Hi lovelies! It gives me great pleasure today to host all these fabulous authors and their new book box set, “Running Wild Anthology of Stories: Volume 1”! For other stops on their Goddess Fish Promotions Book Tour, please click on the banner above or any of the images in this post.
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giveaway!! One winner will win a $10
Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! A
second winner will win a $25 Amazon or Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! A third winner will win a $50 Amazon or
Barnes and Noble Gift Card!! So
exciting!! Also, come back daily to
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winning!
This book is on SALE for ONLY $0.99 during the book tour!! See below for more details.
This book is on SALE for ONLY $0.99 during the book tour!! See below for more details.
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by! Wishing you lots of luck in this
fabulous giveaway!
Running Wild
Anthology of Stories: Volume 1
By Various Authors: Sarah Smith Ducksworth, Elaine Crauder,
Luanne Smith, Keith R. Fentonmiller, Lisa Montagne, Ann Stolinsky, A.J.
O’Connell, Aimee LaBrie, Kristan Campbell, Jack Hillman, Bill Scruggs, Joshua
Hedges and Gary Zenker
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GENRE: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry (Narrative)
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BLURB:
This
gripping collection of stories - fiction, nonfiction, and narrative poem - will
make your imagination run wild! Featuring stories by Sarah Smith Ducksworth,
Elaine Crauder, Luanne Smith, Keith R. Fentonmiller, Lisa Montagne, Ann
Stolinsky, A.J. O’Connell, Aimee LaBrie, Kristan Campbell, Jack Hillman, Bill
Scruggs, Joshua Hedges, Gary Zenker. You will travel alternative planets, run
away away like teens in search of adventure, solve a murderous mystery, come to
grips with your fears, and much more.
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EXCERPT THREE:
“The
jumpsuit was a thing of beauty. Made of dark-blue, shiny denim, it had an
orange zipper that spanned from the crotch to the cleavage. It even sparkled
ever so slightly in the sun, like it had been dipped in a vat of finely grained
fairy dust. It sported capped sleeves, a wide collar, and bellbottoms. It was
worthy of Cher or Liza Minnelli— certainly a back-up singer for Diana Ross.
Nonetheless, it made me queasy. But, the jumpsuit also made me feel sexy and
daring, which incited an occasional wave of sweaty armpits. In it, I was
anxious to flaunt my new body and my new image. Seventh grade, here I come!
There was no stopping me. I would no longer be the nerdy, fat kid. I would be a
star.”
~From Lisa Montagne’s “The Jumpsuit”
~From Lisa Montagne’s “The Jumpsuit”
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GUEST POST:
Five Reasons You Should Read "Running Wild Anthology"
By Lisa Diane
Kastner, Editor of Running Wild Anthology of Stories, Volume 1
1.
Our approach to the anthology was not to limit ourselves to a specific genre or
style. We wanted to have a variety of
voices and types of stories so that the reader got to explore great new writers
and their fantastic and varied stories. This makes the anthology unique
compared to another anthology. You'll read a funny non-fiction piece by Lisa
Montagne called Jumpsuit and then join Jack Hillman on a mystery/horror
adventure.
2.
Some of our writers you'll recognize from other publications. Others will be
completely new to you. And that's what makes this anthology fun. You'll enjoy familiar voices while meeting
new friends who will quickly become BFFs.
3. No
matter what genre you love, you will find something for you. If you love to share your favorite books,
this will quickly become a favorite and one that you can share with anyone no
matter their reading tastes.
4. Be
in the know - we're a small and mighty press that is proud to attract and
publish amazing stories with great voices. You can be among the first of your
friends and family to discover these gems.
5.
Why not? The eBook is only 99 cents during this virtual tour. That's less than most cups of coffee and even
some candy bars.
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AUTHOR BIOS
& LINKS:
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Elaine Crauder’s fiction
is also in Cooweescoowee, The Boston Literary Magazine, The Eastern Iowa Review,
and Penumbra. Another story received the Westmoreland Short Story Award. Eleven
of her short stories have been finalists or semi-finalists in contests,
including finalists in the Tobias Wolff and Mark Twain House contests. ”The
Price Of A Pony,” under the title ”Christmas the Hard Way,” was a semi-finalist
for both Ruminate Magazine’s short story
prize and for the Salem College Center for Women Writers Reynolds Price short
fiction award.
Richard D. “Ky” Owen is a lawyer with Goodwin
& Goodwin, LLP, in Charleston, West Virginia. He earned a B.A. in
journalism from Michigan State University in 1981 and a J.D. from Hamline
University in 1984. Coming from a family of writers, he considers himself a
“writer by birth.” He is the author of None Call Me Dad and he blogs about
parenting and Michigan State sports on his website, www.nonecallmedad.com.
Keith R. Fentonmiller is a
consumer protection attorney for the Federal Trade Commission in Washington,
D.C. Before graduating from the University of Michigan Law School, he toured
with a professional comedy troupe, writing and performing sketch comedy at
colleges in the Mid-Atlantic States. His Pushcart-nominated short story was
recently published in the Stonecoast Review. His debut novel, Kasper
Mützenmacher’s Cursed Hat, will be published March 20, 2017 by Curiosity Quills
Press.
Based
in Southern California, Dr. Lisa Montagne
currently divides her time between writing poetry and prose, teaching writing
to (mostly) willing college students, and overseeing educational technology
projects and support at Fullerton College. She is also a Swing, Blues, and
Argentine Tango dancer, host, DJ, and instructor. She likes to drink Champagne
in as many places as she can, including Europe; to read poetry aloud to anybody
who will listen; to cook for anybody who is willing to sit down long enough to
enjoy her food; to dabble in drawing, painting, and photography; and to read
anything plopped in front of her, ranging from D.H. Lawrence to Vogue magazine.
She also likes to watch television and movies, and to imagine how much better
she would have produced them herself. She lived in Las Vegas at one time, so
she likes to tell people that she was a stripper there. She was really just a
graduate student and high school teacher, but it’s more fun to let people
wonder. Although rumored to be a direct descendent of Oompa Loompas, Lisa is
actually the offspring of a college professor and a circus dwarf. You can find
some more of her writing at archive405.com and lisamontagne.com, and see evidence
of her adventures @lisamlore on Instagram.
Ann Stolinsky is a
Pennsylvania-based word and game expert. She is the founder and owner of Gontza
Games, an independent board and card game company, and three of her games are
currently in the marketplace:
“MINDFIELD,
The Game of United States Military Trivia”; “Pass the Grogger!”; and “Christmas
Cards.”
Check
out her website at www.gontzagames.com. She is also a partner in Gemini
Wordsmiths, a full-service copyediting and content creating company. Visit
www.geminiwordsmiths.com for more information and testimonials. Ann reviews
books for Amazing Stories Magazine, an online sci-fi magazine which can be
found at www.amazingstoriesmag.com, and is an Assistant Editor for Red Sun
Magazine, www.redsunmagazine.com. Her most recent publishing credit is a poem
in the Fall 2015 issue of Space and Time Magazine. She is a graduate of the
Bram Stoker award-winning author Jonathan Maberry’s short story writing class.
Lisa Diane Kastner is a
former correspondent for the Philadelphia Theatre Review and Features Editor
for the Picolata Review, her short stories have appeared in magazines and
journals such as StraightJackets Magazine and HESA Inprint. In 2007 Kastner was
featured in the Fresh Lines @ Fresh Nine, a public reading hosted by Gross
McCleaf Art Gallery. She founded Running Wild Writers and is the former
president of Pennwriters, Inc. (www.pennwriters.com). She received her MFA in
Creative Writing from Fairfield University, her MBA from Pennsylvania State and
her BS from Drexel University (She’s definitely full of it). Her novel THE
KEEPER OF LOST THINGS was shortlisted in the fiction category of the William
Faulkner Words and Wisdom Award and her memoir BREATHE was a semi-finalist in
the nonfiction category of the same award. Born and raised in Camden, New
Jersey she migrated to Philadelphia in her twenties and eventually transported
to Los Angeles, California with her partner-in-crime and ever-talented husband.
They nurture two felonious felines who anxiously engage in little sparks of
anarchy.
Aimee LaBrie works
as a communications director at Rutgers University. She earned her MFA in
fiction from Penn State, and her MLA from University of Pennsylvania. Her short
story collection, Wonderful Girl, was awarded the Katherine Anne Porter Prize
in Fiction and published by the University of North Texas Press in 2007. Her
second collection of stories, A Good Thing, placed as a finalist in the BOA
Short Fiction Contest. Her short stories have been nominated for a Pushcart
Prize and published in Pleiades, Minnesota Review, Iron Horse Literary Review,
Permafrost, and other literary journals. In 2012, she won first place in
Zoetrope’s All-Story Fiction contest. You can read her blog at
www.butcallmebetsy.blogspot.com.
Kristan Campbell is a
short story writer born in Washington, D.C. but has only visited her
grandmother there during some of the summers of her childhood. She’s more
familiar with Philadelphia, New York City, and Paris than her native city and
aims to weave her experiences in those places into tales based on places and
people that are out of the ordinary. She studied Journalism at Temple
University (what seemed like a practical approach to writing at the time) and
Comparative Literature at Hunter College (which seemed like a fun idea at the
time) before accepting that she should have been an English major all along.
Kristan completed her B.A. in English at Temple University in 2010 and an MFA
in Fiction at Fairfield University
in 2016. She’s currently attempting to eke out a living doing freelance editing
with the help of her cat, Fishy, who manages her desktop printer with
enthusiasm.
Bill Ed Scruggs spent
his younger years meeting the Southern mountain countryside and exploring the
people, taking time out as needed for work in various occupations. He lives
(temporarily) in Connecticut and has one child, a psychiatrist. Presently he is
reconstructing his memories and imaginings in a series of novels and short
stories (Facebook page Foothills Fiction - Bill Ed Scruggs) Warrensburg is a
fictional photo of a country village in the illumination of fireflies.
Joshua Hedges is a
debut Science Fiction writer from Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from The
University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Computer Science. When he’s not
writing stories or code, he ventures outdoors with his wife and three-year-old
son to hunt dragons in the forest.
Gary Zenker is a
marketing professional whose days are filled with creating business and
marketing plans, and writing ad copy and media content. By night, he applies
his imagination to flash fiction tales that cross genre and focus on revealing
various facets of human nature. He is the author of Meetup Leader, a book on
running successful groups; is editor and publisher of 19 books in the rock
& roll Archives series; and co-author of Says Seth, a humorous collection
written with his then six-year-old son. His work has earned a dozen marketing
awards and placed in four writers’ contests, including a first place
recognition from Oxford University Press. He founded and continues to lead two
writers groups in southeastern PA, assisting others to develop their skills and
achieve their writing goals. www.zenkermarketing.com.
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BOOK BUY LINKS
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Anthology of Stories: Volume 1 in the Ebook format will be on SALE for ONLY $0.99 during the book
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Congrats on the tour and thanks for the chance to win :)
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ReplyDeleteWhat books would you like to see turned into a movie? Thanks for the giveaway. I hope that I win. Bernie W BWallace1980(at)hotmail(d0t)com
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What is your favorite book of all time. Thanks for the giveaway. I hope that I win. Bernie W BWallace1980(at)hotmail(d0t)com
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