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I'm thinking Mother's Day ...

2/22/2014

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Mother's Day or Mothering Sunday; either way it's 30th March 2014 ... what to do?

Following the success of the Valentine's Giveaway I think we should do something similar for Mother's Day. I like getting you to decide which stories should be given away on the day. The titles for Mother's Day will be chosen to reflect a different aspect of my love of stories and my love of writing stories; the conveying of an emotion or emotions to a purpose; mostly to entertain but often to trigger a thought, if not a question, even debate and sometimes change.

So, I'll put together the list and set up the voting page and you can do the rest. The top three this time will be free to download for the entire Mothering weekend.

Hope you're having a good weekend.

Alp
xx




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'Seriously'

2/21/2014

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'Seriously' is the 8th title to be published as part of the 'A gay brief encounter' series.

'Seriously' was previously published as part of 'The Liberty Short Collection Volume 2'.

'Seriously' has been edited and given a cover of its own.

It's a very short story but I hope one which puts a smile on your face.

Links:

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk



Alp
xx

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Giveaway was a runaway!

2/15/2014

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The Saint Valentine's Giveaway was a runaway success and that's thanks to you!

Approximately 1,000 copies were downloaded on 14th February.

Does that make me the most prolific sender of Valentine's in history? Quite possibly; it makes me very happy and I hope very much that Valentine's Day was special for you; mine was very special.

As promised; but I don't intent to give myself a deadline today, the top three stories will be made over, edited and re-covered as a celebration of love and romance.

Enjoy the stories; like my good pal Dane always says "live life and make love like the World is going to end tomorrow!"


Alp
xx


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Happy Valentine's Day

2/14/2014

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Chaucer wrote:

For this was on seynt Volantynys day

Whan euery bryd comyth there to chese his make.

["For this was on St. Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate."]


Valentine's Day is mentioned ruefully by Ophelia in Hamlet (1600–1601):

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day,
All in the morning betime,
And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.
Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes,
And dupp'd the chamber-door;
Let in the maid, that out a maid
Never departed more.

—William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 5

John Donne used the legend of the marriage of the birds as the starting point for his epithalamion celebrating the marriage of Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England, and Frederick V, Elector Palatine, on Valentine's Day:

Hayle Bishop Valentine whose day this is
All the Ayre is thy Diocese
And all the chirping Queristers
And other birds ar thy parishioners
Thou marryest every yeare
The Lyrick Lark, and the graue whispering Doue,
The Sparrow that neglects his life for loue,
The houshold bird with the redd stomacher
Thou makst the Blackbird speede as soone,
As doth the Goldfinch, or the Halcyon
The Husband Cock lookes out and soone is spedd
And meets his wife, which brings her feather-bed.
This day more cheerfully than ever shine
This day which might inflame thy selfe old Valentine.

John Donne, Epithalamion Vpon Frederick Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth marryed on St. Valentines day

The verse Roses are red echoes conventions traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene (1590):

She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,
And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew

The modern cliché Valentine's Day poem can be found in the collection of English nursery rhymes Gammer Gurton's Garland (1784):

The rose is red, the violet's blue,
The honey's sweet, and so are you.
Thou art my love and I am thine;
I drew thee to my Valentine:
The lot was cast and then I drew,
And Fortune said it shou'd be you

Indebted as always to Wikipedia where the quotes were found this morning.


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'Fresh Cut Glass'

2/8/2014

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Here's the draft cover for 'Fresh Cut Glass'.

The story is being edited now. Final word count was a shade under 35,000; quite an unexpected result.

I'll blog the date of publication with links as usual.


Have a great weekend.


Alp

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