

an anthology of work from people living in polyamorous families. Editor Elisabeth Sheff is currently seeking submissions for the anthology. Are you a member of a poly family and willing to share your story (anonymously) with the world? Consider writing a brief entry.



Submissions are due by October 15.



Submissions can:



-- Range in length from a few sentences to 3,000 words long, depending on your age, the format you select, and how much you have to say.



-- Take the form of essays, short stories, poetry, drawings, photographs, or whatever else you create that can be depicted in a two-dimensional format.



-- Use pseudonyms or real names — be as anonymous or out as you wish.



-- Come from anyone who identifies as a member of a polyamorous family composed of all adults, adults and kids, or some other mix of folks who identify as family.



To submit a contribution to Stories from the Polycule, please email them to drelisheff {at} gmail.com by October 15, 2014.



Topics you might consider include (but are not limited to)....



Read on.





When Franklin Veaux first tried to interest publishers in the book that would become More Than Two , they told him they weren't interested in a how-to poly book; they wanted his personal memoir. So he and his sweetie Eve Rickert, who knew the writing and publishing business, founded their own imprint, Thorntree Press , to bring outwhich they ended up writing together.The book launches in 10 days. A few hundred are already in circulation, drawing great reviews . Amazon starts shipping it then, and Eve and Franklin will begin their West Coast book tour They hoped from the outset that this would work well enough for them to keep the company going and publish more alt-relationship nonfiction. Now they have two additional books in the works for 2015, and they're looking for more. One is Franklin's memoir, to be titledwhich he's currently writing. (If mainstream publishers thought it would sell, it's probably a good bet.) The other will be Elisabeth Sheff'swhich she's had brewing since last winter.Elisabeth is the sociologist who published The Polyamorists Next Door nearly a year ago. Much of that book is about her years of work researching polyfamilies and their kids.will be, according to Thorntree,

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