Indie Blu(e) Publishing are very proud to announce the publication of As The World Burns. Our third socially-aware anthology. As The World Burns is available via all good book stores in Kindle and softback NOW. It is an incredible collection of writers, many of whom are from WordPress and are in our writing groups, writing some of our favorite work. We hope you will support them and our efforts to spread awareness of socially vital subjects. If you have felt frustrated with politics, Covid-19, Black Lives Matter, Homophobia or any of the things happening ‘as the world burns’ this is the collection for you.
We dedicate this anthology to those who have bravely fought the encroaching darkness in 2020 with their writing and their art, and who insist that racism, sexism, homophobia, and war are not inevitable, or acceptable, facets of the human condition. As The World Burns is a story of survival and an act of resistance. We speak with many voices, to the damage wrought in these violent, fevered months. Let us never forget or turn away, from what is just, what is necessary, to keep light alive in this world.
If you are a fan of any of the following authors and artists please consider reading this incredible collection & if you see your name here, link me with your page or LMK and I will hyperlink it. Where I have not found your name on WordPress I have linked to work of yours on WordPress or to your website:
Susi Bocks (poet, SMITTEN), dani bowes (poet SMITTEN), Annette Kalandros (poet WordPress/Facebook/We Will Not Be Silenced), F I Goldhaber (poet We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), Kai Coggin (poet SMITTEN/Internationally recognized poet), Dawn McKenzie (poet We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress/Facebook), Sean McGraw (poet SMITTEN), Rachel Kobin (poet/writer We Will Not Be Silenced), Melita White (poet WordPress), John Leys (poet WordPress), A. Lawler (poet SMITTEN), Irma Do (poet SMITTEN), Kendall Krantz (poet SMITTEN/Actor), Jamie L. Smith (poet SMITTEN), Jimmi Campkin (WordPress/Photographer), Robert Okaji (WordPress/Internationally recognized poet), Maria Gianna Iannucci (poet WordPress), Marisela Brazfield (poet), Aakriti Kuntal (poet WordPress/We Will Not Be Silenced/The Kali Project), Milly Webster (poet SMITTEN), Dierdre Fagan (poet SMITTEN/We Will Not Be Silenced/), Ali Grimshaw (poet We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), Dr. Sneha Rooh (poet SMITTEN/WordPress), Marcia Weber (poet, We Will Not Be Silenced), Sarah Ito (poet SMITTEN), Henri Bensussen (poet SMITTEN), Sarah Bigham (poet/writer We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), Charu Sharma (poet We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), Karissa Whitson (poet SMITTEN), Lindz McLeod (poet SMITTEN), Rachel Finch (poet/writer SMITTEN/We Will Not Be Silenced/Editor Indie Blu(e)), Crystal Kinistino (poet/feminist activist WordPress/SMITTEN/We Will Not Be Silenced/Medium), Dani Bowes (poet SMITTEN), Jaya Avendel (WordPress/We Will Not Be Silenced/The Kali Project), Erik Klingenberg (poet WordPress), Liz DeGregorio (poet SMITTEN), Sammie Payne (photographer/poet/Facebook/Instagram), L Stevens (poet), Jennifer Carr (poet SMITTEN), Matt Eayre (poet WordPress poet/writer/author), Rachel Roth (poet SMITTEN), Tony Single (WordPress/illustrator/graphic novelist/poet), A Shea (poet WordPress, SMITTEN, Facebook/Instagram), Rachel Tijou (poet We Will Not Be Silenced/Photographer), Emje Mccarty (artist/illustrator/poet/WordPress), Lola White (WordPress poet), Sally Zakariya (SMITTEN poet), Carol Jewell (SMITTEN poet), HOKIS (poet/philosopher SMITTEN/WordPress), Patricia Q Bidar (SMITTEN), Sun Hesper Jansen (poet/philisopher/MS campaigner WordPress) Erin Van Vuren (SMITTEN poet/internationally recognized poet on Instagram), Tremaine Loadholt (Medium/SMITTEN/WordPress writer & editor), Marcia Weber (poet/WordPress), Carrie Weis (artist/poet WordPress/We Will Not Be Silenced), Marvlyn Vincent (poet SMITTEN/WordPress), Sarah Ito (SMITTEN poet), Teresa Chappell (SMITTEN poet), Tia Hudson (SMITTEN poet), Aviva Lilith (SMITTEN poet), Anthony Glenn (writer/poet WordPress), Devereaux Frazier (writer/poet Facebook/Instagram/WordPress), Char Trolinder (writer/poet Facebook), Jesica Nodarse (poet SMITTEN/We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), Eric Syrdal (writer/poet WordPress/We Will Not Be Silenced), Sarah Doughty (writer/poet WordPress/We Will Not Be Silenced), Eleanor Knight (Singer/Songwriter Facebook/Instagram), Ashley Jane (Poet, WordPress, SMITTEN, We Will Not Be Silenced, Instagram, Facebook), Ruth Bowley (poet, WordPress), Mela Bust (Poet, WordPress, Facebook, Instagram), John Leys (Poet, WordPress), Hoda Esta (Poet, SMITTEN), Nicholas Gagnier (Writer/Poet Instagram/We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), John Cochrane (Writer/Poet WordPress), John Biscello (Writer/Poet WordPress), Jane Dougherty (Writer/Poet WordPress), DM Burton (Poet), Melissa Fadul (Writer/Poet WordPress/SMITTEN/We Will Not Be Silenced), Selene Crosier (Poet, SMITTEN), Tamara Madison (Writer/Poet WordPress), Irma Do (poet SMITTEN), Carla Toney (writer/poet SMITTEN), Philip Vernon (Writer/Philosopher WordPress), Linda Crate (poet SMITTEN), Sonja Beauchamp (poet SMITTEN), Elle Arra (writer/poet/WordPress), Merril Smith (Writer/Historian. SMITTEN Foreword/author of The Dictionary of Rape), Hanlie Robbertse (Poet Facebook/Instagram), Petru Vijoen (poet SMITTEN), Maria Gray (poet SMITTEN), Kristiana Reed (poet, WordPress/We Will Not Be Silenced & Editor of Free Verse Revolution), Velma Hamilton (poet SMITTEN), Katherine DeGilio (poet SMITTEN), Christine Ray (Co-Founder of Indie Blu(e) Publishing, Poet SMITTEN, We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), Kindra Austin (Co-Founder of Indie Blu(e) Publishing, Poet SMITTEN, We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), SA Quinox (poet SMITTEN/WordPress/We Will Not Be Silenced), Leslea Newman (foreword We Will Not Be Silenced/Internationally recognized poet), Amie Campbell (poet SMITTEN), Rob Plath (poet, WordPress), Jessica Jacobs (poet, Internationally recognized poet/SMITTEN), Megha Sood (poet, The Kali Project/SMITTEN), Nayana Nair (poet, WordPress/SMITTEN), Allie Nelson (poet, WordPress), Kim Harvey (Poet, SMITTEN), Cynthia Bryant (poet, SMITTEN), Nadia Garofolo (Musician/Poet), Rachael Ikins (poet/photographer, SMITTEN, We Will Not Be Silenced/WordPress), Devika Mathur (The Kali Project/WordPress poet), Destiny Killian (poet, SMITTEN), Andrew McDowell (poet, WordPress), Dustin Pickering (poet/writer WordPress).
I ordered my copies yesterday!! Woot Woot!!
Ah you are amazing! YOU really are you know.
<3 I am always happy to support, promote and praise you and all your team's efforts! The work you have produced is worthy and I benefit from all the poets/writers/artists who have contributed to such a powerful and timely anthology! Thank you for all that you do, Candice!!
So appreciate that (and you) (did I mention I appreciate you?) (love you)
Yes, and same! <3
Hey there, https://dawnsnight.wordpress.com/ for Dawn D. McKenzie 😉
Oh thank you love! I was DESPERATELY trying to remember your name I knew it was ‘nights’ something but !!! Monday brain! I do appreciate you sending me this I have added it xo
no worries 🙂 It reminded me I had promised myself to switch my blog from private to readable to those who have the link, which I’ve just done 🙂
Thank YOU for the work done on the anthology and for the post and shout out 😀
XO
Oh you are VERY welcome my talented friend. I am just so glad to promote your work in any way.
Awesome!
It’s really superb and I’m very, very proud of everyone involved hence the plug. I do hope you will snag a copy!
I will need 2, one for me and one for the local library, same as I did for SMITTEN.
Ah that is a good number indeed!
Yes. I did it with We Will Not Be Silenced also.
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TheFeatheredSleep – As The World Burns – available now
Do hope you like it dearest Bob it was a lot of work and so many incredible authors. Such a work of love and hopefully change! Thank you so much for always supporting us so much. It means the world to us.
I have been distracted from getting a review done. Since I missed the pre-pub window, I’ll post it to Amazon. It is an amazing collection, and huge.
Yes do not worry no rush but we so appreciate reviews on amazon xo
Thanks – There is so much feeling in it, so much that resonates in different ways.
Congratulations to all concerned!
I’m also so happy to hear about your chapbook and I will be purchasing a copy FOR SURE! This is brilliant news you’ve done this. About time my talented girl! Thank you so much dearest Jane for being in this collection, your work HAD to be.
Thank you! Now I know it can be done, I’ll be churning them out at an industrial rate 🙂
DO IT!!! I shall buy them all! And name my third shelf the shelf of JANE
They’re very slim volumes 🙂
Small shelf BIG WORTH
Getting the second one together right now 🙂
She’s on fire!!!
It’s the equivalent of keeping every bit of string or screw in case it comes in useful. I keep poems.
Remember the little tiny books they did for dolls houses? I’m thinking of those now. But imagine how nice it will be to have a little collection of small chapbooks of your work?
They’re slightly larger than that 🙂 but I know what you mean. It will be good for me to have, yes. Proof that I did it!
Did it come in the post yet? I wasn’t sure.
I sent you an email this morning. Hope it was the right address. Yes, it came this morning with the worm tablets!
ha ha ha!!! LOVE it!
Trixie was pleased too 🙂
btw just did amazon should be with you Nov 14 xx
Great! It should arrive with the cat’s worm tablets 🙂
You do know you have me in stitches? Oh how our lives mirror the other!
Poor cat though if I get poetry and she’s still waiting to be wormed!
Hahaha!!! I want to respond with a drawing of that !
She was always getting worms in town, no idea how, but this is the first time since we’ve been here. She’s getting…restless 🙂
Wouldn’t you with worms? 😉
I’m glad to be able to say, I don’t know!
I’m so excited about this and cannot wait to cop my 3 copies this week! Yes!
I hope so much you will be pleased. I always think of you when I work on things, because you have taught me the value of putting 110 percent into everything. You do this with everything YOU do and it inspires me to do the same. I so admire you my friend and I love you.
Oh, I know I’ll love it! You guys do great work! I am simply honored. Truly. I love you too, ma’am.
Is it over btw? I have been sick so the dates have all muddled but it’s over isn’t it? You have left? You are a FREE WOMAN now?
I began my first day at the new gig today. I’ll send you a couple text messages. *big hugs*
YES! Fingers Toes & heart crossed for you
It is a joy to be part of this powerful collection of poetry, Candice! I connect wholesomely with the dedication of this book.
I know you do my friend and I am so glad to know you better through this project and The Kali Project (which will be coming out next!). I am so glad for your talent & goodness, you inspire me my blue-eyed Indian inspiration!
🥰 Your words today, Candice, make my day. Thank you.
Love to you my talented friend
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Just to give you an idea of who is in there with me…
Thank you dearest Dawn for this reblog xo
Least I can do 🙂 I’d already done a post and a story and post on Insta about it, but they didn’t include everyone. 🙂
You are such a good soul you know that?
Hahaha! For doing self promotion? Lol!
No, I get what you’re saying. But it really IS my pleasure entirely 🙂
for being the person you are, for being so talented and so supportive of others.
Well, thank you for your very kind words! They are very appreciated this morning. XO
And thank you for being you
Oh, btw, I don’t have a FB page, but I’m on Instagram 😉
Okay good- I think I only put other links when there weren’t WP ones but as you are here I put this. xo
And congratulations to everyone, and a particular thank you to the editors and publishers for making this possible, as usual.
So grateful to you for your hard work my friend
<3
Congratulations to everyone involved.
Thank you so very much !!!
Congratulations to all concerned
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Really glad to have been able to contribute to this anthology and to have my work published alongside so many talented poets. Can’t wait to read it 🙂
SO happy you are in it again because we LOVE your poetry my friend and you are a highlight of any collection!
Thanks a lot for such kind words about my work 🙂 Means a lot 🙂
It’s all truth my friend (and you are a friend) you DESERVE it you EARNED it. You are immensely talented.
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Now available! So honored and so excited about the work in this anthology.
Thank you for the reblog lovely one and CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Thank you for taking the time to link to all my fellow contributors! Now I can update my recent post and direct people here. The book is thing of glory and power, and I can’t wait for your next project (Kali and Chamunda are my favorite aspects of the Devi…) Love to you~ ♡
I am so glad you saw that post and I hope I did yours right. LMK if you need me to do anything at all. I am so glad you are IN this book my friend you have no idea. I have LONG thought you were one of the most talented writers I know. I did not know that about Kali and you, well then please remind me of your postal address and I shall send you a hard copy when I publish it. I am proud of this project as it is ‘mine’ a little more than the other and comes from my humble heart – such a fascination and love of India long held. How are you my friend? My email is candicedaquin@gmail.com send me your address I am pretty sure I have it somewhere but just in case I cannot locate it among my chaos.
You’ll be hearing from me soon, I promise! ♡