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Full line of literary services now available
From manuscript critiquing to complete editing, ghostwriting, and more, C.S. Fuqua offers a full-line of literary services tailored to help you find a publishing home for your manuscript. For complete information and rates, visit the Literary Services page.
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Alabama Musicians: Musical Heritage from the Heart of Dixie, C.S. Fuqua, The History PressAlabama Musicians details history of musical Alabama

Now available from your neighborhood bookstore and online  from The History Press, Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble,  Alabama Musicians: Musical Heritage from the Heart of Dixie. Read more...
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Big Daddy's Gadgets, C.S. Fuqua, science fiction, satireBig Daddy's Gadgets good for a six-century adolescent ride

For some, it can take decades to grow up. For Joshua Rigsby, even six centuries aren't enough. Big Daddy's Gadgets, published by Mundania Press, is the satirical tale of a boy's six-century journey through adolenscence as he discovers the importance of devotion, honesty, and the power of people to do good and evil. Read more...

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If I Were... children's poetry collection, C.S. Fuqua, Beth Allison illustrations, SynergEbooks.comIf I Were...,  poems for children and adults

If I Were..., available from SynergEbooks, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.com,is a collection of connected, playful poems for children by C.S. Fuqua and illustrated by gifted, award-winning artist and instructor, Beth Young. If I Were... inspires a deeper awareness and respect as it takes readers on an extraordinary ride into imagination. Read more...

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Trust Walk short fiction collection, Mundania Press, C.S. FuquaGet Trust Walk at a discount!

GET 10 PERCENT OFF! From Mundania Press, the  2010 release, Trust Walk, collects 35 of C.S. Fuqua's short stories, ranging from dark fantasy to literary mainstream, featuring several award-winning stories, including Year's Best Horror choices... Read more...
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The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood, C.S. Fuqua, Uncial Press, Eppie Winner "Best Poetry Collection 2008"The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood 2008 EPIC winner

The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood, C.S. Fuqua, Uncial Press, Eppie Winner "Best Poetry Collection 2008"From Uncial Press and available at Barnes & Nobel and Amazon.com, C.S. Fuqua's The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood won the EPIC professional writers association's year's best poetry collection for 2008. Celebrating the challenges and rewards of parenting, The Swing elicits "thoughts and feelings from many experiences. A must for any (parent)." -- Willie Elliott for Myshelf.com. Read more...

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"Demons" coming in May 2012

Something Wicked fiction magazine will feature the short story, "Demons," in its May 2012 issue. Suffering from PTSD, an Iraqi War veteran discovers a phooka who's been starved to the edge of death and insanity. Together, they find healing in compassion that comes only from experience. "Demons" features the phooka who appeared in Fuqua's original short story, "Occasional Demon," originally published in Terminal Fright magazine and contained in the collection Trust Walk.
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New poems coming...

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Recent poetry publications...

  •  "Road"; Assisi, 2012
  • "Unscathed" in British literary magazine, Prole #7, April 2012
  • "Changes" in Artistica literary magazine, Issue 2, 2012.
  • "These Colors Run" in The Binnacle, 2012 
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Eyes of a Child short story, Uncial Press, C.S. Fuqua"Eyes of a Child," an exploration of dark faith and parental love

From Uncial Press and available from Amazon.com, C.S. Fuqua's poignant short story, "Eyes of a Child," recounts a farmer's imprisonment of an angel in a desperate attempt to "heal" his severely handicapped daughter, but his demands -- and prayers -- are answered in ways he never dreamed. "In 'Eyes Of A Child' ... Hollis prays for a miracle to transform his physically and mentally handicapped daughter. But when an angel comes, Hollis captures her ... and pleads with her to do something. Hollis is dying, the child's mother is dead, and he knows how cruelly the world will treat his daughter once he is gone ... In the end, [the angel] does help Hollis and [his daughter], but in a way that [is] both tragic and joyful." -- Jim Reichart, Tangent Short Fiction Review, December 1999
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The Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft, C.S. Fuqua, Awe-Struck PublishingThe Native American Flute isn't just for men

The Native American Flute: Myth, History, Craft, published by Awe-Struck Books, separates flute myth from flute fact to provide a better understanding of the Native American flute’s true place and function in history and in today’s culture... Read more...
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Visit C.S. Fuqua's blog, Chin Music Shuffle

Writing on a random variety of subjects, C.S. Fuqua adds to the ever-growing blogosphere din on no particular schedule. Please join him as he explores everything from from music to human behavior to the ever-chaning publishing industry, entries appearing, at  best, on a random schedule.
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"The Bridge" selected for inclusion in upcoming "best of" collection

Raw Dog Screaming Press plans the publication of a "best of Bare Bone magazine" collection tentatively in 2012, featuring fiction from the early issues of the magazine. "The Bridge," one of Fuqua's stranger stories about responsibility and rebirth, a recurring theme in his work, has been selected for inclusion.

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Nil Desperandum audio magazine to feature "Rise Up"

Audio magazine Nil Desperandum is producing the short story "Rise Up" in audio format and will soon offer it as a free download for listeners. "Rise Up" is the second story featuring the Sharps & Flats music store and its owner, a mysterious Appalachian woman and her collection of unusual instruments, the first, "The Sharps & Flats Guarantee," aYear's Best Horror Stories's selection.
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The Horror Show, "Screamer," C.S. Fuqua fictionScreamer" finds new home

Fuqua's first professionally published fiction story, "Screamer," which appeared originally in The Horror Show in 1986, was later featured on 3PBS, Melbourne, Australia, and included in Trust Walk, has found a new home. The story will soon appear with 99 other short terrors in 100 Lightnings, edited by Stephen Studach for Paroxysm Press, based in Sydney, Australia.

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