Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on October 3, 2018 by Colleen M. Chesebro
Sally Cronin has a new book out and it sounds magical. Take a peek. I can’t wait to read it!! ❤
At last the day has arrived and Tales from the Irish Garden is now available.
The book has been three years in the writing, mainly because what began as short stories in line with the first collection, turned into a full-length book. As we moved back from Spain to Ireland, house hunted, and then embarked on a renovation project, there were breaks from the process. However, the upside was that I had the time to adapt and create new characters and adventures with more freedom. It also gave me time to meet Donata Zawadzka, courtesy of Paul Andruss, and after seeing her wonderful illustrations, I commissioned a number for the book to showcase some of the lead characters. More about Donata shortly.
Many of those that lived in the palace in Spain in the garden of our house, followed me across land and sea to settle in a magic…
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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.
Congrats on the book Sally! I wish you all the best with it!
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Thank you Joy… hugsx
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You are very welcome! A book is a big accomplishment to be proud of!
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Simply amazing! Seems we share our love of dreaming about fairy dust!!!
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Thank you. I love all things fairy. ❤
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So thrilled for you Sal ❤ Reading now! xxx
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Sally, will you share the secret of how you made the header image? That’s pretty cool! ❤
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Cheers to Sally! Thanks for sharing, Colleen. 🙂
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You’re so welcome. 😍❤️
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