Nancy Sakaduski is an award-winning writer, editor, and owner of Cat & Mouse Press in Lewes, Delaware publishing books of regional interest. She runs the Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest, and produces Writing is a Shore Thing, a curated online newspaper for writers. Nancy has a BA in Communications from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Loyola University (Baltimore).
Nancy formed Cat & Mouse Press in 2012 to support local writers and produce books and other materials that are fun, entertaining, and of particular interest to residents of, and visitors to, the DelMarVa region. Cat & Mouse Press currently has 22 books in print and several more in production.
Along with 23 other books, she is the author of “How to Write Winning Short Stories – A practical guide to writing stories that win contests and get selected for publication” Nancy brought all of this experience and copies of her book to share with members at the South Jersey Writers’ Group October 2019 meeting. Nancy’s informative talk focused primarily on the craft of writing, but also dipped into business aspects.
In her concise issue-by-issue presentation, Nancy dissected the common mistakes that too many writers make. She then the offered the better alternative(s) in each case. The presentation drew many of its ideas and examples from her book on short story writing, a broadly applicable guide for writers of novels and nonfiction as well. See more about that book here: How to Write Winning Short Stories
More information on Nancy and her work can be found on her Amazon author’s pages:
amazon.com/author/nancysakaduski
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Cat & Mouse Press’s largest project to date, the annual Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest, invites area writers to submit stories that fit the year’s theme. Winning stories are published in a book, and authors of the top stories receive cash prizes. Entries are accepted each year between March 1 and July 1. Submission information and guidelines for the annual Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest are available on the website at www.catandmousepress.com.
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