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N'omi Rose

T-Zero Xpandizine is proud to announce these WVU members who have gained recognition in their writing achievements.

Congratulations to Charla Banner! Her short story Indiana Beach was accepted by The Liguorian. The Liguorian is a Catholic magazine, which has a circulation of 260,000, and only accepts 12 fiction manuscripts per year! While she has sold numerous nonfiction articles over the years, this is her first fiction sale. Her latest nonfiction piece Taking the Guess Out of the Guestroom will appear in the summer 2001 issue of Mature Years Magazine. She is currently working on her mystery novel Murder at the Abbey of Saint Brendan. She is in her third year at WVU! Please join her study group, Misfits, along with Charity and Darcy as they heartily congratulate Charla! Their help has been invaluable.

Congratulations to Charity Tahmaseb who had a short story, The Ring Knocker, accepted for publication in the Words of Romance anthology. The tentative publication date is 2001. Her story Side By Side in the Dec./Jan. issue of Futures has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize award. She has two other stories due out this year, including one that placed third in Futures Fire to Fly contest. She also has a short nonfiction piece in a forthcoming issue of ByLine Magazine, and placed first in the 1999 California Writer's Club short fiction contest. Charity has developed three mystery courses for WVU and helped to facilitate them as well. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and is currently working on the fourth edit of her novel. She hopes to start querying agents at the end of this month. You can read more about Charity on her staff bio!

Congratulations to Liberty whose novel Turnbull Bay: A Traditional Vampire Story, has been published by Xlibris Corporation. The novel can be purchased online a barnesandnoble.com, borders.com, and xlibris.com. It should soon be available at amazon.com and eventually recorded with Books In Print so that Turnbull Bay can be ordered from local book dealers. Follow the link to read this excerpt! Liberty has been a member of WVU for about eighteen months. She says that The Elements of Fiction course really helped her to "...clarify viewpoint versus exposition." To Liberty, the critique sessions in Freestylers and ShadowLand were/are always valuable.

Congratulations to Linda Mae Baldwin had her article Angels of Avenola published in the Dec 26th issue of Woman's World (the Christmas issue). Her piece started out as an article and was edited down to a very small article with her family picture at the top. She has been a member of WVU for almost two years and is a Lifetime member! Linda belongs to two great groups Romantics and Creative Energy Unlimited...She says "both are AWESOME!"

Kudos to our WVU writers, Charla, Charity, Liberty, Linda, and best wishes for many more successes!

Our warmest congratulations to Anita Martin, Najwa Salam Brax, Suzanne Pérez, and Dee Walmsley, all of whom were published in the December issue of T-Zero, and to Liz Inskip-Paulk and Tom Spencer who were published in the January issue!

Thank you!
N'omi Rose
Recognitions column custodian

"How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream."  --Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie

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