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Sharing Sunday!
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Sharing Sunday!
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Sharing Sunday!
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Sharing Sunday!
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Share your blogs, books, anything you're proud of! #sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
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#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
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#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
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#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
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Craft book authors this is for you! Promote your book & reach DIY enthusiasts everywhere. Let’s spread creativity & inspire more makers! #DIY #Crafts #BookPromotion
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Craft book authors this is for you! Promote your book & reach DIY enthusiasts everywhere. Let’s spread creativity & inspire more makers! #DIY #Crafts #BookPromotion
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Craft book authors this is for you! Promote your book & reach DIY enthusiasts everywhere. Let’s spread creativity & inspire more makers! #DIY #Crafts #BookPromotion
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Craft book authors this is for you! Promote your book & reach DIY enthusiasts everywhere. Let’s spread creativity & inspire more makers! #DIY #Crafts #BookPromotion
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Sharing Sunday!
Share with us today! Share you blogs, books, anything you're proud of!
#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
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#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
Share with us today! Share you blogs, books, anything you're proud of!
#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
Share with us today! Share you blogs, books, anything you're proud of!
#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Climb aboard for a murderous journey through the known universe with the cantankerous menopausal ghost assassins of Bijou and their sometimes fickle partners, the belosa, sentient cuttlefish-like spaceships, in a series of fun, character-driven space operas.
Sondrine: Ghost Assassin of Bijou is perfect for fans of Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries and Becky Chambers Wayfarers series.
Launching October 19.
ebooks available for preorder now on most platforms (sorry not the zon)
https://books2read.com/SondrineGAOB#SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #Books #ReadersOfMastodon #Readers
#GhostAssassinsOfBijou #WritingCommunity #BookPromotion #Menopause #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Booktodon -
Climb aboard for a murderous journey through the known universe with the cantankerous menopausal ghost assassins of Bijou and their sometimes fickle partners, the belosa, sentient cuttlefish-like spaceships, in a series of fun, character-driven space operas.
Sondrine: Ghost Assassin of Bijou is perfect for fans of Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries and Becky Chambers Wayfarers series.
Launching October 19.
ebooks available for preorder now on most platforms (sorry not the zon)
https://books2read.com/SondrineGAOB#SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #Books #ReadersOfMastodon #Readers
#GhostAssassinsOfBijou #WritingCommunity #BookPromotion #Menopause #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Booktodon -
Climb aboard for a murderous journey through the known universe with the cantankerous menopausal ghost assassins of Bijou and their sometimes fickle partners, the belosa, sentient cuttlefish-like spaceships, in a series of fun, character-driven space operas.
Sondrine: Ghost Assassin of Bijou is perfect for fans of Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries and Becky Chambers Wayfarers series.
Launching October 19.
ebooks available for preorder now on most platforms (sorry not the zon)
https://books2read.com/SondrineGAOB#SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #Books #ReadersOfMastodon #Readers
#GhostAssassinsOfBijou #WritingCommunity #BookPromotion #Menopause #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Booktodon -
Climb aboard for a murderous journey through the known universe with the cantankerous menopausal ghost assassins of Bijou and their sometimes fickle partners, the belosa, sentient cuttlefish-like spaceships, in a series of fun, character-driven space operas.
Sondrine: Ghost Assassin of Bijou is perfect for fans of Martha Wells’s Murderbot Diaries and Becky Chambers Wayfarers series.
Launching October 19.
ebooks available for preorder now on most platforms (sorry not the zon)
https://books2read.com/SondrineGAOB#SpaceOpera #ScienceFiction #Books #ReadersOfMastodon #Readers
#GhostAssassinsOfBijou #WritingCommunity #BookPromotion #Menopause #WritersOfMastodon #Bookstodon #Booktodon -
Life with Others: Pete Mladinic’s Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Life with Others: A Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Taken as a whole, this collection of ten stories takes readers on a journey through imagination, through places and times that reflect the world author Casey Robb and her readers live in. Stories of lived lives—they keep readers on edge, turning the page to find out what happens next. A reader comes to the end of any one of these stories thinking, yes, that really happened to people I know or to me. Detailed settings, complex characters, suspenseful plots, and well-crafted sentences make these stories memorable. Diverse in mood- funny, sad, filled with drama- they rank among the best short stories in contemporary fiction.
There’s a lot of darkness in “Carla, Swept Away,” the title story, with its dark ground and dark sky. The reader follows the story from a rural Texas coastal town to the seawall in Galveston, where it ends. It begins with a young girl, Sarah, outside her home during a storm that, to Sarah, is more exhilarating than threatening.
The storm is blowing in all black and swirly. I am dancing in the street, twirling, like the clouds. Carla has arrived. Her wind lashes my back, my yellow slicker flapping like a feral thing. Her skies let go. Heavy drops hammer my cheeks like marbles. The distant ditch is spilling dark water across the county road. The murky stream steals up our street and drowns our lawn.
The story revolves around the death of Sarah’s younger sister, Allie, killed close to home by a hit-and-run driver. At the end, in Galveston, Sarah’s father swims offshore and rescues her mother, who has gone out too far. While the family’s grief is at the heart of the story, the writer, who has been there, brings it to life. Her protagonist, Sarah, takes the reader back to the early 1960s, to her region of Texas, to the roadside ditch where Allie lost her life.
Whether Rusty will ever get out of the cave alive is the big question in “The Devil’s Grip.”
He could go no farther. His reaching arms were stuck, and his legs stretched way down, unable to push or pull. His sweating hands twisted and turned, but couldn’t dislodge his chest. The earth had him in a vise.
He had gone into the cave to retrieve a barrette that Sissy, Rusty’s older brother Tate’s girlfriend, had lost there on a previous venture into the cave, Rusty’s “special” place. The central scene, Rusty alone in the cave, is the story’s climax, the height of its conflict. It is then and there that Rusty gains an inner strength that will allow him to go further in life and will take him to Sul Ross State University to fulfill his aspirations of becoming a geologist, and consequently urge Tate, an auto mechanic, to study to be what he wants to be, an engineer. The cave, The Devil’s Grip, is the metaphor of motivation in Rusty’s journey.
In “He’s a Rebel,” Sarah and her friend Angela want to be Cher, the singer, half of the duo Sonny and Cher. Angela, tall and dark, even looks like Cher. She has Cher’s bangs and, slightly older than Sarah, a boyfriend. At school, she urges Sarah to meet a guy, Frankie, whose allure vanishes the moment Sarah enters his dirty, unkempt house, where he lives with his often-absent mother. Unbeknownst to Sarah, Frankie has a girlfriend. She arrives at his house with four other girls, and she and Sarah fight. Sarah thinks Frankie planned it all so trouble would happen. He is not a nice guy, and he lives in a bad home. At the end of the story, in her own home, she says:
“Well, I’m only going to say one thing.” I shook my head. “I’m glad I have a dad.” He gave me a puzzled smile. “And a mom.” “Wow,” Mom said.
Sarah’s epiphany is that the person she wants to be is herself.
Other stories are equally rewarding. “Baba Yaga at the Toy Store” is about a young girl’s encounter with a survivor of the Holocaust. “The Rabbit Trap” involves racism in the Deep South. “The Piano Man” is set against the backdrop of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. In “Tiger, Tiger,” the protagonist, a Vietnam vet, has guilt-filled flashbacks on a plane during a storm. “The Fruit Dish Finds Nandi” takes readers down to the Yucatán in Mexico. “Valentine’s Day” is a romantic comedy of errors. “You Takin’ Me to Paisley, or What? ” is a story about a young woman who is a hippie hitchhiker and an elderly man, recently widowed, who lives in a travel trailer, and it ends with an ironic twist. Each story is a journey, one readers will want to take, and take again.
Carla, Swept Away is available on Amazon ($12.99 paper, $3.99 Kindle).
Copyright © 2026 Peter Mladinic
All Rights ReservedPeter Mladinic was born and raised in New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas in 1985. Professor emeritus at New Mexico Junior College, where he was a member of the English faculty for 30 years. During that time, he was a board member of the Lea County Museum and president of the Lea County Humane Society. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA. Peter Mladinic’s most recent book of poems, Maiden Rock, is available from UnCollected Press.
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Life with Others: Pete Mladinic’s Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Life with Others: A Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Taken as a whole, this collection of ten stories takes readers on a journey through imagination, through places and times that reflect the world author Casey Robb and her readers live in. Stories of lived lives—they keep readers on edge, turning the page to find out what happens next. A reader comes to the end of any one of these stories thinking, yes, that really happened to people I know or to me. Detailed settings, complex characters, suspenseful plots, and well-crafted sentences make these stories memorable. Diverse in mood- funny, sad, filled with drama- they rank among the best short stories in contemporary fiction.
There’s a lot of darkness in “Carla, Swept Away,” the title story, with its dark ground and dark sky. The reader follows the story from a rural Texas coastal town to the seawall in Galveston, where it ends. It begins with a young girl, Sarah, outside her home during a storm that, to Sarah, is more exhilarating than threatening.
The storm is blowing in all black and swirly. I am dancing in the street, twirling, like the clouds. Carla has arrived. Her wind lashes my back, my yellow slicker flapping like a feral thing. Her skies let go. Heavy drops hammer my cheeks like marbles. The distant ditch is spilling dark water across the county road. The murky stream steals up our street and drowns our lawn.
The story revolves around the death of Sarah’s younger sister, Allie, killed close to home by a hit-and-run driver. At the end, in Galveston, Sarah’s father swims offshore and rescues her mother, who has gone out too far. While the family’s grief is at the heart of the story, the writer, who has been there, brings it to life. Her protagonist, Sarah, takes the reader back to the early 1960s, to her region of Texas, to the roadside ditch where Allie lost her life.
Whether Rusty will ever get out of the cave alive is the big question in “The Devil’s Grip.”
He could go no farther. His reaching arms were stuck, and his legs stretched way down, unable to push or pull. His sweating hands twisted and turned, but couldn’t dislodge his chest. The earth had him in a vise.
He had gone into the cave to retrieve a barrette that Sissy, Rusty’s older brother Tate’s girlfriend, had lost there on a previous venture into the cave, Rusty’s “special” place. The central scene, Rusty alone in the cave, is the story’s climax, the height of its conflict. It is then and there that Rusty gains an inner strength that will allow him to go further in life and will take him to Sul Ross State University to fulfill his aspirations of becoming a geologist, and consequently urge Tate, an auto mechanic, to study to be what he wants to be, an engineer. The cave, The Devil’s Grip, is the metaphor of motivation in Rusty’s journey.
In “He’s a Rebel,” Sarah and her friend Angela want to be Cher, the singer, half of the duo Sonny and Cher. Angela, tall and dark, even looks like Cher. She has Cher’s bangs and, slightly older than Sarah, a boyfriend. At school, she urges Sarah to meet a guy, Frankie, whose allure vanishes the moment Sarah enters his dirty, unkempt house, where he lives with his often-absent mother. Unbeknownst to Sarah, Frankie has a girlfriend. She arrives at his house with four other girls, and she and Sarah fight. Sarah thinks Frankie planned it all so trouble would happen. He is not a nice guy, and he lives in a bad home. At the end of the story, in her own home, she says:
“Well, I’m only going to say one thing.” I shook my head. “I’m glad I have a dad.” He gave me a puzzled smile. “And a mom.” “Wow,” Mom said.
Sarah’s epiphany is that the person she wants to be is herself.
Other stories are equally rewarding. “Baba Yaga at the Toy Store” is about a young girl’s encounter with a survivor of the Holocaust. “The Rabbit Trap” involves racism in the Deep South. “The Piano Man” is set against the backdrop of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. In “Tiger, Tiger,” the protagonist, a Vietnam vet, has guilt-filled flashbacks on a plane during a storm. “The Fruit Dish Finds Nandi” takes readers down to the Yucatán in Mexico. “Valentine’s Day” is a romantic comedy of errors. “You Takin’ Me to Paisley, or What? ” is a story about a young woman who is a hippie hitchhiker and an elderly man, recently widowed, who lives in a travel trailer, and it ends with an ironic twist. Each story is a journey, one readers will want to take, and take again.
Carla, Swept Away is available on Amazon ($12.99 paper, $3.99 Kindle).
Copyright © 2026 Peter Mladinic
All Rights ReservedPeter Mladinic was born and raised in New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas in 1985. Professor emeritus at New Mexico Junior College, where he was a member of the English faculty for 30 years. During that time, he was a board member of the Lea County Museum and president of the Lea County Humane Society. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA. Peter Mladinic’s most recent book of poems, Maiden Rock, is available from UnCollected Press.
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Life with Others: Peter Mladinic’s Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Life with Others: A Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Taken as a whole, this collection of ten stories takes readers on a journey through imagination, through places and times that reflect the world author Casey Robb and her readers live in. Stories of lived lives—they keep readers on edge, turning the page to find out what happens next. A reader comes to the end of any one of these stories thinking, yes, that really happened to people I know or to me. Detailed settings, complex characters, suspenseful plots, and well-crafted sentences make these stories memorable. Diverse in mood- funny, sad, filled with drama- they rank among the best short stories in contemporary fiction.
There’s a lot of darkness in “Carla, Swept Away,” the title story, with its dark ground and dark sky. The reader follows the story from a rural Texas coastal town to the seawall in Galveston, where it ends. It begins with a young girl, Sarah, outside her home during a storm that, to Sarah, is more exhilarating than threatening.
The storm is blowing in all black and swirly. I am dancing in the street, twirling, like the clouds. Carla has arrived. Her wind lashes my back, my yellow slicker flapping like a feral thing. Her skies let go. Heavy drops hammer my cheeks like marbles. The distant ditch is spilling dark water across the county road. The murky stream steals up our street and drowns our lawn.
The story revolves around the death of Sarah’s younger sister, Allie, killed close to home by a hit-and-run driver. At the end, in Galveston, Sarah’s father swims offshore and rescues her mother, who has gone out too far. While the family’s grief is at the heart of the story, the writer, who has been there, brings it to life. Her protagonist, Sarah, takes the reader back to the early 1960s, to her region of Texas, to the roadside ditch where Allie lost her life.
Whether Rusty will ever get out of the cave alive is the big question in “The Devil’s Grip.”
He could go no farther. His reaching arms were stuck, and his legs stretched way down, unable to push or pull. His sweating hands twisted and turned, but couldn’t dislodge his chest. The earth had him in a vise.
He had gone into the cave to retrieve a barrette that Sissy, Rusty’s older brother Tate’s girlfriend, had lost there on a previous venture into the cave, Rusty’s “special” place. The central scene, Rusty alone in the cave, is the story’s climax, the height of its conflict. It is then and there that Rusty gains an inner strength that will allow him to go further in life and will take him to Sul Ross State University to fulfill his aspirations of becoming a geologist, and consequently urge Tate, an auto mechanic, to study to be what he wants to be, an engineer. The cave, The Devil’s Grip, is the metaphor of motivation in Rusty’s journey.
In “He’s a Rebel,” Sarah and her friend Angela want to be Cher, the singer, half of the duo Sonny and Cher. Angela, tall and dark, even looks like Cher. She has Cher’s bangs and, slightly older than Sarah, a boyfriend. At school, she urges Sarah to meet a guy, Frankie, whose allure vanishes the moment Sarah enters his dirty, unkempt house, where he lives with his often-absent mother. Unbeknownst to Sarah, Frankie has a girlfriend. She arrives at his house with four other girls, and she and Sarah fight. Sarah thinks Frankie planned it all so trouble would happen. He is not a nice guy, and he lives in a bad home. At the end of the story, in her own home, she says:
“Well, I’m only going to say one thing.” I shook my head. “I’m glad I have a dad.” He gave me a puzzled smile. “And a mom.” “Wow,” Mom said.
Sarah’s epiphany is that the person she wants to be is herself.
Other stories are equally rewarding. “Baba Yaga at the Toy Store” is about a young girl’s encounter with a survivor of the Holocaust. “The Rabbit Trap” involves racism in the Deep South. “The Piano Man” is set against the backdrop of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. In “Tiger, Tiger,” the protagonist, a Vietnam vet, has guilt-filled flashbacks on a plane during a storm. “The Fruit Dish Finds Nandi” takes readers down to the Yucatán in Mexico. “Valentine’s Day” is a romantic comedy of errors. “You Takin’ Me to Paisley, or What? ” is a story about a young woman who is a hippie hitchhiker and an elderly man, recently widowed, who lives in a travel trailer, and it ends with an ironic twist. Each story is a journey, one readers will want to take, and take again.
Carla, Swept Away is available on Amazon ($12.99 paper, $3.99 Kindle).
Copyright © 2026 Peter Mladinic
All Rights ReservedPeter Mladinic was born and raised in New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas in 1985. Professor emeritus at New Mexico Junior College, where he was a member of the English faculty for 30 years. During that time, he was a board member of the Lea County Museum and president of the Lea County Humane Society. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA. Peter Mladinic’s most recent book of poems, Maiden Rock, is available from UnCollected Press.
Submit to MasticadoresUSA and subscribe for more great reads!
#BookPromotion #BookReview #CaseyRobb #MasticadoresUSA #PeteMladinic #TreasuredContributor -
Life with Others: Pete Mladinic’s Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Life with Others: A Review of Carla, Swept Away by Casey Robb
Taken as a whole, this collection of ten stories takes readers on a journey through imagination, through places and times that reflect the world author Casey Robb and her readers live in. Stories of lived lives—they keep readers on edge, turning the page to find out what happens next. A reader comes to the end of any one of these stories thinking, yes, that really happened to people I know or to me. Detailed settings, complex characters, suspenseful plots, and well-crafted sentences make these stories memorable. Diverse in mood- funny, sad, filled with drama- they rank among the best short stories in contemporary fiction.
There’s a lot of darkness in “Carla, Swept Away,” the title story, with its dark ground and dark sky. The reader follows the story from a rural Texas coastal town to the seawall in Galveston, where it ends. It begins with a young girl, Sarah, outside her home during a storm that, to Sarah, is more exhilarating than threatening.
The storm is blowing in all black and swirly. I am dancing in the street, twirling, like the clouds. Carla has arrived. Her wind lashes my back, my yellow slicker flapping like a feral thing. Her skies let go. Heavy drops hammer my cheeks like marbles. The distant ditch is spilling dark water across the county road. The murky stream steals up our street and drowns our lawn.
The story revolves around the death of Sarah’s younger sister, Allie, killed close to home by a hit-and-run driver. At the end, in Galveston, Sarah’s father swims offshore and rescues her mother, who has gone out too far. While the family’s grief is at the heart of the story, the writer, who has been there, brings it to life. Her protagonist, Sarah, takes the reader back to the early 1960s, to her region of Texas, to the roadside ditch where Allie lost her life.
Whether Rusty will ever get out of the cave alive is the big question in “The Devil’s Grip.”
He could go no farther. His reaching arms were stuck, and his legs stretched way down, unable to push or pull. His sweating hands twisted and turned, but couldn’t dislodge his chest. The earth had him in a vise.
He had gone into the cave to retrieve a barrette that Sissy, Rusty’s older brother Tate’s girlfriend, had lost there on a previous venture into the cave, Rusty’s “special” place. The central scene, Rusty alone in the cave, is the story’s climax, the height of its conflict. It is then and there that Rusty gains an inner strength that will allow him to go further in life and will take him to Sul Ross State University to fulfill his aspirations of becoming a geologist, and consequently urge Tate, an auto mechanic, to study to be what he wants to be, an engineer. The cave, The Devil’s Grip, is the metaphor of motivation in Rusty’s journey.
In “He’s a Rebel,” Sarah and her friend Angela want to be Cher, the singer, half of the duo Sonny and Cher. Angela, tall and dark, even looks like Cher. She has Cher’s bangs and, slightly older than Sarah, a boyfriend. At school, she urges Sarah to meet a guy, Frankie, whose allure vanishes the moment Sarah enters his dirty, unkempt house, where he lives with his often-absent mother. Unbeknownst to Sarah, Frankie has a girlfriend. She arrives at his house with four other girls, and she and Sarah fight. Sarah thinks Frankie planned it all so trouble would happen. He is not a nice guy, and he lives in a bad home. At the end of the story, in her own home, she says:
“Well, I’m only going to say one thing.” I shook my head. “I’m glad I have a dad.” He gave me a puzzled smile. “And a mom.” “Wow,” Mom said.
Sarah’s epiphany is that the person she wants to be is herself.
Other stories are equally rewarding. “Baba Yaga at the Toy Store” is about a young girl’s encounter with a survivor of the Holocaust. “The Rabbit Trap” involves racism in the Deep South. “The Piano Man” is set against the backdrop of the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. In “Tiger, Tiger,” the protagonist, a Vietnam vet, has guilt-filled flashbacks on a plane during a storm. “The Fruit Dish Finds Nandi” takes readers down to the Yucatán in Mexico. “Valentine’s Day” is a romantic comedy of errors. “You Takin’ Me to Paisley, or What? ” is a story about a young woman who is a hippie hitchhiker and an elderly man, recently widowed, who lives in a travel trailer, and it ends with an ironic twist. Each story is a journey, one readers will want to take, and take again.
Carla, Swept Away is available on Amazon ($12.99 paper, $3.99 Kindle).
Copyright © 2026 Peter Mladinic
All Rights ReservedPeter Mladinic was born and raised in New Jersey. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1973 and earned an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas in 1985. Professor emeritus at New Mexico Junior College, where he was a member of the English faculty for 30 years. During that time, he was a board member of the Lea County Museum and president of the Lea County Humane Society. An animal rights advocate, he lives in Hobbs, New Mexico, USA. Peter Mladinic’s most recent book of poems, Maiden Rock, is available from UnCollected Press.
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Looking for something new to read in the #fantasy / #steampunk / #Westerns genre? Something with a female protagonist, and an unabashedly technical magic system loosely inspired by the mess that is JavaScript development?
Remittance Witch might be up your street.
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Looking for something new to read in the #fantasy / #steampunk / #Westerns genre? Something with a female protagonist, and an unabashedly technical magic system loosely inspired by the mess that is JavaScript development?
Remittance Witch might be up your street.
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Sharing Sunday!
Share with us today! Share you blogs, books, anything you're proud of!
#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
Share with us today! Share you blogs, books, anything you're proud of!
#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
Share with us today! Share you blogs, books, anything you're proud of!
#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Sharing Sunday!
Share with us today! Share you blogs, books, anything you're proud of!
#sharingsunday #shareyourlinks #ShareYourWork #SundayShare #AuthorsOfFacebook #booksky #writesky #BookPromotion #creativewriting #BookCommunity #CreativeCommunity #BookMarketing
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Get a copy today before the release next week! For this week only, the ebook is 99 cents!
#beverlylanderson #beverlylandersonbooks #DarkHoney #DarkHoneyRelease #BookPromotion #EbookDeal #99CentsEbook #EbookSale #DarkHoneyLaunch #RomanticSuspense #queer
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Get a copy today before the release next week! For this week only, the ebook is 99 cents!
#beverlylanderson #beverlylandersonbooks #DarkHoney #DarkHoneyRelease #BookPromotion #EbookDeal #99CentsEbook #EbookSale #DarkHoneyLaunch #RomanticSuspense #queer
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Get a copy today before the release next week! For this week only, the ebook is 99 cents!
#beverlylanderson #beverlylandersonbooks #DarkHoney #DarkHoneyRelease #BookPromotion #EbookDeal #99CentsEbook #EbookSale #DarkHoneyLaunch #RomanticSuspense #queer
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Get a copy today before the release next week! For this week only, the ebook is 99 cents!
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The changing landscape for writers has left me in a bit of a pickle.
I SHOULD OPEN BY STATING THAT Ceeteejackson.com IS THE SOLE AUTHORIZED HOME OF MY WRITING.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line?
Aye, well. If so, Time is in for a bit of a shock when it comes to getting those lines out into the world of prospective readers!
Ten years ago, when I wrote my first effort, Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee, it was pretty straightforward and inexpensive to promote. A few kind bloggers said some nice words, and a couple of small book promotion businesses shifted a few copies for me. And that was about it – bish, bash, bosh … 500+ copies sold between UK and USA, just like that.
Dawdle.
Progressively though, with each book I’ve subsequently written, it’s become ever more difficult to attract properly targeted attention. So much so, that my latest book, a year old this week, has sold 169 copies in total – and that’s between the two differently titled versions – A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster / I Loved The 1960s & 1970s.
Even that came at a cost. I was suckered into believing Amazon Ads would place the book in front my preferred demographic of readers aged over 50 years. It takes a few days for the analytics to kick in but eventually, and for a couple of weeks, the figures looked healthy.
Ha! Then I noticed the royalties earned, versus the expenditure incurred was just not sustainable. It would take a huge upturn in sales to break even. So I cut my losses and ducked out of Amazon promotion. The day I stopped paying was the day my book failed to show in the top searches on the website.
And so it has remained.
Conversely, the two books I ghost-wrote for Summersdale Publishers have averaged raking around the 3,000 to 7,000 mark on the whole Amazon marketplace of, they say, @ 44 million books!
The benefits of having a publisher and their promotional budget. 😉🤔
Ah well, that’s another wee achievement marked off my list:
* write for a national music magazine ✔️ (I was Scottish correspondent for Artrocker Magazine that shifted 35,000 copies a month.)* write and publish a book. ✔️ (I’ve self-published four and had two other promoted by a publisher in the the Hachette group.
* design, establish & co-host a popular 1970s themed website with over 230,000 hits (Once Upon a Time in The ’70s ) ✔️
* become a certified pickleball coach. ✔️(I just fancied it! Now achieved it!)
And that, dear reader, is why you may be seeing / reading less of me in the coming months. I will still blog as much as I can, but with the added pressures on my time, some things will have to give.
I have no idea how much I’ll involve myself with coaching before another ‘project’ / aim / ambition takes my fancy. But I’ll probably tell you, whether you like it or not. 🤣
In all likelihood, I’ll not be able to keep away from writing. I’ll no doubt still complete the amusing fantasy I’ve been working on, in fits and starts, for about six years! I’ll try out my idea for a cozy mystery type story, featuring some of the characters from Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee. I’ll probably publish my book on limericks in time for Christmas. Well, why not? It’s not going to cost me anything other than time.
But regardless, it still doesn’t stop me hankering for the way we were.
Hi regular readers! Just a quick note: if you are reading this text on any site other than Ceeteejackson.com, it has been stolen by automated bots.
#1960s1970s #AmazonAds #author #bookPromotion #DailyBlog #disillusionedAuthor #humor #humour #pickleball #PickleballCoach #rewriteEveryLine #TimeFatherTime #Writing
You can read more about how this digital piracy works on this post. -
The changing landscape for writers has left me in a bit of a pickle.
I SHOULD OPEN BY STATING THAT Ceeteejackson.com IS THE SOLE AUTHORIZED HOME OF MY WRITING.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line?
Aye, well. If so, Time is in for a bit of a shock when it comes to getting those lines out into the world of prospective readers!
Ten years ago, when I wrote my first effort, Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee, it was pretty straightforward and inexpensive to promote. A few kind bloggers said some nice words, and a couple of small book promotion businesses shifted a few copies for me. And that was about it – bish, bash, bosh … 500+ copies sold between UK and USA, just like that.
Dawdle.
Progressively though, with each book I’ve subsequently written, it’s become ever more difficult to attract properly targeted attention. So much so, that my latest book, a year old this week, has sold 169 copies in total – and that’s between the two differently titled versions – A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster / I Loved The 1960s & 1970s.
Even that came at a cost. I was suckered into believing Amazon Ads would place the book in front my preferred demographic of readers aged over 50 years. It takes a few days for the analytics to kick in but eventually, and for a couple of weeks, the figures looked healthy.
Ha! Then I noticed the royalties earned, versus the expenditure incurred was just not sustainable. It would take a huge upturn in sales to break even. So I cut my losses and ducked out of Amazon promotion. The day I stopped paying was the day my book failed to show in the top searches on the website.
And so it has remained.
Conversely, the two books I ghost-wrote for Summersdale Publishers have averaged raking around the 3,000 to 7,000 mark on the whole Amazon marketplace of, they say, @ 44 million books!
The benefits of having a publisher and their promotional budget. 😉🤔
Ah well, that’s another wee achievement marked off my list:
* write for a national music magazine ✔️ (I was Scottish correspondent for Artrocker Magazine that shifted 35,000 copies a month.)* write and publish a book. ✔️ (I’ve self-published four and had two other promoted by a publisher in the the Hachette group.
* design, establish & co-host a popular 1970s themed website with over 230,000 hits (Once Upon a Time in The ’70s ) ✔️
* become a certified pickleball coach. ✔️(I just fancied it! Now achieved it!)
And that, dear reader, is why you may be seeing / reading less of me in the coming months. I will still blog as much as I can, but with the added pressures on my time, some things will have to give.
I have no idea how much I’ll involve myself with coaching before another ‘project’ / aim / ambition takes my fancy. But I’ll probably tell you, whether you like it or not. 🤣
In all likelihood, I’ll not be able to keep away from writing. I’ll no doubt still complete the amusing fantasy I’ve been working on, in fits and starts, for about six years! I’ll try out my idea for a cozy mystery type story, featuring some of the characters from Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee. I’ll probably publish my book on limericks in time for Christmas. Well, why not? It’s not going to cost me anything other than time.
But regardless, it still doesn’t stop me hankering for the way we were.
Hi regular readers! Just a quick note: if you are reading this text on any site other than Ceeteejackson.com, it has been stolen by automated bots.
#1960s1970s #AmazonAds #author #bookPromotion #DailyBlog #disillusionedAuthor #humor #humour #pickleball #PickleballCoach #rewriteEveryLine #TimeFatherTime #Writing
You can read more about how this digital piracy works on this post. -
The changing landscape for writers has left me in a bit of a pickle.
I SHOULD OPEN BY STATING THAT Ceeteejackson.com IS THE SOLE AUTHORIZED HOME OF MY WRITING.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line?
Aye, well. If so, Time is in for a bit of a shock when it comes to getting those lines out into the world of prospective readers!
Ten years ago, when I wrote my first effort, Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee, it was pretty straightforward and inexpensive to promote. A few kind bloggers said some nice words, and a couple of small book promotion businesses shifted a few copies for me. And that was about it – bish, bash, bosh … 500+ copies sold between UK and USA, just like that.
Dawdle.
Progressively though, with each book I’ve subsequently written, it’s become ever more difficult to attract properly targeted attention. So much so, that my latest book, a year old this week, has sold 169 copies in total – and that’s between the two differently titled versions – A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster / I Loved The 1960s & 1970s.
Even that came at a cost. I was suckered into believing Amazon Ads would place the book in front my preferred demographic of readers aged over 50 years. It takes a few days for the analytics to kick in but eventually, and for a couple of weeks, the figures looked healthy.
Ha! Then I noticed the royalties earned, versus the expenditure incurred was just not sustainable. It would take a huge upturn in sales to break even. So I cut my losses and ducked out of Amazon promotion. The day I stopped paying was the day my book failed to show in the top searches on the website.
And so it has remained.
Conversely, the two books I ghost-wrote for Summersdale Publishers have averaged raking around the 3,000 to 7,000 mark on the whole Amazon marketplace of, they say, @ 44 million books!
The benefits of having a publisher and their promotional budget. 😉🤔
Ah well, that’s another wee achievement marked off my list:
* write for a national music magazine ✔️ (I was Scottish correspondent for Artrocker Magazine that shifted 35,000 copies a month.)* write and publish a book. ✔️ (I’ve self-published four and had two other promoted by a publisher in the the Hachette group.
* design, establish & co-host a popular 1970s themed website with over 230,000 hits (Once Upon a Time in The ’70s ) ✔️
* become a certified pickleball coach. ✔️(I just fancied it! Now achieved it!)
And that, dear reader, is why you may be seeing / reading less of me in the coming months. I will still blog as much as I can, but with the added pressures on my time, some things will have to give.
I have no idea how much I’ll involve myself with coaching before another ‘project’ / aim / ambition takes my fancy. But I’ll probably tell you, whether you like it or not. 🤣
In all likelihood, I’ll not be able to keep away from writing. I’ll no doubt still complete the amusing fantasy I’ve been working on, in fits and starts, for about six years! I’ll try out my idea for a cozy mystery type story, featuring some of the characters from Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee. I’ll probably publish my book on limericks in time for Christmas. Well, why not? It’s not going to cost me anything other than time.
But regardless, it still doesn’t stop me hankering for the way we were.
Hi regular readers! Just a quick note: if you are reading this text on any site other than Ceeteejackson.com, it has been stolen by automated bots.
#1960s1970s #AmazonAds #author #bookPromotion #DailyBlog #disillusionedAuthor #humor #humour #pickleball #PickleballCoach #rewriteEveryLine #TimeFatherTime #Writing
You can read more about how this digital piracy works on this post. -
The changing landscape for writers has left me in a bit of a pickle.
I SHOULD OPEN BY STATING THAT Ceeteejackson.com IS THE SOLE AUTHORIZED HOME OF MY WRITING.
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line?
Aye, well. If so, Time is in for a bit of a shock when it comes to getting those lines out into the world of prospective readers!
Ten years ago, when I wrote my first effort, Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee, it was pretty straightforward and inexpensive to promote. A few kind bloggers said some nice words, and a couple of small book promotion businesses shifted a few copies for me. And that was about it – bish, bash, bosh … 500+ copies sold between UK and USA, just like that.
Dawdle.
Progressively though, with each book I’ve subsequently written, it’s become ever more difficult to attract properly targeted attention. So much so, that my latest book, a year old this week, has sold 169 copies in total – and that’s between the two differently titled versions – A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster / I Loved The 1960s & 1970s.
Even that came at a cost. I was suckered into believing Amazon Ads would place the book in front my preferred demographic of readers aged over 50 years. It takes a few days for the analytics to kick in but eventually, and for a couple of weeks, the figures looked healthy.
Ha! Then I noticed the royalties earned, versus the expenditure incurred was just not sustainable. It would take a huge upturn in sales to break even. So I cut my losses and ducked out of Amazon promotion. The day I stopped paying was the day my book failed to show in the top searches on the website.
And so it has remained.
Conversely, the two books I ghost-wrote for Summersdale Publishers have averaged raking around the 3,000 to 7,000 mark on the whole Amazon marketplace of, they say, @ 44 million books!
The benefits of having a publisher and their promotional budget. 😉🤔
Ah well, that’s another wee achievement marked off my list:
* write for a national music magazine ✔️ (I was Scottish correspondent for Artrocker Magazine that shifted 35,000 copies a month.)* write and publish a book. ✔️ (I’ve self-published four and had two other promoted by a publisher in the the Hachette group.
* design, establish & co-host a popular 1970s themed website with over 230,000 hits (Once Upon a Time in The ’70s ) ✔️
* become a certified pickleball coach. ✔️(I just fancied it! Now achieved it!)
And that, dear reader, is why you may be seeing / reading less of me in the coming months. I will still blog as much as I can, but with the added pressures on my time, some things will have to give.
I have no idea how much I’ll involve myself with coaching before another ‘project’ / aim / ambition takes my fancy. But I’ll probably tell you, whether you like it or not. 🤣
In all likelihood, I’ll not be able to keep away from writing. I’ll no doubt still complete the amusing fantasy I’ve been working on, in fits and starts, for about six years! I’ll try out my idea for a cozy mystery type story, featuring some of the characters from Damp Dogs & Rabbit Wee. I’ll probably publish my book on limericks in time for Christmas. Well, why not? It’s not going to cost me anything other than time.
But regardless, it still doesn’t stop me hankering for the way we were.
Hi regular readers! Just a quick note: if you are reading this text on any site other than Ceeteejackson.com, it has been stolen by automated bots.
#1960s1970s #AmazonAds #author #bookPromotion #DailyBlog #disillusionedAuthor #humor #humour #pickleball #PickleballCoach #rewriteEveryLine #TimeFatherTime #Writing
You can read more about how this digital piracy works on this post. -
When Literary Titan Put My Book on Their Podcast
There are certain moments in an author's journey that stand out forever. Publishing a book is already a surreal experience. For years, a story exists only in your imagination. It lives inside your head. Then, eventually, you take that idea and turn it into something physical. You write the words, edit the manuscript, format the pages, create the cover, and finally release it into the world. But once a book is released, something else happens. You have to let go. The story that was once […] -
When Literary Titan Put My Book on Their Podcast
There are certain moments in an author's journey that stand out forever. Publishing a book is already a surreal experience. For years, a story exists only in your imagination. It lives inside your head. Then, eventually, you take that idea and turn it into something physical. You write the words, edit the manuscript, format the pages, create the cover, and finally release it into the world. But once a book is released, something else happens. You have to let go. The story that was once […] -
When Literary Titan Put My Book on Their Podcast
There are certain moments in an author's journey that stand out forever. Publishing a book is already a surreal experience. For years, a story exists only in your imagination. It lives inside your head. Then, eventually, you take that idea and turn it into something physical. You write the words, edit the manuscript, format the pages, create the cover, and finally release it into the world. But once a book is released, something else happens. You have to let go. The story that was once […] -
When Literary Titan Put My Book on Their Podcast
There are certain moments in an author's journey that stand out forever. Publishing a book is already a surreal experience. For years, a story exists only in your imagination. It lives inside your head. Then, eventually, you take that idea and turn it into something physical. You write the words, edit the manuscript, format the pages, create the cover, and finally release it into the world. But once a book is released, something else happens. You have to let go. The story that was once […] -
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I've decided to make one of my short story collections completely free to read via Ko-Fi and Patreon as a taster for the rest of my work.
What's the deal with the Fomorians of west Connacht? They're bandits. Raiders. Mutants.
Except maybe they're more than that.
https://ko-fi.com/s/39807765f0
https://www.patreon.com/posts/160318274
#shortStories #historicalFantasy #freeEbook #writingCommunity #bookPromotion
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I've decided to make one of my short story collections completely free to read via Ko-Fi and Patreon as a taster for the rest of my work.
What's the deal with the Fomorians of west Connacht? They're bandits. Raiders. Mutants.
Except maybe they're more than that.
https://ko-fi.com/s/39807765f0
https://www.patreon.com/posts/160318274
#shortStories #historicalFantasy #freeEbook #writingCommunity #bookPromotion
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Escape the horrors by diving into a cozy mystery! There's something in this group for everyone.
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Escape the horrors by diving into a cozy mystery! There's something in this group for everyone.
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Escape the horrors by diving into a cozy mystery! There's something in this group for everyone.
#ShamelessSelfPromo #BookPromotion #CozyMysteries #IndieAuthors
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Escape the horrors by diving into a cozy mystery! There's something in this group for everyone.
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Everyone knows that "Fomorians" first started appearing in Ireland in the 1840s. But nobody knows how. Or why.
Until a corrupt dwarven scientist decides to experiment on a pair of kids to find out.
Sound intriguing? Fomoritis Uncovered is only €2 on most ebook stores until the 2nd of June, so grab it quick!
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#bookPromotion #bookSale #JuneBankHolidayWeekend #historicalFantasy #dieselpunk #scifi #fantasy
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Everyone knows that "Fomorians" first started appearing in Ireland in the 1840s. But nobody knows how. Or why.
Until a corrupt dwarven scientist decides to experiment on a pair of kids to find out.
Sound intriguing? Fomoritis Uncovered is only €2 on most ebook stores until the 2nd of June, so grab it quick!
https://books2read.com/b/fomoritis-uncovered
#bookPromotion #bookSale #JuneBankHolidayWeekend #historicalFantasy #dieselpunk #scifi #fantasy
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