Just to keep you informed, two possible changes among the several being considered are the publication of press releases and review on new books that might be of interest to our readers. I have made no definite to that course yet, but the possibility is strengthening all the time.
If you have a book review you have written or a press release on a book you have written, please feel free to submit it. I will take it into consideration but can make no commitment to publish it depending on the needs and policies of RFM.
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January 25: “Put Him Down” Micro Fiction by J.D. Clapp. JD Clapp writes in San Diego, CA. His work has appeared in Wrong Turn Literary, The Milk House, The Whisky Blot, and several others. His story, One Last Drop, was a finalist in the 2023 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal, Short Story Competition.
January 30: “The Shepherd’s Calendar” by Sarah Das Gupta. Sarah Das Gupta is a retired teacher from Cambridge, UK.Her work has been published in 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany and others
January 31: “Hell Hog” Hunting Fiction by J.D. Clapp. JD Clapp writes in San Diego, CA. His work has appeared in Wrong Turn Literary, The Milk House, The Whisky Blot, and several others. His story, One Last Drop, was a finalist in the 2023 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal, Short Story Competition.
February 1: “Bids of a Feather” Poem by Sarah Das Gupta. Sarah Das Gupta is a retired teacher from Cambridge, UK.Her work has been published in 12 countries: US, UK, Canada, Australia, India, Germany and others
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More wonderful stories are going up all the time. Right now, four have been scheduled starting January 21st.
On January 21, “Rowan” a supernatural fantasy by Naomi Elster will appear. Naomi Elster’s writing has been published and performed almost 30 times, including in Imprint, Crannóg, and Meniscus, and at the Smock Alley Theatre. She has campaigned for reproductive justice and pay equality. She has a PhD in cancer and leads the research department of a medical charity. Originally from Laois, in the Irish midlands, she now lives in London.
On January 22, the story will be “Water Pump” Fiction by Yuan Changming. Yuan Changming edits Poetry Pacific with Allen Yuan. Credits include 16 chapbooks, 12 Pushcart nominations for poetry and 2 for fiction besides appearances in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2008-17), BestNewPoemsOnline and 2109 other publications across 51 countries. Yuan began writing and publishing fiction in 2022, with his debut (hybrid) novel Detaching just released by Alien Buddha Press.
January 23 will feature “Flamenco” a fantasy love story by Mehreen Ahmed, Mehreen Ahmed is Bangladeshi-born Australian novelist. She has published ten books to date and works in Litro, BlazeVox, Chiron Review, Centaur Literature. While her novels have been acclaimed by Midwest Book Review, Drunken Druid Editor’s Choice, shorts have won contests, Pushcart, James Tait, and five botN nominations.
On January 24, you will find “The Spike Buck” a flash memoir by Maxwell Adamowski, Maxwell Adamowski is a Canadian survivalist and woodsman who lived alone for a year in the wilderness performing a series of rite of passage rituals. “The Spike Buck” is one of the first stories in his book, CarQuest.
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This evening I established a GoFundMe account for RFM. Check it out some time. Within the near future, I will be exploring other avenues for people who wish to support RFM’s mission of supplying fiction and poetry celebrating the beauty and drama of rural life around the world, a retreat where people can go when the post modernist world becomes overwhelming.
I intend to increase my YouTube visitation (some of which will hopefully spill over into the website) by conducting and posting interviews and podcasts. Today, I have been exploring setting up a podcast for RFM.
Podcasts have a couple of advantages for someone experimenting with increasing his YouTube visitation. First, they can be audio only, which will alleviate a lot of worries about personal appearance that some interviewees may have. Second, they should be at least a little easier to produce than a video, because there is no need to worry about visuals such as appearance, background, lighting, etc.
I am also developing a different strategy from that I used previously with The Chamber and RFM. A quick bit of research shows that while Google Search has the highest visitation of any website, YouTube has the second. Ergo, instead of primarily attracting people to the website and then provide YouTube videos as a sort of sideshow, why not use videos and podcasts on YouTube to attract people to the website? Of course, the website will draw its own following, but this might generate more visitation than I previously had (granted, I did not take advantage of YouTube’s full capabilities). I am thinking most of the videos and podcasts will consist of interviews. These interviews will be considerably more in depth than the simple written ones I did in The Chamber. There are a few more things I am taking into consideration as I develop this new strategy, but these are the primary considerations for now.
At this point, I am probably going to start by using Audacity software, not only because it has a decent basic plan for free, but also because the files are mp3 and mp4 and so can be used almost anywhere, such as on YouTube and it can be used (with the download of Linux) on a chromebook, which is what I use for website building. Unfortunately, it can only be used on a desktop, but I can record videos on my phone or audio on another device and download them to Audacity.
If you have any suggestions, recommendations, cautions, or warnings you think I should heed, please provide them in the comments.
