A Cappela Newsletter for Writers Nov.-Dec. 2007
NEWS & VIEWS YOU CAN USE
Your monthly newsletter from Patrika, your Author’s Advocate™
Visit her, send an email, at www.acappela.com
A WRITER'S DIGEST'S 101 BEST WRITING SITES
Distinguished Recipient: The Literary World
IN THIS ISSUE:
*Who We Are
*The Editor’s View
*Media Contacts
*Pat’s Picks
*Writing Tip
* Book Gossip
*Markets
*Contests
*Writing Q&A
*Word Trippers
*Wordplay
*Quote of the Month
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Who We Are
A Cappela Publishing, home of your Author’s Advocate, prides itself on being a one-stop shop for authors.
We can work with you from the time you say to yourself, “I’ve got a great idea for a book.” We can guide you through the completion of that book, and then usher it through successful publication and marketing. Taking these steps piecemeal results in erratic successes...too often steps get lost in the shuffle from one provider to another. Let us oversee the entire operation and provide you with a coordinated plan for success.
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Bulletin: Get free articles on writing at http://groups.com/group/WriteBetter-GetPublished.
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THE EDITOR’S VIEW
Review Book Etiquette. It’s the holiday season once again, and the thoughtful little things we tend to do at this time of year could improve your chances of getting reviewed any time of year. When sending review copies of your book, details can make a big difference in the way the
reviewer will approach your book. Consider signing the book, even personalizing it with the recipient's first name. Enclose a sheet that emphasizes the book's premise, intended market, and main reader benefits. Finally, if sending copies to non-professional reviewers, i.e., friends, clients and others you will be contacting now, consider adding a sticker encouraging them to review your book at www.amazon.com.
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From Linda Morelli (http://www.lindamorelli.us):
A new company, Booksfree.com, had a listing for my first release, FIERY SURRENDER, for rent. I checked out the site and they have lots of books in various genres that they rent, for a fee, in a manner similar to Netflix. I was rather surprised at this, so I called my attorney and was told that, provided they obtained my book legally (i.e., purchased it), this is the same thing as a lending library and is legal. She also pointed out two additional items: 1) if a reader likes the book, they may buy it or check out any other releases and, 2) it probably wouldn't hurt to place a note on an author's site indicating that rentals take away from author sales. Just thought I'd let you know, since companies renting out our books may concern us all. Linda Morelli
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Take
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Where
are you?
1)
have an idea but haven’t written anything (link to WP&M, Consult; Writing
Coaching)
2) got
started, but bogged down (link to Classes, Writing Coaching, WP&M)
3)
have first draft, but don’t know if it’s any good (link to Critique)
Where
do you want to go?
1)
improve my writing skills (WP&M, audiobooks, Classes)
2)
edit what I’ve got into something publishable (Editing, Book Doctoring)
3)
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eLitAgent)
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Your
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*Genre-specific
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will be evaluated by a pro who has personal experience with the same kind of
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WRITING
TIPS
Not
sure of a word’s spelling or usage? Check http://www.thefreedictionary.com
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PAT’S
PICK
Ever wondered how many libraries carry your book? Head on over to worldcat.org, plug in your book title and voila! A list of libraries will pop up that carry your book.
WRITING Q&A
Q: What’s the difference between a wholesaler and a
distributor?
A: It is important to accurately distinguish the two types of activity because they are very different in both emphasis and kind. Book wholesalers should be seen as a service providers to bookstores. They don’t create demand; rather they efficiently respond to demand whatever the cause and whatever the title. They envision their task as serving the interests of bookstores and similar outlets with their main object of getting product A to store B in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost. Look at them as a kind of UPS or FedEx of the book business.
Book
distributors represent the interests and activities of book publishers. Instead
of hiring your own sales and marketing personnel and running your own shipping,
storage and returns processing warehouse, you would outsource all of these
activities to a book distributor who focuses on these activities on your behalf.
Unless, you are doing over $5,000,000 in book sales, you should seriously
consider the book distributor option. It may actually cost less and at the same
time provide marketplace clout.
WORDPLAY
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra
credit.)
Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
Word Trippers
"Wannabee":
Shortened, Americanized form of 'want to be'.
The origin is actually
unknown however the phrase is used to describe fans, of singers, actors,
writers and other famous people, who want to emulate their idols.
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Media Contacts
This column
is for those of you looking for ways to get your writings reviewed, to get a
radio or TV interview, or in some way promote your writing
Interview Tip: After you make appearances or give interviews, ask the hosts, producers, and interviewers to send you a letter stating that you were a fabulous guest who generated great interest. Ask them to write their endorsements on their official letterhead. Letters of endorsement regarding your past appearances can be extremely important because radio and TV producers often rely on them in booking talent for their shows.
GET INTERVIEWED
At Bookpleasures.com, publisher and editor Norm Goldman
conducts a series of author and expert interviews for books in several genres:
art, fiction, self help, business, non-fiction, travel guides, children's and
history.
GET REVIEWED
Send to: bookreviewsonline@gmail.com
The Virtual Book Review Network is a host of high-profile
sites (10 in total) - you can view one of them here www.bestbooksreviewed.com
GET INTO PRINT
Real Simple Magazine (www.realsimple.com) has a monthly circulation 1,809,792. Its readers are cost-conscious and practical. Successful pitches will keep those readers in mind. The magaziNe has a dozen departments. Look at several issues of the magazine and become familiar with the types of articles published in the various sections. It's best to pitch department editors or assistants or editorial assistant Kate Parker. Pitch things needed for the home, or show them problems/solutions, or produce experts they can use. Lead time is two to six months. Pitch via email, but no attachments.Phone: (212) 522-1212 Fax: (212) 467-1398 Managing editor: Kristin Van Ogtrop (kristin_vanogtrop@realsimple.com) Executive editor: Corynne Corbett (corynne_corbett@realsimple.com)
Get an Agent
MIRIAM ALTSHULER LITERARY AGENCY http://www.miriamaltshulerliteraryagency.com/
Focuses on literary commercial fiction and nonfiction. In nonfiction,
interested in general nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, psychology,
travel, nature and biography.
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Pat’s Picks
'Googling' Is now Grammatically Correct
The latest edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary includes "google" as a verb, among some 100 other new words that have officially made it into the American and English lexicon, reports the Associated Press (via Marketing Pilgrim). Merriam-Webster lower-cases the new dictionary entry. CNET reports that earlier, on June 15, the Oxford English Dictionary also released a list of new entries in OED Online, including "Google" (upper case) as a verb, as well as "adware," "mash- up," "texting," "pixelate" and "uninstall," among others.
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MARKETS
Intergalactic Medicine Show. We are
looking for stories of any length in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
Within these genres, we like to see well-developed milieus and believable,
engaging characters. We also look for clear, unaffected writing. Asimov, Niven,
Tolkien, Yolen, and Hobb are more likely to be our literary exemplars than
James Joyce. We pay 6 cents a word up to $500. Stories can be longer, but the
word rate drops with increasing length to always yield a total of $500.
Http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=content&article=submissions
New England Review is published four times a year: winter,spring, fall, and summer. Our submissions period is September 1 through May 31 (postmark dates) only. We consider short stories, short-shorts, novellas, and self-contained extracts from novels;long and short poems; interpretive and personal essays; book reviews, screenplays, dramatic works, translations, critical
reassessments, interviews, cultural criticism, and letters from abroad. Payment is $10/page, $20 minimum, upon publication, plus two free copies of the issue in which your work appears.
http://cat.middlebury.edu/~nereview/guidelines.html
American Heritage primarily focuses
on the history of
knowledge of our national past. We try to use the past to illuminate the present. We welcome contributions of freelancers, but suggest that ideas for articles be submitted - in some detail - to our editors in advance. http://www.americanheritage.com/contact/writersguidelinesAH.pdf
Backpacker provides articles to knowledgeable and experienced backpackers, therefore we accept only authentic,well-researched, well-crafted stories. We're not interested in slavish imitations of stories we've already done. As always, youB should carefully study several issues of the magazine before submitting a query. The best articles have style, depth, emotional impact, and take-away value for the reader. Freelancers most often break into BACKPACKER's pages in the departments. These shorter assignments (100 to 1,200 words) have specific topics and focus. Please read our guidelines for full details. Http://www.backpacker.com/guidelines/0,3132,,00.html
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CONTESTS
NOVEMBER
Deadline
your
characters by what you let them do and say. Get us involved in the plot by
moving us skillfully from point A to point B. This is a fiction contest.
Memoirs, biographies, and other
nonfiction
are not eligible for this competition. AWW is a resource for creative women. We
want to encourage work by, for and about women, but stories about men will not
be overlooked.
Just be sure
that your viewpoint rings true and the experiences you portray are authentic to
the character and setting. Be natural. You must submit only the first 100 pages
of your novel. You must also send a detailed, chapter-by-chapter plot synopsis
for the entire novel; the synopsis can be up to two single-spaced pages.
Postmarked
November 20,- 2007 Prose & Poetry Prizes. This is the seventh year of
the Prose & Poetry Prizes sponsored by The New Writer magazine.
Non-fiction, fiction and poetry categories are available for submissions.
Details: http://fwointl.com/LMPmail/link.php?id=newwriter
Deadline:
Promote Your Work as an Award-Winning Title!
Complete information available at http://www.IndieExcellence.com
December
Deadline:
Wordcount: 300
to 600 words.Winners will also be published in StarSearcher Express newsletter
and at the www.bethestaryouare.org website. Go to the site to learn more about
possible topics
Deadline
judge. Fiction and non-fiction. 1st place: $2,500; 1st runner-up: $1,500; 2nd
runner-up: $1,000. Finalists considered for publication with SFWP Press.
http://www.sfwpawards.com for guidelines and more info.
Deadline
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WRITING
Q&A
Q: What’s a fair price for first serial rights?
A: When negotiating for first serial rights, you should consider what price to ask. You don’t want to price your book out of the market, but at the same time you want to get a fair price. Here are a few guidelines to use in determining your price:
1) The higher the circulation of the periodical, the more it can generally afford to pay.
2) How much of your book do they want to excerpt?
3) Does the publication want exclusive rights to the entire book or to just part?
4) For how long do they want exclusivity?
5) Syndication rights should sell
for more than first serial rights to one publication
Wordplay
New words that appear in the fall in the best-selling 'Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition:
avian influenza (n) 1980: a highly variable mild to fulminant influenza of birds that is caused by strains of the influenza A virus which may mutate and be transmitted to other vertebrates -- called also bird flu
gastric bypass (n) 1972: a surgical bypass operation that involves reducing the size of the stomach and reconnecting the smaller stomach to bypass the first portion of the small intestine so as to restrict food intake and reduce caloric absorption in cases of severe obesity
unibrow (n) 1988: a single continuous brow resulting from the growing together of eyebrows
Quote of the Month
Literary Insults
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter
Kerr
"There's nothing wrong with you that
reincarnation won't cure." -Jack E. Leonard
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Quote of the Month
Literary Insults
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter
Kerr
"There's nothing wrong with you that
reincarnation won't cure." -Jack E. Leonard
"He can compress the most words into the smallest
idea of any man I know." -Abraham Lincoln
"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this
wasn't it." -Groucho Marx
"He has the attention span of a lightning
bolt." -Robert Redford
"They never open their mouths without subtracting
from the sum of human knowledge." -Thomas Brackett Reed
"He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker
forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -James Reston
(about Richard Nixon)
"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she
always yielded easily." -Charles, Count Talleyrand
"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope
without any address on it?" -Mark Twain
"A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg
who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity." -Mark Twain
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice
letter saying I approved of it." -Mark Twain
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept
the stork." -Mae West
"She is a peacock in everything but beauty."
-Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others
whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by
his friends." -Oscar Wilde
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." -Billy
Wilder
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts...
for support rather than illumination." -Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
"The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in
reading,in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one
book." - Samuel Johnson (1709-84)
The original style is not the style which never
borrows of anyone, but that which no other person is capable of reproducing.*
François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)
1.
"I made this letter longer than usual because I
lack the time to make things
shorter."
~ Blaise Pascal ~
1.
Edna St. Vincent Millay once said that “a person who
publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.”
"It took me fifteen years to discover that I had
no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too
famous."
- Robert Charles Benchley, author
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high
in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
-Henry van Dyke, poet (1852-1933)
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a
faucet
upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the
pressure off the second." - Robert Frost
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because
those who
mind don't matter, and those who matter don't
mind."
- Dr. Seuss
“Only amateurs say that they write for their own
amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of
ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and child birth. But amusing?
Never.” Edna Ferber
“I have always imagined that
"A writer writes not because he is educated but
because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate
is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or
praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from
others." -- Leo Rosten
"Why SHOULDN'T truth be stranger than fiction?
Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
--Mark Twain
"Common sense and a sense of humor are the same
thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense,
dancing.” William James
"I think to understand an idea you have to wade
in, write your way through it, and throw away big hunks until you get it right.
... I think of a story not as a part of myself on a page, but as a thing that
can be better or worse depending on what I do to it. I really do think of it as
a thing to be shaped, made, and perfected." --Lee Smith, author of ME AND
MY BABY VIEW THE ECLIPSE
"Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding
respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for
the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle
what clear line persists." -- Eudora Welty
“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”
Franz Kafka
"The best time for planning a book is while
you're doing the dishes." --Agatha Christie
Don’t forget to send in your suggestions, feedback and
your writing questions. And check out the writing resources page at
http://www.acappela.com
Patrika
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Deadline
NO ENTRY FEE. Three free places at the Writers' Summer
School in Swanwick in August 2007. Each scholarship is worth more than £350.
Categories are short story, poetry and children's writing.
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Online Magazine awards you should know about:
Million Writers Award, which honors and promotes the
best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during the
past year.
Over 600 short stories were nominated for the award
(which includes nominations from 51 online magazines and journals, whose
editors each selected up to three stories they had published in the last year).
From these nominations, a volunteer panel of readers selected their favorite
stories, which are listed as notable stories of the year. The top ten online
stories of the year were selected by Jason Sanford, who is the fiction editor
of storySouth and a three-time judge of the Minnesota Book Awards. The overall
winner of the award was selected by public vote, while the best online
publication was awarded to the magazine that received the most story
nominations by readers and writers. Details:
http://www.storysouth.com/millionwritersinfo.html
Deadline
http://www.shortstorycompetition.com
June
Deadline June 15.
Writing About Labyrinths--prose & poetry contest. $10 Entry. Cash
prizes.. Details: http://www.labyrinthsociety.org; SASE Labyrinth Society,
Magellan Books and The Easy Way to Write are proud to
announce their first Annual New Novel Competition .First Prize: Publication of your novel with
worldwide distribution, published and marketed by Magellan Books. Second Prize:
One year ebook publishing deals for 5 authors Third Prize: Hardcopy version of
"The Easy Way to Write a Novel" signed by the author, for 10 runners
up.
Chicano/Latino Literary Contest offers a 1st place
prize of $1,000, publication, and transportation to receive the award. It is
offered annually "to promote the dissemination of unpublished
Chicano/Latino literature in Spanish or English, and to encourage its
development." The contest is open to all citizens or permanent residents
of the
Nonfiction
Comedy writer needed for national radio show with
populist/progressive themes and biting political satire. Email resume and
writing sample to kmadonna@kennedymadonna.com.
Captions/jokes, unique Short Stores, Essays &
Stories — photos too! Submit original, factual accounts of life’s ironies,
it-can-only-happen-too-me sagas.Your submission may be selected for inclusion
in a book of collective works. Details: www.skylinepublications.com,
SkylineEditor@aol.com
~The Heron’s Nest. Hailu poetry. Monthly award, plus
two Runners-Up. No pay, but this was rated 3d favorite among over 80 haiku
magazines. www.theheronsnest.com
~ Investigative Journalism Grant is sponsored by the
Fund for Investigative Journalism. It is offered 3 times a year for original
investigative newspaper and magazine stories, radio and TV documentaries,
books, and media criticism. The contest offers February 1 and June 1 deadlines.
Fund For Investigative Journalism,
November
CALL FOR ENTRIES - 2007 Prose & Poetry Prizes.
This is the
seventh year of the Prose & Poetry Prizes
sponsored by The New
Writer magazine. Non-fiction, fiction and poetry
categories are
available for submissions. The next closing date is
November 20,
2007 (postmarked date). For details, please visit:
http://fwointl.com/LMPmail/link.php?id=newwriter
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Wordplay
New words that will appear in the fall in the best-selling 'Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.
avian influenza (n) 1980: a highly variable mild to fulminant influenza of birds that is caused by strains of the influenza A virus which may mutate and be transmitted to other vertebrates -- called also bird flu
gastric bypass (n) 1972: a surgical bypass operation that involves reducing the size of the stomach and reconnecting the smaller stomach to bypass the first portion of the small intestine so as to restrict food intake and reduce caloric absorption in cases of severe obesity
unibrow (n) 1988: a single continuous brow resulting from the growing together of eyebrows
.
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Quote of the
Month (see http://www.brainyquote.com/)
Literary Insults: "He had delusions of
adequacy." - Walter Kerr
Don’t forget to send in your suggestions, feedback and
your writing questions. And check out the writing resources page at
http://www.acappela.com
Patrika
TELL A FRIEND -
Any writing friends who would be interested in this newsletter? Send them this
link with your suggestion to sign up: http://www.acappela.com
If you have received this mailing in error or do not
wish to receive any further newsletter mailings from us, simply email us. You
will be automatically excluded from any future mailings including our
Newsletter that shares tons of free writing and marketing tips, tricks and
techniques: acappub@aol.com . To update your e-mail address, simply reply to
this e-mail with both your old and new e-mail address. (We’d like your name,
too.)
Wordplay("words of
the day" from Encarta World English Dictionary
:1. http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx
Also their Vocab quiz: Dictionary or fictionary? at :
http://encarta.msn.com/quiz_207/Fictionary.html
2. The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com
Hillock: (noun) A small natural hill.
Synonyms: knoll, mound, hammock
Usage: Our guide pointed out to us a slight and
indistinct hillock on the flat surface of the plain about eight miles away.
/
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again
asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are a few
of this year's winners:
Digerati: "computer experts: people who have or
claim to have
a sophisticated expertise in the area of computers,
the
Internet, and the World Wide Web"
Not too long ago, computer expertise was considered
nerdy. These
days, many people strive to be among the digerati.
Hallux: "first digit on the foot: the big toe on
the human
foot, or the first digit on the hind foot of some
mammals,
birds, reptiles, and amphibians (technical)"
The ballerina had her hallux insured for $10 million!
Pellucid:
- "clear in meaning: easy to understand or clear
in meaning
(formal)"