Whew! Celestial Echo Press has published our second anthology of the year, Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel, Volume II.

We're so excited about both volumes. In the first, 21 authors wrote incredible stories; in the second, 30 authors reveal their vision of time travel.

Here's the B&N link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ruth-and-anns-guide-to-time-travel-volume-ii-ann-stolinsky/1146448056?ean=9781951967055

Please share this info with everyone! Thanks.

Hi, Everyone!

I am working on the member benefits slide show for November so I am testing this feature. I think this program in November will help bring all of us more success and value from our GLVWG memberships.

• Yesterday, I visited the Phillipsburg High School Reading/Book Club. It was a 20 minute commitment via video chat at 8:30 a.m. and was a lot of fun! If you are interested, see Chaz's announcement in the October newsletter or ask me for more info.
• I'm offering a workshop for free at Easton Public Library Nov. 4 at 6 p.m. on Tricks to Slay Writers Block.
• I offered a contract to an author I've admired for a while yesterday. They had their rights returned to them when their publisher closed recently and he accepted my offer to join Parisian Phoenix Publishing as a traditionally-published author.
• I think I have the Parisian Phoenix Publishing production schedule ready for 2025, and we're going to publish about a dozen books.
• Also, I recently rediscovered Oh, Write! (ohwrite.co), an online writing room where you can do writing sprints with friends or strangers. Does anyone else use this? Anyone else interested in creating a GLVWG room?

Thanks for listening,

Angel

I am ecstatic to announce that my paranormal mystery novel, By Your Side, has won THREE awards in the fall BookFest contest including:

First Place:  Fiction\Supernatural\Ghosts

Second Place: Fiction\Horror\Ghosts & Paranormal

Third Place: Fiction\Mystery\Supernatural

Click here for more about By Your Side.

Click here for more about The BookFest Fall 2024 Awards.

Congrats to all of the winners!

Excited to report that my science fiction adventure tale "In the Span of a Heartbeat" has been accepted by Black Cat Weekly online magazine.

I'm thrilled to work with editor and publisher John Betancourt, who has an extensive list of writing and editing credits for original works as well as media tie-in, including Star Trek.

My story should appear in a January or February 2025 issue. More details to come. More about Black Cat Weekly: https://blackcatweekly.com

Phil Giunta

www.philgiunta.com

Had a Great Book  Kickoff

Available on Amazon

Hi all! Volume I is now available for sale everywhere fine books are sold. Meaning Amazon . Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, Kobo, and libraries!

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ruth-and-anns-guide-to-time-travel-volume-i-ann-stolinsky/1146151789?ean=9781951967031

Please share this info with anyone who loves time travel stories. And, if you purchase the book, if you're so inclined, please write an honest review on review sites.

Thanks!!

Announcing - we've contracted with GLVWG member Joanne McLaughlin to publish her cozy-adjacent manuscript, currently titled I Am Not THAT Mary Irene Jones. The title is fluid and will probably change in a couple of weeks. The story is about two poets named Mary Irene Jones, and the ensuing chaos.

Anticipated release date January 2025.

Woohoo!

Ann Stolinsky

CEP ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund one anthology. The campaign funded, and we opened submissions. Then we sat back and watched the deluge come.

We received 350 submissions, so many great stories ... we decided to publish two anthologies. Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel, Volume I and Volume II.

Here is the list of accepted authors:

Vol I:

Jonathan Maberry Ef Deal Phil Giunta Joanne McLaughlin Charles Barouch David Strickler Teel James Glenn Jon McGoran Carol Gyzander Judith Frances Field James Ryan Ken Altabef John Bukowski Grigory Lukin Brenda W. Clough Gary Every Neal Wiser Daniel Lumpkin Gordon Linzner Stephen Chappell Karen Eisenbrey

The Foreword will be written by Steve Davidson, of Amazing Stories fame.

Vol II:

Trisha Ridinger McKee Gavin Smyth James Harper Garrett Rowlan Rik Hoskin Toni V. Sweeney Heidi Voss David Partington Kenneth Goldman Holly Schofield John Haas Brandon Barrows Andrew Majors Abigail Gervase Ken Altabef Larry Hodges James Pyles Sandra Skalski James Mathis Marisca Pichette William R.D. Wood Janet A. Hopkins Darrell Schweitzer Wendy Klein Lance Schonberg Kara Race-Moore Elizabeth Davis Gary Every

We have not asked anyone to write the Foreword for Vol II yet.

Submissions are open from May 7 through June 1 for Celestial Echo Press's newest anthology, Ruth and Ann's Guide to Time Travel.

Go to our website for submission guidelines, and the link to the Google form to submit.

https://celestialechopress.com/submission-guidelines

I’m pleased to announce that a new, revised edition of my second paranormal mystery novel from 2012, By Your Side, is now up for preorder in ebook format for $2.99 from all the major resellers including Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. The paperback will be added in the next week.

The official release date is July 22, 2024. The book will be launched a few days later at Shore Leave 44 science fiction convention in Lancaster, PA.