Lifes a Train wreck

The winners of Accentuate Services “Reality” Theme contest were announced Friday afternoon.

First place was filled by Lindsay Maddox.

Second place went to Terrie Schultz.

There were three thirds awarded

Chris Williamson, Robert Arend, and Gillian. I am unable to find Gillian’s last name to announce it, my apologies for that.

Congratulations to all these fine authors! I am looking forward to reading their stories when the book is in hand, and anticipate many more from each of them.

Thomas H. Forthe

Today took forever to get over with at work, eight hours seemed to last twenty… but in the end it was all worth it!

Not only are my bosses very happy with me and liking my work, but I came home to a very pleasant surprise as well.

Accentuate Services has an on-going short story contest that is a blessing for beginning writers, with cash prizes, contracts and royalties that end up in a printed book.

I had entered the “”reality” themed contest, and after much refreshing of the page as, Michy tortures us playfully with the results, I was chosen for the editor’s choice!

I have joined the ranks of other member authors in being published in an anthology of short stories! I will give the full results tomorrow on the blog, listing all of the winners for this contest. I am stunned by being chosen, the caliber of writing in the anthologies is amazing as are the authors.

Congratulations to all the winners!

Tom

The random act of kindness day is a very special event indeed, inspired by the love of a mother for a baby whom she was never able to hold.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1659687/please_honor_my_baby_on_april_20th.html

I can in no way imagine having to make that decision! All of our love and thoughts will be centered on Rissa, and her baby, on the 20th of each April for as long as my thoughts are mine to give. Please join us on this day and help make the world a better place.

 Tom

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Kathy has announced the winner of her poetry contest for her Art Web site!

The poem selected for the main page of her site, located at: http://data.fineartstudioonline.com/dataviewer.asp?keyvalue=9658 will be posted shortly.

Congratulations go out to Laurie Darroch-Meekis for the winning entry!

The competition was extremely hard for Kathy to judge as all of the entries were great in her opinion, and she wished to thank everyone for their wonderful entries.

Tom

The weekly winner of the Two Sentence Story contest was Laurie Meekis, Her true story about her mother “Wings” took top honors this past week. Laurie is a member of Accentuate Services writers forum, and a soon to be published author and poet. Well done Laurie!

There are two more weeks left in the Two Sentence story contest and the Poetry contest  for Kathy Hansen’s web site, so keep those entries coming….

http://www.twosentencestories.com/

http://www.kathansen.com/blog

It was an interesting, though uneventful day yesterday. I spent most of the day here on the net and working on models.

The Net was uneventful, I wish I could say the same for models… I was just starting the color coat of paint when the car got a life of its own, jumped off the box and landed in the wet weeds… talk about getting exited.

I will have to blog about that in the new blog, Plastic Dependant….

It is cloudy this morning, but warm enough to have the windows open. Which is a very nice change from past weeks.

Time to move on for the day,

Tom

My oldest son Adam called yesterday to tell us we are going to be grandparents! He wanted to be the one to tell his grandma first, so I had to restrain myself until late last night and this morning to share the news.

The little one is due to make an appearance in September which will formally enter me into the rolls of grand-fatherhood.

Mom was cheerful and in good spirits last night when I talked to her, no doubt the news of an impending new great grand child cheered her up!

It is hard to imagine me as a grandfather, and I still don’t know if I am ready yet! I guess I had better be. It wasn’t that long ago that I had two of them and now I are one….

Yesterday I ran into a bit of a snag on the last pair of tall windows and had to wait until today to start them. The framing had rotted out under the paint and will take a bit more to replace it than I had expected. After a trip to Lowes for lumber yesterday afternoon it was too late to start on it.

That is all for today’s news,

Tom

It is finally ready!

The Alpha Moon Poetry Contest is off the ground and running!

Kathy Hansen wants a short poem for the main page of her web site, a short poem of four to six lines, describing nature which happens to be her favorite subject.

The Alpha Moon poetry contest is open to everyone!

There is no entry fee, and no limit on the number of entries you can submit.

The deadline for entries is March 1st, 2009.

The painting “Alpha Moon” is the prize, valued at one hundred dollars, the painting can be seen on her web site Kathy Hansen Fine Art Studio at this link: http://www.kathansen.com/blog , The painting is in acrylics and measures fourteen inches by eighteen inches.

Kathy will pick the winning entry, as judge, her choice will be final. Please include your e-mail address so that Kathy can contact the winner for shipping information.

The winning entry of the Alpha Moon poetry contest will be placed on Kathy’s main page.

Thank you,

Thomas H. Forthe

Merry Christmas to all…

And to all a good night!

An upper respiratory illness has me in its grip. Hopefully I will post tomorrow. Stay well.

Thomas H. Forthe

I don’t have time to post this morning, I will get something up in the late afternoon, possibly 6 ish.