PUBLISHED BY GRACE NOTES BOOKS Shop direct from the publisher & save Please visit www.GraceNotesBooks.com for sales prices ($2 off ) on any issue of Notes or save even more by becoming a subscriber Issue 2 of Notes Magazine: It's a new year and we're off to an excellent start- if you can ignore those pesky deadlines, anyway In this issue you will find plenty of 'new' to celebrate fresh starts. Spotlight Author Murvel Thornton cooks up some fascinating flash fiction, vivid poetics, and tells us all about his favorite swear word AND we introduce to 2 brand-spankin'-new columns. In Slim Pickings, The Brothers Raconteur pen up a hilarious everyday-life column based on Slim Dyson, a'professional writer'. The catch? Slim is fictional Next, you'll find From the Hip, a creative nonfiction column comes to us from Chris Elliott as he lends his cynicism to the meaningful experience of recovery from alcoholism and the all-too-human journey of the spirit. But don't expect to shed too many tears there. Chris does rehab like the infamous Debbie once did Dallas--Hard and with a dry smile. You want more, you say? Well, okay, fine In addition to the usual buffet of awesome stories & poetry, issue 2 also offers excerpts from our 2010 winners & select finalist entries in the Discovering the Undiscovered fiction & CNF categories. All ON TOP of the always-awesome reviews, comics, and humor columns that are (or will someday be) the trademark of NOTES.

PUBLISHED BY GRACE NOTES BOOKS Venus laughs is a collection of poetry by award-winning author and Grace Notes founder, Harmoni McGlothlin. In a rare poetic journey, unfolds a story of the evolution of one spirit through tears, laughter, love, lust and everything in between. Illustrations by Matt Reed. Foreword by Steven Marty Grant, author of Another Hotel Room. Publishing & Printing Information: Grace Notes Books & Publishing is a "green" company in the sense that we do not believe in waste and prefer not to kill more trees than necessary in our ambition to publish beautiful books. As a result we use Amazon's Createspace for printing purposes. This enables us to order only the number of books we need, when we need them, and as a division of Amazon it offers the powerful distribution options that come from working through a large company. Unfortunately, our books are listed as being 'Published By: Createspace' here Amazon and other distribution venues. To clarify, Grace Notes Books are NOT self-publishing endeavors nor do authors pay any sort of fees to have their books published through us. Grace Notes Books is operated in the tradition of any small publishing company; with a full staff of gifted editors, artists, and graphic designers, among others. Books published by Grace Notes Books are submitted by authors and chosen by our editors in the same traditional way of small presses everywhere.