Merry Christmas!

The team at The Book Club Forum wishes you all a very happy Christmas! May Santa be good to you all, and bring lots of books!

Calling All Writers – Your Messages!

Our visiting Featured Author at the moment is Lynne Rees, who came to my attention when I read Messages, one of my favourite books of the year. Following on from that came Your Messages, an online writing project. It’s now in it’s second year, and it’s something I’m enjoying reading every day.

In the words of Lynne..

Thanks for mentioning this, Michelle. Your Messages was a writing project, devised to co-incide with the new edition of Messages, that Sarah and I ran online in November last year. Each day we posted a 300 word prompt from the book and anyone could respond with their own original 300 word piece, before 8am GMT the next morning. At the end of the month we chose a selection of the strongest pieces and these were published in an anthology, Your Messages, which was launched at The Poetry Cafe in London in February this year.

We were stunned by the high quality of writing and by the enthusiasm of so many writers, some of whom responded every day of November, and by the support of so many of them at the launch – we had writers from Texas and Austria and from all over the UK too.

I don’t think we’d really forseen how successful the project could be though, because at the end of the month we found ourselves reading through the equivalent of two copies of War and Peace to make our selections! But it was very much worth the time and effort because we met up with a wonderful community of writers and stayed in touch… so much so that the demand was still there for a similar project this year. You can check on either of the following links for details (they both take you through to the same page):

www.yourmessages.org
http://writeyourmessages.blogspot.com/

Free ebook of Doggone by Erik Ryman

We like to bring you news of other great offers on here.. and today we’d like to let you know about the FREE ebook version of Doggone, being offered by Erik Ryman. All you need to do is go along to his blog, and follow the link.