New Feature at Wings -- Free Short Stories!

Visit Wings Website to read new feature -- short stories -- for FREE!
Click on Short Stories in top blue banner of site. Like mysteries? Read A. W. Lamberts's 100 Not Out. There are two paranormal romances: Shadow of Blue, by Elliot Love and Wolfman by Jayme Evans. And be sure to read Kev Richardson's poem, Simple English.

Another new feature is the showcasing of previous releases, Monarch Revisited. Readers new to Wings will want to catch up on a few flights from earlier publications. This month Cheryl Norman's Full Moon Honeymoon is featured.

Also, coming soon, Crimson Moth, another site for adult readers only.

Wings of a Rainbow

First a quote that slipped into my inbox this morning:

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. "
- Joseph Addison

I wish for you all of the above blessings. This morning I was busy writing in my journals - we had a high fog - nothing major. A very pleasant morning. Suddenly the sun was peeking through and everything looked spring/early summer abundant. Then out of the sun shine, a sun shower - straight down beautiful rain. I had thought I heard thunder in the distance earlier but the sky was cloudless - as far as I could tell.

The sun shower became a little heavier and finally the sky became darker and turned into a downpour. I raced from my sunny kitchen window to shut windows on the back porch - there-- immediately west in full view was the most amazing rainbow I had ever seen.

I was in awe - as I traced the arch from one side of the horizon to the other - I noticed the arch over a hole in the deep gray clouds. There to my amazement was clear, robin's egg blue sky, an electric white cumulus cloud top, framed by the gray and all of it arched by this huge rainbow.

Could you ask for a better promise to start a day then that? I still can't believe my eyes - I was too amazed to run for a camera, I figured by the time I got it set up--the view would be gone.
Have a rainbow and happiness sort of day. Thanks for letting me share my joy.
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The Restoration of Abby Walker

My new women's fiction novel, THE RESTORATION OF ABBY WALKER, is coming to Wings in September. Here is a blurb:

Abby Walker Mulgrew is counting on two things to breathe life back into her marriage: the Alaskan cruise she and her husband, Wil, have planned, and the see-through negligee she has purchased for the trip. Within the first twenty-fours hours of the cruise to celebrate her twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, however, Abby receives the one gift she least expects.

Linda Rettstatt
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Award for A DADDY FOR DANNY

I am delighted to announce that my novel, A DADDY FOR DANNY, received the Golden Wings Award in May, 2009. What the award is about: Twice a year, Senior Editors from Wings ePress, Inc., select whom they think is the best overall read for their department.

On Wings of Murder

On Wings of Murder http://murderx5.blogspot.com hosted one of our favorite authors, Billie A. Williams, all last week.

And coming next week, Donna H. Parker will be talking about DARK DIAMOND REEL, sequel to CONSTANCY'S WALTZ. Don't miss out.

Hurrah for Fiction!

“…The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They do not pin the reader to a dogma, which he must afterwards discover to be inexact; they do not teach him a lesson, which he must afterwards unlearn. They repeat, they rearrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, not as we can see it for ourselves, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming EGO of ours being, for the once, struck out….”
The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dream Large

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
If you are going to dream you may as well dream big - but you need to put some action behind that dream to succeed. As Niki says just DO IT!
Billie A Williams
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