As many of you know, I’m a fiction writer as well as a non-fiction writer. I enjoy pushing the boundaries of my imagination and creating new characters and worlds. One of my new “people” is coming alive in the Saltwater Sorrows anthology.
My story, Seaweed and Gossip, had been crashing around in my head for twenty years after hearing a roommate in Sackville, N.B. talk about her summers. The roommate said that when she went home to Havre Boucher, an oceanside community near Antigonish, Nova Scotia, she headed to the shore with her mom and friends for some “seaweed and gossip.”
Saltwater Sorrows
Here’s a description of the book:
Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .
Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages.
But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore? There is transformation and exaltation—magic—in the ocean and women alike. And both know that while the sea gives, the sea also takes.
The book will be out Wednesday, Aug. 2.
Pre-order Saltwater Sorrows ebook
Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/ww/en/ebook/saltwater-sorrows
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BXR3VDFT
Apple: https://books.apple.com/ca/book/saltwater-sorrows/id6446127592
Nook: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/saltwater-sorrows-rhonda-parrish/1143179852
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123207526-saltwater-sorrows
The book was edited by Rhonda Parrish and several writers contributed stories including:
Table of Contents
A Witch’s Christmas by E.E. King
Portrait of a Mermaid as a Young Woman by Natalie Cannon
Skelf by Morgan Melhuish
Salt Breeze by Paul A. Hamilton
Fortune Favours the Brave by V.F. LeSann
The Ghost of Violet Gray by Sarah Van Goethem
Rage Against the Sea by Adria Laycraft
A View of Water by Dino Parenti
The Deep End of Longing by Hayley Stone
Seaweed and Gossip by Lea Storry
Sarah’s Kitchen by Lisa Carreiro
On a Northern Shore by Nikoline Kaiser
Daughter by Elin Olausson
Sink Your Sorrows to the Sea by Chandra Fisher
Human, Still by B. Zelkovich
Salt In Our Blood, Salt In Our Tears by Laura VanArendonk Baugh
Glass, Paper, Salt by Catherine MacLeod
The Oyster Widow by Jennifer R. Donohue
Want to publish your stories? I can help! Email me to find out how.
