My mother is published! (and more contest news)

For starters, I must celebrate the fact that my mom's book is now officially available. This title was born (pun fully intended) from her experiences as a late-in-life mother, having a caboose baby in the form of Christa, who is now six-and-a-half years old.

Let me now show you every possible way you can see and buy the book, as well as get in touch with her, should you so desire.

Here's the Amazon.com link: Baby Changes Everything: Embracing and Preparing for Motherhood after 35

Here's her website and blog: Mommy-Come-Lately.com

And the MOPS link: Mothers of Preschoolers

I'm incredibly happy and excited to see this dream of hers come true. I can also personally attest to her authority as a great mother. But Twila Paris' foreword probably carries a little more marketable weight than any blurb I could.

And not to put you into a writing rush or anything, but I just found about this contest yesterday and sent in an entry. So I'm giving everyone more than twelve hours to get their own entry written up and submitted.

http://clarityofnight.blogspot.com/2007/07/halo-short-fiction-contest.html

Rules? The main ones are:

250 words maximum.
Titles are optional, but encouraged. Titles do not count toward your word count.
One entry per person.
Any genre or style is welcome. If you choose to submit poetry, you must have narrative movement within the poem if you wish to compete with the prose pieces for the prizes.
The copyright remains with you, the author; however, you grant me worldwide first electronic publishing rights to post your entry on this blog.

You've got until 11pm tonight! Get a typin'! And then check out the list of entries so far listed on the main blog.

http://clarityofnight.blogspot.com/

Some intriguing reads so far, and it is fun to see everyone's different interpretations on a single photograph.


I see that smile.