Grace Notes Books

Issue 2 of Notes Magazine is now available! It's a new year and we're off to an excellent start- if you can ignore those pesky deadlines,anyway!
In this issue you will find plenty of ‘new' to celebrate fresh starts. Spotlight Author Murvel Thornton cooks up some fascinating flash fiction, vivid poetics, and tells us all about his favorite swear word! AND we introduce to 2 brand-spankin'-new columns. In Slim Pickings, The Brothers Raconteur pen up a hilarious everyday-life column based on Slim Dyson, a‘professional writer'. The catch? Slim is fictional ! Next, you'll find From the Hip, a creative nonfiction column comes to us from Chris Elliott as he lends his cynicism to the meaningful experience of recovery from alcoholism and the all-too-human journey of the spirit. But don't expect to shed too many tears there. Chris does rehab like the infamous Debbie once did Dallas--Hard and with a dry smile. You want more, you say?! Well, okay,fine! In addition to the usual buffet of awesome stories & poetry, issue 2 also offers excerpts from our 2010 winners & select finalist entries in the Discovering the Undiscovered fiction & CNF categories. All ON TOP of the always-awesome reviews, comics, and humor columns that are (or will someday be) the trademark of NOTES. Check it out here.

Jan Thie has been a barman, a d.j. in a Dutch coffee shop, a pub cook in Prague, a hospital guard and a night manager in a homeless shelter. He's fallen in love more often than he has had haircuts but despite all that feels he's never written a line as good as Neruda's "I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." Life's unfair like that. What Lingers is a collection of 59 poems of love, loss, joy, beauty, and life; from crisp snapshots, captured moments, to entire lifetimes suspended in time. With vivid imagery, captivating language, and breathtaking intimacy, What Lingers will be the grace note of your poetic adventures. Read an Excerpt!

$12.99

Venus laughs is a collection of poetry by award winning author Harmoni McGlothlin. Venus Laughs is a rare poetic journey telling the story of the evolution of one spirit through tears, laughter, love, lust and everything in between. With stylish illustrations to match the contemporary imagery of this collection, Venus Laughs is a fresh attempt at bringing poetry out of the dark ages and into the light.Read Venus Laughs Excerpts Here. Only $12.99