Ilona's World

Coffee Poems is an anthology containing poems about coffee. It includes one of my poems. (May 2019.) (The book contains poems by 139 poets. From 12 countries.)

Celestial Musings anthology includes one of my poems. This is a collection of poems about the beauty of the night sky. (" Celestial Musings: Poems Inspired by the Night Sky "  December, 2018.) The proceeds from the book will benefit the Charles W. Brown Planetarium at Ball State University.

One of my poems appeared in 300K poetry anthology. ' 300K A Poetry Anthology about the Human Race ' includes poems by French-speaking and English-speaking poets. These are all poems about the history of mankind. (Some are in French and some are in English.)

Two of my poems appeared in the latest issue of DoveTales .  This is an international journal of the arts. (Topic: “ Empathy in Art: Embracing the Other ”) You can get a copy here .

I started to write again last year. (Poems ans short stories.)                                Since then, I've had six poems published and there will be more. (This is a photo of my contributor's copies.)

One of my poems appeared in a charity anthology, Wolf Warriors 4.: Wolves of Light and Darkness.   This is an English-language anthology containing poems and short stories about wolves. The cover image is beautiful. ( Purchase link .)

- One of my poems will soon appear in a charity anthology. (It will be included in an English-language anthology containing poems and short stories about wolves.) - A short short story of mine was accepted and will appear in print, in Spanish, some time next year. (I submitted it in English, then it was translated into Spanish.) - Stay tuned. There will be more. ;)

2012 was a good year for me in every respects. As for my writing, I became busy writing only towards the end of the year, but it felt great. I had more poems published in English and I also wrote an urban fantasy story , and I managed to submit it to the publisher in time. This also means that I learnt to handle deadlines . I was also learning more about screenwriting and I would really like to learn more about it later. In 2012, I also became brave enough to perform in front of people, so I was reading poetry at the Write Like Bukowski contest and I also did stand up for the first time, in a pub , at a charity event. The latter was a so-called open-mic event. (I'd like to do this again some time.) I also made lots of new friends and got a lot of new ideas that still need to be put on paper. The year 2012 was a better one for me than the ones before, and I was able to start the next one as an optimist .

The Best Planet in the World appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of the magazine. Illumen is a print magazine of speculative poetry, published biannually by Sam's Dot Publishing . It contains poetry, illustrations, articles and reviews. The featured poet for this issue is Marge Simon and the cover art is by Joshua Gage. You can order a copy via the publisher's bookstore .

My poem, The Fairy's Granddaughter has appeared in the special fantasy issue of Tales of The Talisman magazine (Volume 7, Issue 3). I am very proud of this one. It is great to see something that I wrote in a magazine with such an awesome cover and which has contributors such as Carol Hightshoe, Simon Bleaken, F. T. McKinstry, Jim Chandler and  David C. Kopaska-Merkel and is edited by David Lee Summers. You can get a copy of it at Amazon . Product details:     Paperback: 100 pages     Publisher: Hadrosaur Productions (January 31, 2012)     Language: English     ISBN-10: 1885093616,  ISBN-13: 978-1885093615     Price:     $8.00

Issue 37 of Aoife's Kiss is a double issue and the absolutely awesome cover features Sandy DeLuca 's "Lonely Night."  This is a quarterly magazine of fantasy, science fiction, horror , sword & sorcery, and slipstream, which publishes short stories, poems, illustrations, articles, and reviews. Generally, some very intriguing stuff. The list of contributors includes: Greer Woodward: In Search Of Flight Robert J. Sawyer: Star Light, Star Bright Tyree Campbell: Starlet Shelly Li: The Architect Of Apathy J Alan Erwine: R-Complex Tim McDaniel: A Little Green D. Moonfire: Best Of Enemies Kimberly Richardson: Violin DoA Worrell: The Fermi Paradox Ramon Rozas III: Night Of The Sevens Edward Cox: Ideal Village Dawn Marshallsay: Sleep-Less Highs Susan E. Curnow: A Gift Horse Gale Merrick: The Jeweled Necklace Of Ishtar Keith P. Graham: Carnival Of Blood Edward W. Robinson: In The Veins Of Arawn Sam Kepfield: Azaleas Barbara A. Barnett: The Deepeni...

The Febr issue of Sounds of The Night is out, with a poem of mine in it. (This is issue 8 , and the poem's title is ' Enough is Better Than Too Much '). Sounds of the Night features science fiction and fantasy short stories and poetry, with a tad of romance thrown in. Based on the list of contributors, it seems to be a nice selection. (I can hardly wait to get my contributor's copy). Sounds of the Night is published by Samsdot Publishing . Copies of it can be ordered via the Genremall .

I decided to include here some of my previously published poems (SF/F/H) . I was planning to put them onto my website, but then it occurred to me that my blog is also a good place for that. :)

A sci-fi poem of mine will appear in Aoife's Kiss in June, and a fantasy poem will be in Sounds of the Night in Febr. In the meantime, you can read some of my older poems here: Clarissa , Ruler , Healer , Ghost Story ,(these are from 2004 and 2005.) I will revamp the website soon, and I'll include more poems, too.

A poem of mine, ( Me and My Clones ) has appeared in NthZine (Issue #5, June/July 2010). You can download the magazine from the NthDegree website: http://www.nthzine.com/

I have not updated this blog for a bit more than two years . Well, that's a long time. Things I've done : - living, loving, partying, learning and working... - reading a lot of books, (contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and sci-fi classics). - I wrote a short story, a couple of poems, and lots and lots of blog posts in Hungarian about books and movies. (I don't think it is worth the time and the energy to translate these to English, but we'll see what the future holds.) My poetry book is not on sale anymore . (I will soon remove the dead links). That's all for now.