THE CAT’S MEOW
FOR WRITERS & READERS EZINE®
Not Your
Typical Internet-based Magazine!
Issue
37, Vol. 07 © DECEMBER
10, 2007 Ezine: ISSN:
2237-65
WELCOME TO
THE THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY
AND CHRISTMAS EDITION!
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IN THIS
ISSUE:
“Remember Me” by Kay L. Schlagel
COFFEE
HOUSE 4 POETS & WRITERS
THE BEST OF THE STORIES OVER OUR THREE-YEAR-HISTORY:
“Hannah’s Special Christmas” by Carol Roach
AUTHORS, WRITERS & POETS FOR DECEMBER:
“Am I Bah Humbug?” By Dianne Lehmann
“Tips for Taking the Stress Out of the Festive Season” By
Gillian Bowles
(WheRE the best of contemporary
literature
[BOOKs] can be found BY new and
established authors)
Welcome dear readers, new members and writers to
the three year Anniversary and Christmas Edition! Although it seems like just yesterday, three years of publishing
The Cat’s Meow for Writers & Readers Ezine is a milestone. And I would like you to know that your continued
support plays a very important role in this magazine’s development. So I thank
you for coming here to read The Cat’s Meow for Writers & Readers every month! I also continue to welcome
your emails with suggestions and comments on how to improve this magazine; or
what you, the reader, would like to see in here. So do keep your letters
coming! This special issue is packed with wonderful Christmas and non-Christmas
stories, poems and helpful articles for you that I do hope you enjoy reading as
much as I have. I would also like to thank my regular, and new, contributors
for sending in their excellent work!
In a little while I will be reminiscing a bit
about my first issue in 2004. But first, I was wondering if you know about my web blog? Although word
was spreading about this new form of communicating, I wasn’t too quick to jump
on the bandwagon. I felt I had an author web site and was publishing a magazine
and that that would be good enough. However, I was so wrong! So, in an effort
to keep up with technology I blogged on! Now I’m having so much fun writing on Blogspot.com
that I invite you to visit my blog frequently to read my stories, thoughts,
feelings, and helpful information for you! Please
do share your thoughts with me on there too, so that it will give me the
incentive to write daily in my blog! Unfortunately
you must sign-in to leave a comment on there, but no record is kept of your
personal information so there’s no need to worry. Thank you, if you do leave a
comment on my Blog; I love hearing from you!
Now to tell you about my sister publication
Storytime Tapestry, published by Carol Roach (also a writing
contributor to this magazine), in which
Carol held an excellent Halloween Contest this year from October 30th
through November 10th, 2007 which was a major success! Her 3,000+ members
voted on the Best Poet of a Halloween poem and Best Writer of a Halloween story
written by her many contributors (me
included!). And I’m pleased to ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS OF STORYTIME TAPESTRY’S
HALLOWEEN CONTEST FOR 2007…
The Winners for Best Poet (Halloween poems) of
Storytime Tapestry were:
for her poem titled
“Fighting Monsters” (re-published in
the Prose & Poems of the Winners for
Storytime Tapestry’s Halloween Contest column below; created just for this
issue)…
*Joan will be a new writer for this magazine,
starting with the January 2008 issue.
Runner-up: Conrad S. Cardinal
for his poem titled
“Three Witches” (re-published in the Prose & Poems of the Winners for
Storytime Tapestry’s Halloween Contest column below)…
*Conrad is a new writer for this magazine; beginning
with this month’s publication of his work in the Coffee House 4 Poets &
Writers column below! Please welcome him via email…
The Winners for Best Writer (Halloween stories) of
Storytime Tapestry were:
for his story
titled “Footprints in the Snow” (re-published
in the Prose & Poems of the Winners
for Storytime Tapestry’s Halloween Contest column below; created just for
this issue)…
Runner-up: Sharon Bryant
for her story
titled “The Boogie Man” (re-published
in the Prose & Poems of the Winners
for Storytime Tapestry’s Halloween Contest column below)…
- Each winner of Storytime Tapestry’s Halloween contest
received Carol Roach’s newest book “Angels
Watching Over Me!” If you would like to own a copy for yourself, go to: http://www.lulu.com/content/964306!