writer, poet, rubberstamper

Since her sun is now heading for the western horizon, Barbara Blanks says she’s blooming as fast as she can.  In less than two years she’s had two book signings, and won first place awards in the Poetry Society of Texas annual contests, plus placed in several categories.  As a result of that, she was not only a Writers' Guild of Texas guest speaker, but her winning poems and a book review/article were featured in the May/June 2009 issue of The Senior Voice. http://www.theseniorvoice.com/pdffiles/0956SV.pdf 

Because of that article, she met Carol Butler, the publisher, and now writes on assignment for the Senior Voice. She has three pieces in the current Jan/Feb 2010 issue, and another in the works. http://www.theseniorvoice.com/pdffiles/1002SV.pdf

 As a result of that, she was asked to speak at The Point, Center for Arts & Education, at CC Young in Dallas. Some of those events led her to being nominated and elected as a Director on the board of the Poetry Society of Texas.  She was also asked to step in as Librarian after the post was vacated.  She was recently elected Recording Secretary/Treasurer for the local Garland chapter of the PST, and most recently will probably become the editor of A Galaxy of Verse, a publication associated with the PST.

 On the basis of three humorous filler pieces sent to RubberStampMadness, a national stamping magazine she’s been subscribing to for twenty years, Barbara was offered assignment work.  Her first article appeared in their Fall 2009 issue, and her second assignment appeared in the 2009/2010 Holiday issue, and two articles are currently in the Spring 2010 issue.

 Barbara's story, "A Bird Too Bizarre," appeared in the July 2009, 7th Anniversary issue of  Beyond Centauri, a Sam's Dot publication.  She is also pleased about 35 books sold to the New Jersey Book Agency for re-sale--and puzzled as to how they learned about her book.  But she says, “When Serendipity slaps you in the face, start chewing!”

 Be sure to read her blog  http://stflossie.blogspot.com

Why?  Why not?