Lanette
Kissel resides in Evansville Indiana. She is a wife and mother
of a 22 year old daughter, also the parent of an adopted
shelter dog. She has written 2 novels which she hopes to see published,
short stories in a variety of genres, and inspirational poetry.
Writing is her passion. It is also a sort of therapy for her. She
even enjoys the submissions process as bizarre as that may seem,
and looks forward to going to the mailbox each day to look for
a dear little SASE.
She enjoys writing stories about ghosts and the supernatural.
She has always loved a good ghost story ever since she was a
child. She feels that God has blessed her with a wild imagination,
and that stories of the supernatural are a wonderful outlet for
that imagination. Her philosophy is: Who's to say what is
or what isn't when it comes to the spirit world? So, for a writer,
the possibilities are virtually endless. She has written numerous
stories of the supernatural. But, in most of her stories, the
ghostly presence is not a frightening or menacing one.
Lanette's
poetry has been published in various small press poetry publications.
In print form, her stories have appeared in Mature
Living Magazine and Enigma, and online in Nupenz.
Her work is to appear this summer online in The Pink Chameleon,
and in a print anthology from Fountain Penn. Her first
book has just been published, a 58 page fantasy romance novella
entitled The
Legendary Necklace of Andulaysia. It is now available from PublishAmerica.
Visit her website at http://www.geocities.com/novellapoetica/Penofpromise.html
She feels
that it is an extreme honor to be the featured short story
writer for this issue and wishes to thank all of the Sage of
Consciousness editors and personnel who made it possible.
A Little Letter to Aspiring Writers out there
I always open a response letter from a publisher with a feeling
of nervous anticipation. I wonder what the contents will reveal.
Will it be agony or ecstasy? If it happens to be ecstasy, I'm
thrilled! The acceptance letter validates what I am doing and
makes it all worthwhile. If it happens to be agony which I must
admit in my case happens 90-95% of the time, that's only par
for the course. Rejection letters are part of a writer's life
and nothing to be ashamed of. I simply get busy and submit that
piece to the next publisher on my list.
Do I get discouraged? Of course I do. But, I won't allow myself
to quit trying. The words give up are not in my vocabulary. I
am if nothing else persistent. I always keep writing and submitting,
because I am a writer and this is what I do, but most of all,
because I am a writer and this is what I love.
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