Archive for the ‘ Writing ’ Category
You guys know I don’t endorse very many contests. But this is well worth looking at: Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition www.shortstorycompetition.com $2000 Awaits Winners of Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition Writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2010 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. The competition has a twenty-nine-year history of literary excellence, and its organizers are [ READ MORE ]
Need a remedy for the late-winter blahs? Suvudu announced they’ve got your cure. They’ll be hosting a live round-table discussion of Paranormal and Urban Fantasy. See the website for details: On February 17 (at 4pm EST), we’re bringing in some of the hottest voices in Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy for a round-table discussion and we’re [ READ MORE ]
This is just to let you know that one of our advertisers, Pennwriters.com, has a very affordable online class for learning to write effective dialogue beginning February 1st. The course instructor is writer Catherine McLean: “Catherine McLean is a published author of science fiction, paranormal, and contemporary (romance) short stories. She has had more than two dozen [ READ MORE ]
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 try to [ READ MORE ]
Happy first Monday of 2010, AWers. We talked about SEO and keywords, last time. I’ve got a post I’ve been working on about agents blogging, but in the meantime I’ve been deleting a fair amount of spam from the comments threads since we went live with comments here. (Thank you to HistorySleuth for the heads-up on [ READ MORE ]
I've been hearing a lot of writers talking about starting blogs, or buying domains and building Web sites, to try and increase their online presence and build a platform for their nonfiction, or to try to establish a Web presence for their fiction. I'll tell you guys the same thing I tell everyone who asks me: Good content is about real conversation with real people[ READ MORE ]
Writer and editor Lisa Abbate of wordmountain.com brings us a recorded interview with veteran literary agent and writer Evan Marshall, who shares writing and marketing tips and strategies and discusses finding an agent in a tough and competitive economy. Feel free to comment and discuss – we’ve managed to get everything working. [ READ MORE ]
When I was very young, perhaps seven or eight years old, and had only recently discovered science fiction via a box of used paperbacks books in the office/waiting area of my Dad’s auto-shop, my much-adored older sister gave me a boxed set of Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Earthsea Trilogy My young mind made one of those [ READ MORE ]
