Archive for June, 2006
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Fiction markets
http://www.mamohanraj.com/Writing/litmarket.htmlTiered markets
http://www.drowningman.net/Poetry Markets
http://www.marketlist.com/market_index.aspEvery magazine with guidelines
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/su_bainbridge/aaipg.htmlWorld, print and online publications With guidelines and PAY LISTED
“ The BLR is a literary journal that examines human existence through the prism of health and healing, illness and disease. We encourage creative interpretation of these themes.”
Online subs now accepted - www.blreview.org http://www.apublicspace.org/submissions/guidelines.html
New market, great pay
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/su_bainbridge/aaipg.html
World, print and online [...]
Moody Saturday
It's dreary outside, the kind of weather that makes me want to drink and write dark poetry, or either curl up with a good book. I'm going to the library here in a bit, we'll see if I can find something compelling enough to help me choose the latter, saner choice. But it will have [...]
A little housecleaning
If you will check farther down the right hand panel of this blog, you will find a wealth of information for writers under Helpful Sites for Writers and tons of markets under Market Databases.
http://www.jeannelyetgassman.com/
Resources & Reference
Roget’s Thesaurus
One-look Dictionaries
The Quotations Page
RefDesk.Com
DeskRef.Com
RhymeZone.Com
Wordsmith.Org
Bartleby.com: Literature in the public domain.
PowerReporting.com helps to hunt down sources and facts.
AwardWeb: Literary Awards for Genre Fiction
Postage Rates Worldwide
Scenario League’s Historical Maps
Book Marketing - Web Sites and Contacts
Frugal Fun
Guerilla Marketing
Web Site Marketing Plan
Branding Yourself Online
List of book reviewers
Christine Frank, Editor and Indexer
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/author.html http://www.viviansnotebook.com/writing/tips/promo.htm
http://www.bookwire.com/bookwire/ http://www.writefromhome.com/bookmarketing.html
http://www.theslot.com/
Federal statistics
Statistics.com
InternetStats.com
World Fact [...]
What do you say, readers?
I have a small, steady readership, so if you are one of those wonderful, smart, diserning people, and have seen me switch themes several times since I started this blog in February, leave a comment and tell me which one you prefer.
Testing…1, 2…
I am testing using NOTEPAD to type my entries first, hoping maybe the font will be bigger. I loved the pretty green stye I had, but the writing was hard to read. Let's see if this is any better……
Ok, I have been through every theme wordpress offers, and this–though not romantic or flashy–is the best as [...]
Ain’t life funny?
Wouldn’t you know it? Just about the time I’m ready to turn the gas on and lock all the windows, I get not one, but TWO acceptances! And both to decent paying markets. One is an essay that will be in an anthology put together by Dr. Cheryl Dellasega and the other is an essay in [...]
Would that businesswoman please shut up??
I'm talking about me. All my life I've been a businesswoman. As I said in my bio, the only thing I did as far as writing was concerned, up until three years ago when I started writing full-time, was dabble in poetry. I would write a poem on a napkin in a bar and give [...]
Love, love, love this blog!
Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.
From today's entry. Garrison Keilor examines a biography
'Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee,' by Charles J. Shields
Good Scout
Review by GARRISON KEILLOR
Published: June 11, 2006
Here is a book about a woman who knew when to get off the train. A tomboy from Monroeville, Ala., editor of her college humor magazine, The Rammer [...]
