Posted on August 8th, 2007 by Scribe
The last month has seen me increasingly busy over at Speculative Realm (which has now moved to its own website). The submissions are pouring in, which is great, but I’m seeing a pattern with the submissions which concerns me…yet also gives me (as a writer) hope.
I’m noticing that quite a few of the authors [...]
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Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Scribe
Lulu is a self-publishing company. Anyone can use this service and this is where I have a problem with self-publishing. If anyone can use it, then there are bound to be badly written books out there. Let’s be honest, it’s a fact that there are.
But…if a book is badly written, or if [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2006 by Scribe
This is a promise the manuscript has not previously been published anywhere, through any media. Often this might read First Australian Rights, or First UK Rights and so on, which means that the work has not been published within the specified country or area before. Once you have sold a manuscript’s first rights in one [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2006 by Scribe
Benjamin Solah brought this website to my attention. It’s called William Shunn : Manuscript Format : Short Story and is naturally telling us how to format our manuscripts.
I’ve read through the page and agree totally with what he says. Do yourself a favour, if you want to be a professional, learn to set [...]
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Posted on January 10th, 2006 by Scribe
Thanks goes to Yzabel for sharing a link to Joe Konrath’s A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing. Although the other posts are informative too, the post I’ve link to struck a cord.
Unlike Joe, I have never tried to work my way through 2000+ short stories trying to find “winners” (the mere thought makes me shudder), [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2005 by Scribe
This is something I’m seeing more and more - the rule of 12. In the last week, I’ve seen words to this effect on several websites, and once in a book I picked up at the library, and now I’m going to put them here.
Serious writers will have several submissions out at all times. [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2005 by Scribe
When I first started writing, I was determined to use a pen name. There were three reasons for this 1) I didn’t want to use my married name because I’m divorced (but kept the name for my children’s sake), 2) I lacked self-confidence, and 3) I didn’t want the people close to me knowing [...]
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Posted on September 21st, 2005 by Scribe
Following a recent rejection I received on behalf of the 2004 Anthology stories, it’s time to hit the query stage again. However, I want to revise the query letter I was using so I’ve been looking around for some hints on letter writing.
Most of the following is common sense, but I’m going to make [...]
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Posted on August 8th, 2005 by Scribe
A friend gave me this link to Robin Friedman’s Interviews with Editors. It looks like a great resource for writers of children’s books.
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Posted on August 4th, 2005 by Scribe
Do people read the rules when they join an online community? I don’t think so because if they did I wouldn’t have to waste my time explaining why I’ve just denied their submission to join a private forum the day after they join the message board (which I no longer do because if they [...]
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