The Writers Network News July 2010 Issue http://ezezine.com
July 2010 Issue
The Writers Network News
No Rules; Just Write!
Editor: Bobbie Christmas
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Welcome to this issue of The Writers Network News
In This Issue
One: From the editor’s desk – Who Has Your Backup?
Two: Ask the Book Doctor – About Essays, Publishing, and
Self-Publishing
Three: This Month’s Writing Tip from Bobbie Christmas – Without Warning
Four: Subjects of Interest to Writers
Five: Contests, Agents, and Markets
Six: Creative Writing Assignment – Flight of Fantasy
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Writer’s quote of the day
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write
things worth reading or do things worth writing." —Benjamin Franklin
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One: From the editor’s desk — Who Has Your Backup?
Dear Fellow Writers:
We’ve all heard nightmares about lost manuscripts.
In the days of paper and typewriters, writers worried about fire. We
bought fireproof safes or rented safe deposit boxes for our precious
manuscripts, lest they burn up before they got published.
Today writers face even more concerns than fire. We can also lose our
files through a technological breakdown. I’ve met authors who wore
flash drives around their necks, carrying their words with them
wherever they traveled. Flash drives make odd jewelry, but they do
offer a sense of comfort.
Years ago I bought an external hard drive. After relying on it for a
while, I discovered it had a mind of its own and chose which folders to
copy and which to ignore. For certainty, I backed up my important
documents manually, provided I remembered to do so.
I felt comfortable with my external hard drive backup system. Yes, in a
fire my computer, processor, external hard drive, and all my backup
information would melt beyond repair, but such a disaster would never
happen to me, right? Wrong. Instead of fire, water shook my world. In
September 2009 much of Woodstock, Georgia, experienced a flood, and
water seeped in through my walls. Even though the flood did not, thank
heavens, affect my computers, it messed up my floor, walls, books,
photos, and anything else stored within a few inches of the floor.
Since then I’ve been collecting information from others about how they
back up their files, and it came as a surprise that most writers “plan
to do something” about backup but rarely take action. After eight
months of information collecting, I experienced a revelation: with my
procrastination, I had joined the ranks of folks who had no safe backup
system.
Finally I joined a service that automatically backs up my documents and
holds them on the Internet for me. If my entire home fills with water
or goes up in flames, all my documents and digital photographs are
safe. I will scan my most important printed photographs and back them
up, too, to ensure they survive the next flood, even though we were
told it was a 500-year event. At last I have peace of mind.
Will our current technology last? No one can say, but it’s all we have
to work with, so I took the plunge. (Whoops! No intentional reference
to my prior flood.)
What have you done to protect your precious files? Don’t merely think
about it. Don’t procrastinate any longer. The creek’s rising. Do
something!
Yours in writing,
Bobbie Christmas (Bobbie@zebraeditor.com or bzebra@aol.com )
Author of triple-award-winning Write In Style (Union Square
Publishing), owner of Zebra Communications, and director of The Writers
Network
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Two: Ask the Book Doctor —About Essays, Publishing, and Self-Publishing
By Bobbie Christmas
Q: I just wrote up an account of an event that happened to me when we
first moved to Georgia. I want to know if it qualifies as an essay. It
is not a series of musings on a central theme, as in some essays I’ve
read. It is the true story of what happened and what I learned from it.
I looked up how to write an essay, and the information told how to
write a persuasive essay. Mine isn’t that type of writing, though. If I
write a nonfiction piece without attempting to prove a point, is it an
essay or an opinion? It would help to get clarification, because I
usually don’t write nonfiction.
A: Essays come in many forms, including personal opinion, persuasive,
and personal experience. Many humor columnists write in the form of
essays that relate personal experiences combined with their personal
opinions about what took place.
Personal experience essays concentrate on a specific event or related
events, and they unfold with action and dialogue, which sets them apart
from a persuasive essay. If your story is shown through action and
dialogue with strong writing, it becomes creative nonfiction. If you
already write strong fiction, you should have no problem writing strong
personal experience essays, too, and it sounds as if that’s what you
have done by writing about your experiences when you moved to a new
state.
Q: How would I go about publishing an original one-hundred-page poetry
book? Generally how much would the profit be from such a book?
A: You have quite a few options and potential paths when it comes to
publishing. Before you decide to self-publish or try to sell a book to
a publisher, first you must know your goals and assess your abilities.
My fifty-minute seminar on CD called “I Finished My Book; What Should I
Do Next?” covers the decision-making process, so you’ll know which way
to go, whether you want to self-publish or attempt to find a publisher,
and if you self-publish, whether you want to use a traditional printer,
print-on-demand (POD), or a company that helps in the publishing
process. I crammed the seminar with information and included many pages
of supplemental printed material, so you can understand why I can’t
answer your question in detail in only a few paragraphs.
Here’s a little information to help, though.
If you already know you want to self-publish, your next step depends on
whether you want to handle all the pre-printing details, such as
editing, internal and cover design, ISBN numbers, and finding a
printer, or whether you prefer to rely on a company that handles those
details for you—for a price. Read a good book on self-publishing and
learn all aspects of it before you make your decision. Also carefully
scrutinize the company you choose as a printer or publisher—know there
is a difference—and carefully ensure that the services the company
provides are the services you need.
You also asked how much profit to expect. Let me first ask a question:
When did you last buy a poetry book? If you are like most Americans,
you have not bought a single poetry book in the last ten years.
Although millions of people write poetry, not many write it well, and
even fewer buy poetry books. Poetry books rarely make any profit at
all.
Although few Americans make much if any money from poetry, it is the
highest form of literary art. Once writers master poetry, they can
apply those skills to their fiction and nonfiction and increase their
chances of making money with their prose.
My news should not discourage you, however. If you put a great deal of
time and effort into marketing, you might make some money after all. At
least one poet I know used POD for his books and travels the country
giving readings. He writes excellent poetry and performs it well, and
he has sold close to a thousand copies of his book. He chose POD, which
gives him less profit per book than if he had chosen a traditional
printer, but he did not have to invest a huge amount of money up front
or store thousands of books, so the tradeoff suits his needs.
As you can see, the answer to both questions—how to go about getting a
poetry book published and how much you might profit—are the same: It
depends on what you are willing and able to do, and none of the paths
are simple. Educate yourself first and then decide what works best for
you.
Bobbie Christmas, book editor, author of Write In Style (Union Square
Publishing), and owner of Zebra Communications, will answer your
questions, too. Send them to Bobbie@zebraeditor.com. Read more “Ask the
Book Doctor” questions and answers at www.zebraeditor.com.
Send your questions to the Book Doctor Bobbie Christmas at
Bobbie@zebraeditor.com.
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Three: This Month’s Writing Tip from Bobbie Christmas – Without Warning
“Without warning” constitutes two little words that look innocuous, but
they offer an opportunity for improving your writing. Consider for a
moment. Rarely do things happen with warning. Often I see formations
such as this: Without warning, the lion leaped on the camper. Would a
lion normally say, “Excuse me, camper, this is a warning. I’m about to
leap on you.” Of course not. Therefore, without warning adds nothing
but wordiness to a manuscript. Simply delete it, and your writing grows
tighter and stronger.
If you think you have used “without warning” anywhere in your
manuscript,, use my trademarked Find and Refine Method to search for
and eliminate it. To use the Find and Refine Method, pull down the Edit
menu in your software program and go to Find. When “without warning
shows up, delete it. Be sure to check the remaining sentence to be
certain the first word is capitalized, in case “without warning”
started the sentence, as it often does. After deleting the first usage
of “without warning,” go back to Find and press Find Next. Go through
the entire manuscript to find and delete every use of “without
warning.” You may find yourself surprised at how often it appears. My
experience has shown that when that phrase shows up once in a
manuscript, it shows up several times.
If you wish to learn more about how to apply the Find and Refine Method
to other issues in your manuscript, send a note to
freereports@zebraeditor.com, and you’ll receive a link to many free
reports, including one on my trademarked Find and Refine Method.
For even more opportunities to Find and Refine, buy Write In Style
(Union Square Publishing) by clicking here:
http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml
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Four: Subjects of interest to writers
Attention Writers in Metro Atlanta!
The Writers Network has occasional local meetings in the
Roswell-Alpharetta general area. If you’re interested in meeting with
other writers, send me an e-mail (Bobbie@zebraeditor.com) and ask to be
put on a list of local members to be notified if and when we plan a get
together.
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Wiley's Deceptive Letter to Bloomberg Press Authors: "We are pleased to
inform you" that we will be slicing your royalties up to 50%
The Authors Guild tells Bloomberg Press authors not to sign the new
agreement with Wiley & Sons, which acquired Bloomberg. Read all about
it here: http://tiny.cc/21qg8. Wiley published a denial in the free
weekly version of Publishers Weekly. Who should you believe? Just be
sure to thoroughly read any agreement and perhaps get an attorney to
read it as well, before you sign it.
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From: DUnterman@aol.com
Sent: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 7:26 pm
Bobbie,
On the topic of pet peeves, I remember my mother would always cringe
when words were pronounced incorrectly. I continue to notice the two
she hated the most: people saying "heighth" (for height), and I
continually hear very intelligent people and pundits spouting the word,
"irregardless." Look, AOL spell check doesn't catch it. It's crept into
the language, and what really gets me is that I believe people think
they sound very intellectual when they say it.
Love all your great information.
Thanks for sharing,
Debbie Unterman
I know! I had a friend many years ago who used "irregardless" in the
narrative of a short story he asked me to read, and when I pointed out
that it was not a word, he said, "That was the word I meant to use."
That's when I learned that no one appreciates free advice. Now I charge
for my advice! —Bobbie
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CELEBRATION OF BOOKS
Saturday, September 11
9-3
Highlands Civic Center
Highlands, NC
A day of selling and signing for authors
Cubby Corner for children reading to dogs; fun activities with Cubby
books
Early holiday shopping center
Free literary entertainment
Storyrealm.com demonstrating the e-book
Workshop on memoir writing and publishing
Poetry and Prose Readings; Storytelling
Lunch on site by Literacy Council of Cashiers
Hourly door prizes
Reserve your table now.
Send your name, address, phone, email address, check for $25 to: Deanna
K. Klingel, 243 Country Club Estates Rd, #23, Sapphire, NC 28774.
828-743-1683.
Writing groups may reserve a free table to recruit and display
information about your group, without sales.
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Death Cruise, the second mystery by member Dan Anderson, will be
released August 3. It is already the winner of literary awards,
including the Florida Writers Association Royal Palm Award (First
Place, Unpublished Mystery). It is available on from Amazon, Barnes &
Noble, Borders, and Books-a-million. ”Death Cruise is a serious,
literate mystery written in a humorous vein. It…has been cited for
being more than a great mystery, but great fiction as well.”
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Download Bobbie’s seminars! Go to
http://zebraeditor.com/seminars_on_cd.shtml.
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Fiona Ingram, one of our Writers Network members from South Africa,
reports that her middle-grade adventure novel, The Secret of the Sacred
Scarab, was a finalist in the 2010 International Book Awards and won a
Silver medal in the 2010 Nautilus Book Awards. See
http://www.secretofthesacredscarab.com.
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Write In Style by Bobbie Christmas teaches her trademarked Find and
Refine Method along with dozens tips that power up your prose. Bobbie
Christmas reveals secrets only a book doctor could know.
http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml. Get your copy while
supplies last. The remaining copies are rapidly dwindling.
Writers Network member Sue Nash sent this additional helpful tip. After
she uses Write In Style as a guideline to make a list of words she
wants to remove or revise using the Find and Refine Method, she tells
her computer to “find all,” one word at a time and then goes to “font
color” and changes all the highlighted words to red. After she’s marked
in red all the words she wants to check for possible improvement, they
are all highly visible, and she can make one pass through the
manuscript, addressing all the words she wants to refine. Thank you,
Sue, for your tip! (If you don’t understand this note, read Write In
Style to discover a quick and easy way to improve every manuscript you
write.)
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Getting Published in International Journals: Writing Strategies for
European Social Scientists by Natalie Reid: NOVA, 2010, Oslo, Norway.
Available at www.nova.no/reid.
Writing in English is different from writing in any European language.
Getting Published in International Journals gives European social
scientists the analytical, contextual, structural, and stylistic
writing tools for maximizing the academic writer’s chances of
publication in the top journals in his or her field. The book reveals
the unwritten rules of English academic rhetoric, and discusses them
within the context of the unconscious expectations accorded both
readers and writers within the English linguistic community.
Author Natalie Reid, a member of The Writers Network, has been teaching
English writing skills in Europe, Japan, the Pacific, and the US for
more than twenty years. Since the early 2000s she has been teaching
academic writing to, consulting with, and editing papers for European
social scientists and other professionals.
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Free Tools for Writers from Bobbie Christmas and Zebra Communications
Order PDF reports on correct manuscript format, how to form and run a
critique circle, how to identify weak writing and repair it,
self-publishing versus traditional publishing, and much more. Sixteen
reports are available, and the list keeps growing. Go to
http://zebraeditor.com/free_reports.shtml. Newest report: How to choose
the correct editor for your manuscript. Surprise! It may not be me.
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From a recent Chicago Manual of Style Q & A:
Q. How do you cite T-shirts?
A. You could write, for example: Last week on Ellis Avenue I saw a
T-shirt that said, “I keep pressing Escape but I’m still here.” That
is, if you think it’s a good idea to cite a T-shirt.
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Self-Publishing scam revealed; please don’t let this happen to you! See
http://tinyurl.com/2422xy9
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Keep up with Bobbie’s activities on Facebook (search for Bobbie
Rothberg Christmas) or on Twitter at http:twitter.com/BookDoctor4u.
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Five: Contests, Agents and Markets
PINDELDYBOZ
Seeks Short Stories
E-mail: editor@pindeldyboz.com
Website: www.pindeldyboz.com
"Pindeldyboz is dedicated to publishing work that challenges what a
short story can be. We don't ask for anything specific--we only ask
that people take chances. We like heightened language, events,
relationships--stories that paint the world a little differently, while
still showing us the places we already know." Bimonthly.
Comics/graphic novels, experimental, literary. Reads mss September
1-February 1 only. Publishes manuscripts three months after acceptance.
Length: 250+, average length: 2,000 words. Publishes short shorts. Also
publishes literary essays, poetry. Always comments on rejected mss.
Send complete copy of ms with cover letter. Accepts mss by e-mail and
disk. Include brief bio and phone number with submission. Send SASE (or
IRC) for return of the ms and disposable copy of ms and #10 SASE for
reply only. Responds in two weeks to queries, three months to mss.
Accepts simultaneous, multiple submissions. Sample copy for $12.
Writer's guidelines online.
Pays two contributor's copies, additional copies $10. Pays on
publication for one-time rights.
"Good grammar, spelling, and sentence structure help, but what's more
important is a willingness to take risks. Surprise us, and we will love
it."
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Guideposts Seeks Stories about Answers to Prayer
Guideposts magazine is in its Phase Four of the Extraordinary Answers
to Prayer. “Join us by contributing stories up to 2,000 words dealing
with various aspects of prayer and how people from every walk of life
have been transformed through response to their prayers.”
Stories should have a creative title, an attention-grabbing
introduction, main body with a conflict or challenge, and a clear,
satisfying resolution.
Send inquiries to Jeanette Littleton at
incredibleprayers@earthlink.net.
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Hayden’s Ferry Review
c/o Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Arizona State University
PO Box 875002
Tempe, AZ 85287-5002
USA
HFR@asu.edu
http://tinyurl.com/27cbgm6
Phone: (480) 965-1337
PLEASE NOTE: We will no longer be accepting submissions by mail after
May 31, 2010.
The editorship at Hayden's Ferry Review changes at the beginning of
each year, and as a result, our aesthetic changes every few issues. Our
current editors can be found on our Masthead. HFR editors read
year-round—response time is 12-16 weeks. Payment is $25.00 per
page/maximum of $100.00 (cover art payment—$100.00), two copies of the
magazine, and a one-year gift subscription to HFR. Simultaneous
submissions are welcome. If your work is accepted elsewhere, please
notify the editors immediately. There is no reading fee. We do not
accept previously published material.
Poetry
Submit up to six poems. Please include your entire submission in one
file, and be sure your name and contact information are included on the
first page of the file.
All work should be uploaded through our submissions manager on our Web
site. Acceptable file formats include doc, rtf and pdf. Please send one
submission at a time, and wait for a response before you submit
additional work.
We do not consider book-length works. Submitters are strongly
encouraged to read the journal before submitting. Sample work from
current and past issues is available on our Web site.
Prose
We accept both fiction and non-fiction. Prose should be double-spaced.
There is no maximum or minimum word count. Please include your entire
submission in one file, and be sure your name and contact information
are included on the first page of the file.
All work should be uploaded through our submissions manager on our Web
site. Acceptable file formats include .doc and .rtf. Please send one
submission at a time, and wait for a response before you submit
additional work.
We do not consider book-length works. Submitters are strongly
encouraged to read the journal before submitting. Sample work from
current and past issues is available on our Web site.
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RICK BROADHEAD & ASSOCIATES LITERARY AGENCY
501-47 St. Clair Ave. W.
Toronto, ON M4V 3A5 Canada
Phone: (416)929-0516
Fax: (416)927-8732
E-mail: submissions@rbaliterary.com
Web site: www.rbaliterary.com
Contact: Rick Broadhead, president
Agency sold 25 nonfiction titles in the last year.
I am always interested in seeing nonfiction proposals from prospective
clients, especially in the following subject categories: history,
politics, business, natural history/environment, national
security/intelligence, current affairs, biography, science, pop
culture, pop science, relationships, self-help, health, medicine,
military history, and humor.
I am not accepting screenplays, poetry, children’s books, or fiction. I
welcome queries by e-mail at the following address:
submissions@rbaliterary.com. Please include a brief description of your
project, your credentials, and your contact information.
Many of my biggest sales to publishers have come to me as cold pitches
from authors, so unsolicited queries are certainly welcome. While the
large volume of submissions prevents me from replying to everyone
personally, you will be contacted if I’m interested in getting further
information.
Books rarely sell themselves these days, so priority is given to
authors who have a “platform.” If you’re a leading expert in your field
or you have experience writing for major newspapers or magazines,
you’re more saleable to a major publisher. Similarly, if you have a
popular blog or Web site or you’re affiliated with a major organization
or university/college, publishers are more likely to be interested in
you.
Query with publishing history, author bio. E-mail queries preferred.
Agency will reply only to projects of interest and request a full ms.
Does not want to receive novels, television scripts, movie scripts,
children's or poetry.
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Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine
WWW.StrangeWeirdandWonderful.com
Every issue, we try to publish one nonfiction article and one
environmentally friendly (Greenwatch) article. We are open to any topic
as long as it has a futuristic, horror, fantasy, sci fi, or paranormal
slant to it.
Publishes articles, Interviews, Conventions, and even Local Events.
Fiction Submissions
Submit to: submissions@strangeweirdandwonderful.com with the name of
your story in the subject heading. Guidelines posted on our Web site
are the only official guidelines. Because of the volume of stories we
now receive, we will be very strict in relation to our submission
requirements, going forward.
Horror, Fantasy, & Sci Fi, and all things Paranormal. My personal
editorial tastes tend to lean towards less hack and slash and more
building of tension through good plotting and character development. I
don’t want to see what’s been done a hundred times already. Be original
at all cost. Everything, living or inanimate, has a story to tell, and
if you tell your tale well, a reader will believe anything. A good
story, no matter how “out there,” should always ring true.
Each submission must be 3,500 to 15,000 words and must be submitted
within the open submission period, by e-mail, as a Word attachment. Any
stories submitted after the open submission period will not be read. No
exceptions will be made for word count or submission deadline.
Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine pays a flat rate of $25 per
story for First Electronic Publication Rights, which include pdf and
Web posting of any kind. Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine also
reserves the right to use purchased material in a print collection,
with a generous portion of any proceeds being shared with the writer or
artist. Electronic publication rights will be returned to the writer or
artist two years after date of original publication within Strange,
Weird, and Wonderful Magazine.
Writers must supply a small bio to be posted along with their story or
article; this should include a link to their personal Web page(s). A
photograph is also encouraged.
Formatting: All Fiction Submissions should be double spaced, with no
spaces between paragraphs. Also, each paragraph should only be indented
two spaces, not the usual five. Because of the volume of stories we now
receive, we will be very strict in relation to our submission
requirements.
No multiple or simultaneous submissions. No novel excerpts.
Non-Fiction Submissions
Query to submissions@strangeweirdandwonderful.com with “Non-Fiction
Query,” in your subject.
Poetry Submissions
Submit to Poetry@strangeweirdandwonderful.com.
We currently do not pay for Poetry. Poems are accepted with recognition
for the Poet in our Authors & Artist section of the Web site.
Submission Deadlines
Winter ’10 Submit Oct 16 – Dec 10 for January 1 Publication
Spring ’10 Submit Jan 16 – Mar 10 for April 1 Publication
Summer ’10 Submit Apr 16 - Jun 10 for July 1 Publication
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Six: Creative Writing Assignment – Flight of Fantasy
If you had no restrictions on your life whatsoever, no obligations, no
natural laws or legal limitations that held you back, what would you
do? Would you fly? Would you start a community that lived by your rules
and your rules only? Would you walk into the U.S. Mint and roll around
in a room full of gold? Would you take a trip around the world—and
pilot the plane yourself? Would you build a dog rescue park and take in
every stray that needed a home? Think about your greatest fantasies.
What might they be?
After you have considered all the possible things you might do, become,
build, or own, pick one of those fantasies and write a story about a
character who fulfilled that fantasy. Let readers see what motivated
the character, how he or she went about fulfilling that fantasy, and
the results, after the fantasy was fulfilled. Write the story either in
first person or third person.
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