Third Annual Rogue Bud Writing Competition

Third Annual Rogue Bud Writing Competition Sponsored by
Rose Audrey In Honor of Joel Muska

First Place Prize
I will Publish your Book!

Let me take your words and transform them into a work of art. I can help you to produce a quality product and it will be yours to do with as you like. I will design a cover for your creation and I will format your words into a book. Then I will set you up with your own account with Lulu.com and you will have a world wide web storefront featuring your very own book!
*ISBN purchase winner’s responsibility as well as copyright.

Do you have an unfulfilled vision of some day becoming a published author?
Do you have an outstanding work ethic? Do you have a great attitude?
Are you a team player? If so this contest is for you! I am now accepting submissions for novels to consider for publication. See contest guidelines.

Contest Guidelines:

Please email me an 800 word or less essay on why I should select your novel or memoir to be considered for publication. Include a one page synopsis of your completed book with the entry essay. (One page synopsis will not be included in word count.) I will review the submissions and select up to ten people whom I will then request to see more of their work. I am a Christian and the work must reflect high moral values.

I will only consider completed manuscripts for my competition this year. I will also only consider polished work. Please send me your best, and I will give you my best!

Joel Muska was my co-worker and I wanted to do something to honor his persistence, reliability, great attitude and stellar work ethic.

If you feel that you have something substantial to offer please contact me!!!

Initial Submission Deadline:
September 15, 2012

No late entries will qualify

Email Contest Entries to:
Joyfulnoizministries@yahoo.com
Subject line must say: Rogue Bud Competition

On a Ramble is Complete!

I've completed, On a Ramble, On a Bright and Sunny Day: Mostly True Stories, Including Creep, Creepy Spider! What an accomplishment! (I still have to do my final edits with a hard copy before I make it available on Lulu.com, but I plan to get to that as soon as I can.)I also completed my friend Bill's book, The Treasure at Burro Tank! (Which was my last post on here...) He is so pleased with his little booklet! I'm still working on The Back Track Conspiracies... I didn't know just how very challenging this past year was going to be! Moving forward... I haven't forgotten my personal commitment to complete TBTC, but I have been busy doing edits on my first novel, AN ANGEL OF MERCY. She's a completed book, and right now is sitting on an editor's desk! I don't know if they are going to request the complete manuscript yet or not, but I'm getting all of the formatting ready just in case that they do! This post is a head's up that I am intending to host my Third Annual Rogue Bud Writing Completion in Memory of Joel Muska. I will post the contest guidelines at the beginning of July, but just a note: I will be asking for the same criteria as before, so if anyone is interested they can get their submissions polished and ready. I may only be willing to have 5 finalists this time around, so keep that in mind! I didn't advertise my competition last year, but this year will be a completely different story as I am getting more and more prepared to market my writing. I have great plans for my ministry, Joyful Noiz Ministries, this coming year! I'll be opening up an Etsy shop under the name of DnA Originals to showcase my sister Debbie and my art work. We upcycle items of interest into items of interest that are fun, and whimsical, and most of all, therapeutic. We've had a lot of fun, but I am working on the business promotion end of the spectrum... Always learning; Always growing. Any questions about my contest or art work just drop a line! Share this post with a friend! Let's see if we can get some traffic moving over here! Rose Audrey

Publishing/Writing Updates

Congratulations Bill! Your book, The Treasure at Burro Tank is now a reality! Just don't tell anyone about it! What can I say? His brother Steve didn't think that the book was such a great idea... I guess that they should have had that conversation before now! No worries though. The book is safe with me! I won't release it, and therefore it doesn't really exist! That will be the same for my three novels, and also for the book that I offered to publish for a gal this morning. If she accepts the offer then I will gladly publish her Christian devotional. I read it yesterday and it was amazing! I needed the encouragment and I guess that's why the offer to her. I managed to complete and quietly publish ON A RAMBLE too! I've yet to take the time to line edit my work though and so I don't want to make the book public yet. It turned out really neat as I included clip art. Got to watch me with my clip art! I have way too much fun with that! I still have to get back to Crooked Places Straight, and I can't ignore The Back Track Conspiracies either! I've got that book up on Authonomy, but no one gets it I don't guess. The whole idea of that web site is to rise up in the rankings so that your book is actually viewed by pubishers and editors etc... Well, I'm ranking in at about 5000 plus, and the last I looked I have 1 interested soul... and the interested one has me on a watchlist and not a book shelf... Let's see... 0 interests in my novel! Sounds like my writing contest last year! I got a couple of comments on how it is hard to understand, so I guess in all actuality I've accomplished what I had set out to do! How's that work??? I'll finish it, and then I'll think about editing it. Right now I just don't have the time or the inclination! I'll have to decide here soon if I'll host my writing contest this year. I'll post my decision once I make one.

Second Annual Writing Competition in Honor of Joel Muska has come to a close

I am amazed that my offer to bring someone's dream of publishing their book into a reality was left untouched this season. Joel would just tell me not to worry. He always had such a gentle spirit and calming effect on all of his co-workers. Just yesterday Steven said, "Joel would have known." We were talking about how much weight a walker could support.

I think about Joel often. I miss him a lot. This year in honor of his memory I am going to make it a point to complete "The Back Track Conspiracies", "Crooked Places Straight", and also "On a Ramble." I will also bring my friend Bill Pierce's book into a reality for him so that he can share it with family and friends.

Work has been very challenging since Joel left. Paul came and then moved on, and now I have the priviledge to work with Larry as our main driver. My new supervisor is working hard to improve my job and soon I will officially be a 'hot shot' driver, you know, like I was when Joel first got sick and we had no driver at all... So many changes, and all that I really want to do is write.

Life is far too short to ignore our dreams or our callings. Press on - without me. At least this year. I may open up my contest in 2012 for the Third Annual Rogue Bud Writing Competition in honor of Joel Muska, but then again, I may not. Maybe I'll just be way too busy with my own aspirations to take the time for someone elses...

I'll post my progress as I go along. I'll also be learning about completing the publishing process this year complete with ISBN numbers and marketing stratagies. And in my spare time I will be looking for that 'just right' publishing house for my three completed Christian novels.

Countdown to contest deadline

Seven days left and counting.

Shower the People

Publishing hopefuls: I've been watching and waiting for your contest submissions! During this wait I have not been idle. You see in my arms my youngest grandchild. Welcome Baby Angelo!!! God is the greatest Creator of all, but by His grace I have been creating also.

Yesterday I uploaded my newest creation, Crazy, Like a Fox. It was a project that my supervisor at work gave me... Well, kind of. All that he said was that he wanted me to log my entire week of activities and turn in the facts to him. Well, I am a writer, and a publisher. How could I turn in a collection of scratch paper notes??? I couldn't! I typed up my notes and turned in the neat copy, but I didn't stop there. I also wrote out all of my current job responsibilities and turned those in too. Then I took it a step farther as I created a book out of it all, which included a letter of reference and recommendation from a highly educated gentleman as my Introduction. (This work that I speak of is my day job and is not connected with my writing or my publishing endeavors.)

Now, why would I do all of that? It's because I'm a hard worker and one day that work is going to pay off. I am as certain of that fact as sure as I am sitting here writing this.

And last weekend I bought a lamp at a second hand store and then completely refurbished the shade. It's now in my daughter's bedroom looking as Retro as the rest of her decor. And on my balcony outside sits an angel that I hand painted last night to welcome my sister Debbie as my new neighbor! "We'll be partners in crime," she told me! What great fun! She's one of my greatest encourager's on the planet - that is besides for Carole. Carole has been there for me through thick and thin and I'll forever value her words of encouragement. I was just considering something that she had shared with me years ago about my writing, and about my publishing. Maybe it will encourage you.

Thank you Carole. These prophetic words of life and hope will forever be cherished.

"You have come to me freely. I am here and I will pour out my word and spirit upon you. No more will your ink go dry or mind empty, no longer will there be no words. No longer will you struggle with what words to write, for lo I will pour the words out. You will write what I tell you to, and you will know I say it, because it will be all that is on your mind when you write. All that I say will be on your mind, and there will not be any question which direction to go. I have given you the book, and the direction. The books you write, they are from me. They show the way to redemption. To grace. That which was lost is found. The message of hope. Compassion.

You will bust open the publishing industry. I have called you to burst open the publishing industry, the writer, the editor, the publisher, to provide a way for new authors to come, to come and be printed, and to spread my gospel throughout the world. You will set forth a path (standard), and burst forth. Every word will be from me. There will be no writers block or hindrances, for you will know I have given it.

You blessed me my child by praise of me, in seeing what I have created and now you will go forth and create. A creator of song and word. Once again you will pour out my songs, and you will give fellowship. And I have called you out as a writer. Sing. Write. For the day is coming. I am coming for you and the words I give, are words of life. Your tongue is the pen of a ready writer. The words I give to you, write.

Furthermore, I have come and I am in this place, so that where I am there you may be also. I am with the Father, and you are with the Father and furthermore, where I am so you are, and I know you. Do you think I judge you by your temperament? I know you. I made you. I know who you are, and I know you say Abba father. If there is anything…Lo I will come again, and I will receive you, I prepared a place for you that where I am, there you are also. You are here with me, and I will come again and you will come with me."

I won’t share the cover of the book that I have just created as that book is a 4 book Limited Edition and will never be marketed. What I will share though is the poem that I placed on the back cover of that book. Someone out there needed to hear this. I’m waiting for your submission!!!

Contemplation

As I look up into the sky
I wonder if I'll ever quit wondering why
God loves me, such as I
Imperfect, yet willing
To learn of Him, to grow
To stretch myself and be silent
As He beckons me to draw near.

In the chaos that is sometimes my mind
In the storms that befall my path
Through stumbling shortfalls
He shows Himself beautiful - pure
Perfect in all His ways
And I sigh
At the privilege
Of living another day.

Beauty is as beauty does
A friendly touch
An encouraging word
Reaching out in compassion and care
Proving in deed – that God is near
I find myself safe and warm
As I have a refuge from each storm
And the path that I take will be sure.

Audrey Semprun
Joyful Noiz Ministries