from textbooks to popular
nonfiction to mysteries and romance novels. Visit her on the Web at
www.staciaseaman.com.

An Alice B. Reader's Choice Award winner, Therese Szymanski has been
short-listed for a Spectrum and a few Lammies and Goldies, and made
the Publishing Triangle's list of notable lesbian books in 2004. She's
written eight Brett Higgins Motor City Thrillers (When the Dancing
Stops, When the Dead Speak, When Some Body Disappears, When Evil
Changes Face, When the Corpse Lies, When First We Practice and When
It's All Relative); It's All Smoke & Mirrors (the First Chronicles of
Shawn Donelly), edited Back to Basics, Call of the Dark, Wild Nights,
Fantasy and A Perfect Valentine; has novellas in Once Upon a Dyke,
Stake through the Heart, Tall in the Saddle and Bell, Book and Dyke
and has a few dozen published short stories. Every single book she's
edited has been shortlisted for—or won—an award. You can check her out
on the Web at www.BigBadButch.com.

This workshop facilitated by Evecho.
Evecho is the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of ReadTheseLips.com, an
e-publisher of lesbian short writings, and a Bibliographic resource of
lesbian and lesbian-friendly anthologies. For more information, see
www.ReadTheseLips.com and http://readtheselips.wordpress.com/


Details of this fantastic workshop.

When: 5 weeks, from 5 May to 10 June 2008.

Where: Online at YahooGroups

Fee: USD $25 per participant

How to register: Payments via PayPal to editingworkshop@....
After payment is confirmed, send an email to editingworkshop@...
with your name and YahooID to be invited to the Workshop on YahooGroups.

Spaces limited! All invites on first-come, first-served basis.




Regards
Evecho

www.ReadTheseLips.com

Hi there.  Yes, it's good to have something to keep busy with as life tends to
tear at us from
time to time.  I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.  Take time to
grieve and take care
of you.  Good you'll be writing again.

Best,

Trish

--- Jynaki@... wrote:

> Welcome back. It's wonderful to see that you are going to be writing  again.
>
>
> Jynaki
>
>
> In a message dated 2/13/2008 3:11:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> daughterofdahak@... writes:
>
>
>
>
> do to circumstance beyond my control,I was unable to drive, and  unable
> to have internet after beginning of summer of last year at  home
> because of unemployment. But I'm back and I will posting my  stories
> again. I kind of lost my desire to write because a friend of mine  who
> was also a xena fan and who was the basis of a character in many  of
> stories passed away, but I'm making myself do it. So I will be  posting
> again. I'm glad to be back!
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy
> Awards. Go to AOL Music.
> (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565)
>


Trish Shields,
author  of 'Inferno', by Baycrest Books.  You can see more of her work and the
latest updates here: http://trishshields.tripod.com/
ArdentTly@...


      
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Thanks very much, Debbie.  As you can see, it's taking me a while to go through
my bulging inbox.
I've been working on two new manuscripts so things are crazy at my house!

Best,

Trish

--- Debbie Dee <destinie_1@...> wrote:

> Very well done Trish.
>
> Debbie Dee
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: ArdentTly
>   To: the_sandbox101_updates@yahoogroups.com
>   Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:48 PM
>   Subject: Re: The Sandbox 101 Updates need a beta reader
>
>
>   This is a cinquain, a poem of 5 lines with 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllable line
count. This
> configuration
>   is a bit different and is of my own design - there is a mirrored cinquain in
the middle. Hope
> you
>   enjoy.
>
>   Trish
>
>   Spirit Birth
>
>   Hopping
>   on grasping feet,
>   their heads bobbing tempo
>   with each raucous turn of the moon,
>   they caw.
>   Eyes roll with each
>   grimaced shadow, nameless
>   amongst the whispering deadfall --
>   arise!
>   Shaman have infused wood with lore
>   before tools mar the skin;
>   their voices curl
>   over
>   shuddering wood, coaxing each moan
>   of light until totem's
>   spirit is free
>   to roam.
>
>   ©Trish Shields
>
>   .
>


Trish Shields,
author  of 'Inferno', by Baycrest Books.  You can see more of her work and the
latest updates here: http://trishshields.tripod.com/
ArdentTly@...


      
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----- Original Message -----

From: Meg

To: the_sandbox101_updates@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:10 PM

Subject: The Sandbox 101 Updates I'm finally back online and at home!

do to circumstance beyond my control,I was unable to drive, and unable
to have internet after beginning of summer of last year at home
because of unemployment. But I'm back and I will posting my stories
again. I kind of lost my desire to write because a friend of mine who
was also a xena fan and who was the basis of a character in many of
stories passed away, but I'm making myself do it. So I will be posting
again. I'm glad to be back!

----- Original Message -----

From: ArdentTly

To: the_sandbox101_updates@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:48 PM

Subject: Re: The Sandbox 101 Updates need a beta reader

This is a cinquain, a poem of 5 lines with 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllable line count. This configuration
is a bit different and is of my own design - there is a mirrored cinquain in the middle. Hope you
enjoy.

Trish

Spirit Birth

Hopping
on grasping feet,
their heads bobbing tempo
with each raucous turn of the moon,
they caw.
Eyes roll with each
grimaced shadow, nameless
amongst the whispering deadfall --
arise!
Shaman have infused wood with lore
before tools mar the skin;
their voices curl
over
shuddering wood, coaxing each moan
of light until totem's
spirit is free
to roam.

©Trish Shields

.

This is a cinquain, a poem of 5 lines with 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllable line count. 
This configuration
is a bit different and is of my own design - there is a mirrored cinquain in the
middle.  Hope you
enjoy.

Trish



Spirit Birth

Hopping
on grasping feet,
their heads bobbing tempo
with each raucous turn of the moon,
they caw.
Eyes roll with each
grimaced shadow, nameless
amongst the whispering deadfall --
arise!
Shaman have infused wood with lore
before tools mar the skin;
their voices curl
over
shuddering wood, coaxing each moan
of light until totem's
spirit is free
to roam.

©Trish Shields


--- Shadylady <the_shadylady_629@...> wrote:

> Great.  It sounds like you have been leading a very busy life.  I hope the
holiday season was
> good for you and the family.
>
>   Nancy
>
> ArdentTly <ardenttly@...> wrote:
>           Hi, Nancy.
>
> I hope to send you some poetry later today or tomorrow. Hope everyone had a
great Christmas.
> Here's hoping the New Year is filled with promise, publication, patience and
prosperity!
>
> Trish
>
> --- Shadylady <the_shadylady_629@...> wrote:
>
> > Yes I hope people are still posting to the Sandbox although I have not
received anything new
> to
> > post recently. I will be posting one new story soon that was on one of the
list serves so some
> > of you may have read it already. It is by Annina.
> >
> > Nancy
> >
> > Deb <pianoplr@...> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > are we still posting to the sandbox,
> >
> > I have quite a bit written on several stories
> >
> > need a beta reader. Anyone interested please reply off list
> >
> > Thanks deb.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> Trish Shields,
> author of 'Inferno', by Baycrest Books. You can see more of her work and the
latest updates
> here: http://trishshields.tripod.com/
> ArdentTly@...
>
> __________________________________________________________
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>
>
>
>


Trish Shields,
author  of 'Inferno', by Baycrest Books.  You can see more of her work and the
latest updates here: http://trishshields.tripod.com/
ArdentTly@...


      
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Thank you, I been writing on these stories, to keep my sanity, while
taking my elder mother to cancer treatments.  Those are finished now.

No hope there, so a nice place to escape to was imperitive.  Five or six
books worth done so far.   I am a beginner at this though.

As soon as I get someone else to read them over, I will send them for
posting, and thank you.



Deb



--- In the_sandbox101_updates@yahoogroups.com, Shadylady
<the_shadylady_629@...> wrote:
>
> Yes I hope people are still posting to the Sandbox although I have not
received anything new to post recently. I will be posting one new story
soon that was on one of the list serves so some of you may have read it
already. It is by Annina.
>
> Nancy
>
> Deb pianoplr@... wrote:
> Hello
>
> are we still posting to the sandbox,
>
>

Hi, Nancy.

I hope to send you some poetry later today or tomorrow. Hope everyone had a great Christmas.
Here's hoping the New Year is filled with promise, publication, patience and prosperity!

Trish

--- Shadylady <the_shadylady_629@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yes I hope people are still posting to the Sandbox although I have not received anything new to
> post recently. I will be posting one new story soon that was on one of the list serves so some
> of you may have read it already. It is by Annina.
>
> Nancy
>
> Deb <pianoplr@swbell.net> wrote:
> Hello
>
> are we still posting to the sandbox,
>
> I have quite a bit written on several stories
>
> need a beta reader. Anyone interested please reply off list
>
> Thanks deb.
>
>
>
>
>

Trish Shields,
author of 'Inferno', by Baycrest Books. You can see more of her work and the latest updates here: http://trishshields.tripod.com/
ArdentTly@yahoo.com

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Hi, Nancy.

I hope to send you some poetry later today or tomorrow.  Hope everyone had a
great Christmas.
Here's hoping the New Year is filled with promise, publication, patience and
prosperity!

Trish

--- Shadylady <the_shadylady_629@...> wrote:

> Yes I hope people are still posting to the Sandbox although I have not
received anything new to
> post recently.  I will be posting one new story soon that was on one of the
list serves so some
> of you may have read it already.  It is by Annina.
>
>   Nancy
>
> Deb <pianoplr@...> wrote:
>           Hello
>
> are we still posting to the sandbox,
>
> I have quite a bit written on several stories
>
> need a beta reader. Anyone interested please reply off list
>
> Thanks deb.
>
>
>
>
>


Trish Shields,
author  of 'Inferno', by Baycrest Books.  You can see more of her work and the
latest updates here: http://trishshields.tripod.com/
ArdentTly@...


      
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Hi, Deb.  I'm still here.  I can't help you, though.  Good luck!

Trish

--- Deb <pianoplr@...> wrote:

> Hello
>
> are we still posting to the sandbox,
>
> I have quite a bit written on several stories
>
> need a beta reader.  Anyone interested please reply off list
>
> Thanks deb.
>
>
>
> http://www.thesandbox101.com
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


Trish Shields,
author  of 'Inferno', by Baycrest Books.  You can see more of her work and the
latest updates here: http://trishshields.tripod.com/
ArdentTly@...


      
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Hello

are we still posting to the sandbox,

I have quite a bit written on several stories

need a beta reader. Anyone interested please reply off list

Thanks deb.

--- In the_sandbox101_updates@yahoogroups.com, "Deb" <pianoplr@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> are we still posting to the sandbox,
>
> I have quite a bit written on several stories
>
> need a beta reader.  Anyone interested please reply off list
>
> Thanks deb.
>
  Hello Deb,
I'll be a beta reader if you want. Lee

Hello

are we still posting to the sandbox,

I have quite a bit written on several stories

need a beta reader.  Anyone interested please reply off list

Thanks deb.

----- Original Message -----

From: blu

To: the_sandbox101_updates@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 5:13 PM

Subject: The Sandbox 101 Updates the lurker pops out

Hi everyone! i have been utterly SILENT for a loonngggggggggg time.
Well the silence is over (kind of) I have been working on several
projects (like keeping my sanity)!

Happy New Year!

blu

.