July Newsletter 2010

“Cobble Crab Publishers is a non-profit company whose sole purpose is to assist everyday writers/poets to get their work into print.”


Welcome to the Cobble Crab Publishers July Newsletter.

At best, most people who want to write want to be read. And often they are discouraged and believe they’re wasting their time. Yet the more one writes, the more ones style and personality develop through ones words.

Blessings John Bailie

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Cobble Crab helps the Community……

True to our mission to encourage reading and writing,
Cobble Crab Publishing donated books to a Circuit in Bongweni, Kokstad to assist their Sunday school ministry.


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Creative Writing News………


Meet Petshi Desire and Dave Dike, our latest graduates from the Cobble Crab Creative Writing course. Here’s what they had to say:

“The Writing course for me was, and will always be, the platform which makes me realise that there is a writer full of energy and imagination sleeping within me. To wake him up is only a matter of making time to be ready to navigate in a world where the only rule is: show don’t tell.”
Petshi Desire

“I have really enjoyed being part of the creative writing school. It has been lots of fun getting to know the others in the group, and for me enjoyment is a big part of anything that I undertake. For many years I have nursed the idea that one day I might write a book. When I retired I thought, but I can’t see that happening in the near future. So perhaps I should start anyway.
I had no idea on what subject or what type of book, but I just felt that I had a special gift with the English language, and that I had the ability to write something entertaining. The course has opened my eyes to the technical side of writing and the planning required to create a readable piece of work. Doing the exercises has given me confidence, and shown me my style of writing and the type of story that I should write.
Reading aloud what you have just written was a bit daunting at first, but is also a confidence builder. If I had been told in advance about the warm-up writing exercises, that is, writing a few hundred words on a topic you have just been given, I would have said that I couldn’t do that. But in fact I surprised myself. Once I had an idea in my head, the words just seemed to flow. I have learned a lot, and as a consequence I have started to expand a story that I wrote as an exercise, and I hope it will end up one day being a novel. My hope is that it will be published and that it will bring a smile to many hearts. “
Dave Dike

Bookshop
In Pursuit of Holiness by Charles l. Szente
Discovering an Authentic Lifestyle by Dr.H.Leon Klein
The Boot Brother’s Adventures by Lyndrea Huntly
Now By Delme Lindscott
Voices of the Heart By Festus Marumo
Feed my Lambs / Laat my lamers Wei by Val Michelsen
The Significance of the feasts of Israel By Peter Warner
New Beginnings by Quentin Smith
Max ….an ordinary Hero by Mandy Daly
My Simple Faith by Sean Bastible
A Twenty Yard Stroll by John Bailie
Op Pad Na Siloam by Pieter Liebenberg
Hope Waits by John Bailie
The God Inclusion by Quentin Smith
Who Replaced the Sugar with Epsom salts by Bruce Jack
Head, Heart and Hand, Adventures in the Biblical Meta-Narrative, Volume 1 by Jenny Hillebrand
The Quest for Smallholder Farmer Success by Gibson Kutadza.
Into Your Hands Lord by John Bailie
Daily Devotional Mathew by John Bailie
Daily Devotional Mark by John Bailie
Living in Grace by Delme Lindscott
Abundant Life in Jesus Christ by Alan White

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