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Mother Hen's Bin:
Lea Schizas is the founder of
the Writer's Digest 101 Best Writing Site of 2005 The MuseItUp Club, an online critique community. She is also co-founder, along with Bret Wright and Patricia Ferguson, of another Writer's
Digest Site, Apollo's Lyre, a writing Zine loaded with publication venues, contest and agent listings, stories and poems to read, writing articles,
book reviews and more.
Lea is also Senior Editor of the print Coffee Cramp Magazine.
Her YA fantasy novel THE ROCK OF REALM was just released by Star Publish. She is a short story competition winner; several of her interviews, reviews, writing
articles have appeared in various online zines.
Mother Hen's Bin will be a little
of this and a little of that seeing Lea dabbles in a little of this and a little of that. Being an author/agent/editor/publicist,
Lea will bring you an array of topics not covered by the other departments in The Muse Marquee.
Musings:
Susan Stephenson is an Australian writer who
has been published at Writer’s Hood, Absolute Write, Flashshots, Nimue’s Grotto and The Traveler.
She has written two books for middle-readers, currently percolating in her desk drawer while she travels in Canada.
After 25 years teaching in Australia, Susan decided to teach and travel in China in 2003-2004. Communicating
with children who didn’t speak her language was a challenge which definitely enhanced Susan’s mime skills and
affirmed her desire to write in English.
Susan is excited about the Muselings column in the Muse Marquee. She loves learning about the craft
of writing and sharing that knowledge with other passionate writers. Susan belongs to the Magic Words critique group, part
of the Muse-It-Up club, and credits her group with supporting her through the first draft of her novels. She looks forward
to getting to know the Muse Marquee readers as they enjoy both writing and publication. Susan can be contacted at muselings@yahoo.com.au
The Written Word
Hello, everyone. In my columns, you'll find tips and advice about how
our wonderful English language can be used more effectively in your writing. Words are building blocks, and cemented together
they form the sentences that add meaning and delight to our lives. Learn about homonyms and synonyms, about descriptive phrasing,
similes, metaphor, and all the other magic that takes the written word beyond the page and into the hearts and minds of readers.
Future columns will include: Variations on a Vial Theme, Writers' Freeze, and What's in a Name?
Norma Howell is a former executive secretary/medical staff coordinator.
She has written since childhood, but retirement opened doors to pursue serious professional writing. She has completed one
novel "My Enemy My Friend", which is in the pre-publication stage, and is busy writing a sequel "My Enemy No More". She is
the author of numerous short fiction stories. Several of her essays on writing have appeared as guest columns in Les Stephenson's
"Up From Down Under".
normasays84@yahoo.com
Up From Down Under:
Les Stephenson lives a relaxed lifestyle in a regional city on the
beautiful east coast of Australia. He enjoyed a rewarding career in vocational education and training, writing curriculum
for the governments of Queensland (Australia), Papua New Guinea and The Kingdom of Tonga. His learning materials in
the field of accounting and financial management have been published by the Australian National Training Authority, the Open
Learning Institute and FlexiLearn.
Since retiring from his former career, Les has written
several prize winning stories featured on FanStory.com. Currently he’s finalising a science fiction novel called “Devil’s
Bite” – a related story “Little Devils” was recently published in the Antipodean SF digest.
Worlds Apart:
Retired after a thirty-two year academic career, Charles Mossop now lives on Vancouver Island where he writes historical fiction, works
in his garden and continues his study of classical guitar. Thanks to his background in anthropology and oriental studies,
his work as a university teacher and administrator involved travel throughout the world including over fifty visits to China,
Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Europe. A lover of mystery stories, his flash fiction has appeared in Flashshot
(http://flashshot.tripod.com) and his short story “Magistrate Lin and the Testimony of the Household Gods” will soon
appear in “Over My Dead Body,” (http://www.overmydeadbody.com).
Charles’s stories are usually
set in fifteenth century China or eighteenth century Europe, and in the latter case he specializes in maritime history and
life aboard wooden-walled ships of war. As he says, “Murder and intrigue can be found everywhere; all you have
to do is select a place to put them.” You can reach Charles at cmossop@telus.net, and he’s always happy to chat.
WORLDS APART will be a column devoted to the tools, techniques
and research methods a writer can use to describe other worlds—historical, fantasy or speculative. Look for discussions
around the elements used to create, or re-create, social and cultural contexts within which action can be set, and ways to
keep your other worlds consistent, believable and authentic. In this column you’ll discover how to find plots
and stories in historical events, and use myth and legend to add color and depth to your historical or fantasy fiction.
So open your mind, turn up your imagination and come on
an odyssey through time.
In each issue of The Muse Marquee, readers will have an opportunity
to email our Editors with comments on their columns. We welcome and encourage this exchange. If you have any questions you
would like to pose to our Editors, feel free to drop them a line.
The Muse Marquee Editors are looking forward to your comments
and questions in each and every issue.
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