28 August 2019

#WIPWednesday

I'm wrapping up this quarter with a strong showing of syndications, this week.

Love What Matters featured the story of my son's traumatic birth. My essay on not missing my kids being little is now up on TODAY Parents. And Thought Catalog syndicated my piece on the sober curious movement.

I still have a couple of new pieces out for consideration but I wrote nothing new this week.

I did reach out to an artist about what could be a very cool collaboration opportunity, but I'm sure I am up against hundreds of others so I'm not getting my hopes up.

The poem I mentioned submitting to a contest a couple weeks ago did not win. I currently have a few unpublished poems which are not out for consideration; I'm thinking about self-publishing one or two soon.

And I'm finishing up drafting my 3rd quarterly newsletter. It should hit inboxes the first week of September!

21 August 2019

#WIPWednesday

Yesterday was Book Release Day for Sea Glass Hearts, Stormy Island Publishing's poetry anthology which features my poem, "In My Dreams." It even reached #1 New Release in Poetry Anthologies!


I don't yet have my hands on a paperback copy, but I will soon!

Also this week, I continued to tweek my bio and header, neither is a strong suit of mine but I feel like each revision is a step in the right direction.

I didn't write anything new this week but I did submit a piece for syndication consideration and I still have a couple outstanding queries.

And, I started working on my next quarterly newsletter, due to be delivered in early September.

14 August 2019

#WIPWednesday

I'm not even going to try to play it cool – I'm excited about this! I now have an Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/author/elizabeth_joyce! This is a major milestone in my writing career.

I qualified to create an Amazon Author Page thanks to Sea Glass Hearts now being available for e-book pre-orders; paperbacks will be available on the 20th.

My poem in this anthology will be the first time in my adult life that my writing will be published in print. But, I am also excited about my short story pending publication this Fall, which will add another book to my Author Page.

I've started to update my bios and links accordingly.

In other news, I wrote a new poem and submitted it to a contest and, after months of waiting (and starting to get my hopes up) I received a rejection for a collection of poems I submitted to a magazine.

Because I didn't write or query as much over the summer, I now only have a couple submissions outstanding. With my kids getting back to school yesterday, I'm hoping to remedy that in the coming weeks.

07 August 2019

#WIPWednesday

We are in the final days of our Summer Break. It's a whirlwind of fitting in the final bits of summer fun and doing all the things to get ready for a new school year.

I submitted my piece about the conversations we have as part of our Back-to-School prep each year to TODAY Parents, this week.

I also wrote new piece about my thoughts on the Sober Curious movement and published it on Medium. I was having mixed feelings about this piece and sat on it for a while before I decided to publish it. So, I was especially excited to see it was selected by Medium's curators to be featured in two topics!

And, this week, Stormy Island Publishing announced release date for their poetry anthology, Sea Glass Hearts. I'm looking forward to seeing my poem in print on August 20th!

As exhausting as it is to be in this transitional time, summer is ending with some good momentum and an energizing excitement about the coming months.