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Aspiring writers require many tools, but a list of available agents is one of the most valuable gifts any fledgling author can receive. With that in mind, here's a birthday present for all the aspiring writers in the audience.According to Writer's Digest, there are 1,300 practicing literary agents in the United States, maki (Read More)
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Yesterday, we shared some tips from a toolbox for National Novel Writing Month participants no matter where they may be—but here's an opportunity of special significance to GalleyCat readers in the New York City area: The Center for Fiction is opening up its Writers' Studio at 40% off the usual membership fees. The Studio i (Read More)
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Today's Pick of the Day is Beantown Cubans, written by Johnny Diaz. Cuban-born Carlos Martin is an awkward high school teacher who wants a change. In order to escape the crazy social scene and the memories of his recently deceased mother, he makes the drastic move from Miami to Boston.Carlos finds the difference between M (Read More)
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What's the story behind this object? Write it down in 500-words or less and you can win a spot in a virtual thrift store and literary journal.Slate magazine has teamed up with Significant Objects--a fiction site crisscrossed with a Salvation Army--to run short fiction contest. Readers are invited to write a story about the (Read More)
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I was fortunate enough to secure an interview with Sharon M. Draper, the illustrious author of several young adult themed novels, including Copper Sun. Draper is not only a New York Times Bestselling author, has not only won the Coretta Scott King award five times, but has also been awarded as the 1997 National Teacher of (Read More)
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Google is the internet surfer's best friend and worst enemy. If you know what you're after, just type it into the search engine's famous little box and – hey presto – you'll be given a list of related sites in order of relevance. Such is Google's dominance that its name has become a synonym for search. And rightly so. When (Read More)
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As a long Thursday winds down, here's a sampling of publishing-related dispatches from around the Interwebs... Mediaite points out Sarah Palin memoir pre-orders have given Dan Brown a run for his money. As of this writing, her memoir dominates the Amazon bestseller list--look for a holiday season packed with Alaskan wisdom. (Read More)
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PEN USA, the West Coast arm of the international PEN organization, has announced that Elmore Leonard (pictured) has won their 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award. He joins an illustrious crew that includes: Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Betty Friedan.The awards ceremony will be held in Beverly Hills on D (Read More)
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Permit me to introduce andysids who is a talented member of Riverside Writers.Andy will be performing some of his work as part of New Tales for Old Byways on October 14th. Meanwhile, go say hi! Last night's meeting of Riverside Writers began with our planning the program for the above event. Several of us will be performi (Read More)
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Late every August, just before school started, my mom would take me to the department store (Famous Barr, if you happen to be from St. Louis) to get my Back to School clothes. And I would pick the clothes that I thought I should wear. For some reason and year after year, I chose a wardrobe that really stretched so far away (Read More)
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One of my favoring pastimes, especially when I should be doing something else, is moseying around the blogs of my readers. You may have noticed that when the name of a poster is displayed in blue, that means it's a link -- usually to the author's blog, although you might be surprised. Assembled here is a distinctive readers (Read More)
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Mylast few posts have been part of my process of deciding what I'm goingto do next, as I prepare to move, to retire, and to become more activein living the ways I have been writing about for six years, my "tryingon" different models of the me that I'm becoming. My post on What You Can Do (graph (Read More)
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Author Bruce Barcott has won the inaugural, bi-annual Gene E. & Adele R. Malott Prize for Recording Community Activism. Barcott will receive a $1500 prize and an additional $1,000 will be donated to support community activism. According to the release, Langum Charitable Trust, an Alabama-based private operating foundation, (Read More)
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Submitted by Quannum
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Darren Menachemson gave a presentation at the UX Australia conference a few weeks ago about storytelling in user (product/service interaction) scenario design and production.It was a great presentation with some nicely illustrated comic strip-like examples of visually-represented user stories that had the flexibility to var (Read More)
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Food for thought in yesterday's Denver Post about the likely future of the bookblog, or at least the "litblog" variety—those websites which are "often more enthusiastic than professional," as defined by David Milofsky, "but nevertheless provid[ing] expanded coverage of literary fiction." One of the ideas in the article seem (Read More)
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