THE CAT’S MEOW FOR WRITERS AND READERS

THE CAT’S MEOW

FOR WRITERS & READERS EZINE®

A MONTHLY ONLINE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE

Not Your Typical Electronic Magazine!

Issue 27, Vol. 07

This is the Home of The Cat’s Meow for Writers & Readers Ezine ® and

Rosanne Catalano’s Author Website: www.rosannecatalano.net

VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL EDITION

Ezine: ISSN: 2237-65

Published, written & Edited by: Rosanne Catalano, (a.k.a. R.C.Kayla)

Publisher / Editor-in-Chief, Author and Columnist

Executive Editor: Nancy Currie

Editorial production assistant [full-time], Technical Writer and Webmaster / Web designer

Nancy’s Author Website: webwriterworx.50webs.com/ [Under Construction at this time]

PLEASE NOTE: Our subscriber list is NOT made available to others, including companies. We value every subscriber and respect your privacy. Although, we are NOT responsible for web site links that do not work unless they have been inserted into mine or the executive editor’s columns; then we are responsible, we apologize and will correct it as soon as possible…

However, please notify us at The Publisher’s Box™ if any links are not working or are the wrong links. Thank you!

IN THIS ISSUE:

VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL EDITION

(We’re sorry but at this time we do not have the capability of clickable links below, which would take you directly to the poem, story or helpful articles listed. We are looking into it…please stay tuned for more on this!)

BEST POEM OF THE MONTH CORNER

BIRTHDAY WISHES CORNER!

PUBLISHER’S CORNER – ROSANNE CATALANO

(a.k.a. R.C.KAYLA)

EXECUTIVE EDITOR’S CORNER – NANCY CURRIE

OFF THE PRESS!

(Author Book Releases, Publishing News, Reading Group News

& Calls for Submissions from Publishers)

COFFEE HOUSE 4 POETS & WRITERS

(Every Month Published Artistic Talent – New and Established!)

POEMS, STORIES AND STORY ARTICLES

By CAROL ROACH

“The Touch of Love”

“Love Is”

“Candle of Love”

“Essence of Love”, poetry

and “Ellis’ Big Blue Hug”

“A Different Kind of Love”

“First Memories of Him”

“Memories of Her”, story articles

By SANDRA LEE HOYNACKI

“The Beginning”

“Twilight Dance” and

“Proposal”, poetry

By SHARLETT F. HUNT

“Time”

“Miracles Abound!” and

“The Little Red Shoes”, story articles

By NICOLE M. STEVENSON

“The Perfect Picture Window”

and “Hitler Cries”, poetry

By PAMELA PERRY BLAINE

“Old Brush Arbor Meetings (Part One)”

“Brush Arbor Meetings (Part Two)”, story articles

By CAROL DEE MEEKS

“Feelings”

“Always My Valentine,” and

“Smelling the Roses With Pat Meeks”, poetry

By HARLEY SUTTON

“Musing”

“With A Sigh”, poetry

By MANDY GRAY

“A Date with a Stranger” [Part 1], a serialized short story

By R. THOMAS THOMPSON

“A Valentine”, a poem

By EVE COGDELL

“Knock Around Girl”, a short story

By BRIAN JOSEPH

“Promise”, a short story

By TRISHA MARTIN

“Love Amid the Stacks” [Part 1], a serialized short story

FEATURE ARTICLE

By SEAN CARTER, “Valentine’s Day Romantic Ideas”

HELPFUL ARTICLES

By MICHAEL GIANNULIS, “7 Ways to Destroy Your Business”

By CLARY LOPEZ, “Your Book Marketing Plan”

By NANETTE CATARINELLA, “Clear Your Space and Change Your Life”

By CHARLIE COOK, “What Santa Knows About Marketing”

By MELANIE ALLUMS, “Give Your Sweetheart the Valentine’s Day Gift that Lasts All Year!”

By SUSANNE MYERS, “5 Healthy Valentine Snacks You Can Make for Your Sweetheart”

By BARBARA RYAN, “Valentine Treat Bags with a Personal Touch”

BEST POEM OF THE MONTH CORNER

With A Sigh

By Harley Sutton

Did serendipity create a casual meeting
At theatrical event to arrange a greeting?
For 'twas there I first with my eyes beheld
She that with cupid's arrow my heart impaled.

As La Boheme lilted through its presentation
and I vainly attempted to decipher its derivation,
my eyes became transfixed upon a lovely vision;
Sending me deep within the valley of indecision.

Dare such as I approach Helen of Troy defined.
Had I properly her glancing look at me divined.
Was it incumbent upon a gentleman to defeat
The ocean of desire now lapping at my feet?

Music drew to a close as the buxom lady sang,
Ending not with a whimper, but a decided bang.
Curtain fell, audience murmuring in dispersal
As if choreographed in well designed rehearsal.

Fan slightly hiding face, she turned my way.

My mind racing, if she spoke, what would I say?
Maybe remain stoic, stiff, stolid and transfixed
Or follow the path my thoughts or heart predicts.

Her entourage proceeded forth and swept on by.
As they paraded past my station, I exhaled a sigh,
And did as I have done countless times before.
I watched in silent awe as love walked out the door…

AUTHOR BIO:

Harley Sutton was born in a small Texas town in the days when life was slower and your neighbors were the same as your family. He has written and co-authored manuals for the State of Texas, articles for school science and math, and had articles published in now defunct Astronomy magazines in the 1960's. He attended Baylor, Sam Houston State and St. Edwards College. He has also sermonized in various churches, having had a religious education and upbringing. Poetry came along for Harley after his retirement. He has an author web site where all of his work is showcased at: www.poetrypoem.com/pupwee. Harley immensely enjoys the great poets of yesteryear and reads them almost daily. He can be reached via email at lsutton@hot.rr.com

Be sure to read Harley’s other poetry in our Coffee House 4 Poets & Writers Corner [below]!

BIRTHDAY WISHES CORNER!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! TO:

In last month’s BIRTHDAY WISHES CORNER

I neglected to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY! TO:

Barbara Deming; her birthday was January 22^nd (Happy Belated Birthday Barb!)

Now for the February Birthdays:

Megan B. Catalano, February 17^th

Jeffrey Shar, February 14^th

Maria T. Barone, February 26^th

May all your birthday wishes come true!

To see your birthday wishes here,

email us with your name (first & last, or just first name) and birth-day (year is optional)!

PUBLISHER’S CORNER

By Rosanne Catalano

WELCOME to our many new subscribers! You joined at an exciting time, for this is our Valentine’s Day Special Edition. And it’s filled with heartfelt poetry, stories and helpful articles on what to do and what to give a loved one for this holiday celebrated by lovers…

I also have good news to share. But before I tell you my news, I need to say “funny, how things turn out different than we plan. My novel-in-progress I spoke of in last month’s issue has finally been published through Lulu Press! But it’s not the ‘novel’ I planned it to be. Instead, “Mirrored Images [1]” is a collection of my short stories and some poems that I have written; some fact, some fiction. But in spite of it not being a novel per se, I’m happy that my second book is now published and available to purchase for your reading pleasure!” My book is officially dedicated to my late dad, but ‘unofficially’ it is also dedicated to my mom; for they both encouraged my love of writing! You can purchase “Mirrored Images [1]” at this site’s Home Page! Also, do read the press release in our Off The Press! column [below]! And I promise my 3^rdbook will definitely be a novel. It will also be titled Mirrored Images but it will be Mirrored Images [2]; a continuation of [1].

Enjoy my latest book!

Btw, I spoke too soon about the balmy weather we were having in New York last month…it is now freezing cold in the north and we’ve already had our first snowfall of the year. Oh well, at least for most of last month we had the remnants of summer weather; it was great being able to wear t-shirts and shorts in the month of January! Now that the snow and freezing cold has once again arrived, we can say that it’s officially winter now.

Along with inviting you to read my book, “Mirrored Images [1]”, again I also invite you to read “Wt~In Spirit,” a print [hard copy] Christian Literary magazine, which launched its first issue on December 15^th, 2006! The next issue of “Wt~In Spirit” is February 15^th, 2007! Wt~In Spirit is a beautifully inspirational print magazine with MY COLUMN, Scripture Understood, AND OTHER AUTHOR’S COLUMNS published in it! And for only $25.00 a year you will receive 6 issues [remember it’s a bi-monthly magazine] of Wt~In Spirit by subscribing at inspirit@wynter.ca ($50 for two years; in previous issues I had it wrong, sorry that I stink at math!)

Now I’d like to CONGRATULATE HARLEY SUTTON for his wonderfully heartfelt poem “With A Sigh” being chosen as BEST POEM OF THE MONTH! To read Harley’s excellent poem again and a second poem titled “Musings”, go to our Coffee House 4 Poets & Writers Corner [below]!

IF YOU ARE A FREELANCE WRITER: definitely do read the “Queen Bee of Filbert Publishing” Beth Ann Erickson’s eBook, “101 No Cost or Low Cost Techniques to Turbo Charge Your Freelance Income”! Go to http://rckayla.filbertpub.hop.clickbank.net to pick up your copy of Beth’s eBook today so that you’ll never have to write for nothing ever again! Also do check out our ‘Helpful Links’ Page for other web sites that may interest you. There’s enough variety to please everyone on that page!

For those who do not have children, are trying to have children, or have accepted that they will never have children of their own but still need emotional support in coming to that decision, I’d like to tell you again of a fantastic web site called “Childless Not By Choice”! I wrote all about this supportive web site on my blog in May 2006. And I still highly recommend the site! So, definitely do check out their web site at www.childlessnotbychoice.com! It costs nothing to join this wonderfully supportive group and forum. They understand and want you to know that you are not alone. I have already posted on “Childless Not By Choice” six times so far, and feel sooo warm, accepted and loved while on their site. If you’re trying to conceive, going through fertility treatments and all that’s involved with infertility, or have already arrived at accepting the fact that having children was not meant to be; that God had other plans for our lives… you’ll want to check out “Childless Not By Choice’s” web site and forum. I promise you will want to stay in the warm cocoon of support, love and acceptance “Childless Not By Choice” members offer those without children. I love it there!

Thank you to those who have written in to us!

We love hearing from you, so please keep those emails coming to The Publisher's Box™! Below is another email we received from a subscriber who is also a sometime-contributor, and is the reason we continue to publish this magazine…

Hi, I just read a good part of the latest issue of The Cat's Meow for Writers & Readers Ezine.

I will read it all, but I wanted to comment on how well it is put together and how much I enjoyed what I read so far!

Thanks,

Brian

See you all next month. Till then, Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!

Now please WELCOME my wonderful executive editor Nancy Currie, along with our many authors; some new, some established who have written poems, short stories and helpful informative articles for you. If you are moved by what they have written, please do let them know by email, or by visiting their websites! [Email addresses and websites are listed in our author’s bios.]

AFFILIATES & ASSOCIATES:

Wt~In Spirit Christian Literary print-magazine, [Karin Lacroix, editor]

Amazon.com

Lulu Press [Lulu.com]

Storytime Tapestry, [Carol Roach, founder & publisher]

The Enchanted Self.com, [Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein, founder & author]

How-to Corp.com, [Michael Green, owner]

Filbert Publishing.com, [Beth Ann Erickson, founder & author]

Magazine dedicated to:

My dad, Carman Peter Catalano (b. Feb 9, 1924)

My stepdad, Harold Clinton Welch (b. Jan 26, 1930)

My grandmother, Pauline Mulle Infranco (b. Feb 10, 1906)

My godfather, Joseph Infrano (b. Oct 24, 1933)

… forever in our hearts; will never be forgotten

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EXECUTIVE EDITOR’S CORNER

By Nancy Currie

I’ll keep this short because there are some great stories in this magazine and I’m sure you’ll want to get right to them.

So Happy Valentine’s Day to those who celebrate it, and to all who don’t! This is the month of the romantic. Love letters, chocolates, and flowers. It’s also National Heart Month. So take care of your sweetheart and take care of your heart.

OFF THE PRESS!

(Author Book Press Releases, Publishing News, Reading Group News

& Calls for Submissions from Publishers)

“MIRRORED IMAGES [1]”

By ROSANNE CATALANO

ON SALE NOW!

“Mirrored Images [1]” by Rosanne Catalano begins with a poem about, and dedication to, her late father and then goes into a short story about being bullied in the 8^th grade of school to being saved by a guardian angel when the story character was in her mid-30’s. An interesting read in which you, the reader, must try to figure out which of her stories are fact or fiction…

Rosanne is excited to introduce her second book “Mirrored Images [1]” to you! As explained above, it is a book containing her collection of short stories and some poems (some fact, some fiction!) written by her for your reading enjoyment, and for those who love guessing games! “Mirrored Images [2]” will be a continuation of her second book BUT it will be a ‘novel’ rather than a collection of her poems and short stories. “Mirrored Images [2]”, is coming soon…stay tuned for further details!

“Mirrored Images [1]” is available to purchase for only $3.95 in a Downloadable eBook, $21.59 for the hardcover [print] edition! Be sure to pick up your copy of “Mirrored Images [1]” today at her web site www.rosannecatalano.net!

In it’s Hardcover [print] Book Edition, “Mirrored Images [1]” is 8.25” x 10.75” casewrap-hardcover binding, black and white interior ink, colored graphic book cover.

In its Downloadable eBook Edition, “Mirrored Images [1]” is in PDF format (requires Adobe Reader 7.0 software).

Ordering Info for Rosanne Catalano’s book:

Title: “Mirrored Images [1]” by Rosanne Catalano

Publication date: January 2007

Publisher: Lulu Press (www.lulu.com/content/658761)

Price: [hardcover book] $21.59; [downloadable eBook] $3.95

“The Ravenscar Dynasty”

a novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford

On Sale Now!

“It is with great excitement that I tell you about my brand new historical thriller, The Ravenscar Dynasty – now on sale across the U.S. and Canada, online, and in bookstores everywhere!”

Power & money… Murder & revenge… Passion & betrayal…Triumph & catastrophe… The Ravenscar Dynasty is the debut novel in Barbara Taylor Bradford’s epic new series about the Deravenel family. This sweeping saga, which spans 100 years, will follow three generations bound by blood: torn by betrayal.

Here is just a taste of the early reviews…

“The Ravenscar Dynasty is a gripping read… a surefire winner. Barbara Taylor Bradford has few equals.” London Daily Express

“****1/2 (four and a half stars) Bradford will delight readers with this simply captivating series debut filled with romance, suspense and intrigue.” RT Bookreviews Magazine

“The doyenne of popular women’s fiction returns with the first installment of a new trilogy. Along the way, there are libidinous liaisons, wicked plots, personal catastrophes, a secret “love child” and lessons aplenty about the consequences of ruthless ambition.” Publisher’s Weekly

The Ravenscar Dynasty by Barbara Taylor Bradford is now available from St. Martin’s Press, Audio Renaissance (abridged and unabridged audio CDs), and Doubleday Large Print edition.

THE RAVENSCAR DYNASTY BOOK TOUR

The Ravenscar Dynasty is a huge hit in England!

In London, The Ravenscar Dynasty was launched at the brand new Bond Street location for Moussaieff Jewelers. A spectacular 40 foot poster of Barbara Taylor Bradford was hung over Bond Street to greet the arriving guests, including the guest of honor and an assortment of British celebrities and luminaries. The first novel in BTB’s new series is her fastest selling book to date in England.

In celebration of the North American publication of The Ravenscar Dynasty, Barbara Taylor Bradford is embarking on her biggest ever book tour across the United States – 22 cities in all! Barbara is excited to be meeting so many new faces in addition to a few familiar ones in the cities that she has had the pleasure of visiting more regularly. At each stop, she will be giving a presentation about her career, and about The Ravenscar Dynasty.

For a complete list of cities, stores and times, please see Barbara Taylor Bradford’s website: www.barbar