Monday, October 29, 2018

market for article/s about writing & publishing

Can you write an article about some aspect/s of writing &/or publishing? The Canadian online magazine Authors Publish invites submissions of such articles & pays for those it accepts. Here's the link: https://www.authorspublish.com/submit-to-authors-publish-magazine/ .

Thursday, October 18, 2018

fiction, non-fiction, & poetry opportunity: ECW Press



Canadian publisher ECW Press is accepting submissions of fiction, non-fiction, & poetry. Info here:

http://www.authorspublish.com/ecw-press-accepting-submissions/

Transportation Tales: How Our Ancestors Got Around

TRANSPORTATION TALES: HOW OUR ANCESTORS GOT AROUND

 

Lady Agnes rode the cowcatcher of one of the first trains to rumble west from Ottawa to the British Columbia coast. A canoe-paddling fur trader saw a mermaid in Lake Superior. A Nova Scotia Noah & his followers built "arks" to take them from Pictou to Cape Breton & finally to New Zealand. Horses bolted, running away with a Saskatchewan farmer being chased by his estranged wife in a Hudson Terraplane car.


Come & hear these & other old-time transportation tales from Elma (Martens) Schemenauer's newest books, YESTERCANADA: HISTORICAL TALES OF MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE and the 1940s novel CONSIDER THE SUNFLOWERS. Instructor: Elma (Martens) Schemenauer Date: Thursday November 29, 2018 1:30PM-3:30PM Location: North Shore Community Centre [address 452-730 Cottonwood, Kamloops]. Cost $10 plus annual Kamloops Adult Learners Society fee of $15. For more information on KALS courses & to register, please visit https://tinyurl.com/y8uok3qc .

 


Wednesday, October 17, 2018

how to query--& how to do an author reading



Good articles from Writers Digest: 

5 tips for querying an editor or agent about your writing: https://tinyurl.com/yawwhuu4

16 guidelines for doing an author reading at a library, conference, meeting, or wherever: https://tinyurl.com/ycopf4hq

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

72 poetry publishers you can submit to for free

Some poetry publishers charge a fee for submitting poetry to them. This website lists 72 that don't charge:  https://tinyurl.com/ycp9q24d .


Wednesday, October 3, 2018

high-concept fiction




Some people write high-concept fiction. Some don't. Interesting to read about it anyway & there are extra bits of useful info in this article: https://tinyurl.com/y9ke3uvg

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

branding yourself as an author


If you're an author, you may want to consider "branding" yourself as one. Good article on that here: https://tinyurl.com/y9ehaxpg . (A somewhat corny brand I use is "Elma Mary from the Prairie." If you want to see that, visit my website: http://elmams.wixsite.com/elma .)