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Poetry in the Arts has launched new online and print journals, and extends an open invitation to submit for publication. Unsolicited submissions of poetry, a wide range of prose, art and music are welcome.

Information about our editorial policy and guidelines for MoonCrossed 33/33 and MoonCrossed, the online and print journals, can be found at: .

Jim Johnson <http://poetryinarts.org/>
- Friday, January 30, 2004 at 14:24:56 (GMT)


Available now from Outpress: CHANGE OF LOVE by Valerie France
- a novel about body and soul.

This fast paced novel combines themes of transgender and Christian spirituality within a fast-paced contemporary story.

Pharmaceutical sales rep Joanna Meakin has a good husband and a bad conscience. She's hungry for forgiveness, but confessing her guilty secret is out of the question.

She tries prayer, but she's out of practice. She even starts going to church, something she hasn't done since childhood. Then, dabbling on the fringes of spirituality, she meets the mystical and curiously insightful Hilary. Over time Hilary's guidance and spiritual insight become increasingly important to Joanna - something that causes more problems in her marriage.

Unfortunately, Hilary has a secret of her own – one that will draw Joanna into a contemporary media hell.


Review
This novel, a gripping tale of people and their emotions, is in the tradition of a long line of authors and is fit to be ranked alongside the works of Joanna Trollope. It holds your attention and you really want to know what happens next. Having finished it, you put it down with the sense of having parted from a friend.

The theme is how one modern young woman copes with life, marriage and career – with all their difficulties – and the extra complications when things so wrong, as happens in so many lives. Most authors would treat these issues on a material and emotional basis but Valerie France takes things rather further. Why do things go wrong, what do you really feel about them deep down and what do you have to do to make them right again?

These questions are far from easy and this novel dares to introduce an element of religion or, in this case, more truly, spirituality. If this was not brave enough, there is also a substantial dash of transsexualism, which makes it braver still. This novel goes deeply into people and what really makes them work – and that search for the real self which is so important.

This is a good story, full of good insights, and one that you won't want to put down. Thoroughly recommended. - GT News (Magazine of the Gender Trust) - Autumn 2003


Anne Seddon <feedback@outpress.co.uk> <http://www.outpress.co.uk>
- Wednesday, January 21, 2004 at 16:49:22 (GMT)


MATRIARCH'S WAY: Journal of Female Supremacy is currently on hold until further notice.

Issue 2/1 is available in digital format at
http://www.artemiscreations.com/mwjournal

Artemis Creations Publishing is seeking book projects.
http://www.artemiscreations.com/catalog
For Submission Guidelines and sample contract.

Current mailing address:
Artemis Creations Publishing
100 Chatham E
West Palm Beach, Florida 33417

Shirley Oliveira <artemissaves@wmconnect.com> <http://www.artemiscreations.com>
- Friday, January 09, 2004 at 01:03:57 (GMT)


To celebrate the start of 2004 Jupiter is running to special offers. The first is for a copy of #1 for just £1.50, and the second offer is for the first 4 copies of Zest for just £4.99. That's 20 stories, and nearly 75000 words of text for just £4.99!

Oh, and you also might find is useful to know that Jupiter #3 is now available, for more details check out the link below.

Ian Redman
editor - Jupiter Magazine

Ian Redman <editor@jupitersf.co.uk> <http://www.jupitersf.co.uk>
- Tuesday, January 06, 2004 at 10:16:42 (GMT)


I'd like to get into small press independent publishing and perhaps start a book series syndicate. If anyone has entrepreneurial instincts and wants to talk business, then contact me.

Charlene Hamilton Gardner <http://www.expage.com/movierightsavailable>
- Monday, January 05, 2004 at 23:31:38 (GMT)


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