Saturday Centus Time - Valentine Superhero

Jenny Matlock's Saturday Centus is a humdinger of a challenge this week.

Rather than creating a story, because Monday is St. Valentine's Day, we are to create a greeting card.

Jenny searched the Internet to come up with our prompt.

Here it is: Using the photo of a pug dressed in a Wonder Woman costume (below) we are to come up with a Valentine card of no more than 50 words.

Impossible, you say? What would Wonder Woman do? Hmmm. I may not be Wonder Woman, but I am a writer, so I'll give it a shot. Here goes:

Outside: Happy Valentine's Day to my Superhero!

When I'm with you I turn into an animal.


Inside: What? You were expecting Halle Berry as Cat Woman?

Submission Opportunity - Shade Tree Greeting Cards

Get your pens ready and dig out your old photos. Here's a market that sounds like fun for humor writers and owners of nostalgic photos. Or maybe I'm just nostalgic because today is my birthday.

Shade Tree Greetings wants funny verses and unique photos for their greeting card lines. Shade Tree Greetings card line is creating new birthday, anniversary, congratulation, thank you, and friendship cards and are giving writers the opportunity to write them. They pay $50.00 for every verse they select to be used on a greeting card.

They also accept photo submissions. Shade Tree Greetings photos will pay $50.00 for each photograph chosen to be used on a greeting card. They are looking for photographs taken between 1940 and 1975 for use in their line of "Actual Pictures." They want unique photos depicting the times as they were. "Actual Pictures" cards strive for nostaglia with humor.

Click on the links above for complete details. Don't you love the photo of the guy in the girdle? How about the nuns in the car?

My Essay Accepted by Blue Mountain Arts for Irish Inspirations Anthology

Today's forecast for St. Peters, MO: High 90 degrees, chance of thunderstorms.

It might be hot outside, but I'm feeling pretty cool today after the letter and contract I got in the mail on Saturday. My essay, "Coming Home," has been accepted by Blue Mountain Arts for an anthology tentatively titled Irish Inspirations. You can't see me right now, but I'm doing a happy dance--make than an Irish jig--or maybe a reel. My contract didn't specify a publication date, but I'll keep you all posted. The letter mentioned Blue Mountain Arts is seeking greeting card writers. Click on the link for details.