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Litfriends: Discover Why You’re Unbeatable Over AI

Litfriends: Discover Why You’re Unbeatable Over Weird AI LitFriends Newsletter from JackWalkerPress.com and AmyLouJenkins.com As narrative nonfiction storytellers in the age of AI,  you’ve probably encountered moments where AI tools just miss the mark—like the weird picnic image I recently received, featuring a chef with a stethoscope. While artificial intelligence can assist us by repurposing …

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LitFriends: Breakthrough With the 2-Day Challenge!

LitFriends: Breakthrough With the 2-Day Challenge! Latest News & Updates: Free Writing Challenge, Anthologies, Course Updates and More! Dear LitFriends This month has been a world of opposites for me. I finished a long-awaited trip to Italy with my husband. We planned this before COVID and finally made it. I’m still happily haunted by the …

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Cyber Sunday Monday ‘Friends’ sale

Cyber Sunday/Monday ‘Friends’ Sale (JWP is a Small Business) Best Sale Ever: November 29 and 30 (until 11pm PST). Wondering if ‘Friends’ is the gift you’ve been looking for? This short-term price allows you to buy the E-book for only 99 cents on Amazon. Award-winning authors tell personal stories that celebrate authentic friendships. Buy paperback …

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Friends: Voices On The Gift Of Companionship

A book for and about Friends

Friends: Voices on the Gift of Companionship twenty-four true stories of friendship “An uplifing celebration of essays about the value of friendship” Midwest Book Review Give FRIENDS to say “I cherish you.” BUY TODAY ON AMAZON SHOP YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE Praise for ‘Friends: Voices on the Gift of Companionship’ International Review of Books “A …

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Friendship Anthology Update

UPDATE! Friends has now been published to rave reviews as a great read and a great gift for friends and is available for purchase : FRIENDS. Read more about the Friends anthology.  “A thoroughly enjoyable and heartfelt read! This is an invaluable book for anyone seeking insight and comprehension of the convoluted and often misunderstood …

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Call for submissions: Seeking personal essays about friendship

Jack Walker Press seeks personal essays of up to 4000 words on the theme of friendship for a new anthology. Stories must be true. We seek dimensional characterizations of the people you write about. First-person essays preferred. Reprints considered if you own rights to the story. Essays should have a clear beginning, middle, and end …

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Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone: The Legend of Lake Isa

Make a family trip to Yellowstone even more fun.  Build anticipation for that some-day trip to Yellowstone.  Read Howie Tootalot in Yellowstone for fun, adventure, and learning.  Kids see actual pictures of Yellowstone–cartoonized as they read the fun adventure. Parents can download paper puppets of the the main characters for fun play-along as you read …

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The subtle and big promise of literary nonfiction

We are thinking about titling our new anthology of literary nonfiction, which collects essays with the theme of transformation and inclusion.  Some of the changes are big–death; some are impactful in less obvious ways–a shift in how we see the racial divides expressed in our family.  This is a literary collection, and we need to …

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Update on our anthologies about transitions and exclusion

We thought we had lost our mind. Well, perhaps we had, but we finally found a reason for our altered state. Our submission manager (Green Submissions) had updated software and some of our online submission files came up empty–even though they had been read and scored and some had some preliminary editorial tweaks. Apparently, some …

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