Angela Yuriko Smith

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Authortunities Hub: a Gated Online Community Opens Next Weekend

"... a gated online community for you, the fantastic Authortunities community."

I have some news I’m very excited about. On my quest to find the perfect platform to host the upcoming LaikaCon (Oct. 30-Nov. 3) I stumbled across Mighty Networks, a social network (as opposed to a social media). I looked into it, liked it and hit buy. By this time next week there will be a gated online community for you, the fantastic Authortunities community. Like this newsletter, most of it…

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Schwartz Games Seeks Six Storytellers

Schwartz Games is looking for six published authors who would enjoy being part of a storytelling game project.

Schwartz Games is looking for six published authors who would enjoy being part of a storytelling game project.  The project is Smalltown Tales.  The game empowers players to weave scenes together collaboratively into one epic story. Smalltown Tales’ storytelling framework helps people create engaging scenes by providing mentoring advice on characters, plots, and settings. It also helps people…

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Authortunities 66 Stops for Somnium Book Tour

Congratulations to Deirdre Swinden on her new nightmare inducing book about nightmares... Somnium

Congratulations to Deirdre Swinden on her new nightmare inducing book about nightmares… Somnium. This book kept me awake turning pages this last week and I’ll be including it in my end of the month round up of June reading for sure. Read my personal review in Authortunities #66. ABOUT THE AUTHOR A successful writer/editor in the corporate world for more than two decades, Deirdre Swinden is…

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8 Books I Read in May 2024

Reading makes us better writers, and reviewing makes us better friends. Here are the books I made friends with in May.

We all know how vital reviews are, and yet even we writers often forget to leave them. My goal this year has been to get better. My goal this year is to read 100 books, and I’m 43 in. I’ve read for 94 weeks in a row, and since my birthday last year, 192 consecutive days, days in a row. Reading makes us better writers, and reviewing makes us better friends. Here are the books I made friends with…

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Me, Now For Hire on Reedsy

Thanks to everyone who gave me such glowing testimonials. Now I get to make books happen for a living.

It’s official! As of today I’m now available to hire on Reedsy for all your editorial needs and Book Coaching. You can find me here: https://reedsy.com/angela-yuriko-smith. Special thanks to everyone who gave me such glowing testimonials. I appreciate it. Now I get to make books happen for a living. TESTIMONIALS Angela is a patient and experienced mentor. She has a unique approach to help…

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All My Dark Secrets Revealed

I had the most fun being interviewed by Juliet Rose on her show First Time for Everything...

I had the most fun being interviewed by Juliet Rose on her show First Time for Everything! Now we need to meet up in person for terrible, 70s nachos and a skate party. Thank you to Juliet and the Go Indie Now channel! Exercise your writes. Get published. Make change.

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The Body As Haunted│Pixie Bruner

Pixie Bruner is a writer, editor, poet and cancer survivor. She lives in Atlanta, GA with her doppelgänger and their deranged cats. Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Space and Time magazine, Whispers from Beyond (Crystal Lake Publishing), Star*Line, Dreams & Nightmares, Punk Noir, miniMAG, and more. The Body As Haunted is her first poetry collection. She has written for White…

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Linzner Awards! Nominations Open Now

The first-ever Linzner Awards! Nominations open on April 9 for poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art published by Space and Time magazine in 2023: #143, #145 and #146. The categories are: Excellence in Fiction Excellence in Poetry Excellence in Nonfiction Excellence in Art The top three reader recommended in each category will make it to the final voting. Voting by readers will begin…

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When I Put My Writes First

In the process of remembering how to be a writer, I remembered why I became a writer to begin with. It was a result of futile activism, a supervillain and a comic.

I sometimes send mixed messaged about how I feel when publishing. One minute I’m ranting all sparkle eyed about the joys of helping a new book come to life (and I do believe they live) and then the next I ‘m grumbling about how I will quit after “this book.” No one believes me. I don’t even believe me. This week, I tried something new and found joy. You know the advice “pay yourself first?” I…

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Two Tentative Steps Back to Submitting

My goals for this week are to do another reedsyprompt, Eye to the Telescope 53 and Rattle Magazine’s “Poets Respond” challenge...

I’ve gotten so many messages from readers saying Authortunities has inspired them to jump back in the slush piles that you’ve inspired me. Every week when I’m sifting through all the submission calls I promise myself that I’ll send work to some. Then I don’t, until this week. I started Authortunities a year ago because I wasn’t doing anything with all the opportunities I was keeping track of.…

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A Letter From Conrad Ricardo Rios

Conrad Ricardo Rios recently wrote in to Authortunities...

Conrad Ricardo Rios recently wrote in to Authortunities to express his concern that “first readers are not taking care to thoroughly read a piece… volume overwhelmed. I know the avalanche you have to wade through might be daunting, but I feel some good work gets overlooked more often than not. I’d love something that addressed this issue… ‘getting past or romancing (if you will) first readers.’…

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Chief is Okay, Now I Pay 😂

In my last post I was being very dramatic over the potential loss of our dog companion Chief. I wrote my first haibun to mourn his decline. You can read the whole sad thing On Losing a Friend here. Warning: I was very, very sad. The good news: it looks like Chief will be with us for a few more years… but it took a big dent out of our finances. To recover, I’m offering a 15 Point…

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On Losing a Friend

It hardly seems fair to have so little time with our best friends.

We found out years into our relationship that our Chief was once known as Oscar. This fits, his true name revealed. He spent most of his time trying to run—away from us, to us, with us, after trucks. Chief (a name also not of our choosing) was for someone boxy and solid. Our dog is lean, lithe, intelligent: very much an Oscar. He never ages. Imagine our shock when the vet asked us how old he was…

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Space and Time #146 ToC!

A lot has happened since my last blog post… last year. Yuriko Publishing has reorganized under the Authortunities Press imprint. Unquiet Spirits, edited by myself and Lee Murray, is a Bram Stoker Awards Finalist. Best of all, I can share the table of contents for the upcoming issue of Space and Time. There were so many excellent submissions it was hard to narrow it down to just 27 names…. and I…

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Mark My Words: Read the Submission Guidelines and other Self-editing Tips │ Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith

Customer Reviews: 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars    10 ratings Publisher ‏ : ‎ Authortunities Press (Yuriko Publishing) Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 24, 2021 Language ‏ : ‎ English  

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How to Fix This by Angela Yuriko Smith

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Authortunities Press Language ‏ : ‎ English File size ‏ : ‎ 3939 KB Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe

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End of Mae by Angela Yuriko Smith

Customer Reviews:  4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars    34 ratings ebook edition ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0053CPO1U Publisher ‏ : ‎ Authortunities Press; 3rd edition (November 15, 2013) Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 15, 2013 Language ‏ : ‎ English Print length ‏ : ‎ 99 pages Print edition Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 14, 2012) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 98…

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