It started as a running joke, when someone posted a picture that sparked a discussion. Being writers, it wasn’t long before someone said “Oh, I have an idea for a story!” Being a publisher, I challenged them by suggesting that if they could write a story, I could build an anthology around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So we did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Actually, it went more like “F#%% it, let’s do an anthology!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The result was the first Blaze Ward Presents:<\/strong> An Interpretation of Moles<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had so much fun that others asked when I was going to do the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At that point, it became a thing<\/strong><\/em>. I did them twice a year (spring and fall, sort of) for a bit, but now we aim for annual in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For folks on my mailing list, they might get a heads up (if I know what the next theme will be). Otherwise, I announce the new one on my social media with what many writers consider to be impossible deadlines. But I work with pros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I might make a general call on April 1, with completed stories due in to me April 30, with expected publication on June 1. (Fall has been reserved for other project). If you give a writer too long, they tend to edit a story to death, so I want them to give me the raw emotion that they started with, rather than the vanilla pablum that was left afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And I’ll keep doing this as long as I’m having fun and everyone else is making a little money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I hope you’ll join us on the adventure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n -blaze-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It started as a running joke, when someone posted a picture that sparked a discussion. Being writers, it wasn’t long before someone said “Oh, I have an idea for a story!” Being a publisher, I challenged them by suggesting that if they could write a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blazewardpresents.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}