I’m a registered Democrat. I vote, I canvass, I caucus. As a Website owner and as an American, I’m dismayed by Congressional attempts to censor the internet. I’m appalled and chilled that we have a former Senator who publicly asserts that the U.S. should take a lesson from China to establish internet censorship and [...]
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Hadley Rille Books: A Quiet Shelter There is an upcoming anthology of speculative fiction about service or companion animals. The deadline is August 31, and the pay is $10 for a story or $5 for a poem, all USD. The minimum word count for fiction is 1000 words; the maximum is 4000. That makes [...] Redstone Science Fiction’s “Identity Crisis” contest is accepting submissions until August 15. There’s no entry fee, and winners get 5 cents per word (4,000 word maximum). The contest’s prompt is an essay titled “Identity Crisis: Who Are We, If We Can Choose Who We Are?” which, along with the publication’s submission guidelines, can be [...] Hey, AWers – I just received an email from Christine Fix, the Editor-in-Chief at Soaps.com: Substitute Recap Writer: Soaps.com is seeking a strong writer who resides in Ontario Canada to write “day ahead” recaps for the following soap operas: “Young and The Restless” and “Days Of Our Lives.” The candidate will be open [...] I’ve noticed a lot of indie anthologies popping up lately, and since three of them ended up in the Water Cooler‘s Paying Markets forum, I thought I’d share a few leads here that never found their way into our forum’s warm, loving arms. But first, one of the three that posted on the forums [...] Wordmountain’s Lisa Abbate brings us a terrific interview with book-marketing guru, publicist Penny Sansevieri. You can listen to the interview: If you’d rather read the transcript, you can find that [...] Guest Post by Marian Perera Changes always seems to be going on in the publishing industry. New publishers appear, editors change jobs, more authors are self-publishing and scams are revealed. How much of this should writers be aware of? It’s easy to spend hours reading about current news—or even old but scandalous scams—in the [...] A terrific essay on authorial control by Cherie Priest, posted on her blog and reprinted with permission at SFWA. I was especially delighted by what she has to say about libraries and used books, since recently I’ve seen an awful lot of doom, gloom, and anger from some writers about not getting [...] Google and the Google Book Settlement might be one of the biggest concerns of the entire decade for published writers. Ursula K. LeGuin resigned from the Authors Guild, because of their capitulation. So very much has been written about this wrangle and Google’s rather blatant attempt to completely revise copyright law, and I won’t [...] |
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