Watch for Emma’s take on lust. Many of the characters in my new book Shifting Sands Short Stories are driven by lust, which underwrites
their love for each other.
In the story Death Song, both Vadim and Maria have an obsession with each other that manifests itself in unusual spaces.
Source: Lust
Number one on my list is to send out the mass press release about my new book Shifting Sands Short Stories to my media contacts, and to follow up with them.
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According to the Czech calendar, July 29 is Marta’s Day or the Feast of Saint Marta.
The Czech calendar attributes a name to each day of the year. In America, we mostly celebrate St. Pat’s Day on March 17.
Marta much like Anna & Mary are very honorable names in history.
My aunt Marta died on January 7th of this year. Since she was the last sibling of my dad Vaclav, we flew out to Czech Republic for the funeral.
The funeral was a celebration of her life as an educator for decades in the ZDS Stipa.
I come from generations of educators. My paternal grandpa was the ZDS Stipa principal.
And I write about this in the Greenwich Meridian where East meets west memoir.
Marta taught generations of kids in the Stipa region. She taught math and arts.
Marta is one of the characters in the Greenwich Meridian where East meets west memoir about the Konecny immigration saga.
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It’s no ordinary Friday, as the late July sun shines on my new book Shifting Sands Short Stories. The paperback came out at the beginning of July.
Writing, collecting and publishing the stories that I have gathered for over more that two decades wasn’t a walk through the strawberry fields by any means.
On the contrary, the stories and their characters are not Shallow.
Check out one of the major characters, professor Martin Duggan who struggles with his own perfection.
Excerpt from the Temptation of Martin Duggan short story:
“He walked to his gray Chevrolet, the only brand he trusted over the years. Just like everything else Martin had ever owned, it was perfectly clean. He didn’t forget to grab a bottle of cold diet Coke from the machine.
Driving through Rocky Rapids was a balsam on his nerves. The town was neat and clean too with a few banks, a video store, a car dealership and a long gone Spartan grocery store.
Rose used to shop there, when they still loaded groceries into cars back in the 1980s. As a remnant of the past, there was a Bear furniture store, a drive up restaurant and a Dairy Queen by the city park and creek.
It could have been a perfect day, in a perfect life in a perfect town of one perfect professor and a perfect couple.”
At one of my newspaper jobs, the publisher called me shallow for not following up on a major story about a Belding boy who delivered his sister in the bathroom of the family home. After being syndicated by the Associated Press, the story made it to the Dave Letterman Show.
Dave held up the front page of the Ionia Sentinel-Standard with the story.
However, I did not know about that, another paper reported on that.
“You are shallow and selfish,” said the publisher.
I remembered that. I will always remember that.
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I want a restful weekend as the July sun is shining on my new book Shifting Sands Short Stories.
I am still fascinated with Czech name days. The Czech calendar attributes a name to each day year round. This originates in the saints’ names, and it was later expanded as the secular selection of names grew.
This week I missed two name days in our family. That is July 25 which is the name day for Jakub. Our son’s name is Jakub.
And I missed July 26, which is the name day for Anna. Anna is a popular Czech name. Both my grandmother and godmother’s names were Anna.
But, I will not miss another big Czech name and that is Marta.
Marta’s name day falls on July 29. My aunt Marta who has been my inspiration died this year on Jan. 7, at the age of almost 80.
She was the last living sibling of my dad Vaclav Konecny. We traveled to her funeral in Stipa, Czech Republic.
Watch for post about Marta. I write about relationships between all of these family members in the Greenwich Meridian where East meets west memoir.
Source: Anna
Press release for the Shifting Sands Short Stories new book by Emma Palova. A press release is a gate way to traditional media coverage, which in turn goes viral. Don’t be a dormant author or writer. Print is still alive and well. Thank you Lowell Ledger and Buyer’s Guide for the publicity.
Source: Gate
Local author pens Shifting Sands book of short stories
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Dormant writer,or author. You’ve finished your book now what?
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July 25, 2017
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Lowell, MI- Local author Emma Palova of Lowell has published the book Shifting Sands Short Stories, formats kindle and paperback, now available on Amazon for $7.99 and $11.99.
Palova’s book will also be available at the Kent District (KDL) libraries, the Hastings Public Library and in Big Rapids.
She will have a book signing event at the Fallasburg one-room schoolhouse museum on September 16 & 17 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. during the Fallasburg Fall Fest and the Fallasburg village bazaar, with more local author events to be announced. The public is welcome.
The Shifting Sands Short Stories book is a collection of 13 short stories that Palova wrote and collected over the span of more than two decades. The fiction’s genre is magic realism, a combination of fantasy with reality.
“In magic realism you combine the fictitious with fantasy and sometimes you use real characters to model the fictitious characters,” Palova said. “It can be a hybrid. I don’t write about Martians. I write about real people.”
Palova started writing for the Czechoslovak Newsweek based in New York City in 1990 upon arrival in the USA. She initially wrote a column, “A Place for Commentary” in Czech.
Many of the stories are based on experiences Palova has had during her time living and working in the greater Lowell area, West Michigan.
“I am passionate about the hometowns in Midwest America their characters and personalities,” she said. “They are a hardy bunch.”
Palova has been writing for the area publications since 1997 when she launched her journalistic career with Kaechele Publications in Allegan. In 1998, she joined the staff of the Ionia-Sentinel Standard where she received awards for community reporting from the Ionia Chamber of Commerce in 2000 and the Ionia County Community Mental Health, 2003. In 2011, she received an award from American Legion for covering veterans’ events. In 2015, Palova also had a community blog in the Ionia Sentinel-Standard.
Palova worked as a correspondent for the Grand Rapids Press, the Advance Newspapers, Gemini Publications and the Lowell Ledger.
Palova is currently working on the second volume of stories, as well as on the memoir “Greenwich Meridian, where East meets West” about the Konecny family immigration saga from Czechoslovakia to the USA.
She is preparing her first novel, “Fire on Water” based on her communist experience for publication.
Palova has a lifetime passion for history and politics. She does social media marketing for the Fallasburg Historical Society (FHS), and she is working with the Tri-River Historical Museum Network.
“I am deeply humbled by the opportunities this country has given me,” Palova said.
Shifting Sands Short Stories on Amazon, author’s page
For Fallasburg info go to: Fallasburg Today at http://fallasburgtoday.org
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