My first acceptance for a nationally distributed commercial anthology was a personal essay in Rocking Chair Reader-Coming Home, published by Adams Media. I'd submitted the essay to the editor while she was editing another anthology, which never materialized. Then she was hired by Adams Media and she emailed to ask if I was interested in reworking the essay for inclusion in the volume she was editing for Adams. Would I! She did accept it and a few months later the book debuted.
Soon after I decided to put together a memoir of my and my siblings' early lives as sharecropper children in very rural Georgia and self-pubbed Eight Miles of Muddy Road.
Other pieces I wrote have been included in anthologies by members of one of my writing groups, Lost State Writers Guild, and another anthology I edited for a smaller writers group, F.L.o.W.(For Love of Words).
Reservoir of Death, a mystery story begun as an exercise for a class at Wildacres Writers Retreat several years ago will be included in Mystery of the Green Mist, a mystery anthology to be published by L&L Dreamspell Publishers.
