GUILD CHAPBOOKS AVAILABLE:
Author: Kelly Epperson
Title: When Life Stinks, It’s Time to Wash the Gym Clothes
Published: 2008
Number of Pages: 106 pages
Price: $12.95
Shipping $2.00
Terms: Send check to Kelly Epperson PO Box 2324 Loves Park IL 61131
Contact:www.kellyepperson.com or kel_epperson@yahoo.com
October 2007, 140 pages
Terms: $12.95 + $2 S&H to Kelly Epperson PO Box 2324 Loves Park IL 61131
Move over, Erma, and make room for Kelly.” Kelly’s weekly newspaper columns are a witty (and sometimes wise) take on the events that happen to all of us in everyday life. From the jobs hazards of parenting, to today’s fashion statements, to the mysteries of online IQ testing, Kelly tackles every topic with candor and humor. When Life Stinks, It’s Time to Wash the Gym Clothes is a collection of over forty reader-favorite columns. Some columns from the year that Kelly, the Man of the Place, and their boys lived in France are included too, of course. One reader states: “You are funny, down to earth, and not afraid to show your imperfections. Thanks for writing about real life.”
Author: Jim Bellarosa
Title: Horse of a Different Color: And other tales of Conflict and Confrontation
Published: 2006
Number of Pages: 106 pp.
Price: $12.95 each
Shipping: Included
Terms: Send check with order to:
Jim Bellarosa
24 Snow Road
North Grafton, MA 01536
Description from Author:
A Horse of a Different Color is a collection of short stories--fifteen in all--with a common theme of conflict and confrontation. Most of the stories appeared previously in literary magazines around the country, some have won prizes in writing contests. They're less "literary" (in the sense that most people use that term) than down-to-earth stories, I think--stories, settings and circumstances we can all relate to. And they're told with liberal doses of humor, compassion and quirkiness.
So, who will you find in this collection? Well, there are vamps and villans, heroes and hucksters, coquettes and curmudgeons, innocents and inebreiates, seducers and sophisticates. And there are lots of couples--couples in love, in conflict, in delusion, and in confusion.
Of course, I'm inviting orders and I'm hoping you'll send one because I think you'll enjoy A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR. It has charm, I think, insight, drama, a fast pace. And it has so much dialogue that one of my friends told me he could still hear people talking after he closed the book. He thinks it may be the noisiest book ever written!
For each book purchased by a RWG member I'll donate $1 to the Guild's general fund.
Author: Esther E. Buskohl
Title: Apple Stars and Family Trees
Published: October 2005
Number of Pages: 80 pp.
Price: $18.00 each
Shipping: $2.00 additional per book (Media Rate)
Terms: Send check with order to:
E. E. Buskohl
304 West First St.
Mount Morris, IL 61054
Description from Author:
Apple Stars and Family Trees is a dramatization of East Freisen womens' stories in monologues and a three-act play. The book's characters tell of their journeys from Germany's North Sea Ostfriesland to Northern Illinois' prairie land.
My book was written for reading to show out ancestors' determination and hope of a better life “for the children.”
The monologues can be used with permission for story-telling programs, cemetery walks, etc. The play involves the same women telling their experiences interspersed with this generation's frustrations in the search to complete family trees.
The play's setting is a library's genealogy books section. The cast is for four “mature” women, five women of current generation, one young man, and one optional small boy to run on the stage in the last scene.
BOOK ORDERS and communications about permission for monologue and play performances should be addressed to:
Esther E. Buskhol
304 West First Street
Mount Morris, IL 61054
Melanie Coronetz announces publication of her chapbook:
Letters from the
Queen
And Other Gems
By Melanie Coronetz
AVAILABLE NOW! $10 Post paid.
To reserve your copy:
e-mail: mermel@att.net
or send check to:
Melanie Coronetz
1200 5th Ave. (8-D)
New York, NY 10029
Author: Olivia Diamond
Title: Novenas for Grandmother
Published: 2007
Price: $3.00 each, 5 or more copies, 10% discount
Shipping: Includes postage
Terms: Order from author by e-mail at: olivia@mountainofdreams.com
Or by telephoning: 406-862-3940
Description from Author:
A thematic series of 16 nine-stanza poems commemorating the immigrant experience of the poet's Polish grandmother. Dedicated to all the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers of the world; this 16 page poetry chapbook makes a lovely gift for the special women in your life.
Author: Eunice Fisher
Title: Christian AND Lesbian: A Life in Progress
Published: Fall, 2006
Number of Pages: 234 pp.
Terms: To request a copy please mail a check for $14.99 + $5.00 postage/handling (add an additional $5.00 for an autographed copy) to:
Eunice Fisher
P.O. Box 1559
St. Petersburg, FL 33731-1559
Description from Author:
RWG member and former President Eunice Fisher has announced the publication of her first book with RWG Press. "Christian AND Lesbian: A Life in Progress" is a 234-page anthology of reminiscences about growing up in Milwaukee; anecdotes about family, friends, and animals; poetry, especially about love (requited or not); and journal entries addressed to her partner. A lifelong Christian and in recent years a gay rights activist, the author includes insightful comments on issues relating to the church and the place of gays and lesbians in it. Illustrated by the author.
Beginnings and Endings
By
Joyce Sandeen Johnson
Published: August, 2005
35 poems
Terms: To request a copy please mail a check for $7.00 to:
Joyce Sandeen Johnson
101 West Windsor Road #6203
Urbana, IL 61802-6663
Description from Author:
The flow of life and the seasons of the year with a bit of philosophy here and there.
The Devil’s Advocate
By
Charles Portolano
A Chapbook of Poems
Who’s that knocking on your door?
Published: September, 2005
Number of Pages: 40 pages, 28 poems
Price: $5.00 - Includes shipping and postage.
Terms: To order copies, please send a check or money order for $5, which includes postage,
to:
Charles Portolano
P.O. Box 17205
Fountain Hills, AZ 85269-7205
To pay with Paypal or to contact me, please e-mail me at: angeldec24@hotmail.com
DOUGLAS HOLDER wrote:
Poet Charles Portolano wrote to me: " I believe this is a book for all Americans, who love what the country should and could be." Portolano should be commended for desiring to make a political statement with his work. And in some cases he artfully does, as in his lead poem: "The Bald Eagle." Here he describes the imperialistic swoop of this majestic bird; only to be silenced by a resounding shot: "with one swoop/ of those wondrous wings/ diving down/ descending upon its prey/ talons poised/ for the kill/ a sudden, single gunshot/ shatters the silence." This poem's allusion to our national bird, and the shattering of this mandarin myth of American invincibility is well done.
There are more poetry books needed to decry the direction in which this country is going. I am sure "The Devil's Advocate," will be just the tip-of-the-iceberg in the world of the small press.
Doug Holder/ Ibbetson Update/ Somerville, Mass./Sept. 2005
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"The Bald Eagle" took 1st. Place Prize in The Rockford Writer's Guild's Ides of March Poetry Contest.
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Ed Grosek, Editor of "Write Away" called these 28 poems "very provocative".
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Arthur C. Ford of The Poet Band Co. writes "Poet Charles Portolano waste no words.
He exposes human endeavors, nature, religion and a host of other matters.
He uses very little internal and external punctuation, which in turn, creates a rhythmic
and kind of enjambment of short verses. The reader can get comfortable enough to
complete the entire book non-stop.
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For more information on Charles Portolano, visit Web site www.thesouldecision.com
Author: Richard Swanson
Title: Men in the Nude in Socks, and other poems
Published: October 2006
Number of Pages: 70 pp., perfect bound, quality paperback
Publisher: Fireweed Press
Price: $13.00 each
Shipping: Included
Terms: Send check with order to:
Richard Swanson
7320 Cedar Creek Trail
Madison, WI 53717
Description from Author:
The poems in this collection are often comic, frequently with a satirical edge. But many of the works tackle very serious subjects: war and peace, nature's complexities, and human relationships. As one of my reviewers noted, "there's plenty of meat on these funny bones."
I love to delve into pop culture, and there are poems about Ted Williams and Barbie and Ken, for example. I also have a love of the commonplace, so there are pieces about cats in bookstores, young teen-age girls not being able to say goodbye to one another, people at farmers' markets, and do-it-yourself homeowners.
My poems have architecture, frequently based in conventional forms. When they're successful, I believe, readers should barely notice that they're reading a sonnet or villanelle.
"Possessed of a warm sensibility and dry wit, Swanson's poems crackle with humor and huanity." -- Ian Morris, Associate Editor, TriQuarterly
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