submissions
November 24, 2009
- November 18, 2009 Reject me, please By Chris Rodell, a freelance writer and author who blogs at www.EightDaysToAmish.com I’m nostalgic for the days when I used to gauge my how hard I was working by the frequency of my rejection letters. I knew I wasn’t working hard enough unless I was getting at least one rejection a day. This made sense because if the rejections were coming with ...
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November 22, 2009
- (Posted from The Publeconomist, published 11/19/09) I recently wandered across this Boystown-based (Chicago) blog: Twinks Who Buy Drinks. Cute stuff, check it out. If you’re not sure what a twink is, it’s slang in the gay community for a young, thin guy. The term also usually carries some implications of ignorance, naivete, and sexual promiscuity. The author’s pitch is that he’s ...
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November 12, 2009
- The holiday was great - the weather was kind and I loved it. The only slight problem was that for some reason I was sick as a dog the first night so was up for most of it. Unfamiliar bathrooms are never pleasant when you're ill. Still, at least I got a lot of the puzzles in my Puzzler magazine done. How I love puzzles.We also managed to see several new birds including a glorious great white egret ...
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November 5, 2009
- (Posting our Submissions policy from the website)inGroup Press publishes books with LGBT characters and themes. We’d love to see your work, as long as it contains elements appropriate to our brand. This isn’t the best place to submit your Country Western romance about Dick and Jane, unless Jane was born John, and the saloon just can’t tell that she’s wearing a really great weave. Submit ...
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October 12, 2009
- Let me tell you something pathetic and sad: When I initially prepared my first novel manuscript for agent consideration, the breaks between sections had little flowers, roses actually, red roses. Yes, instead of working my adverbs or even my fonts, I worried the little roses, making sure that my color printer would do the job.I brought over my manuscript, agent's books (this was in the olden ...
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August 25, 2009
- In nearly every class or seminar I’ve ever taught, and with many of my clients as well, the question of copyright comes up, mostly in the context of How can I be sure no one steals my work? Despite one obscure author’s recent claims that Stephenie Meyer plagiarized her novel, this does not happen very often — and when plagiarism does happen, it usually involves the lifting of entire ...
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August 20, 2009
- I've spent a really quite fulfilling day today simply writing. I'd half-forgotten how fulfilling it can be, as and when it wants to be. Really I've done little else. Here's today's meditation:Meditation 202The coolnessof the garden:something rememberedfrom a timebefore your time.Tears, secrecyand a vanished loveunfoldto a dazzle of angelsand his voice.Getting to the end of the Gospel of St John ...
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August 19, 2009
- Miriam Levine makes a fantastic point on her blog today about literary magazine submission guidelines. In particular she calls out the granddaddy Ploughshares for the patronizing, harried tone found on their pagelong list of what not to do if you want to send a poem or story.Must suck to work at Ploughshares, these guidelines tell us. We get so so many envelopes in the mail! From so so many ...
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August 18, 2009
- August is the month in which Nothing Happens, generally speaking, in the publishing world, which is why I’ve been fairly silent on this blog lately. The other reason is that I’m taking advantage of the quiet and am writing, writing, writing. A few wintry days last week helped … and now that the sun is back, this means means Notebook in the Park instead of Sitting at Computer.A tip for ...
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August 12, 2009
- I try to limit my whining on general principal; however, this is something which is making me crazy. When a writer submits online through a submission manager (and many of my stories are submitted this way, saving trees and postage) his/her status submission will either say some version of "In Process, Being Read, or Under Consideration" or it will say a version of "Received, ...
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