J.Q. Rose Book Birthday, Book Release Schedule, & Open Submissions

It's J.Q. Rose's book birthday for her memoir, Arranging a Dream, and she's celebrating by offering the book at $.99 through January 16th! Visit this post on her blog and leave a comment to be entered to win a prize.

Arranging a Dream: A Memoir

In 1975, budding entrepreneurs Ted and Janet purchase a floral shop and greenhouses where they plan to grow their dream. Leaving friends and family behind in Illinois and losing the security of two paychecks, they transplant themselves, their one-year-old daughter, and all their belongings to Fremont, Michigan, where they know no one. 

Will the retiring business owners nurture Ted and Janet as they struggle to develop a blooming business, or will they desert the inexperienced young couple to wither and die in their new environment?

Most of all, can Ted and Janet grow together as they cultivate a loving marriage, juggle parenting with work, and root a thriving business?

Follow this couple’s inspiring story, filled with the joy and triumphs and the obstacles and failures experienced as they travel along the turbulent path of turning dreams into reality.

Amazon Buy Link Only 99 cents!

About J.Q. Rose

Whether the story is fiction or non-fiction, J.Q. Rose is “focused on story.”  She offers readers chills, giggles and quirky characters woven within the pages of her mystery novels. Her published mysteries are Deadly Undertaking, Terror on Sunshine Boulevard and Dangerous Sanctuary released by Books We Love Publishing. Using her experience as a journalist, she provides entertainment and information with articles featured in books, magazines, newspapers, and online magazines. 

J.Q. combined her work in freelancing articles and her storytelling skills to pen her memoir, Arranging a Dream: A Memoir, the story of the ups and downs she and her husband experienced in their first year of establishing a floral business.

Blogging, photography, Pegs and Jokers board games and travel are the things that keep her out of trouble. She and her husband spend winters in Florida and summers up north with their two daughters, two sons-in-law,  four grandsons, one granddaughter, two grand dogs, four grand cats, and one great-grand bearded dragon.

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The following folks are wonderful enough to be helping get the word out about my upcoming release! The schedule and links will be updated as we go along. The Business of Short Stories: Writing, Submitting, Publishing, and Marketing releases February 1 in e-book and paperback. It can be pre-ordered in digital format at Amazon.

January 12 - Beth Camp - Beth and Writing - Part I of Q&A

January 12 - Jean Davis - Discarded Darlings 

January 13 - diedre Knight - Stream Pebbles - Part I

January 14 - Michael Di Gesu - In Time 

January 17 - Jemi Frasier - Jemi Frasier - Q&A

January 18 - diedre Knight - Pensive Pens - Part II

January 18 - Toi Thomas - The ToiBox of Words

January 18 - Victoria Marie Lees - Victoria Marie Lees

January 19 - J.Q. Rose - Focused on Story by J.Q. Rose - Her Favorite Short Story (I already know which one it is, and it's one of my favorites, too!)

January 19 - Rebecca M. Douglass - Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

January 24 - Alex J. Cavanaugh - Alex J. Cavanaugh - Top Five Movies About Writing

January 26 - DeAnna Knippling - Wonderland Press & Writing Craft - Q&A

January 27 - Diane Burton - Diane Burton - Her Favorite Short Story

January 31 - Annalisa Crawford - Blogging with My Fountain Pen - Her Favorite Short Story

January 31 - Jemima Pett - Jemima Pett 

February 1 - Beth Camp - Beth and Writing - Part II of Q&A

February 2 - Michelle Wallace - Writer-in-Transit - Q&A

February 9 - C. Lee McKenzie - C. Lee McKenzie, Author - Her Favorite Short Story

TBA - Sandra Cox - Sandra's Place - 3 Quirky Food Facts

January 26 - DeAnna Knippling - Wonderland Press & Writing Craft - Q&A

TBA - Elizabeth Seckman - Elizabeth Seckman - Her Favorite Short Story

And a thank you to Natalie Aguirre and my brother Alex Kenoyer for individual shoutouts!

Now for publications seeking submissions. I'm not endorsing any of these. Always do your own due diligence before submitting.

Devil's Party Press is seeking literary short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry with a winter theme. Up to 5000 words. Pays $25. Deadline January 30.

Sirens Call Publications is seeking short horror stories with a forest theme for "Deep in the Woods." 4000 to 8000 words. Pays $25. Deadline January 31 (Note: I have worked with them before, and it was a good experience.)

Neon Hemlock is seeking "queer stories of dark speculative fiction across genres featuring mechas and mechs of all stripes." Up to 6000 words. Pays $.08/word. Deadline January 31.

Woodroe Writing Services is seeking horror short stories from marginalized authors for "Horror That Represents You." 1000 to 7000 words. Pays $.11/word. Deadline January 31.

Hydra Publications is seeking epic sword and sorcery fantasy with a grim or bleak feel for "Ghosts of the Old Gods." 6000 to 10,000 words. Pays $35. Deadline January 31.

Gossamer Wings and Other Stories is seeking Weird West Horror short stories for "A Fistful of Demons." Up to 6000 words. Pays $25 per 1000 words. Deadline January 31.

Nothing Without Us Too is seeking stories by and about those with both visible and invisible disabilities and chronic issues. 500 to 3500 words. Pays $.08 CAD/word. Deadline January 31.

Mysterion is seeking speculative fiction stories with a Christian theme. Up to 9000 words. Pays $.08.word. Deadline January 31.

Dark Peninsula Press is seeking dark fiction with the theme forbidden magic for "The Cellar Door." 2000 to 7500 words. Pays $25. Deadline January 31.

Alpennia is seeking short historical stories (before 1900) with a lesbian theme for the 2022 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series. Up to 5000 words. Pays $.08.word. Deadline January 31.

DMR Books is seeking sword and sorcery stories involving Halloween/Samhain. 4000 to 8000 words. Pays $.01/word. Deadline February 1.

The First Line is seeking short stories starting with the line "Rayna sat in front of the mirror removing her makeup and wondered who she would discover underneath." 300 to 5000 words. Pays between $5 and $50 depending upon submission type. Deadline February 1. 

Escape Artists is seeking speculative fiction stories featuring cats, preferably with some humor, for CatsCast, a podcast. Up to 6000 words. Pays $.08/word. Deadline February 1.

The Last Girls Club is seeking feminist horror with the theme of Active Shooter. Up to 2500 words. Pays $.01/word. Deadline February 1. 

Nonbinary Review is seeking stories based in your favorite fictional worlds, but without any characters from those fictional worlds (example: Alice in Wonderland with none of the characters met in the book). Up to 3000 words. Pays $.01/word. Deadline February 1.

Sci Phi Journal is seeking SF stories with the theme uchronia (alternate histories). Up to 2000 words. Pays 3 Euro cents per word. Deadline February 5.

Decoded is seeking queer speculative fiction. Up to 7500 words. Pays between $25 and $200, depending upon submission type. Deadline February 14.

Julie Bozza is seeking queer weird west tales. 3000 to 10,000 words. Pays $30 to $50. Deadline February 28. 

Cosmic Horror Monthly is seeking cosmic horror. 1000 to 7500 words. Pays $.03/word. Deadline February 28.

Dragon Soul Press is seeking cyberpunk stories for "Surge" and Atlantis retellings for "Beyond Atlantis." 5000 to 15,000 words. Pays in royalties. Deadline February 28.

Stonecrop Review is seeking creative nonfiction, fiction, art, and photography that explores how humans, animals, and plants adapt to life in the city. 500 to 5000 words. Pays $20. Deadline February 28.

Have you read J.Q.'s memoir? Visited her blog to leave a comment? Any of these publications of interest? Have you dealt with any of these publishers before? Are you submitting?

May you find your Muse.

Whirlwind Weekend of Releases

The publishing world is an odd one. Sometimes it moves at the speed of sloth. Sometimes everything hits at once.

I had five publications with unknown or tentative release dates, and I was waiting to hear when they'd be releasing. Well, Saturday I was notified of the release of Once Upon a Scream, an anthology I have a short story in.

My short story is entitled The Black Undeath, and is a new take on the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale. With zombies.

It can be purchased at Amazon or CreateSpace in paperback for $13.00, but the e-book won't release until May 28.

Horroraddicts.net also did a podcast that involved an interview with Dan Shaurette, the editor, and mentioned something about each of our stories. It's Episode 124. My kids loved hearing my name on a podcast.

If you'll be attending BayCon, those authors from the anthology that could make it will be doing a panel and release party. (I can't make it--sad face.)

The very next day, I received an email that Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, Volume 2, Issue 2 had released. My creative memoir flash fiction piece, Grandma's Leather Sofa, is in this issue.

This one is kid friendly (one of the very few things I've done that is.) In fact, there are stories in Ember written by kids. And it's fully illustrated! It's on sale for $14.95 at E&GJ Press, but you can use the coupon code SLAWRENCE-FRIENDS to get 35% off!

I actually waited on posting the Ember release, because I didn't want to be obnoxious with the releases on Facebook. But I'll post it today. The kicker is, it looks like one of the magazines I'll have a story in will come out in a week, so boom, boom, boom, three in a row.

Knowing the publishing industry, there will be a gap before the other two release. Funny how that works. Things have been crazy with these two releases and the details surrounding them, and then it will be back to glacier speed, as I wait for acceptances/rejections and release dates.

I enjoy the ride, even if it is sometimes random and stressful.

How was your weekend? Any publishing news to share? Other fun stuff? Have you ever had multiple publications come out at once?

May you find your Muse.

Acceptance

Today's going to be a short post since I just burned all of my writing time getting some non-writing work finished. Ah well, it needed to be done. And I'll have plenty of writing time next weekend since I get to go up to Estes Park and have a writing retreat weekend. Woot!

I figured for today I could share some good news. Last week I got two acceptances. I placed a memoir flash fiction piece with Ember: A Journal of Luminous Things, and I placed a short horror story with Sanitarium Magazine. The emails came two days in a row.

PSA: One of my acceptances showed up in the spam folder. Be sure to check your spam folders regularly! If it weren't for the fact that I check daily, I might have missed the opportunity.

Sanitarium will be released at the end of this month in both paper and e-magazine format. I don't have a release date for Ember yet, but it will be a fully illustrated hardcover book. I'll share each when they're available (and will update my publications tab with purchase links.)

Sanitarium has an interesting model. They're just now switching things to it. Each week, their subscribers get a mini-issue that they can access online. At the end of the month, each mini-issue is combined into the monthly full magazine, which they then get via their preferred means. So I already got to see my short story in the subscriber mini-issue, and now I'll get to hold a hard copy in my grubby little hands (remember the discussion last Monday?) I'm excited that I'll be getting a hard copy of each of these publications!

Do you have any good news to share? How is your summer writing time going? Are you actively submitting? Are you waiting to hear on any submissions?

May you find your Muse.

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