Forum / Good news and bad news

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jul 07, 03:37pm

  Good news: my short story, "Knitting the unraveled sleeves" was chosen as a finalist entry in the Eric Hoffer Award competition and for publication in the annual anthology "Best New Writing 2013" available from Hopewell Publications in October of this year.

  Bad news: the short list is out for the Prose award and I'm not on it.

  Either way, it's an honor and I'm thrilled to have the story included in the anthology. It's difficult enough to place short stories of any length and this is one of about seven pieces in the range of 4-10,000 words I've written over the past two years.

  One down, six to go.

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  Joani Reese

  Jul 07, 04:17pm

  Yay for you, James! Congratulations to a fine writer. I am pleased for you and your success.

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  David Ackley

  Jul 07, 05:35pm

  Congratulations, James. That's very exciting news, and entirely deserved.

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  Sam Rasnake

  Jul 07, 07:09pm

  Great news, James. Congratulations to you.

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jul 07, 08:08pm

  Thanks, everyone. Even better news (for me at least) is that my WIP novel, tentatively titled "Trajectory" is about 50 pages from completion.

• Robin Graham

  Jul 07, 08:21pm

  Knitting the unravelled sleeves is a great title.

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  Gessy Alvarez

  Jul 08, 03:38am

  Congrats, James!

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jul 08, 02:03pm

  Thanks, Robin, Gessy. "Knitting..." is a story about which I'm particularly proud, one of several I'd written as a collection of related stories I thought I'd put together under the title, "Dime novel dreams of Canada."

  Silly me, for thinking short story collections were salable. But I put a lot of work into them, love each one of the stories and hope to find a home for all of them together in print someday.

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  Gill Hoffs

  Jul 08, 10:57pm

  Very well done, James!

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  Linda Simoni-Wastila

  Jul 09, 10:38am

  Congrats James! A tremendous honor. Looking forward to seeing the antho in print. Peace...

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  Christopher Allen

  Jul 09, 11:49am

  Congratulations, JLD!

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  Jane Hammons

  Jul 09, 07:50pm

  I have no doubt that the spirit of Eric Hoffer very much admires your work. And congratulations on the inclusion in Best New Writing 2013--that's very exciting. Great honor.

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  James Claffey

  Jul 09, 09:59pm

  good work! keep going...

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jul 09, 11:27pm

  Thanks all. Jane I've always admired Eric Hoffer's ideas and observations, so that's a plus.

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  Sally Houtman

  Jul 11, 05:39am

  Glad to hear the 'longer' short story still has a place in society, being written, being read, being recognized.

  Great news, JLD.

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  Andrew Stancek

  Jul 12, 05:05pm

  Congratulations, JLD. You deserve this and much much more. Let us know when the anthology becomes available. I'll be buying it for sure.

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jul 13, 03:45am

  Sally, Andrew... thank you both.

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  MichaelDickes

  Jul 14, 06:55am

  Well earned and well deserved, James!

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