non-fiction
October 29, 2009
- This is what is happening today folks in publishing and its just the beginning. Publishing is changing and so are the contracts. Here is what is agents are doing right now, and this is the first of many I suspect creative inititatives by one of the worlds largest media companies. "Agents are poring over a new contract boilerplate issued by Macmillan, parent company of St. Martin's, Farrar ...
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October 26, 2009
- I am currently working on a book that I feel very passionate about and have been blessed by the amount of support I have received on this project, from both my personal and professional life, as well as the tremendous amount of information and assistance that has been offered to me by various organizations and academics. To be able to write this book, with the people it has introduced into my ...
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September 10, 2009
- One of the most trusted resources in the craft of non-fiction writing has been William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. Having sold well over a million copies now, the book has recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary. Which led The American Scholar magazine (Spring 2009) to offer up an essay by Zinsser on the book’s evolution. During my reading of the essay, two thing about Zinsser’s ...
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September 8, 2009
- As I sit here looking out at the picturesque scene from our kitchen. Where the heavens awe seemlily touches the tree tops. The blue sky with the warm sun playing peekaboo behind the puffy white marshmallow clouds. As the clouds slowing move toward the north with the gentle wind that blows.Our lone white pine stands guard in our front yard, giving shelter to the red cardinals, chickadees, ...
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August 20, 2009
- Please check out our third issue of Stone's Throw Magazine. This issue features wonderful photography by Jean Albus, poetry, non-fiction and fiction from all over the world, including a fine poem by Red Room author Marilyn Hallet, and reviews of new books by Leif Enger, Melissa Kwansy, and an anthology of indigenous writers edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. http://www.stonesthrowmagazine.com ...
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August 15, 2009
- If so, check out the Backspace Agent-Author Seminar, November 5 & 6, in New York City - two days of panels, workshops, and small-group meetings with ONLY literary agents on the program - Janet Reid, Colleen Lindsay, Paige Wheeler, Scott Hoffman, Jeff Kleinman, Holly Root, Miriam Kriss, and many more - over 20 in all. Registration is limited to 120. Early registration discount through ...
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August 5, 2009
- Being different can be both a blessing and a curse; those who are proud to be different than others may face harsh criticisms and other forms of jeers from people who are either narrow minded or fearful of the unknown. People make fun of what they simply fail to understand and in turn, short changes them in learning more about the world and possibly more about them as part of it. Over time, ...
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July 31, 2009
- My first book of original epigrams, I Thought So, is lacking an index. The epigrams are arranged in chapters -- Manners, Attitude, Life, Death, etc. Indexing seemed unnecessary to this novice. But many of my miniature essays cross these neat boundaries, and believe it or not, and I'm sure you will, I have found myself thumbing numbly through my own book looking for a quote I know is in there. I ...
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July 30, 2009
- My wife Kate Marshall, who is more prolific on Red Room than I, mentioned recently that one of her Red Room friends was interested in submitting a book proposal to my day-job employer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers in San Francisco (I'm the Director for Digital Communities in the editorial department), so I thought I should put a general post to Red Room members. If you write ...
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July 23, 2009
- Nerds. Geeks. Dorks. These words are just words and yet society has turned them into weapons, stigmatas, and punishments. To be socially awkward is a sin. To “not fit in” with the popular people is a blemish upon one’s moral character. To enjoy learning about obscure matters is to be an outcast. Why? Child psychologist David Anderegg, Ph.D. explores this question and many others in his ...
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