Hello everyone!
As promised last week, we would like to share the names of the artists whose work will appear in The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: 2020 Edition (A Digital Gathering of Inspirational Works).
Our PoArtMo Anthology features a variety of different stunning art forms.
Drawings: Mateo Cruz, Azelle Elric
Essay: E.E. Rhodes
Flash fiction: Kate LaDew
Paintings: Hadiya Ali, Barbara Demsar, Anjana Dudhraj, Ekta Godhwani, Theodore Heublein, Bhagyashri K.T., Patricia Tiffany Morris, Anita Nairne, Swarnima Richhariya, Darija Stipanic
Photography: John Adair, Cendrine Marrouat, Isabel Nolasco
Poetry: Michael Biegner, Geoff Callard, Colleen M. Chesebro, Edna P. Chiclana, Nancy Christopherson, Stephen Cohen, Malina Douglas, Kate Duff, Roy Duffield, David Ellis, Gabriel Fars, Ojasvi Gaude, Rachel Grosvenor, Penny Harter, Marieta Maglas, Joy Moore, Lisa Perkins, Anindita Sarkar, Julie A. Sellers, Elizabeth Smith, Dana Sonnenschein, Tantra-zawadi, Laura Theis, Caitlin Upshall, Ross Walsh
Six-word stories: Cindelle Ancajas, Kathryn Leonard-Peck, Tain Leonard-Peck
Please do not ask us to choose a favorite among this list of names, as we could not make such a decision! Each artist in our anthology has something unique to bring to the table and we are so happy to be featuring them!
See you next week, for our cover reveal!
In the meantime…
Continue Submitting to Our Magazines!
In the meantime, don’t forget to continue sending your work for potential inclusion in our magazines. We are open to submissions all year long and also accept pieces from 13-16 year-old artists.
We look forward to reading you. Happy creating!
David & Cendrine
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Colleen M. Chesebro
How exciting! I can’t wait to see what you do for a cover. Make it magical! <3
Cendrine Marrouat
Thank you, Colleen! We can’t wait to show the cover as well!
Colleen M. Chesebro
Well done! It’s exciting to create a book. Congratulations! <3
Cendrine Marrouat
It’s exciting indeed! I still remember working on my first one, in 2006. Now, more than 30 books later, I feel like a bookstore! LOL
Colleen M. Chesebro
Oh, my goodness! I can only imagine. Do you use a special program? I’m thinking about Vellum or something along those lines.
Cendrine Marrouat
I just use LibreOffice, which is the free version of Word, for manuscripts. Canva is for covers.
Since I rarely do print books (my readers mostly want ebooks), I use Kindle Create to format for Amazon. Draft2Digital makes things easy for authors. I upload the LibreOffice file directly to the platform. It’s super easy once you are used to it.
Lisa Perkins
Thank you so much for the inclusion, I am absolutely thrilled! Cannot wait to see the cover and all the artists featured ❤️
Cendrine Marrouat
You are welcome, Lisa! We really enjoyed your poem.
Patricia Tiffany Morris
I am giddy to see my name in print! Is it possible to purchase a print version? Thanks. I just purchased and am learning Affinity Publisher to create my covers for journals I’m going to publish through KDP. I tried Power point and Canva, and I heard that vellum is amazing. I am loving Affinity Publisher, but APPLE and PROCREATE ( my digital art app) decided to both do a major update at the same time and I am one of the fortunate users who has horrible crashes and glitches and missing paint brushes. Technology is amazing and frustrating.
Cendrine Marrouat
Hello Patricia!
Auroras & Blossoms only releases digital books (ebooks). Print copies featuring images are too expensive to print and sell. And to be honest, they aren’t in demand.
I have released many photography and multimedia books as an individual author, and I stay away from print copies. I would have to sell each copy at least $40 to hope to make a couple of dollars.