Posted in authors, chickens, livestock, Martyrs Mirror, publications on March 8, 2011| 1 Comment »
The Cresset picked up one of my pieces about the backyard hooligans. It’s from several years back–I read it at EMU and later used it as a summer sermon at Shalom Mennonite. I’m glad it found a home in print.
For the few brave subscribers–I’m clearly not a prolific blog updater these days. It turns out I’m a one-blog kind of woman. Most of my energy is currently going into the Tongue Screws and Testimonies site. Don’t worry, though. I’ll be back.
Posted in authors, publications on September 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I rub shoulders with greatness in Robert Swartwood’s forthcoming anthology of Hint Fiction.
Here’s the Amazon blurb:
A story collection that proves less is more. The stories in this collection run the gamut from playful to tragic, conservative to experimental, but they all have one thing in common: they are no more than 25 words long. Robert Swartwood was inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s possibly apocryphal six-word story—”For Sale: baby shoes, never worn”—to foster the writing of these incredibly short-short stories. He termed them “hint fiction” because the few chosen words suggest a larger, more complex chain of events. Spare and evocative, these stories prove that a brilliantly honed narrative can be as startling and powerful as a story of traditional length. The 125 gemlike stories in this collection come from such best-selling and award-winning authors as Joyce Carol Oates, Ha Jin, Peter Straub, and James Frey, as well as emerging writers.
(I’m one of those “emerging” writers.)
Posted in authors, travel on August 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This summer, I visited Prince Edward Island, the stomping grounds of L. M. Montgomery, who forever shaped my young imagination with her Anne and Emily books. Her own life, however, was rather sad, in spite of the gorgeous surroundings.
Here, my better half bonds with Lucy Maude.
We also made the obligatory pilgrimage to “Green Gables.”
Our friends re-enacted the classic slate-smashing scene (Jessica as Anne, Tom as Gilbert) from Anne of Green Gables at the Blue Winds Tea Room.
At “Shining Waters” I tried to look the part of an inspired young authoress.
Posted in authors, Martyrs Mirror, Mennonites, publications on August 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
My anthology should be out by December! Click on the image to pre-order from Herald Press. Or click here to visit the book’s website: www.martyrstock.wordpress.com, where you can access author webpages, additional resources, and all sorts of material I promise to post in the very near future.
Kirsten Eve Beachy 