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Posted in Book Reviews, Books on May 15th, 2008
Well the first “pick my book” event is finally over now that I’ve finished the book and am reviewing it. Overall, there are some things I would’ve done differently: make the voting easier (with a poll instead of in the comments) and maybe picking books that were better known. But oh well. It was fun [...]
Posted in Getting Published, Writing on Apr 29th, 2008
I’ve written before about how to get your work out of the slush pile and into the literary magazines that are out there, but the current Poets & Writers has a whole bunch of great tips that apply to writers of all stripes and so I figured I would pass on the knowledge. Let me [...]
I heard about this website/project after reading about it in the latest issue of Poets & Writers.
Here’s the gist: writers submit their book-length manuscripts to the website and the first 50 pages are “shown” for readers to check out. The book (or books, I’m not sure) that get the most amount of votes to be [...]
Posted in Getting Published, Writing on Oct 23rd, 2007
If you’re like me, when you submit your stories, essays, or poetry to literary journals or magazines, you want to give yourself the best chance of getting published. At first glance, that means submitting to as many places as possible.
On my last round of submissions, I sent out two stories to a combined 25 different [...]
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