Blog Posts for Cheryl L Snell

New Book

Cheryl L Snell — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:55:03 -0700

It's called Memento Mori. Don't groan--it's not all that dark. It's got plenty of gorgeous color, in fact, provided by Janet Snell's intriquing oil paintings, including the one on the cover. The bookend poems and the one at midpoint touch on her childhood obsession with lightning bugs, but not to worry, the chap is not all in-jokes. Here's a sample. (Pardon the estrogen power-surge): Skin Hunger ...

New Review!

Cheryl L Snell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:02:50 -0700

Red-Roomer Rosy Cole has posted a thoughtful and discerning review of my Prisoner's Dilemma today on her blog. Please take a look---and thanks so much, Rosy!

Previews and Freebies

Cheryl L Snell — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:34:57 -0700

For the next few months of Sundays, I'll post scenes from my new novel, Rescuing Ranu, at http://shivasarms.blogspot.com If multicultural fiction is not your cuppa, scroll down to take a sneak peek at my new poetry collection, a collaboration with my sister Janet-the-artist. I'll leave it up for a week or so, and then pfffttt.And, in case it's anyone's b-day or anything, here is one of my ...

Vidama pidingaratha

Cheryl L Snell — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:47:10 -0700

It means the messiness of the householder stage, and this week it was all around me. The publisher of my new book, Prisoner's Dilemma, folded. Back to square one? Think outside that box folks are always talking about, I told myself. So I bought an ISBN (Congratulations! You're a publisher! the email said) and hoisted the book up on Lulu, at http://www.lulu.com/content/7186565. The dust has a ...

Do You Issuu?

Cheryl L Snell — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:23:40 -0700

I've tried two e-publishing platforms to date: Issuu and BookBuzzr. Bookbuzzr allows for information and links right on the widget, but it's still in Beta. When I checked this morning, my links did not work.Issuu works. It's a bit slippery to control, but that's probably just me, as they say in the workshops. You can keep your project private while you experiment. This is one I did yesterday. I'm ...

...in which I read the paper

Cheryl L Snell — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:26:45 -0700

The man behind PostSecret, Frank Warren, will have a show of posted musings at Hillyer Art Space this month. He's already published four PostSecret books, with another in the offing. His site is here: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/The late great supplement to the WaPost, Book World, has been brought back for the day. Lots of goodies--one article asks novelists what fictional character they'd ...

New Works Review

Cheryl L Snell — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:18:24 -0700

Our own Marilyn Kallet serves as a poetry editor at NWR, where I'm lucky enough to have placed five poems: http://www.new-works.org/snell.html.Thanks, MK, et al.

New Review of MULTIVERSE

Cheryl L Snell — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:07:07 -0700

Far More Than A Poetic Experiment By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) MULTIVERSE by Cheryl Snell is a short collection of poignant poems that edge the idea of a MULTIple universe replacing the concept of a simple UNIverse. But lest the reader be afraid that the scientific ...

Twitter Poets

Cheryl L Snell — Thu, 28 May 2009 06:56:05 -0700

The new Twitter Poets Edition of OCHO is live athttp://issuu.com/didimenendez/docs/ocho24My offering is on page 25. A print version of this will be available soon on Amazon. Speaking of Amazon, my chap Multiverse is now for sale there: http://www.amazon.com/Multiverse-Cheryl-Snell/dp/B002AD7L3Y/ref=sr_1_3?i...

First Look at the New Book

Cheryl L Snell — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:51:39 -0700

My author's copies of Prisoner's Dilemma came today. The box was heavy, the scissors were sticky, there was way too much tape! It was like this--- Fireworks threatened to take the top off. Wet palms twitched under eruptions of happiness. Judgments collected under the awninglike rain, hummed against the shell of her ear. Her skull slammed in her head. Payroll hands ...