The Writers Network News March 2012 Issue http://ezezine.com
The Writers Network News, March 2012 Issue
In This Issue
One: From the editor's desk--Do Americans Study English?
Two: Ask the Book Doctor--About Web Site or Website, Fact Checking, and
Writing an "As Told To" Biography
Three: This Month's Easy Editing Tip from Bobbie Christmas--Than or
Then?
Four: Subjects of Interest to Writers
Five: Contests, Agents, and Markets
Six: Got Muse?--The Feel of Things
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One: From the editor's desk--Do Americans Study English?
Dear Readers:
Yesterday I struck up a conversation with a stranger while we were in a
waiting room. She had a mild accent I could not identify, so I asked
her country of origin. She had moved to America from Egypt fifty-two
years ago. We kept up some small talk, until she said, "If I read while
someone else is driving, I get nauseous." She immediately shook her
head and said, "No, I'm sorry, I mean nauseated."
Excitedly I told her, "I'm an editor, and most of the books I edit get
those two words mixed up. You're not originally American, and yet you
know the difference? How?"
She turned to me with a raised eyebrow and what she apparently
considered an obvious answer: "I studied English."
She got me thinking. Do Americans truly study English? If so, why do so
many of us choose the wrong words? To be nauseous is to make someone
else sick; to be nauseated is to be sick yourself. A color can be
nauseous, for example, and make you sick, but a passenger gets
nauseated if the ride gets bumpy.
On the same day, I was editing a book by an American-born author who
could not discern the difference between the words "then" and "than."
See my Easy Editing Tip below, to be sure you're using the words
correctly as well.
I don't fault people for making the occasional error--heavens, I would
have no business if we did not need editors--but is our language
destined to decline? Our dictionaries evolve to embrace our language as
it changes, and it changes, quite often, because an error repeats so
often that it become acceptable. One of my pet peeves, for example, is
the word "quality." It's like the word "temperature," in that we don't
say, "Today was a temperature day for winter." We must define the
temperature. We must say "Today was a high-temperature day for winter."
In the same vein, we should not say "I expect quality work from my
staff." We must say "I expect high-quality work from my staff."
Well, excuse me for hoping our language will improve, rather than
deteriorate; it's just the editor in me speaking. I only wish Americans
took English as seriously as do our emigrants.
Speaking of improving our language, my book Write In Style has been
helping writers since 2004; however, I have very few copies left. If
you haven't yet gotten your copy, don't pay the used-copy prices of $75
and up. Buy one of the remaining new copies from me for only $12.95. To
purchase, go to http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml, but
hurry! I'll take a couple of copies to the local meeting tomorrow, in
case anyone wants one, which brings to mind, if you live in or near
Atlanta, I hope you'll join our meeting tomorrow, Saturday, at noon.
Need info? Give me a call or send an e-mail message.
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 Web Site or Website, Fact Checking, and
Writing an "As Told To" Biography
By Bobbie Christmas
Q: I give up. When I'm editing, I don't know which one is right. It is
Website, website, Web site, or web site? I have seen all versions of
the term: two words, capitalized, and lowercased. What gives?
A: What gives is that Internet terminology is still evolving, and
unless you consult a specific style guide and stick to it, you can get
confused. In addition, various style guides have chosen differing ways
to handle Internet terms. The one thing most agree upon, however, is
that Internet and World Wide Web are brand names that are capitalized.
For that reason, web started out as capitalized, but gradually it has
become lowercased. In the same vein, website may appear as two words,
web site, in some style guides for periodicals, but if you write or
edit books, you should follow Chicago style, which now uses it as one
word, lowercased: website.
Q: When you edited my book, you told me to fact check something I wrote
about Special Olympics, so I did. I learned a great deal. Special
Olympics (they don't like the word "the") calls participants "people
with intellectual disabilities," and they have a language guide on
their website. Thanks for telling me to check my facts; my mistake
would have been embarrassing.
A: Thank heavens for the Internet! When writing about companies or
organizations, it pays to visit their websites. Most organizational and
company websites provide valuable information for researchers and
writers. The Internet has made fact checking much simpler than when I
started out. Back in the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, I had to call
organizations and try to find knowledgeable people willing to help me,
or I had to drive to a library to perform research and check facts.
I knew to question some of the things in your manuscript, because I
have written articles about programs for wheelchair dancers and
baseball teams that blend challenged children with "ordinary" ones.
Each time, I had to query the organizations to see what wording they
preferred, and the answers often surprised me. I am glad to see that
the red flag that went up in my head worked to your benefit.
Q: I am a published writer, and I make my living that way. I have spent
years as a full-time journalist and short story author, but I'm writing
my first book. It is "as told to," and it already has an agent. All is
in place, but I am breaking out in a cold sweat at the prospect of a
book-length project and trying to wrap my mind around inhabiting
another's voice in first person. I could easily do it as a fiction
writer, but I am not sure how it works in "as told to." What kind of
leeway does a writer have? Also, it is unnerving to have everyone
peering over my virtual shoulder as I try to create a mental space in
which to write, because not only are people on me, but we are already
going around about first serial rights and foreign rights and so forth,
when the thing is not even written yet.
It sure is a different milieu than the ones I am used to. In the past I
either had all the privacy in the world for fiction, or my
deadline-driven journalistic pieces were by necessity short, even if
painful.
Do you have any advice on how to handle all this mess? Oh, and how do I
stay sane while doing it?
A: You have already been a full-time journalist, which, I am sure, is
why you landed the juicy assignment. You were the professional who was
right for the job. To complete the project, think like a journalist,
one writing a profile piece that just happens to be longer than usual.
Okay, I'll grant that it will be some 50,000 or more words longer than
the usual profile, but simply write about one incident or
accomplishment at a time.
Do not think like a fiction writer, because fiction calls for similes,
metaphors, setting, and plot. Think instead like the journalist that
you are. When you interview your subject, think of it as interviewing
for another personality profile, and keep a keen ear out for the types
of dialogue you would normally use in a profile. Listen to the
subject's idioms and manner of speech. Record your interviews, if
possible, because doing so allows you to capture all the details. The
more time you spend with the person or the recordings, the more you
will pick up on his or her speech patterns and word choices. You are a
journalist; trust your instincts.
Don't worry too much about that first draft, either. The first draft
should simply get the information down, so you can later sort it all
out and shuffle it around to get it into the right organization and
pacing.
Read at least one or two other "as told to" books to see how others
have done it, and you will quickly realize you can do it and probably
can do it better.
Your most difficult task may not be the writing but the fact that you
have people watching and checking your progress and skills as you move
forward. Because first drafts are inherently rough, though, try not to
show your first draft to anyone. If other eyes burn holes through your
psyche and halt your progress, wait until you have finished the entire
first draft and are polishing and refining it before you let those eyes
view any of your work. By then you will be more confident in your
product and able to accept criticism and suggestions more objectively.
As for remaining sane? Try deep breaths, meditation, or venting to
friends, but trust me, don't be Hemingway and turn to alcohol for
solace. That method does not end well.
Bobbie Christmas will answer your questions, too. Send them to
Bobbie@zebraeditor.com. Read more "Ask the Book Doctor" questions and
answers at www.zebraeditor.com or www.zebracommunications.com.
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,
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Three: This Month's Easy Editing Tip from Bobbie Christmas--Than or
Then?
Be sure to use then and than correctly. They are not interchangeable.
Then: (Adverb)
1. At that time. Sandy was single then. If you'll go Tuesday, I can go
with you then.
2. Next in time, space, or order; immediately afterward. Nancy danced
to the last song and then left for home.
3. In addition; moreover; besides. The flight is long, and then there's
the ground transportation time.
4. Used after but to qualify or balance a preceding statement. The
injury hurt, but then what injury doesn't?
5. In that case; accordingly. If you must work there, then be careful
of falling objects.
6. As a consequence; therefore. The sale, then, is a done deal.
Then: (Noun)
1. That time or moment: School starts Tuesday; until then I'll brush up
on last year's subjects.
Then: (Adjective)
Being so at that time. The then president of the club vetoed the idea.
Than: (Conjunction)
1. Used to introduce the second element or clause of an unequal
comparison. I am a better editor than most.
Use my trademarked Find and Refine Method to locate every use of the
words "then" and "than" in your manuscript, to double check that you
have used them correctly. Go to the Find function on your computer
(Control + F on a PC or Command + F on a Mac) and under Find What, type
the word "then." When you hit Find Next, your computer will find the
word, and you can check to see if it is used correctly as an adverb,
noun, or adjective. If not, perhaps it is supposed to be "than," a
conjunction, in which case you can use the Replace function to repair
it. Repeat the process through the manuscript and then use the Find
function to find each use of the word "than," to be sure it is used
correctly as a conjunction, whenever it appears.
For more opportunities for improving your manuscripts, buy one of the
few remaining copies of Write In Style at
http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml.
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Four: Subjects of interest to writers
Member Patricia Fry is a freelance writer, author, editorial
consultant, executive director of SPAWN (Small Publishers, Artists and
Writers Network), and a darned nice person. I've had the privilege of
being a speaker at the same event where she spoke, and I've been a
member of SPAWN for a long time. A review copy of her thirty-fifth book
landed on my desk recently, and I look forward to plundering it and
writing a review of it on Amazon. Meanwhile, congratulations on your
latest book, Patricia!
By the way, she's already hard at work on her thirty-sixth book.
Publish Your Book (Allworth Press) by Patricia Fry is for anyone
starting out in the world of publishing. Read this book first, before
writing your own book, because it covers how to write the right book
for the right audience. It then goes on to give you all your publishing
options, how to choose the right publisher for your project, and how to
promote your book. The book is for fiction and nonfiction authors. See
www.matilijapress.com for more information on Publish Your Book or to
order the book.
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Tip from Member: Look for Regional Publishers
My book, Another Damn Newcomer, was published right after Thanksgiving.
I had submitted it to an academic press, thinking they'd be interested
because of the historical aspects of it, but despite what I thought was
a good query letter, the committee didn't even want to take a look.
I then began looking for the right kind of publisher within my state,
New Mexico, and found the perfect one that specialized in history and
the West, Sunstone Press in Santa Fe. Because they're small, we quickly
developed a good relationship, and they're always available when I need
answers.
I've learned two things from this experience that I'd like to share
with other writers. First, look for small regional publishers for your
work (New York ain't gonna be that interested in New Mexico) and
second, selling your book is a lot of work. Be prepared. --Audrie
Clifford
Audrie's book, Another Damn Newcomer, can be purchased from the
publisher, Sunstone Press, or Amazon.com.
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Get Rewarded for Writing Clearly
Tell the World What is Not Clear
The ClearMark and WonderMark awards recognize the best and worst in
plain language each year in from government, nonprofit, and private
companies.
The 2012 ClearMarks and WonderMarks will be announced at the awards
ceremony on May 22, 2012 as part of the Clarity 2012 Conference.
The ClearMark awards honor the best in clear communication and plain
language, celebrating documents and web sites from government,
non-profits, and private companies that succeed in communicating
clearly. That's a good step towards making all our information easier
to understand.
If you have a project--a website, brochure, form, legal writing,
instruction or any other information--that you think is one of the
best, the WonderMark awards are your chance to tell the world what's
not plain. Forms, signage, websites, disclaimers, instructions, legal
documents--all the things you encounter in daily life. Now there's
something that you can do about it. Make it public!
See http://centerforplainlanguage.org/awards/ for more information and
nomination forms.
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I received this interesting word-related brainteaser from a friend.
Although I thought I'd figured it out, I learned I was only partially
correct:
Can you figure out all the things the following seven words have in
common?
1. Banana
2. Dresser
3. Grammar
4. Potato
5. Revive
6. Uneven
7. Assess
It is not only that they all have at least two double letters. In all
of the words listed, if you take the first letter, place it at the end
of the word, and then spell the word backwards, it will be the same
word.
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Write In Style Soon to be Unavailable; Do NOT pay $289 for a copy!
Hurry! I have fewer than twenty copies left of Write In Style, my
award-winning book that teaches writers my Find and Refine Method ™
and gives you specific words and phrases you can delete, upgrade, or
rewrite to power up your prose.
After I sell all my copies, you'll have to pay the prices on Amazon, up
to $278 per book, unless or until I find a new publisher or
self-publish it. Prices are likely to rise even more, when I run out of
new copies.
When I last checked, new copies of Write In Style were selling for
between $75 and $289 on Amazon.com. Don't believe me? See
http://tinyurl.com/4hc2bxu. Used copies were selling for as much as
$123. Don't pay those prices! While they last, 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
http://zebraeditor.com/book_write_in_style.shtml.
Write In Style: Using Your Word Processor and Other Techniques to
Improve Your Writing by Bobbie Christmas 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.
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From The Chicago Manual of Style Website Q & A This Month
Q. I know that ship and vessel names are italicized, but what is your
criterion for determining what is a ship or vessel? I thought the idea
was that the thing could carry people, but I must be wrong, because you
set the Phoenix Mars lander in italics in your example. Are artificial
satellites such as Sputnik set in italics? How about things like the
International Space Station or the James Webb Telescope?
A. For every guideline in CMOS, at some point we have to stop narrowing
our criteria and examples and just trust readers to use their own best
judgment and record their decisions in their style sheets. Depending on
the context, you might want to style gray-area terms consistently with
other terms that you confidently styled per CMOS.
The Chicago Manual of Style is the reference that book editors use. For
more CMOS Q & A, see http://tinyurl.com/2xscwn.
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Purge Your Prose of Problems
A Book Doctor's Desk Reference, Fifth Edition
Please don't buy this book! I'd rather you pay me thousands of dollars
to edit your book. I don't want you to use this book to go into the
business of editing books for others, either, yet many people do.
If you insist, though, you can order my proprietary book-doctor desk
reference book online at http://tinyurl.com/4ptjnr.
In alphabetical order and in easy-to-understand language, Purge Your
Prose of Problems covers all you need to know to revise and edit
fiction and nonfiction books, including grammar, punctuation, word
choices, creative writing, plot, pace, characterization, point of view,
dialogue, Chicago style, format, and much more. The spiral binder lets
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To save thousands of dollars by editing your own book, order Purge Your
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Barnes & Noble has just announced that it won't be carrying
Amazon-published titles. Read the whole Publishers Weekly article at
http://tinyurl.com/7d3hvl6.
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Free Tools for Writers from Bobbie Christmas and Zebra Communications
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Words Writers Should Know
Trade paperback versus mass-market paperback books
Trade paperback books are larger in size than mass-market paperback
books and are usually printed on high-quality paper. Most
self-published books these days are trade paperback books, and the most
popular size for trade paperback books is six inches by nine inches.
Mass-market paperback books, which are sold largely through newsstands,
drugstores, supermarkets, and the like. They may also be called
pocket-size or rack-size books. Mass-market paperback books tend to be
four by seven inches in size.
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Ask the Book Doctor: How to Beat the Competition and Sell Your Writing
answers many of the questions you wish you could ask an editing expert.
Whether you write books, short stories, articles, reports, or anything
else, learn more about how to write, edit, and sell your work.
Paperback: $14.95 plus $4.99 S & H (total: $19.94 US) E-book: $8.95, no
S & H, with almost instant delivery. You'll save almost $10 by buying
the e-book! To order either, go to http://tinyurl.com/lexp7n.
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I love this blog, where The New York Times examines its own writing and
sometimes rails on itself. If you love words and writing, as all our
readers do, you will love this blog about grammar, usage, and style.
When it comes to style, however, that as a newspaper publisher, it does
not always follow Chicago style, preferred by book publishers.
http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com
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Five: Contests, Agents, and Markets
Wisdom of Woodstock Anthology
Call for Personal Experience Essays
Were you living at the time the world came together in peace, love, and
harmony for the infamous Woodstock concert? If so, you have spent
enough years on earth to have learned some valuable lessons and
experienced unique, pleasant, or even unpleasant events that resulted
in wisdom. It is time to share that wisdom in the Wisdom of Woodstock
anthology. We are looking for original personal experience essays that
reveal an incident that resulted in wisdom, revelation, or comfort. For
details, see http://zebraeditor.com/writing_competition.shtml.
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AMERICAN CARRIAGE HOUSE PUBLISHING
P.O. Box 1330
Nevada City CA 95959
Phone: (530)432-8860
Fax: (530)432-7379
E-mail: editor@americancarriagehousepublishing.com
Website: www.americancarriagehousepublishing.com
Contact: Lynn Taylor, editor (parenting, reference, child, women).
Publishes trade paperback and electronic originals. Accepts
simultaneous submissions.
Responds in six months to queries, proposals, and mss. Pays outright
purchase of $300-3,000. Publishes ten titles per year, 10% by
first-time authors, 100% by unagented authors. Publishes book one year
after acceptance.
Nonfiction Needs: child guidance, education, parenting, women's issues,
women's studies, young adult as general nonfiction, reference, or
self-help
Fiction Needs: religious, spiritual, young adult
Query with SASE.
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ASABI PUBLISHING
Three West Enterprises
Phone: (813)579-3506
E-mail: submissions@asabipublishing.com
Submission E-mail: submissions@asabipublishing.com
Website: www.asabipublishing.com
Contact: Tressa Sanders, publisher.
Publishes hardcover, mass market, and trade paperback originals.
Accepts simultaneous submissions. Responds in one month to queries and
proposals, two to six months to manuscripts. Pays 10% royalty on
wholesale or list price. Publishes twenty-four titles a year.
Publishes books six months after acceptance. Pays up to $500 advance.
Nonfiction Needs
Agriculture, creative nonfiction, environment, ethnic, gay, health,
history, horticulture, lesbian, medicine, nature, psychology, science,
sex, social sciences, young adult, skilled trades in children's,
how-to, scholarly, and self-help
Fiction Needs: Adventure, confession, erotica, ethnic, experimental,
fantasy, gay, horror, juvenile, lesbian, mystery, romance, science
fiction, short story collections, suspense, young adult
"We do not publish poetry or titles containing religious or spiritual
content of any kind."
Accepts electronic submissions only! Submit four sample chapters or
completed manuscript. "Submissions must be fully edited by a
professional prior to submission."
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LLEWELLYN PUBLICATIONS
Imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd.
2143 Wooddale Dr.
Woodbury MN 55125
Phone: (651)291-1970
Fax: (651)291-1908
E-mail: Publicity@llewellyn.com
Website: www.llewellyn.com
"Llewellyn publishes New Age fiction and nonfiction exploring new
worlds of mind and spirit. Currently emphasizing astrology, alternative
health and healing, tarot. De-emphasizing fiction, channeling."
Publishes trade and mass market paperback originals.
Accepts simultaneous submissions:
Responds in three months to queries.
Pays 10% royalty on wholesale or retail price.
Publishes more than one hundred titles per year.
Nonfiction Needs: cooking, foods, nutrition, health, medicine, nature,
environment, New Age, psychology, womenas issues, women's studies
Submit outline and sample chapters.
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Six: Got Muse?--The Feel of Things
When I was young, my sister and I loved the following poem:
Mud
Mud is very nice to feel
All squishy squashy between the toes!
I'd rather wade in wiggly mud
Than smell a yellow rose.
Nobody else but the rosebush knows
How nice mud feels between the toes.
--Polly Chase Boyden
I've never forgotten that last line, "Nobody else but the rosebush
knows how good mud feels between the toes." It has stuck with me for
decades, like wet Georgia clay, you might say.
For this writing challenge, think about other things that feel good.
You might recall the great feeling of slipping between fresh sheets
after a bath, eating warm soup on a cold day, cuddling a purring cat,
or playing with a puppy. You can think of many other things that feel
good, that stick with you long after the incident has passed. Make a
list of things that come to mind, and then pick one and write a story
about it.
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