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The final celebratory issue of Vine Leaves Literary Journal has now been released. It's a 220-page hardcover coffee table book in full colour consisting of over 500 vignettes by over 270 contributors worldwide.
It was a massive undertaking and huge labour of love. Thank you to all the staff at Vine Leaves for helping to make this happen. You know who you are.
You can grab your copy here: bit.ly/lastVLLJevah. It goes without saying that it would make a really beautiful Christmas gift for literature and art lovers!
ORDER TODAY!
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Great News!
Anyone who subscribes to the VLP email newsletter will receive an EPUB and MOBI (Kindle), or PDF eBook sampler from the VLP catalogue. This includes links to the books' sales pages on the VLP website. Please let your friends and fellow writers in your life know. They can sign up HERE.
If you'd like a copy of the sampler yourself, you can download them here:
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Thanks for your support!
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Jon Vreeland has begun writing a weekly column called BUSINESS BEAT for the Santa Barbara Sentinel and has an article in the Montecito Journal as well. Check out his latest articles here.
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Mike Maggio was interviewed by the Washington Independent Review of Books. Read his Q&A with Franco Tartaglia here.
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Ann S. Epstein has added new “Learn History Through Fiction” posts about the years during and after World War One portrayed in her novel On the Shore. Read about WWI-era slang (typical adolescent preoccupations like sex, cars, booze); the ubiquity of corn syrup in candy; why the military issues two ID tags per soldier; century-old products still around today (Oreos, Peter Pan Smooth Peanut Butter); and the first Newberry Medal for children’s literature at Ann S. Epstein Writer on Facebook and Twitter and read more fascinating details on her website BLOG and BEHIND THE STORY feature.
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Recent Blog Posts
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Danielle Van Meter's WHY STORYTELLERS HAVE THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB 10/25/17
As humans, we are driven by a narrative arch. We are constantly telling ourselves stories about our own lives, our circumstances, what the other person was thinking about us, and how our lives could become better. And, as in any other field, we look to the best of the profession—storytellers—that will coax us into other stories and give us a completely different viewpoint by the end of it. As writers, illustrators, and any other form of storytellers, we must know what a great and grave responsibility this is—to draw our readers to tales that not only resonate with the confused parts of their souls, but also make those tricky parts win out against all odds. We must know why stories are compelling, dig within ourselves, and seek to connect our consumers with things that matter as though it is their lifeline. Sometimes, it is. Read More
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Tony Nesca's WHY I WRITE 11/29/17
So…the other day I went for a walk, late afternoon, early grey settling in, everything looking grim and happy at the same time, wondering why I write, why would I, or anyone else, put words down on paper, for what bizarre, perverted, self-possessed reason would anyone give a damn what I have to say? Read More
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William C. Crawford's BANNED BY BOOKMARKS! MY SHARED BOOK SIGNING WITH JOHN GRISHAM 11/22/17
We were finally getting a national class, independent book store. As an active writer, I couldn't wait to get plugged in, and I wanted to contribute. Nonprofits can always use more cash. So I offered up unlimited copies my Vietnam memoir. All proceeds would stay with BookMarks, not a penny for me! Read More
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Maxima Kahn's 3 WILDLY HELPFUL TOOLS TO SUPPORT YOUR CREATIVE LIFE 11/15/17
Every Wednesday night for the past 15 years (with some breaks and gaps) I have been meeting with a small group of dancers to dance, explore dance ideas and make performance pieces. And, almost every Wednesday by 6:00 p.m. as I’m finishing work, I think to myself, “I’m tired. I just want to stay home with a good book and my sweetheart.” But, I go to rehearsal anyway. Why? Read More
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Ann S. Epstein's HOW MUCH BACKGROUND DETAIL IS ESSENTIAL FOR AUTHENTICITY IN HISTORICAL FICTION 11/8/17
I write historical fiction, novels and short stories, often inspired by quirky events. For example, during “Squirrel Week,” the California Horticulture Department urged schoolchildren to kill ground squirrels during a seven-day period in 1918. (Squirrels destroyed crops needed to feed the troops overseas.) In the “Great Stork Derby,” an eccentric millionaire left a large sum of money to whichever Toronto woman gave birth to the most children in the ten years following his death on Halloween, 1926. (Many families who entered, and lost, the contest, were left raising children they couldn’t support during the Depression.) Read More
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Clifford Browder's AUTHORS ARE WHORES 11/1/17
Yes, authors are whores. A bit strained as an analogy, perhaps, but think about it. Big presses and small demand that their authors participate actively in marketing. Just as streetwalkers offer their bodies to whoever is interested, so authors like myself have to promote themselves online or in person, marketing their books to the public. Yes, there are differences: whores offer their bodies, whereas authors offer books. But those books are part of you, cooked up in your brain and spun out of your gut. To push the analogy even further, you’re offering your babies, your offspring, your dearest, most cherished progeny. Read More
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YOUR TURN! Got great writerly news? Find an agent? Win an award for best photograph? Or maybe your illustration made the cover of a magazine. Tell us about it! We might publish your good news in this newsletter. Please keep your good news to no more than 50 words and email it to alanaking.vineleaves@gmail.com
- The Vine Leaves Team
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