THANKS
FOR THE CRITIQUE . . .
I want to thank you for your recent
critique of my short story… Your comments were
most helpful.
As a middle-aged, beginning writer,
I am very much learning to write as I write. You
shared several comments which will go beyond this
particular short story to all my attempts at writing.
Thank you…
By John Weiler
London, Ontario, Canada
GOOSE
BUMPS . . .
Our writers’ group is doing well.
I am proud to announce that one of our writers, Loranne
Brown, has been picked up by Doubleday Canada. Her
book, The Handless Maiden, should be out on the shelves
the spring of 1998. Everytime I think about it, I
get goose bumps. She’s an Author, Ta Da! The
magazine looks good. Glad to see you’re still
around. I missed it there for awhile. Knowing that
someone cares about us writers is important. We need
to know this. We need to see that, as an emerging
author, there is someone going to listen. Someone
to work with.
…Thanks again for being out there.
By Penny J. Duane
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
A
SOLID MAGAZINE . . .
…I couldn’t resist writing
to say what a really solid magazine you put out.
Informative as well as provocative. I especially
loved Sharon Helberg’s story, Don’t Count
Your Chickens. Really good twist at the end. (I was
sure he’d off his mom!) Thanks again for your
support.
By Jill Williams
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
SAMPLE
COPY WAS GREAT . . .
You have no clue as to who I am, but
I just want to congratulate you on a great publication!… I'm
a student here at Maui Community College in Maui,
Hawaii… I received a sample copy of Tickled
by Thunder, and it was great. I'm really looking
forward to reading more (as soon as I get my subscription
in).
I just figured out that I missed the
October 15 deadline for poetry. Oh well, I guess
I'll be sending my words (sewn together by emotion
and passion, of course) in for the Feb. contest…
I just wanted to tell you that I appreciate
your work and think it’s a very good thing.
I wish we had a publication like yours here in the
U.S. or even Hawaii for that matter! Thanks again!
By Starr Tendo
Maui, Hawaii, USA
RAW
POWER AND A SHARP FEEL . . .
In response to your editorial in (last
issue).... Now that I'm no longer affiliated with
TbT in any way, and now that I've been out of editing
long enough for my EAC membership to lapse from voting
status to associate status, I'm going to say exactly
what I think on the matter of Tickled -- since I
don't have to be discrete on the matter any more:
It's great!
For all its prestige, a snob'zine like Prism International (to single out
a particularly awful Canadian academic literary journal) simply does not
compare. You publish what you like, and you've gone out on a limb more
than once with the odd racy story – because you're not afraid to
like what you like. I've heard tell that there are some editors who publish
what they don't like or even half-understand – just to get another
known name on their list – as if the mere act of accepting a well-known
name for publication confers fame to the acquisitions editor by association.
Tickled by Thunder has a raw power
and a sharp look and feel. I am proud to have been
a part of TbT for the years I was.... If TbT wants
to ask for money to print its Year's Best issues
-- keep it up. What with the World Wide Web – well,
let's just say that self-agrandisement is the mode
du jour – if people want publication for free,
let them spread their wares in the winds where they
may. I know for a fact that you don't accept what
you don't like, and you stand behind what you will.
And that's been good enough to be great
for long enough to be worth it.
By Quinn Tyler Jackson
Vancouver, British Columbia
Former Associate Editor, Tickled by Thnnder fiction magazine
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