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First Place Fable Contest Winner; The Wobbly Wheel

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Fable Writing Contest Winner; injoyinc.comCongratulations to Elizabeth V. for winning the Injoy, Inc. Fable Writing Contest.

Elizabeth impressed us with her writing style as she wrote a fable with an admirable moral.

[quote]Impatience can bring unwanted consequences.[/quote]

Elizabeth V., is a thirteen year old girl from the Midwest. She lives on a farm and has been home schooled for the past four years. She enjoys reading and drawing in her free time. She also loves to play board and card games and solve mysteries on her Nancy Drew computer games. She has a pet dog named Lady and a kitten named Butterscotch who is sometimes very ornery.

As first place winner, Elizabeth’s fable is featured in the ebook Moore Fables, and she receives a $50 gift card from Institute for Excellence in Writing and a $20 Mardel gift card. Congratulations Elizabeth!

The Wobbly Wheel

There once was a tawny, young, field mouse named Roe. He lived with his family in an oak tree stump that was located in a small, dense wood. Roe was a very impatient mouse who was always rushing to complete tasks that took a lot of time.

One day, in the beginning of summer, it was so hot that Roe decided he wanted to go swimming. “May I please go swimming in the pond near the old maple tree?” Roe asked his parents.

“Yes, you can go,” answered Roe’s father, in a pleasant voice. “But first you have to fix your bicycle. It will be a bumpy ride and your bike has a loose wheel. When you repair it entirely, and make sure it is secure, you may go.” Roe’s father knew that his son was eager to leave, so he had specifically told Roe not to hurry.

Soon after little Roe began to attend to his bike, he became sidetracked with thoughts of the clear, cool water in the swimming pond and wasn’t paying attention to some of the bolts that he still hadn’t tightened. “I’m sick of working on my bike,” Roe mumbled, irritated that repairing his bicycle was taking too much time. “I’ve done enough,” he thought.

To read the rest of Elizabeth’s prize winning fable, download the Moore Fables ebook here!

 

Free Summer Writing Program for Students

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Injoy, Inc. Summer Writing Program; injoyinc.comFree Summer Writing Program

Injoy, Inc. is hosting a FREE Summer Writing Program for students. These lessons contain ideas for students in PK through high school to write and enjoy fables!

Over the summer, students  explore how to create a Fable, with weekly lessons that explore these creative writing elements:

  • storytelling: creating a beginning, middle, and end
  • how to create interesting characters
  • how to make up a plot complete with conflict and resolution
  • using dialogue to enhance the plot
  • writing an interesting moral to the story

At the end of the summer, students under the age of nineteen can submit their fable to the Fable Contest (contest kicks off August 23, 2013). The top fifty+ fables will be published in an e-book, with prizes for several different age groups for the most interesting fables.

[box_dark]And one of the most exciting parts of our Fable Contest: The e-book will be offered for sale on-line, with proceeds going to help purchase reading and writing materials for school children in Moore, Oklahoma.[/box_dark]

So far, prizes include, but more will be added continually throughout the summer:

Sign up below to join the Summer Writing Program; students can join all summer long!

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Student Writing Contest Winner Announced

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Student Writing Contest; injoyinc.comWe narrowed down the original entries to 63 student finalists and semi-finalists, who won a free membership to Write Now online writing lessons, and were invited to submit a professional book proposal for consideration for the grand prize. After reading, rereading, and rereading again, Injoy, Inc. has finally selected the winner of the Student Writing Contest.

The winner of the Grand Prize Student Writing Contest is:

[quote]Rachael M. The Dawn Bringers’ Prophecy[/quote]

Rachael is fifteen years old. Her interests vary widely, but her true passion is to create honest stories that her readers will enjoy. She strives to execute those stories well, so that the struggles and strife of the characters, and their ultimate victories, encourage her audience by reflecting the hardships of real life. This led her to write about Audren, a young, out-of-place prince who lives in a time when the world is turned upside down, and there seems to be no way to turn it back again.

Rachael also enjoys the art and storytelling style of Japanese-style animation, and is currently writing a graphic novel, called a manga, and dreams of eventually animating it. She has won numerous writing awards, such as the Master of the Written Word award, and several 4-H awards for presentations which she wrote and presented at both regional and state levels.

She is also passionate about training and riding horses, and is currently training her two horses to compete in endurance races. She enjoys broadsword and kung-fu lessons, as well as longbow and compound bow hunting in the mountains around her home, and often draws upon her knowledge of weaponry in her writing.

The Injoy Team is looking forward to working with Rachael to design her book cover, help her complete her book, and then edit and format it, print it, help her market it, award her free copies, and publish it to e-book and print.

 

 

 

 

Student Authors

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Injoy, Inc. promotes and encourages students in their creative writing projects. Be sure to check out the student writing contest, with an entry deadline of January 31, 2013.

[box_dark]Although the deadline for this writing contest is closed, you can enter the regular writing contest that is open to all ages right here; the deadline to enter that contest is February 28, 2013. We’ll have more student writing opportunities in the future, so be sure to like the Injoy, Inc. Facebook  page  (click here) to get firsthand information about contests and other writing opportunities.[/box_dark]

 

 

The Silhouette Strangler

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Scarlet Daniels, a New Orleans police dectective, thought that she was ready for anything, but she soon discovered that she wasn’t ready for Detective Anthony Rosetti, her new partner. On the trail of a serial killer, Scarlet and Anthony grow closer in their partnership and uncover personal hardships they must face. The detectives have collected clues and followed leads. All the while trying to anticipate the killer’s next move. But somehow, the murderer always seemed to be one step ahead of them. Would Scarlet and Anthony ever apprehend such a ruthless killer?

Silhouette Strangler is the second book by Michaela Leigh, and the first of the Scarlet Fever series.





Black Rose

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After finding a dead body on her way to work, Agatha’s problems mount as she tries to solve the murder and find the fictim’s vast fortune. All the while, she’s interogating endless suspects, gathering clues, and dodging bullets. She expected myster and intrigue, but the one thing that Agatha didn’t expect was David, the handsome reporter with the sparkling chocolate colored eyes. Will the danger that they’re facing be too much for David and Agatha’s budding romance to withstand?

Black Rose $8.95




Undercover Highschooler

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Have you ever wondered what really goes on in the classroom? Do you wish your highschooler would tell you about his day, but secretly fear to hear the truth? Would you like to be a fly on the wall and see a typical highschool student’s day?

Most highschool students are afraid to be different, but this acocunt is written by a highschool girl who is delightfully different. She had been shielded from the pop culture, didn’t watch network television, had a peer group made up of non-public schooled students, and was curiously naive about the public school culture. She enrolled in public school prepared to be surprised, but was shocked by the differences she observed in her new set of peers. Surprised to discover that the public school culture had shaped these students in a way that was disappointing, unnecessary, and sad, she began to document her days. She discovered that the public school persona is a mask that these students learned to wear en masse, forfeiting their individuality.

Has your child been assimilated by the public school culture, or is it even possible for them to be in the world and not of it, when they have been indoctrinated into that culture for thirteen plus formative life years for nine hours a day? This book might cause you to reconsider the standard assumption that public school is normal and harmless. If you want to raise a child who is a courageous individual, has high self esteem, can think for themselves, and is confidant in their choices to be different, you might read this book for the interesting insight it provides.

This book is a candid and honest appraisal of a typical midwestern highschool public school setting given by a not-so-typical high school junior. Warning: this book contains language and sexual references of a PG-13 nature, perhaps not deemed suitable for very young readers by parents.

Undercover Highschooler $8.95