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I'm no longer directionally challenged--I have a clear vision to celebrate #MOREin2014 via GANEPossible.com. Preempting my novel in progress, Bluebirds, I'm very close to releasing my first GANE Possible publication (prescriptive "Dr. Mom" nonfiction), Beating the Statistics: A Mother's Quest to Reclaim Fertility, Halt Autism & Help Her Child Grow From Behavior Failure to Behavior Success. I'm also working on completing my memoir, My Grandfather's Table: Learning to Forgive Myself First.

It took a lifetime to get here. This blog documents my quest to self-fulfillment through my writing, and ultimately to shifting my focus to Beating the Statistics & My Grandfather's Table and speaking about them. They are the wellness and the memoir parts of my journey that had to be told, so that Bluebirds can one day be the meaningful, but fictional *story* it aspires to be.

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Hey All You Judy Blume Fans, Closet & Not-So-Closet Writers...  We Want to Hear Your Voices!

3/6/2013

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[UPDATE: !!NOW -- ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS -- NOW!!]

Magic can materialize in a breath...you're going about your day, you happen upon something that might be remarkable, make an innocent comment and wheels start to turn on a regular old Tuesday, if you're open to it.

Magic is exactly what happened yesterday between The Kitchen Witch and I, when I linked my Beauty of a Woman post about The Beauty of Women Friends to the Extraordinary Ordinary's weekly Just Write exercise.  My moment, trying to write while waiting for my dear friend to come through her surgery to remove a cancerous breast, totally fit with the spirit of the exercise...write from the heart, "from a free heart-gut place," says Heather, and don't stop, Just Write.  So you post your moment, and others post their moments, you read each other's blogs, maybe laugh, maybe cry, but above all, you appreciate the craft of real writing that comes from the heart.  Soon you find it changes the way you write for the better.  You come to seek out moments to write about; beautiful moments, poignant moments, moments to appreciate, to savor or just to mark.

I was reading some of the other blogger's posts, and The Kitchen Witch's was about Judy Blume (please take a moment to pop over and read it), bemoaning the absence of new MG/YA fiction for her daughter's generation from Blume, and acknowledging how the author's works had impacted her own life.  She wondered where the next Judy Blume would come from, which clearly struck a nerve with several of the commenters.  So today, she writes:

What We Want to Say, March 6, 2013

Hi, you lovely, big-hearted Readers,

I was Gobsmacked at the volume of personal emails I recieved from you, telling me how much Judy Blume has meant to you, and how pivotal she has been to your (and so many of our) growing-up years. So often she’s been a steady, reassuring voice whispering in the dark.

A friend of mine, Kim and I were talking yesterday about Judy Blume, and we thought it would be so interesting and beautiful to hear the stories/memories/musings about Judy’s work and what it meant to you, as a young woman navigating that twisting and hard road between girl and womanhood.

Our ultimate goal is to compile an anthology in her honor, full of colorful, vibrant voices. A book chock-full of writing by women (or men!) who have heartfelt and honest things to say.

If you’d like to submit a piece for consideration, [PLEASE VISIT OUR #JudyBlumeProject WEBPAGE]. It [may one day] be a belated Valentine to our Judy, but one that is long overdue.

So, Dana and I started hashing it out.  She's taking it on through her channels, and I'm taking it on through my channels, and we're going to put our heads together, pick through the many inspiring and heart-felt submissions we're sure to get, and come up with something brilliant to honor Judy and her many inspiring works for young readers.

So dig in.  Dig deep.  Send in your submission by the end of [June], and maybe you could find yourself a published author (newly or again) in the near future!  We all have a story to tell, if Judy has inspired the landscape of your life in any way, maybe this is a beautiful place for you to begin telling yours. 

FIND EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW INCLUDING SUBMISSION GUIDELINES & CONTRIBUTORS RIGHT HERE!!!

Due to SPAM, I've had to delete the submission form.  Please find email button above.  Sorry for any inconvenience.  Thanks!

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Ellen M. Gregg link
3/6/2013 11:13:35 am

Kim! Oh, my. Do we write the piece on our blog first, or submit it directly? Not sure how I'd submit it via the form above, unless that's just to say, "I'm interested." ? Thanks much! :-)

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Kim Jorgensen Gane link
3/6/2013 01:19:05 pm

Thanks for asking, Ellen! Those entrants who have one are welcome to post it to their own blog, but please link to one or both of ours. You will also need to add a comment on either of ours with YOUR link back to YOUR post in order to be considered for the anthology. Or, you can use the e-mail form below, and simply paste your submission into the body of the e-mail. Submissions will be subject to light editing if they are selected. Good luck, and Write ON!!

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Ellen M. Gregg link
3/6/2013 01:37:02 pm

Thanks, Kim!

Ellie Heller link
4/9/2013 03:21:14 am

I so totally LOVE this idea. One quick question: is the anthology for pay (will authors be reimbursed, even if it's a portion of net sales) or is this going to be a freebie on both ends (no pay for authors, no cost for the book)?

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Kim Jorgensen Gane link
4/9/2013 10:44:50 am

Hi, Ellie! Great question. For the upcoming book I'm in, 51%: Women and the Future of Politics, the authors aren't being paid anything, other than a free copy of the book. I would venture to say the same will occur here. If your submission is selected for inclusion in the book, you'll receive a disclosure to sign stating that fact. We're still in the early stages, but I'm assuming that will be the case.
Thanks for asking, and thanks so much for your interest and RTs!

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