The Writers Network News August 2011 Issue http://ezezine.com
The Writers Network News, August 2011 Issue
In This Issue
One: From the editor’s desk – What is Poetry?
Two: Ask the Book Doctor – About Children’s Books: Rights,
Illustrations, Agents, and Publishers
Three: This Month’s Writing Tip from Bobbie Christmas – Snuck or
Sneaked?
Four: Subjects of Interest to Writers
Five: Contests, Agents, and Markets
Six: Creative Writing Assignment – You Gotta Have a Dream
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Editor: Bobbie Christmas
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Writer’s quote of the day
“If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen
and throw it away.” —Victor Hugo
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One: From the editor’s desk — What is Poetry?
Dear Fellow Writers:
This month I spoke at the Turner Cassity Literary Festival in
Douglasville, Georgia, and while I sat up front during a panel
discussion with the other four speakers, I looked out at the audience
before me. Everyone looked eager to hear how we had managed to sell
enough of our writing to warrant a place as a speaker. I felt the hope
of those in attendance; I sensed their determination. They were me,
four decades earlier.
The audience challenged us with many interesting questions, but one
sticks out in my mind: What is poetry?
Three of the speakers had several books of poetry to their names. The
other two of us, although basically nonfiction writers, also write,
read, and love poetry, so we all had opinions about the definition of
poetry. Dr. David Axelrod, however, after some discussion, summed it up
with, “Poetry is communication.”
He nailed it. I had to pipe up with a personal story to confirm what he
said. Recently someone from my past found me through Facebook. About
forty years ago, his mother and my father were in a relationship, and
he and I bonded. He was eighteen and interested in sports; I was in my
late twenties and involved in raising my son, but who can explain why
human beings connect? We looked forward to being brother and sister and
being close for life. Our parents broke up, though, so he and I lost
contact until he found me on Facebook. I was delighted to reignite our
friendship from so many years before. He had become a successful
football coach, retired, and was starting a new career in insurance. I
had pursued a career in writing and editing. We were older, softer, a
little sadder, but delighted to reconnect. How does a jock communicate
his joy to a person who makes her living with words? With a poem. Yes,
that football coach wrote me a dear poem, filled with his feelings,
hopes, and dreams, and it communicated much more than any other method
could have.
Poetry is communication, pure and simple. It draws on the fewest number
of words to convey the largest of concepts. It puts into writing things
that could not otherwise be explained. It flows from the most
unexpected places at the most surprising times. No wonder I love poetry
so much. Yes, poetry is communication.
On another subject, Write In Style, my award-winning book on creative
writing, is officially out of print. New copies are selling for as much
as $221.00 on Amazon. While they last, however, you can still buy one
of the few remaining new copies at the original price of $12.95. To
purchase, go to http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml.
Hurry! Supplies are rapidly dwindling. Only a couple dozen are left.
Yours in writing,
Bobbie Christmas (Bobbie@zebraeditor.com or bzebra@aol.com )
Author of 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 Children’s Books: Rights,
Illustrations, Agents, and Publishers
By Bobbie Christmas
Q: I wrote a play-on-words dog poem I wish to submit to various
big-name magazines. Can I submit it to all those periodicals at one
time? Also, if the poem gets published in a magazine, can I then submit
the same poem to publishers of children's books?
A: Check the submission guidelines of each magazine to see which ones
accept simultaneous submissions. If all accept simultaneous
submissions, you can submit the poem to all of them simultaneously.
Most publications list submissions guidelines on their websites. Always
follow each magazine’s guidelines to the letter.
The second question, whether you can submit published material to a
children’s book publisher, is legal in nature, so an attorney familiar
with intellectual rights would be a better person to ask. As a
layperson, I believe the answer will depend on what rights you
transferred to the magazine. Chances are if you sell only first printed
rights, you retain second rights. I often see a list in the front of a
book of poetry or short stories that acknowledges other publications in
which some of the work has appeared. In those cases, the author
probably sold only first rights and could use the work again by
acknowledging the places that first published the works.
Q: I was contacted by a writer of a children’s story about doing the
artwork for her book. She has not sent it to the publisher yet. I have
no idea what I should charge her for the artwork. I need to know the
going rate for this type of artwork. I would greatly appreciate it if
you could give me a heads up on what to expect.
A: I went to your website, and your art is indeed professional and up
to the quality necessary for book illustration. Many people hope to
illustrate their own books, but their work does not pass muster. Yours
does. Authors would be wise to turn to someone with your skills.
To look for information on possible rates, go to www.salary.com and
check to see what a person in your area might make per year as an
illustrator. Use the median figure as a baseline. If it takes you a
week to complete one illustration, divide the median salary by
fifty-two weeks to see what you should get for a week of work. If you
worked for a corporation, you would also get benefits, such as paid
vacations and insurance coverage, so add about ten percent to the base
weekly rate, to compensate. Only you can figure how many weeks you will
need to complete the illustrations, but remember the Murphy’s Law that
states “Everything takes longer than you expected.” Overestimate the
time it will take, and you will probably be closer to reality.
Next I need to address an issue other than salary. You said the author
wants to send the illustrations to a publisher, which raised a red
flag. If the author is sending the book and illustrations to a printer
for self-publication, that’s one thing. If he or she wants to sell the
work to a publisher, though, it could be a problem. Most publishers
have their own illustrators and prefer not to receive books that are
already illustrated. The only time I recommend that writers pay for
illustrations is when the writer plans to self-publish. Nevertheless,
the author may very well be able to sell both writing and artwork as a
package deal. It does happen.
Q: Do you have any idea where I may get my children’s book published? I
don’t have a lot of money, and getting an agent or affording one is out
of the question.
A: First, finding a publisher is not an easy thing to do, and I cannot
give a quick answer on how to find one. Read books on how to find a
publisher. Many are on the market. Before you look for an agent or
publisher, though, first the manuscript has to be the best it can be.
Next, agents should never cost you money; they should make money from
the publisher. They take their commission out of the advance and the
royalties, so anyone can “afford” a decent agent, because good agents
earn their own money and make money for you, as well. If an agent asks
for money for anything other than postage and copying, run back to the
library or use the Internet to find agents who do not charge. AAR
members do not charge fees; they take commissions only after the sale.
Send your questions to Book Doctor Bobbie Christmas at
Bobbie@zebraeditor.com. You’ll get a personal answer ASAP.
Would you like to read, save, or share the Ask the Book Doctor column
as a PDF file? At http://zebraeditor.com/files/ask_the_book_doctor.pdf,
the newest column is posted around the first of each month.
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Three: This Month’s Writing Tip from Bobbie Christmas – Snuck or
Sneaked?
Common use does not guarantee acceptability. People commonly use
certain words incorrectly in conversation, but good writers avoid
variants, slang, and misuses in narrative. Yes, when we speak we say
snuck instead of sneaked, just as we say wudn’t instead of wasn’t, but
we would never use a sentence such as this one in narrative: The boy
wudn’t in school today.
Like wudn’t, snuck is unacceptable in narrative. Use sneaked. The
Chicago Manual of Style 16th Edition says this: Sneak is conjugated
sneak—sneaked—sneaked. Reserve snuck for dialect and tongue-in-cheek
usages.
Use my trademarked Find and Refine Method to locate the misuse of the
word snuck in narrative. Go to the Find function on your computer
(Control + F) and under Find What, type “snuck.” Click on Find. If it
appears in dialogue, leave it. If it appears in narrative, use the
Replace function to replace it with “sneaked.” Hit Find Next and
continue to the end of the manuscript to fix each misuse of the word.
For more opportunities for improvement, buy one of the few remaining
copies of Write In Style (Union Square Publishing) by going to
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Four: Subjects of interest to writers
Member Hope Gillete wrote, “I just wanted to let you know that Journey
through Travelers' Tower, the most recent manuscript you edited for me,
has been accepted for publication by Divertir Publishing. Interest in
this project has also brought my first novel, Dragon Hearts, under
review for publication as well.” The book should be available by May
2012.”
Way to go, Hope! Having edited her young-adult novels, I can honestly
say they have all the right elements and keep readers on the edge of
their seats.
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Great Way to Generate Book Sales
Member Nicky Vanvalkenburgh, author of Train Your Brain, Transform Your
Life: Conquer ADHD In 60 Days, Without Ritalin, discovered a low-cost
and highly effective way to generate book sales using a combo of
Internet radio interviews, website banners, and affiliate commissions
to the radio hosts. For her full report, check out this article:
http://tinyurl.com/3zt9mmz.
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From The Chicago Manual of Style website Q & A this month:
Q. I see in section 8.21 of the 16th edition that civil titles, such as
“secretary of state,” should be lowercase unless appearing as, for
example, “Secretary of State Smith.” What about titles such as
“assistant secretary of state for bureaucracy and obfuscation”? Should
“bureaucracy and obfuscation” be lowercase to match “assistant
secretary of state” or should it be capitalized as the name of a
specific department?
A. Chicago style lowercases the title of the person but uppercases the
department name: Jordan Smith is assistant secretary of bureaucracy and
obfuscation. The Department of Bureaucracy and Obfuscation requires
advance notice of emergency absences. Anyone who works for Bureaucracy
and Obfuscation should keep her resume up to date.
For more CMOS Q & A, see http://tinyurl.com/2xscwn.
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Don’t Buy This Book!
I’ve just released the fifth edition of Purge Your Prose of Problems: A
Book Doctor’s Desk Reference, and it is even more effective than the
prior edition in helping writers edit their own books. I’d rather you
pay me a one or two thousand dollars to edit your book, though, than
pay me only $29.95 for this book, so don’t buy this book!
I use the information in Purge Your Prose of Problems to train my own
editors, so if you buy this book, you could potentially become an
editor and make many thousands of dollars for yourself, and I might
lose customers who would have paid me to edit their books, so don’t buy
this book!
Purge Your Prose of Problems is a proprietary desk reference not
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information covers all you need to know to edit fiction and nonfiction.
It covers subjects as diverse as grammar, punctuation, word choices,
creative writing, plot, pace, point of view, characterization,
dialogue, Chicago style, formatting a manuscript, and much more. The
strong spiral binder allows the pages to lie flat near your computer
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You can also save shipping costs plus get Purge Your Prose of Problems
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I don’t want you to buy this book, but if you insist, you can order
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Words Writers Should Know
Contranym
A contranym is a word that can have opposite meanings. Also called
heteronyms, janus words, or two-faced words.
Examples: Ravel (which can mean either to fray, untangle, or become
disjoined, or it can mean to entangle or become tangled.
Today’s word comes from one of my favorite sources, A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg of www.wordsmith.org.
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She accepts only e-books. PDF is preferable, but she can accept other
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Don’t pay $221 for this book!
New copies of Write In Style, Bobbie’s Award-Winning Textbook on
Creative Writing, are selling for between $75 and $221 on Amazon.com.
Don’t believe me? See http://tinyurl.com/4hc2bxu. For a very limited
time, you can still buy this book at the original cover price of $12.95
plus shipping, and I’ll even sign it for you. To order, to go
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Write In Style: Using Your Word Processor and Other Techniques to
Improve Your Writing by Bobbie Christmas teaches the Find and Refine
Method ™ to locate words and phrases you can delete, upgrade, or
rewrite to power up your prose. Bobbie Christmas reveals secrets only a
book doctor could know. First Place winner of the Royal Palm Award for
education, Best in Division (Georgia Author of the Year Awards), and
Finalist in USABookNews Best Books 2005. Available at
http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml. Hurry! Supplies of
new books are dwindling quickly.
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From Southern Review of Books – Eisler rejects St. Martin’s Press to
self-publish series
(http://www.anvilpub.net/southern_review_of_books.htm)
Author Barry Eisler’s bestselling John Rain thriller series was
originally published by Penguin Putnam and Ballantine, but in March,
the forty-eight-year-old author and former CIA agent and technology
lawyer announced he turned down a $500,000, two-book deal with St.
Martin’s Press to self-publish the next Rain novels himself.
Eisler concluded that he could do better self-publishing than going
with St. Martin’s. With traditional publishing contracts, a
twenty-five-percent royalty on e-book net revenue is standard. In the
case of a book priced at $2.99 or more sold on the Kindle Store, the
royalty would be only $0.74. Amazon takes thirty percent of that, and
the agent takes another fifteen percent, which leaves the author with
just $0.35 per sale (14.9 percent). Authors have to earn out their
advances (in Eisler’s case, that would have been $500,000) before they
see a royalty payment.
By contrast, when Eisler self-publishes, he earns seventy percent of
each Amazon sale, forever. Although he doesn’t get an advance, he
starts earning sooner. If Eisler had gone with St. Martin’s, his book
wouldn’t have been available until next spring. By self-publishing, he
can make it available earlier and gain an extra year of sales.
Eisler started his self-publishing career by publishing short stories
on the Kindle Store. He says that between Amazon, the Nook Store, and
Smashwords, which both publishes and distributes e-books, his short
stories generally make $1,500 apiece in the first month and $1,000 per
month thereafter. “I’ll keep dropping the price of previous shorts as
new ones go up,” he says. Each story contains an excerpt of Eisler’s
next John Rain novel, The Detachment, which he plans to release this
summer, so each story is a marketing tool for the book, as well.
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Borders Books Closing Will Have Big Negative Impact on Book Sales
Borders, the nation's second-largest bookseller, has been unable to
find a buyer willing to get it out of bankruptcy. As a result, it plans
to close its remaining 399 stores and go out of business by the end of
September.
Market predictions say that bookstore orders could drop by half because
of this turn of events. Only time will tell, but it makes
self-publishing even more appealing.
Simba Information senior trade analyst Michael Norris said the end of
Borders would be a "sad day in book publishing's history and will do
severe and lasting damage to the industry's ecosystem." The
disappearance of Borders likely will hurt e-book sales as well, since
some e-book readers visit bookstores to see what books they might like
to read before buying the electronic version, Norris added.
To read more, see
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43797505/ns/business-consumer_news/.
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Five: Contests, Agents, and Markets
New Magazine Offers Forum for Writers
In the last five years, the publishing industry has experienced a
stunning revolution. Advances in technology and the growing acceptance
of independent publishing have resulted in more than 800 new books
published every day, yet the number of publications dedicated to
helping aspiring writers and published authors has barely increased.
Now from the South emerges a new magazine, Southern Writers, serving up
a unique blend of marketing advice, success stories, and inspiration to
help writers get “good words out into the world” and effectively market
their work. The magazine will be published six times a year, in print
and online.
“While the publication does focus on authors and writers primarily from
the South, its appeal is not limited geographically,” says
Editor-in-Chief Susan Reichert. “We want to help writers master the art
of marketing, so they can share their writing with others.”
The content of Southern Writers is intended for writers and creative
wordsmiths of all types, from authors and poets to lyricists and
screenwriters.
“Southern Writers helps fill a glaring void in terms of providing
proven marketing advice and motivation from experts. Too many authors
and writers are out there who either have published works and have no
idea how to market it, or need inspiration to take the plunge and share
their work with the world,” adds Reichert. For more information and
submission guidelines, visit www.southernwritersmagazine.com
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Lady Dragonfly Publishing
909 Dallas Highway
Douglasville, GA 30134
www.ladydragonflypublishing.com
We are accepting unsolicited Non-Fiction, Urban Fiction, Children's
book, YA Fiction, and Poetry book manuscripts. E-mail your query for
fiction submission or your proposal for non-fiction submissions to
query@ladydragonflypublishing.com. Please review our submission
guidelines, for more details
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Free List of Literary Agents
For a free list of literary agents and their e-mail addresses, go to
http://www.writers-free-reference.com/agents/index.html. Warning: The
site tries to sell you stuff, but simply scroll down past the “Pay Now”
section to the list. Next warning: Don’t blindly submit to these agents
using this e-mail list. Instead, click on the ones that have websites,
then go to the website and read what the agent is accepting and how the
agent prefers to receive submissions. Follow each agent’s guidelines to
the letter; each one is different. You’ll notice you’ll have to
continue to scroll past other columns and ads to get to more and more
listings, but it’s worth your time, if you’re looking for an agent and
have no better resource.
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MSI Press
38 Monterey Street
San Juan Bautista, CA 95045
Submission E-mail: editor@msipress.com
Website: www.msipress.com
MSI Press is a small, friendly press dedicated to bringing to the
public
- cutting-edge information in foreign language education & cultural
studies
- unique general interest books in the areas of education, psychology,
and spirituality
Needs: book on education, health, medicine, humanities, language,
literature, medicine, psychology, or spirituality as general
nonfiction, how-to, humor, scholarly, or self-help
Submit proposal package, including outline, one sample chapter, and
professional résumé by mail or e-mail in Word format. No faxes or phone
calls. Send SASE if you want your manuscript returned. Please wait
three weeks before querying.
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Dream Quest One
Poetry and Short Story Contest
Hurry! Contest Deadline: July 31, 2011
Writing Contest entries may be written on a maximum of five pages.
Poetry Contest entries may be written on any subject or theme. All
poems must be thirty lines or fewer. Please read Official Rules at
http://www.dreamquestone.com/rules.html for in-depth information.
Prizes
Poetry Contest
First Place...$250.00
Second Place...$125.00
Third Place...$50.00
Writing Contest
First Place...$500.00
Second Place...$250.00
Third Place...$100.00
There is a $10.00 (US) entry fee per short story and a $5.00 (US) entry
fee per poem.
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HERMAN AGENCY
350 Central Park West - apt. 4I
New York, NY 10025
http://www.hermanagencyinc.com/
212-749-4907
Herman Agency represents professional artists and authors with an
emphasis on the children's market, which includes books for all ages,
educational books and supplementary materials, children's magazines,
cartoons, licensed characters, as well as stationery, advertising, toys
and editorial illustrations.
Ronnie Ann Herman, Agent: Ronnie started Herman Agency in 1999 and
represents many of the leading illustrators and author/illustrators in
today's children's book market. As a former art director at Random
House and Associate Publisher at Penguin Books' Grosset & Dunlap,
Ronnie art directed thousands of children's books during her more than
twenty-year publishing career. Ronnie is also the author of eight
children’s books with 1,000,000 books in print.
Jill Corcoran, Agent: With an English degree from Stanford University
and an MBA in Finance and Marketing from The University of Chicago,
Jill has marketed everything from sneakers to cereal at Leo Burnett
Advertising, LA Gear, Mattel, and at her own consulting company,
LAUNCH! New Product Marketing. Jill is also a children’s book author
and poet.
Chapter Books, Middle Grade and Young Adult Books:
We only accept queries & submissions via e-mail; please do not send
snail mail submissions. For first contact, authors of middle-grade or
YA should e-mail bio, list of published books, and first ten pages to
Jill Corcoran at Jill@HermanAgencyInc.com. Jill will contact you within
a month if she is interested in seeing more of your manuscript.
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Six: Creative Writing Assignment – You Gotta Have a Dream
Although we all dream, most of us we remember only bits and pieces of
those dreams. If you cannot recall any particular dream you’ve had
lately, keep paper and pen by your bed for a few nights in a row, and
as soon as you wake up, jot down a few key words that will help you
recall some of your dream sequences.
Write down the images, people, feelings, settings, and events you
recall from your dreams and then write a short story using those
people, images, people, feelings, settings, and events. Your story does
not have to follow the story in your dream, simply use elements from
one or more dreams.
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