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 .

 

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

19 mystery publishers you can submit to

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Here are 19 mystery publishers open to submissions, no agent required: http://www.authorspublish.com/19-mystery-publishers-open-to-submissions/ .

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 .

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. 

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 .)

writing opportunities: Focus on the Family

The Christian organization Focus on the Family is dedicated to helping families thrive. They're open to submissions of short pieces relating to this theme. If you're interested in current opportunities, go to the following website, look under the heading Submissions, and click on the various words under it. https://www.focusonthefamily.com/magazine/call-for-submissions