http://www.mmdevoe.com Author, Writer, Poet Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:48:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Check out DeVoe’s essay "The Happiest Farmer" on the Fathermucker blog (Greg Olear). Went live September 7, 2011.   Here is the link to the blog.  Please leave a comment!  http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/guest-blogging It is very exciting as an author when the right narrator performs your work. The Puschcart-nominated story DULCE DOMUM is written in first person, male POV. For less than a dollar, you can download it at the SNIPLITS website. Feel free to post comments here after listening–or post them on the Sniplits site ... http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/dulce-domum-audio Anyone who is reading eBooks can get DeVoe’s story ANTS in this eBook collection of 11 stories of women at the heart of murder and misdemeanors, A Woman’s Touch. Click here to be taken directly to the purchase page. http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/ants-again Now that the Pen Parentis website is launched — and getting great press – De Voe promises to finish her novel. Really. http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/beautiful-news Normally stringent about keeping her professional activities separate, just this once, De Voe invites you to visit her at the office — Pen Parentis, the organization where she is executive director, has just launched a stunning new website. You can hear podcasts of readings by many of the authors who have ... http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/just-this-once DeVoe’s newest publication is "Fuerte Marejada" now available in JERRY MAGAZINE! This online literary journal’s second issue is crisp and full of wonderful short pieces, easy to read over coffee. Feel free to comment on the story by clicking the comments link at the bottom of this post. Thanks to all of you ... http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/short-and-fresh NMW has mailed out hardcopy of the lovely New Millenium Writings 2011 in which DeVoe’s prize winning story, Empty, appears. Empty tied for first prize in Summer 2009 for the NMW short-short fiction competition. The anthology is edited by Don Williams.     Also: a new story in Jerry Magazine – coming soon! ... http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/three-things Reading at KGB is great–an unearthly hush descends upon the second-story bar as soon as the mic goes live. Stalin glares down from the red velvet walls. A tardy beer is pulled and patrons glare in synchronicity at the offending noise. Occasional ambulance sirens break the tension–or add to it. Literature is taken very seriously ... http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/kgb-redux-redux M. M. De Voe will be guest-blogging on Our Stories Literary Journal’s website for the month of January. Follow along here. http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/blogabout New M. M. De Voe story coming out imminently in hot new literary journal, Jerry Magazine. Bookmark it now, so it’s faster when the story hits the page. Watch this space. http://www.mmdevoe.com/news/almost-news