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Feb.16.2011
I was going to blog about something important today. Not today though. I’m sick and under the influence of a generic Sudafed tablet. My thinking isn’t clear. Writing about serious, worldly matters is reserved for razor sharp thinkers and the other fifty percent who think and write about serious,...
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Feb.08.2011
For some months now, I've been trying to solicit interest from agents and editors in a historically accurate World War II novel I've written. The novel - at least a third of it - was my master of lib arts project and had many eyes on it during its gestation. Since that time I've gleaned and...
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Dec.17.2010
A post or two ago, we discussed writing for anthologies, a current hot market. From now 'til year-end (can't believe we're nearly at the close of 2011), we'll talk a bit more with editor, writer and instructor Anne Witkavitch, who compiled and edited the new anthology Press Pause Moments: Essays...
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Nov.16.2010
Yesterday I received a wonderful email bright and early in the morning. It was a contract to publish my novella!
YES! I sold. After many a long night of agonizing. The editor came back with resounding "yes"!
She loved the plot, loved the characters and the loved the mythology. I...
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Nov.09.2010
We have cancelled our Facebook page on Thursday, November 4th, 2010 at 6:00PM. It has since been since been hacked by unknown parties and now someone else unknown to us has control of it. Their inclusion of Cooks Source issues and photos is used without our knowledge or consent. Please know that...
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Nov.07.2010
Besides over a dozen of the nation’s best and brightest agents and editors, this year’s Words & Music: A Literary Feast in New Orleans boasts no less than 75 author and scholar faculty members, the largest gathering of gliterati EVER in the Big Easy. The list includes:
Gregory Anderson, MD...
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Nov.05.2010
The Cooks Source Magazine recipe for disaster is still brewing on the internet. Disaster for writers, that is. It seems the magazine might be doing just fine, thank you. Attention, publicity and an upcount in their 'friends' on FaceBook. Will the writer get paid? Will the writer get an apology (or...
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Nov.04.2010
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Copyright Infringement and Me
by illadore
The tl;dr version of this post: My 2005 Ice Dragon entry, called "A Tale of Two Tarts" was apparently printed without my knowledge or permission in a magazine and I am...
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Oct.23.2010
Editor help for Jane Austen novels
Jane Austen had her work polished up by a male editor, an Oxford academic has revealed
One of English Literature's greatest novelists, Jane Austen, had her work polished up by a male editor who took out her bad grammar and spelling, an Oxford academic has...
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