I recently got a haul of books from a friend who is moving into a new smaller apartment and now my floor is filled with stacks of amazing stories. How am I going to decide what to read first?
 
Some of them are ones that I've read before but am excited to browse through again, like A Thousand Splendid Suns, and the travel anthology A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe. Others are ones I’ve had on my mental to-be read list, but I have never had a chance to get my hands on a copy. For example, Interpreter of Maladies and The Effect of Living Backwards. One of the things I frequently miss about living in an English-speaking country is access to a big public library. Because I live away from an English-speaking market, it’s often hard to find books that I want when I want to read them, even in the bookstore. Of course, that means I do a lot of reading on my Kindle! And if I have to have something in dead-tree version, I can often order it from Book Depository. Otherwise, though, I read whatever materializes on my book shelf.

Thanks to everyone who signed up for my mailing list recently! (In case you missed out: http://eepurl.com/cFxRMX) I hope you enjoyed the free short story (and the surprise later!). 

NaNoWriMo is upon us! I wrote a short blog post for my coworking space's blog about how I got started with NaNo and how I think that NaNo write-ins capture the spirit of coworking. Take a peek! 

(And if you've never heard of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), it is an awesome creative challenge. Check it out at nanowrimo.org.)

The FISH OUT OF WATER editor, Ramona DeFelice Long, has worked on four anthologies for the Sisters in Crime Guppies. In a blog post this week, she discusses why these projects were a "game-changer" for her. Thanks for your keen eye, Ramona!

Writers Who Kill blogger (and mystery author!) EB Davis interviewed some of the FISH OUT OF WATER anthology authors this week. Click the link to meet the authors and find out some enticing tidbits about our crime fiction short stories. Thanks, EB!

Today I'm a guest on indie author Jennifer S. Alderson's blog. I discuss my unusual childhood growing up on a boat and how that influences my writing. Read the whole post at this link.

Get your fins on a copy of the Sisters in Crime Guppy anthology FISH OUT OF WATER at the links below.

Wildside Press: http://wildsidepress.com/fish-out-of-water-a-guppy-anthology-edited-by-ramona-defelice-long-paperback/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Fish-Out-Water-Guppy-Anthology/dp/1479417491
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fish-out-of-water-cynthia-defelice-long/1125936102?ean=9781479417490