So She Takes a Deep Breath.... and destroys herself...

Of course I am being melodramatic to the extreme but I am a bit terrified by what I've done. It can't be undone which results in a big That's That.

I am freakishly behind on my book reviews, and I am behind on two raw manuscript reviews that I need to read but I guess the tardiness is good because it means I've been working on projects. The first project that is complete and now for sale on Amazon is my second chapbook of poems, "The Yellow Staircase".

As a project this terrifies me because the poems contained within are vicious, depraved, heartbroken, lustful, foul-mouthed,and straight up pornographic (some of them are at least.) It is a collection I am uncomfortable with releasing, especially imagining the idea of someone I know face to face reading it and thinking they can glean things about me which they'd not known. Some of the poems are reprints from other magazines, one of them even won an award, but the majority of the volume is untested on readers, and never put through an editor.

I really felt I had to put this together and get it done however. It marks my first foray into self publishing, and in a way is a tester for how to work the process. It also marks the purging of a huge weight that has been sitting in my heart for the better part of a year. It was a horrible mix of emotions that had to leave me in some way or other and pulling them out and putting them on paper (no matter how ugly they are) has really helped me along.

I am selling the chapbook for a few dollars less than a chapbook goes for, $6.00 for 33 poems, and 56 pages. There is a fragile storyline threading the poems, the setting is a shattering relationship as seen through the eyes of a disillusioned and angry girl who has entrusted her confidence to a fraud of a fortune teller who has stolen her words and sold them to the world.

If you are feeling adventurous, curious, or just plain voyeuristic, please do go ahead and buy the volume of poems! I will be eternally grateful. If you buy "The Yellow Staircase" and enjoy it, I would very much welcome a review posted to Amazon to help get the word out. I am advertising the chapbook only here and on Twitter, so I can use all the help I can get!

USA Buy Link: The Yellow Staircase
UK Buy Link: The Yellow Staircase
Createspace Buy Link: The Yellow Staircase

Love and Hugs to All of You! xxx

Writing Update Post!

I have a few wee stories at the ever awesome Short Fast and Deadly.

My shorts "Scarecrow Cherry Roll" and "Lingering Fling" are in the July Issue.

My short "Dear Sir..." is available in the August Issue.

They can be read for free of course, but if you would desire your very own hard copy of these issues, the purchase links are also available at the site.

My very first chapbook is also live! It is published by Deadly Chaps. The chapbook "Broken Butterflies" is a collection of 33 small prose and poem stories that reflect snapshots in the lives of three fictional sisters, Mari, Alice, and Brennan from their childhood to death.

You can read it for free of course, but if you would like to own your very own copy, it is only seven dollars and the purchase link is on the page. So do me proud and support the small press! :)

Love and hugs!

Cee

Twit-lit! It's all the rage so get on board!

One of my tweetie sized poems will be included in the new anthology edited by Joanne Merriman and due in December. 140 and Counting will feature over 100 twitter sized poems by over 100 authors. The anthology will be available for the twitter sized price of 5 dollars. You can ensure your copy by preordering at the Kickstarter page to order: 140 and Counting So do yourself a treat and order! :)