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Full Of Crow: Weekly Poetry Hour

Full Of Crow: Weekly Poetry Hour

In which I am a guest reader.
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Light and Trials of Light by Cynthia Reeser

Light and Trials of Light by Cynthia Reeser
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How to Write and Publish a Successful Children's Book by Cynthia Reeser

How to Write and Publish a Successful Children's Book by Cynthia Reeser
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Cynthia Reeser
Cynthia Reeser is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of Prick of the Spindle and Publisher of Aqueous Books. Her poetry, fiction, reviews, visual art, and articles can be found in a variety of print and online sources. Her books include Light and Trials of Light (Finishing Line Press, 2010), a nonfiction book on publishing for children from Atlantic Publishing, which was a finalist in its category in the 2010 Indie Book Awards, and a book on publishing for the Kindle (Atlantic Publishing). Her visual art and a full curriculum vitae can be found at www.cynthiareeser.com.
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Published Fiction

"Sanctuary," published in Liturgical Credo, September 2009

"Down in the Grotto, We Break Bread Together," Metazen Christmas Anthology, December 2009

"Last Night I Dreamt I Was Cyndi Lauper," published in Metazen, February 22, 2010

"White Horses," published in Glossolalia, April 2010

"Quarry, 1940," published in Thunderclap, Issue 6, June 2011

"Cerridwen's Book of Dreams," forthcoming in the Daughters of Icarus Anthology

Press Received

Interview with Last Light Studios, May 2012

Interview with Jen Michalski of JMWW for Portal del Sol, March 15, 2012

Interview with FOX 10 news for Studio 10 segment, June 2011 & Nov. 2011

Interviewed by Robert Kloss for the PLUMB blog, June 11, 2011

Interviewed for the Fictionaut Five, August 25, 2010

Forthcoming, article on How to Write and Publish a Successful Children's Book: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply, at Folded Word

Forthcoming, guest blog post at Cynsations, the blog of Cynthia Leitich Smith, New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling young adult author

Member Spotlight on the Association of Independent Authors website, July 2010

How to Write and Publish a Successful Children's Book: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply, reviewed at Cynsations, the blog of Cynthia Leitich Smith

The Kenyon Review, February 25, 2010, review of Artifice Magazine's Issue 1

How to Write and Publish a Successful Children's Book: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply, reviewed at the blog: Crazed Mind

How to Write and Publish a Successful Children's Book: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply, reviews on Amazon.com

Featured poet on the Full of Crow Poetry Hour series

Light and Trials of Light, Reviewed at Outside Writers Collective and Press, February 16, 2010

" Just pick up the pen: Women writing from life experience," guest blog post on Women Day by Day, February 1, 2010,

"The Craft of Writing for Children," guest blog post on the Atlantic Publishing Company blog, January 19, 2010

"Contracts, Rights, and Clauses, Oh My!" guest blog post at On Text, February 1, 2010

Mention on the Orange Alert Watch List, February 13, 2010

Outside Writers Collective and Press, "Prick of the Spindle Announces Aqueous Books," January 26, 2010

Interviewed by Jason Behrends for Orange Alert, "Reader Meet Author: Cynthia Reeser," February 4, 2010

Interviewed for Artifice Magazine blog, January 2010

Interviewed for the Fictionaut blog, December 18, 2009

Interviewed for DOGZPLOT, July 2009

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Published Articles

"The Art of Admin: Southwest Louisiana Business of Art Summit," a workshop for artists: Lake Charles, Louisiana, May 17, 2008

Journalist and columnist for Fort Polk Guardian, Oct. 2007-Aug. 2008.

Published Audio Fiction

"The Mountain Road," read by Mel Bosworth, Feb. 2010 http://youtu.be/5nfS_dGHoXU

"Invasion," read by Finnegan Flawnt, Dec. 2009 http://youtu.be/-7mR5LOR_IA

Excerpt from "The Unmooring," read by Mel Bosworth, Oct. 2009, http://youtu.be/mH8D_W54WqY

Work in Editing

Editor-in-Chief for Prick of the Spindle, an online literary quarterly journal, March 2007-present, editing for content issue-wide, including nonfiction, fiction, poetry, articles, reviews, drama, and interviews; www.prickofthespindle.com

Aqueous Books, Publisher, editing, graphic design, marketing, website, and printing, January 2010-present; www.aqueousbooks.com

Ghostwriting, memoir, private client, 2011 -present

Editor and agent liaison, memoir, private client, 2009-2010, 2012

Published Nonfiction

How to Write and Publish a Successful Children's Book: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply, fall 2009, Atlantic Publishing
*category finalist for Indie Book Awards 2010

How to Publish A Kindle Book with Amazon.com: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply, summer 2010

Published Poetry

"Surviving," 2000-2001 Creative Writing Competition Anthology, Maricopa Community Colleges, honorable mention

"To Mother After My Passing" by Cynthia Reeser, 42opus, Dec. 2, 2001, Vol. 1

"Unwritten," Temenos, Spring 2008

"Excerpt from The Other Woman," elimae, Issue 4, 2008

"On Coming Back from the Dead," Dogzplot, Spring 2009

"Confession #31: The Problem with the Heart," The Dirty Napkin, Vol. 3.1, Winter 2010 issue

"alt img 3" and "Story (Prepackaged): Designed for Easy Disassembly and Transport," Artifice Magazine, Issue 1, Feb. 2010

Light and Trials of Light, poetry chapbook from Finishing Line Press, spring 2010

"Jimmy Knows Christmas," On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction & Poetry Folded onto Twitter, Eds. J. S. Graustein & Rose Auslander, 2010

"the abyss ii," forthcoming in Corium Review, 2012

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Reviews Published

  • The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, Fort Polk Guardian, March 28, 2008
  • The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, Fort Polk Guardian, March 7, 2008
  • The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood, Fort Polk Guardian, March 21, 2008
  • Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, Fort Polk Guardian, Jan. 18, 2008
  • To My Dearest Friends by Patricia Volk, Fort Polk Guardian, Jan. 25, 2008
  • The Museum of Dr. Moses by Joyce Carol Oates, Fort Polk Guardian, Feb. 1, 2008
  • Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, Fort Polk Guardian, Nov. 23, 2007
  • Love in the Time of Cholera, Fort Polk Guardian, Nov. 16, 2007
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini, Fort Polk Guardian, Nov. 2, 2007
  • A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Fort Polk Guardian, Oct. 26, 2007
  • Back from War by 1st Lt. Lee Alley, Fort Polk Guardian, Jan. 11, 2008
  • A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon, Fort Polk Guardian, Nov. 9, 2007
  • Now and Forever by Ray Bradbury, Fort Polk Guardian, Nov. 30, 2007
  • A Man of No Moon by Jenny McPhee, Fort Polk Guardian, Dec. 7, 2007
  • Giving by Bill Clinton, Fort Polk Guardian, Oct. 19, 2007
  • Burning Bright by Tracy Chevalier, Fort Polk Guardian, July 18, 2008
  • Now You See Him by Eli Gottlieb, Fort Polk Guardian, July 25, 2008
  • Pontoon by Garrison Keillor, Fort Polk Guardian, July 11, 2008
  • Falling Man by Don DeLillo, Fort Polk Guardian, June 27, 2008
  • Deadline by Chris Crutcher, Fort Polk Guardian, June 20, 2008
  • Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul, Fort Polk Guardian, May 30, 2008
  • Duma Key by Stephen King, Fort Polk Guardian, Feb. 15, 2008
  • Ruby by Francesca Lia Block, Fort Polk Guardian, Feb. 22, 2008
  • Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein, Fort Polk Guardian, Aug. 1, 2008
  • Noon annual literary journal, March 2008 issue, Bookslut.com
  • A Disposition for Shininess by Arisa White, NewPages.com, May 2009
  • Crazy Love by Leslie What, NewPages.com, Dec. 2008
  • The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation by Fanny Howe, NewPages.com, June 2009
  • Why the Long Face by Ron MacLean, NewPages.com, Feb. 2009
  • A Proper Knowledge by Michelle Latiolais, NewPages.com, June 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, May 16, 2008
  • Seal Woman by Solveig Eggerz, NewPages.com, July 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, May 23, 2008
  • The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli by Ginnetta Correli, Fort Polk Guardian, Aug. 8, 2008
  • The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz, Bookslut.com, March 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, Feb. 8, 2008
  • Walking Dreams by Mark Wallace, Tarpaulin Sky, April 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, March 14, 2008
  • The Maytrees by Annie Dillard, Fort Polk Guardian, Dec. 14, 2007
  • Walk the Blue Fields by Claire Keegan, Bookslut.com, May 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, April 4, 2008
  • How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet, Fort Polk Guardian, April 11, 2008
  • How We Were Lost by Megan Taylor, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 1.2, Sept. 2007; FlameBooks.com; and Fort Polk Guardian, Feb. 29, 2008
  • Fairytales for Writers by Lawrence Schimel, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 1.2, Sept. 2007
  • Sein und Werden literary journal, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 1.3, Dec. 2007
  • The Pig Did It by Joseph Caldwell, Fort Polk Guardian, May 9, 2008
  • Growling Softly poetry anthology, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.1, March 2008
  • Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias Freese, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.1, March 2008
  • Girl Gang by Juliet Cook, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.1, March 2008
  • In a Town Called Mundomuerto by Randall Silvis, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, May 2, 2008
  • Where the Wind Blew by Bob Sommer, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, April 25, 2008
  • Light in Hand: Selected Early Poems of Lola Ridge, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008
  • National Anthem by Kevin Prufer, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008
  • Savage Machinery by Karen Rigby, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008
  • Donner: A Passing by Shana Youngdahl, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008
  • The Trembling in Us All by John M. Valentine, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008
  • wing'd by Kyle Simonsen, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008
  • Black Glasses Like Clark Kent by Terese Svoboda, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, April 18, 2008
  • Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.2, June 2008
  • Nylund the Sarcographer by Joyelle McSweeney, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.3, Sept. 2008
  • My Fingernails Are Fresnel Lenses by Christopher Fritton, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.3, Sept. 2008
  • Of Kids and Parents by Emil Hakl, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.3, Sept. 2008 and Fort Polk Guardian, Aug. 15, 2008
  • In Chambers: The Bodhisattva of the Public Defender's Office by Richard Krech, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.3, Sept. 2008
  • The Sea Never Drowns by Jason Heroux, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.3, Sept. 2008
  • Body Language by Mark Cunningham, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.3, Sept. 2008
  • Not a Speck of Light is Showing by Barry Graham, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.4, Dec. 2008
  • Tomorrowland by Howie Good, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.4, Dec. 2008
  • The Zen of Chainsaws and Enormous Clippers by Drew Kalbach, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.4, Dec. 2008
  • Nothing Unrequited Here by Heather Bell, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 2.4, Dec. 2008
  • Deaf American Poetry: An Anthology edited by John Lee Clark, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.2, June 2009
  • To Be Hung from the Ceiling by Strings of Varying Length by Rick Reid, NewPages, June 2009
  • Going Home: A Horror Story by Lawrence Millman, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.1, March 2009
  • Moths Mail the House by Michael Kriesel, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.1, March 2009
  • Horrific Confection by Juliet Cook, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.1, March 2009
  • A Field of Colors by Charles Lennox, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.2, June 2009
  • Finale by Paul A. Toth, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.2, June 2009
  • Big American Trip by Christian Peet, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.2, June 2009
  • Letters through Glass by Alexis Vergalla, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.2, June 2009
  • Strange Gospels by Kristina Marie Darling, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.2, June 2009
  • The Doors of the Body by Mary Alexandra Agner, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.3, Sept. 2009
  • The Hunger Season by William Taylor, Jr., Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.3, Sept. 2009
  • Lovesick by Howie Good, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.3, Sept. 2009
  • After the Honeymoon by Nathan Graziano, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.3, Sept. 2009
  • Three Islands by Micah Ling, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.3, Sept. 2009
  • Monkeybicycle 6 literary journal Spring/Summer 2009 issue, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.3, Sept. 2009
  • Where I Stay by Andrew Zornoza, NewPages, July 2009 and Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.3, Sept.2009
  • Van Gogh in Poems by Carol Dine, NewPages, August 2009
  • Fugue State by Brian Evenson, NewPages, Oct. 2009
  • State Sonnets by B.J. Best, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • When the Cats Razzed the Chickens by Mel Bosworth, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • Ghosts of Breath by Howie Good, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • Pacing the Moon by Sandy Green, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • Beauty by Laura LeHew, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • Swimming from under My Father, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • Lost and Found by Meg Pokrass, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • Fabulous Essential by Niina Pollari, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • The Quizzical Chair: A Collection of Poems, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • The Map of Our Garden, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, December 2009
  • Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 3.4, March 2010
  • Stars of the Night Commute by Ana Bozicevic, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.1, March 2010
  • What to Tell the Sleeping Babies by M.R.B. Chelko, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.1, March 2010
  • Omnivore by Allan Peterson, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.1, March 2010
  • Wolf Parts by Matt Bell, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.2, June 2010
  • The Brucciano Poems by Thomas Rain Crowe, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.2, June 2010
  • Paper House by Jessie Carty, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.2, June 2010
  • The Dissemblers by Liza Campbell, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.3, Sept. 2010
  • Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else by Carmen Giménez Smith, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.3, Sept. 2010
  • Preacher's Blues by Benjamin Lowenkron, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.3, Sept. 2010
  • The Zoo, A Going: (The Tropic House) by J. A. Tyler, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.3, Sept. 2010
  • Night Songs by Kristina Marie Darling, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.3, Sept. 2010
  • A Pebble Thrown in Water by Stacy W. Julin, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.3, Sept. 2010
  • Vivisection by Eric Weinstein, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.4, Dec. 2010
  • How They Were Found by Matt Bell, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 4.4, Dec. 2010
  • Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Spencer Dew, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.1, March 2011
  • Ed Royal by Chris Connelly, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.1, March 2011
  • Damn Sure Right by Meg Pokrass, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.1, March 2011
  • RE: Telling: An Anthology of Borrowed Premises, Stolen Settings, Purloined Plots, & Appropriated Characters, Edited by William Walsh, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.1, March 2011
  • Compendium by Kristina Marie Darling, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.3, Sept. 2011
  • Where Nothing Can Grow by Renee Emerson, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.3, Sept. 2011
  • To Be at Music: Essays & Talks by Norma Cole, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.4, Dec. 2011
  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 5.4, Dec. 2011
  • Rampart & Toulouse: a novella and other stories by Kristin Fouquet, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 6.2, June 2012
  • Chinoiserie by Karen Rigby, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 6.2, June 2012
  • Settlement by Micah Ling, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 6.2, June 2012
  • Bedful of Nebraskas by Jill Osier, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 6.2, June 2012
  • So Below by Noel Sloboda, Prick of the Spindle Vol. 6.2, June 2012
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