Common Ties is not about us - it's about you, and the stories you tell through your artwork.

To collect your stories, we asked the world 20 questions and published our favorite 50-word answers with artwork each week, and through the incredible content you submitted we have been able to secure a book deal with Santa Monica Press. Now is your chance to become a published author and artist! Submit your confessions in the form of short stories and photos/illustrations by November 1, 2009, and we will consider it for our book. For details, check out our FAQ.

We used to publish your longer personal stories, which you can still read here.

Editor Elizabeth Armstrong Moore is a freelance journalist in Portland, Ore. Her work has appeared in many venues, including The Christian Science Monitor and Wired magazine.