Out of Our Minds: Wild Stories by Wild Women

by Sarah Bates (With), Carmi Cosmos

Overview

Seventeen curious tales about everyday people careening through life to catch you off guard, make you smile, maybe cringe; make you want more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780595371785
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/10/2005
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.11(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

Carmi Cosmos has told lies and wind-bagged stories her entire life. Her childhood experiences growing up on a Caribbean island and spending summers on her grandparent's farm in Kansas fuel her imagination. Carmi's short stories have earned her awards in the 2005 Alchemist Review Short Fiction Contest and the 2003 Erle Stanley Gardner Mystery Writing Contest. She is the past editor of the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce newsletter, Village Voice and a contributing writer to the Fallbrook Village News annual publication, The Sourcebook. Carmi lives in Fallbrook, California and is presently working on a novel exploring the turbulent relationships of a woman raising her sister's abandoned son.

Sarah Bates lives in Fallbrook, California. Her short stories have appeared in the San Diego North County Times and in Bravura, the literary magazine of Palomar College. She is currently writing a novel set in California's San Joaquin Valley. When her imagination soars, her fiction takes flight, but she also toils at fact. She is a freelance feature writer for the Fallbrook Village News and a member of the Society of Professional Journalists. Sarah also writes advertising and public relations copy, and as a contract writer, wrote the text for 17 non-fiction books.

Sarah and Carmi met in a novel writing class. Two years ago they co-founded the Fallbrook Professional Writers, a critique group of six who meet monthly.

Editorial Reviews

"It takes more, these days, to be a short-story writer than it used to. It requires a certain amount of determination to master a technique for which there is little outlet. More than one writer who achieved fame in the 20th Century as a novelist (Steinbeck, Hemingway) or even a poet (Dorothy Parker, for example) was also adept at plotting and writing short stories. You can still find them, tenderly collected into anthologies, in almost every library. Today's author of fiction is not looking at a market in which every magazine lists on its table of contents at least one short story-one in which some magazines, like Adventure, Redbook and Saturday Evening Post ran almost nothing else. It was in magazines that writers of short stories routinely found first publication, and that door is nearly closed. That, in itself, would be reason enough for a lonesome short-story fan to welcome a new book, Out of Our Minds, Wild Stories by Wild Women. It is a collaboration between two writers, Sarah Bates and Carmi Cosmos, both of whom have learned well how to handle their craft. Please note:
They are Fallbrook, California writers, people you probably know. That's still another good reason to welcome the book. The fact that it provides some hours of enjoyable reading is still, however, the most important consideration. "
—Columnist San Diego North County Times

Betty Johnston