SOLD!! Writing Critique

Professional Writing Critique

Sharon Wachsler will provide thoughtful, thorough, constructive critique of your writing -- either one (1) short story (any genre) OR one (1) essay OR three (3) poems.

Sharon has taught and mentored other writers through her online writing class, “Dancing with the Muse,” and through her work as founding editor of the literary journal Breath & Shadow. She has extensive experience giving and receiving critique on plays, short stories, poems, interviews, reviews, and essays.

Sharon has been writing professionally since 1992, winning awards in nonfiction, fiction (flash fiction and short fiction), and poetry, including two poetry Pushcart nominations and an Astraea Foundation fiction grant. Her short stories have twice appeared in Best American Erotica. She has written features for Kaleidoscope literary journal and Bitch magazine. Her essays have been used in numerous college curricula, particularly disability studies, women's studies, and diversity education. She has well over 100 publication credits, including short stories and essays in several dozen books. You can see some of her publishing credits here (nonfiction & essays), here (erotica), and here (online publications). References available upon request.

Value: $75. Minimum starting bid: $30. 

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SOLD!! Finger's Breadth - Autographed

M. Christian, an acknowledged master of erotica, editor of 25 anthologies and author of multiple novels and short story collections is donating a personally autographed copy of his latest novel, Finger's Breadth.

An erotic thriller, this dark emotional thriller that reviewers say "will take the reader on a scary but enlightening ride through the twisted labyrinth of the human psyche" and will "get under your skin and send chills to your bones in both a terrifying and arousing kind of way."

Look at your hand: four fingers and a thumb, right? But what if you woke one morning and rather than four fingers and a thumb you are ... short? How would you feel? What would you do? What would you become?

The city is terrified: a mysterious figure is haunting the streets of near-future San Francisco, drugging and amputating the fingertips of queer men. But what's worse … this terror or that it can, so easily, turn any of us into something even more horrific?

Erotic. Nightmarish. Fascinating. Disturbing. Intriguing. Haunting. You have never read a book like Finger's Breadth. You will never look your fingers -- or the people all around you -- the same way again.

Paperback. New. M. Christian will sign it personally for the winner. (ebook is available if preferred.)

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Retail Value: $15.99. Minimum starting bid: $10. $5.99!

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SOLD!! Points of View Anthology

Points of View: An Anthology of Short Stories, edited by James Moffett and Kenneth R. McElheny [Revised and updated edition]

Since its original publication in 1966, this volume has attained classic status. Now its contents have been updated and its cultural framework enlarged by the original editors. Many of the 44 stories come from a new writing generation with a contemporary consciousness, and this brilliant blending of masters of the past and the brightest talents of the present achieves the goal of making a great collection even greater. Adds twenty-nine new authors to the collection of short stories that includes "A Voice From the Wall" by Amy Tan, "Strong Horse Tea" by Alice Walker, "Uglypuss" by Margaret Atwood, and "The Bridle" by Raymond Carver. Other contributors include Tillie Olsen, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, James Baldwin, Shirley Jackson, John Cheever, Grace Paley, Eudora Welty, Dorothy Parker, and others.

A timeless text for writers to understand multiple and complex points of view, including interior monologue, letter narration,subjective narration, detached autobiography, memoir or observer narration, anonymous narration -- single character point of view, anonymous narration -- double character POV, anonymous narration -- multiple character POV.

Paperback, 600 pages. Condition: Like new.

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Retail price: $8.99. Minimum starting bid: $6.

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SOLD!! The Help Audio Book

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Audio book of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel, The Help.

Unabridged CDs • 14 CDs, 17 hours

Publishers Weekly, Starred Review: "Four peerless actors render an array of sharply defined black and white characters in the nascent years of the civil rights movement. They each handle a variety of Southern accents with aplomb and draw out the daily humiliation and pain the maids are subject to, as well as their abiding affection for their white charges. The actors handle the narration and dialogue so well that no character is ever stereotyped, the humor is always delightful, and the listener is led through the multilayered stories of maids and mistresses. The novel is a superb intertwining of personal and political history in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s, but this reading gives it a deeper and fuller power."

Condition: Used, very good. This item comes from a smoke-free, fragrance-free, pet-free environment.

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Retail price: $39.95. Minimum starting bid: $18.

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SOLD!! Telling Tales

Telling Tales, edited by Nadine Gordimer

Booklist Review: The 21 stellar writers in this international short-story collection include five Nobel winners. All the stories were chosen by the writers themselves and contributed without any fee, and all profits go to fight HIV-AIDS in southern Africa. The stories are not about AIDS, but several are about war and about dying. In Njabulo Ndbele's "Death of a Son," parents fight to get their child's body from the apartheid police. "The Ultimate Safari," by Gordimer, who edited the anthology, is a searing, unforgettable account of a desperate refugee child hiding from the fancy tourists in a famous game park. In contrast, Woody Allen has contributed his hilarious New Yorker piece lampooning the financier whose kid was turned down by a prestigious Manhattan preschool. There are also fine stories by Margaret Atwood, Hanef Kureishi, Arthur Miller, Salman Rushdie, and more.

Also includes stories by Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Susan Sontag, and John Updike, among others.

Paperback, 320 pages. Condition: Like new. This item comes from a smoke-free, fragrance-free, pet-free environment.

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Retail price: $17. Minimum starting bid: $8.

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