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  search my name: Jane Hertenstein or follow this link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=jane+hertenstein all ebooks 50% off

search my name: Jane Hertenstein or follow this link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=jane+hertenstein all ebooks 50% off

  search my name: Jane Hertenstein or follow this link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=jane+hertenstein all ebooks 50% off

 All my titles are 50% off at Smashwords until March 7. This does NOT apply to print, just downloads of eBooks. https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=hertenstein

I’ve been nominated!  My piece Circa 1984 has been nominated by Switch for the Best Microfiction 2026 . Best Microfiction 2026  will be published by  Pelekinesis  in the summer of 2026. The  Best Microfiction  anthology series considers stories of only 400 words or fewer. Co-edited by award-winning microfiction writer/editor  Meg Pokrass , and Flannery O’Connor Prize-winning author  Gary Fincke , the anthology will have Pulitzer Prize winning poet  Diane Seuss  serve as final judge. To read Circa 1984 go to: https://www.switchonline.org/ then search Microfiction 2025 for Hertenstein—sorry can’t find an easier way, more direct link Meanwhile: all my ebooks are half off   

All eBooks 50% Off at Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane All my books are currently 50% off—a great chance to pick up my two how-to books on writing flash memoir, plus my latest: Woman of a Certain Age, the hybrid story collection just published!

 July is almost over. If you'd like to order any of my books go on over to  Type in my name to see the list of titles on offer. https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane

 Big Sale After spending nearly 2 months bringing all my titles up to date, I’m pleased to announce that at Smashwords you can buy my entire ebook/print book collection (OR ANY OF MY TITLES) for 50% off at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! You can find all my on-sale books at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/janehertenstein   #SWSale2025 #Smashwords In particular, if you are feeling the need for inspiration, there’s 365 Affirmations for the Writer. Here is a taste of what’s inside: July 8 Failure Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old-fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he’ll eventually make some kind of career for himself as writer. ― Ray Bradbury July 9 Keep Going Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. ― Maya Angelou July 10 Don’t Stop You must read, you must persevere, ...

I’ve reached a new goal: Print Books Available through D2D as well as KDP (Amazon). When I first published through Smashwords it was digital ebook only. After being acquired and changing its name to D2D (Digital2Digital ) they began to do print also. The 2 platforms, D2D and KDP are similar but different. It was a learning curve to take the titles offered at D2D through their system. Even now, I’m not sure they’re quite “there” yet. I can make changes in 90 days. Especially, with 365 Affirmations—the set up was NEVER going to be perfect, the layout is way too glitchy. All the effort was in preparation for me to offer—hopefully by September— a short story collection . Stay tuned. I’m excited to announce that all my books  will be promoted on @Smashwords for 50% off the entire month of July as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Be sure to follow me for more updates and links to the promotion for my books and many more! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

all my books are 50% off at Smashwords. This promotional price is for downloads (eBooks). Thanks for considering.

  ALL MY BOOKS ARE ON SALE FROM NOW UNTIL 1 JANUARY Now is your best chance to find my entire ebook collection for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their  2024 End of Year Sale ! Find my books and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/ through  January 1 ! #SmashwordsEoYSale #Smashwords Please take advantage of this deal--especially as I'm going to be doing way more workshops this year.

 Now is your best chance to find my MIDDLE GRADE novel, Beyond Paradise, available for HALF OFF at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer Sale! Find my book and many more at  https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane      all month!  Louise Keller travels with her missionary family to the Philippines on the eve of Pearl Harbor. At first the country seems like paradise, but soon Louise and her family are captured by the Japanese and forced to live in internment camps.  "How would you like to go to paradise?" asks Louise Keller's father, a Baptist minister who has accepted a position as a missionary on the small island of Panay. Fourteen-year-old Louise, a writer of poetry who chafes at small-town life, is eager for the change. But the new experiences Louise has dreamed of soon turn nightmarish: when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, the war, which had seemed so far away, rapidly threatens their island existence. From one reviewer Ann L. Conr...

Now is your best chance to find my book, 365 Affirmations for the Writer, available for HALF OFF at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale! Find my book and many more at  https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane all month!  365 Affirmations for the Writer Writing is a journey. Every time we sit down to begin a piece or write the first chapter or the first line we are venturing into uncharted territory. 365 Affirmations for the Writer is about listening to those who have gone before us and letting them guide us with their insight, their own trials. By reading what others have said, we can survey the path before us, count the cost, and plunge ahead. What reviewers are saying: Mary Jo G. 5 Stars If you are a writer in need of a little inspiration, this book is for you. The quotes are great, but I especially liked the bonus material which provided concrete exercises to spark my creativity. serafina 5 Stars Totally feeling inspired to wri...

Now is your best chance to find my book, Freeze Frame: How To Write Flash Memoir, available HALF OFF at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer! Find my book and many more at  https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane     all month!  Many of us are looking to write memories—either in the form of literary memoir or simply to record family history. This how-to book looks at memoir in small, bite-size pieces, helping the writer to isolate or freeze-frame a moment and then distill it onto paper. What reviewers are saying: Mary Ellen Gambutti 5.0 stars Excellent# I have read this book twice, and highlighted extensively. As a new memoir writer who works in slice of life and brief moments, I find her approach helpful. Highly recommend to all writers of memoir. Enjoyable read! Karen Douglass 5.0 stars Free to Write Short Just recommended this book to my memoir-writing friends. She has freed me from the shackles of narrative and chronology.

Now is your best chance to find my book, Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing, available for HALF OFF at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer Sale! Find my book and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane   all month!  Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing We begin with a sudden memory, follow it to see where it leads. Yet so many of us tend to ignore these flashes. We think later yet later on we might have forgotten or lost the relevance of the moment, the urgency that led us there. I recommend a process I call write right now. In the amount of time it takes you to brush your teeth, you can jot down the memory and an outline which can be filled in later. The prompts in this book are designed to spur memories, to get you writing. I’ll also direct you to resources, authors to read and study, and places to submit. What reviewers are saying: StalkyReader 5.0 Stars While Jane Hertenstein’s book Flash Memoir is ostensibl...

Now is your best chance to find my book, Orphan Girl: The Memoir of a Chicago Bag Lady, available for HALF OFF at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer Sale! Find my book and many more at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane      all month!  Review "A homeless woman's story reminds us of the need to consider the suffering of others. Hertenstein's narrative . . . is a gift to us." Chicago Tribune, Sunday Book Section, March 15, 1998 From the Author I had known Marie for about ten years before I did her story. She was a bag lady--not homeless as she had an apartment she shared with a number of cats. Marie could be seen daily pushing her cart around the neighborhood picking up stuff put out for trash and giving items away to people who needed them. Whenever she saw me she'd say, "Jane, someday I have to tell you my story." And I'd say, "Sure Marie, someday." Well, during one of those exchanges we actually set up a...

 All of my titles will be 50% off for the month of July at Smashwords. https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/chicagojane

  We begin with a sudden memory, follow it to see where it leads. Yet so many of us tend to ignore these flashes.Using a process I call write right now, I help the writer to harvest the urgency of sudden memories.The prompts in this book are designed to spur memories, to get you writing. I’ll also direct you to resources, authors to read and study, and places to submit. CLICK HERE: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/725948

I started this blog 12 years ago with a lot of skepticism—like does the world NEED another blog? Perhaps it was doubt about the legitimacy of my own voice, but through the years my voice has become stronger and clearer. In fact by blogging I’ve been able to sort out thinking and smooth my opinions into articulated arguments. In some ways, it’s been a source of healing. When I started years ago I wanted to organize around memories and the importance of small observations. Being a writer means looking, using one’s senses, being alive to the world around you. Some of the best poets and prose writers incorporate the simple everyday, but weave it into their narratives in such a way that helps us to see our own lives as unique. We draw a reader in by having them relate, while at the same time hitting reset. There’s always something new. Use the link below. Some of you may be curious about my flash method, if so then Flash Memoir: Writing Prompts to Get You Flashing is available for free....

 Smashwords is where you can download my ebooks. March 6 - March 12, 2022 my books will be on sale for 25% off so cheap, cheap, cheap! Follow this link:  https://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=jane+hertenstein