2025 Reading Challenge

2025 Reading Challenge
Jill Elizabeth has read 164 books toward her goal of 365 books.
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On Contests and Publication Challenges or What to Do, What to Say?

So I just submitted another story (“The Numbers” from Wednesday/Thursday this week) to another contest (New Millennium Writings). Hooray, she said! I wanted to submit two – there was another sponsored by Boston Review, but their 2011 submissions were already closed (grr, argh). While they were willing to accept 2012 submissions, I was not so […]

The Numbers (Fiction – Part Two of Two)

As promised, here is part two of The Numbers. If you missed it yesterday, the first half is available here. Enjoy! 🙂

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The Numbers (Part Two) There are an unusual number of people on the street for a Thursday afternoon. Apparently I’m not the only person getting a little freaked out by the numbers. […]

The Numbers (Fiction – Part One of Two)

Today’s post is the first half of a story that started out as Flash-ish Fiction but got a little long… I enjoy a little suspense in my reading, and if I do, I figure other people do too. If you don’t, I’m sorry – but I’m still only giving you half of the story today. […]

Book Review: The Color of Atmosphere

For today’s Book Review Tuesday post, I am featuring a slightly extended version of a book review conducted for LuxuryReading.com, a wonderful site for which I will be reviewing non-fiction on a (hopefully) regular basis. A review copy of The Color of Atmosphere was provided courtesy of LuxuryReading. The original review was posted May 20. […]

Top Tens: Best First Lines or The Importance of a Beginning

I am a devout believer in the importance of the first line. A good opening sentence is not a guarantee that I will love a book or that I will even read the whole thing. What is guaranteed is that if the opening sentence doesn’t grab my attention then I will never know if I […]