See: The Scent of History: Inside the Library of Smells In honor of April’s National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), and to celebrate the upcoming release of “Seesaw,” a quirky poetry collaborative book by Ken Tomaro and me, I will post a quirky prompt each day in April. Submit your best quirky response poem (no more […]
Quirky Prompt 13: The Library of Forgotten Smells
From AMERICAN WRITING AWARDS:
“Dear Finalist,
Congratulations on your book being named a category FINALIST in the 2025 Children’s Book International Competition!
Your achievement is a testament to your dedication, creativity, and the courage it takes to bring stories to life. We are thrilled to celebrate this milestone with you and look forward to seeing your work gain even more recognition.
As a FINALIST, your book will:
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Be included in our press release, distributed to hundreds of premium news outlets with a potential reach of millions.
Be marketed to public libraries and national booksellers…”
CONGRATULATIONS!! to Kaelen Felix for this amazing accomplishment!
It’s not every day that I shout out someone’s birthday, but here we are. Laura Stamps, who I consider the ultimate pet advocate, and fun-loving poet and writer, has reached a new year! As some of you may know, she is a cat mom, specializing in helping rescue cats. She has a senior feline household and loves them up on the regular.
I also happen to know that she is a dog person, as well. And she celebrates this with her advocacy work.
I met Laura through her doggie books where she shares stories with prose poetry. If you want to find humor in your life, I highly recommend Laura’s books. Full disclosure: we have published three of Laura’s books but have read more. They are addictive. They are family friendly. They are educational and entertaining, all in one.
Here is Laura’s latest creation and you may want to grab a copy for your favorite person. Laura will even autograph a copy for you.
https://www.prolificpulse.com/laurastamps Autograph link on site.
Since this is National Canine Fitness Month I will drop this link with suggestions for Canine Fitness. (No affiliate links from me).
In vivid, poetic prose Nancy Kricorian’s THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD tells the story of a Beirut Armenian family before, during, and after the Lebanese Civil War. Returning to the fabular tone of ZABELLE, her popular first novel, Kricorian conjures up the lost worlds and intergenerational traumas that haunt a family in permanent exile. Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale, THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD is a sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City.
“Like colorful miniatures—from a childhood of elders haunted by the Armenian genocide to girlhood and adolescence amidst war in Beirut, to marriage and children in New York at the time of 9/11—Nancy Kricorian finds just the right scale to bring her heroine’s passage to vivid, reverberating life.”
—Aram Saroyan
“An arrestingly beautiful novel of how families draw us together but also push us apart. Set amidst the backdrop of displacement and war, THE BURNING HEART OF THE WORLD illuminates how we carry history deep into even the most forgotten corners of ourselves. Once you start reading about Vera and her family you won’t be able to put this book down.”
—Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Author of The Evening Hero
Learn more at https://nancykricorian.net/
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