This week has been filled with design work, spreadsheets, author interviews, and posting ads. Continuing my literary reign of terror, this week I present "What's the Intern Been Up To?" in the style of Shakespearean sonnet (heavily, and I do mean HEAVILY, borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnet 5). Enjoy!!








Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely spreadsheet where every eye doth dwell,
Will play the tyrants to the very same
'Tis unfair with all mine work done on Excel;
For never-resting work leads Shannon on
To hideous interviews, and confounds her there;
Questions checked with misspellings, and fanciful fonts quite gone,
Beauty o'er-snowed and bareness every where:
Then were not design's distillation left,
A inked prisoner pent in walls of glass,
Beauty's effect with beauty were bereft,
Nor it, nor no remembrance what it was:
   But design distilled, though they with authors meet,
   Leese but their show; their substance still lives sweet.


Later, blog readers!

Author: Shannon the Intern

They have miniature furniture, miniature candy bars, miniature cupcakes, miniature horse and because we cannot not get enough of the small things in life, why not read a miniature book?  Just have your microscope ready.

Writers have had a long history with the bottle. Hemingway is synonymous with drunk tortured writer. So perhaps it is not surprising that beer has a relationship to writing. Here are ten beers inspired by books. Here is a our new Pinterest board "Beers to Read By". If you know of a literary beer, send us a message so we can add it to our collection.

Wold Book Night we are not a fan of you.

There is this enormous myth that people aren't reading. There's been lots of research to dispel this myth. Some suggest that about half of Americans are reading. Technology like E-books makes it even easier for people to get books. Of course nobody is counting all the blogs and well, you can't be on the internet and not read. So why is GGP unhappy about an event that hands out free books? Because we don't like "all in an attempt to get the public reading." This implies that nobody reads. Lots of people read. I posted this picture because though it's not a book, it is another way people read.

Now lets get philosophical. Would you let a pigeon drive a bus? Why or why not? Cat got your tongue? Lets ask Mo Willems. 

This week I'd like to present another installment of "What's The Intern Been Up To?" This time the style is noir. Enjoy!

A fool. That’s what they called her. There’s no way she could figure out how to get to the bottom of the “Author Contacts” case. She sighed. It was just like them, thinking she was just a two-bit hack detective not fit to wipe her shoes on the doormat of a police department. She’d show them. But first, she had some work to do contacting some ‘ranger’ who might have a little information she needed.

 They met underneath a single lamppost in the middle of a deserted park. He approached nervously, shifting his eyes like a man watching a tennis match. “Where’s the stuff, Frank?”, she asked. “Here”, he gruffed pushing a crumpled envelope towards her. She opened it, ruffling through it. Everything was there. “Get out of here, Frank”, she said, “You sicken me”. With the information she needed under wraps, it was time to start the case.

 It had started out easy, perhaps a little too easy. Where was the thrill, the excitement, the knowledge that only she could track down the needed information? A couple of bum leads and she was ready for a cold martini. Staring at the computer screen in the dim light, the lightning flashing behind her, she stubbed out her cigar. She sighed, rubbing her forehead. “I guess the broad was right,” she said aloud standing up and slinging her trench coat over her shoulder. “I guess this work will never truly be over”. 

Later, Blog readers!


Author: Shannon Anderson

Two non-fiction slots in Passion for Dogs are filled.

One non-fiction slot in Passion for Cats is filled.

One slot is pending for Passion for Puns.



Author: Renee` Zuchniak, Editor

 

In preparation to write my first post of this blog, I thought, "Write something interesting about what you did last week." OK. Interesting….but then I realized that last week my work was not very interesting. In fact, it was super boring (for you, of course, I kept myself busy). So, to bridge the gap between interesting and what actually happened, I thought I'd spice it up. Here's last week a la Dr. Suess:

Though the day was dark and gloomy,
my working spot was bright and roomy.
Looking for the perfect place,
to find myself some free ad space.
Adverts posted, ad space found,
time for corporate look around!
Six dozen sites or there about,
I feel I have new skills to tout.
It's not much, but one thing's certain:
I can FIND a corporate contact person!
Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, too.
Just a couple things I have to do.
Though the work’s not much to mention,
Perhaps this style caught your attention.
Don’t worry though it’s not the norm,
Next week, I’ll scrap the poem form!

Later, Blog readers!

Author: Shannon Anderson

IN THE NEWS
This week in the news, romance giant Harlequin has been cleared of charges of not paying authors' royalties while forty posters give us a rare look into publishing history.

BOOKS
Lover at Last by J.R. Ward has the number one slot on both the NYT combined print and e-book and hardback fiction. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell holds both these titles in non-fiction.

LINKS FOR AUTHORS
Looking for places to sell your work?  Check out Duotrope,  Ralan and Wendy.

Looking for online critique groups? Check out Critique Circle, Scribophile, and Critters.  And don't forget to check your local Meetup for writer's groups. There's also a critique section at the Absolute Write water cooler as well as a beta reader's forum along with a wealth of info. 

Author: Renee` Zuchniak

Wouldn't you like to conduct business here?

Me too.

Today was our bi-weekly meeting. We discussed mundane things like remembering to comment on submission for the Cat Photo Contest.The contest started yesterday and it's off like a heard of turtles, so submit those cat photos!

We'll be start a weekly to bi-weekly publishing and books round up, so if you have some links to interesting stories please send them in.

We're also planning a meet and greet to introduce ourselves locally, so if you live in local Nashville be sure to come out and see us. Shannon is in charge of this little project.

Our editorial intern, Gari Grooms will be leaving GGP but I deeply appreciated her while she was here. In the meantime I'm on the prowl for a new editorial intern.

I finished up the sponsorship video, voice overs and all. It sure did take a while, but I think it's good. If you're waiting to hear from me, it's been a busy past two days, but I should get to emails tomorrow.

I need to do a few site updates including fixing the links on Passion for Horses. What else... ah, yes. I will be creating a review information packet for volunteer reviewers that are not internet savvy and/or don't know where to submit reviews. Of course packet is a bit of misnomer because, ideally all the information will be contained in one page. Just trying to keep it simple.

Finally, Shannon will be joining us on the blog. We'll sign every post with our names so you know who is writing.

~
Renee` Zuchniak
Editor
Green Gecko Publishing