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1 week ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
The Send My Love to Anyone Literary Amplifier is for both free and paid SMLTA subscribers. Join the weekly SMLTA Literary Amplifier so we can support each other’s notes, newsletters, publications, events, or literary activities. The weekly Send My Love to Anyone Literary Amplifier will be posted on Mondays and will be open for a week. I got the idea from Substack Writers at Work with Sarah Fay Notes Boost Challenge where she has been hosting a daily challenge for the past two months.
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1 week ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
But I’m not going to ask others these questions without first doing the interview myself, so here are my answers. My first memory of being a person was at the age of two where I found myself buckled in a black rubber portable car seat and placed in our tiny back porch screaming my head off. I was wearing a white shirt and blue pants. This is probably the most vivid memory I have. I remember that back porch smelled like earth and mold and the spongy texture of the rubber on the car seat.
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
The Send My Love to Anyone Literary Amplifier is for both free and paid SMLTA subscribers. Join the weekly SMLTA Literary Amplifier so we can support each other’s notes, newsletters, publications, events, or literary activities. The weekly Send My Love to Anyone Literary Amplifier will be posted on Mondays and will be open for a week. I will posted it to the website and in the chat. It will not go out by email as I don’t flood inboxes.
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
“Do You Know What's Great?" is a commentary on our tendency to detach from the problems of the world and find solace in passive observation and indifference.
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2 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
For those of you wondering what it feels like to launch a debut book into the world—or any book for that matter—well it can feel like an exercise in exclusion. Were the gym teachers sadists when they handed the bats to the best athletes in the class who also happened to be the most popular and anointed them team captains? Of course these boys chose their friends first (the system was rigged) and then the rest of us were either picked or passed over until we got to the final sad kid.
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3 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
Stop what you are doing! Read this book!!Every line, every paragraph If you’ve been witness to Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians that our government supports, this book will offer some sanity. Put this book in the hands of everyone. “There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they’ll come for next.
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3 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
A Special Thank You to SMLTA’s Paid SubscribersSMLTA Literary AmplifierPoetry by Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi and Natalie LimCongratulations to Dale Martin Smith The First Time with KirbyMy Adventures in Book PublicityIgnore Me with Kathryn MocklerI’m so grateful to all the Send My Love to Anyone readers, but I’d like to take a moment and give a special thanks to the paid subscribers of this newsletter.
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3 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
A new perk for paid subscribers is the ability share their recent news and events with the SMLTA Community. Send My Love to Anyone is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support this project, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Select events will be featured on Gatherings which goes out to the entire SMLTA community. I’d love to hear about your book launches, publication, readings, and more.
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3 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
Where Do I Start prompts are free for all readers. Paid subscribers are invited to share their process of this writing prompt and/or post their creative work in the comments. Select works will be considered for publication in a future issue of Send My Love to Anyone. “When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away—even if it’s only a glass of water.
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3 weeks ago | 
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com | Kathryn Mockler
Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedin the end we're losing to our dreams, false textures of civilization dreaming up a new guise. “the bus is crowded.” is our party slogan. what does reality owe to the carnal? from orange segment to the receptionist’s mouth: this peeled immensity perfected by the hole. in the end I said having our feelings met is an aperitif we can only find in museums.
