The Holiday gift giving season is approaching fast. We invite contributors to list their new books on our Book Store page. All the new listings will be featured in our last newsletter of the year on Monday, Dec. 15.
Send us a jpg shot of your front cover, a 50-word promo blurb and a link to buy by end of day Monday, Dec. 8.
Holiday Schedule
CommuterLit‘s last newsletter and last week of postings for the year will be Dec. 14-19. We’ll be back with a new post and newsletter on Monday, Jan. 5, 2026.
Novel Writing Month
CommuterLit editor Nancy Kay Clark is participating in November’s Novel Writing Challenge (Write 50,000 words of a draft by the end of the month). Her current word count is: 30,447.
Micheal Joll writes:
“I’m at 28,185 words, but, at 80, I don’t have a day job anymore. So, 3-4,000 words a day, five and six days a week gives me a 90,000-word first draft in a month. I see the same with this one. Then revision and rewrites for a year or two. I have had four novels and three collections of short stories published since you published my first short story, which must be at least 15 years ago. Thank you for my start.”
You’re Welcome, Michael!
John Tures writes:
“What are you writing about Nancy? Will you share sample chapters?”
Nancy’s reply: “It’s a cozy mystery. And it’s too early to tell whether I’ll share or not.”
Anybody else taking up the challenge? How are you doing?
Let us know.
Was CommuterLit the first literary site/magazine to publish your fiction or poetry?
Brian Henry’s Quick Brown Fox site has declared CommuterLit: “. . .The best place there is to get your first piece published (and maybe your second and third).”
Was that true for you? If so, please let us know the details and how getting something published—at last!—helped you in your writing journey.
Contributor News
Michele M. Taylor is the Freefall Magazine Annual Poetry Prize winner. Recent and forthcoming work includes three short stories published online at Livina Press: A Literary Magazine and Havok Publishing, and a second hybrid poetry-prose piece forthcoming in Merion West.
