WDB authors Hallie Ephron (Writing & Selling Your Mystery Novel) and Lee Lofland (Book of Police Procedure, forthcoming in Fall 2007), partcipated on a panel called “Murder Really Bugs Me” at Bouchercon 2006 in Madison, Wis.
Chuck Sambuchino, editor of Guide to Literary Agents, spoke at the 2006 Ozark Creative Writers Conference. A couple images from the event:
Chuck says, “Eureka Springs, Ark. is quite a cool place.”
I’m an English Major—Now What? (from our spring 2006 list) has been picked up as a required text by ENGL 2790 at Utah Valley State College. Very cool!
Writing for the Soul receives 4.5 stars (out of 5) from the Burning Void. Here’s a little of what they have to say:
Jenkins’ religious convictions certainly permeate his manuscript; he is unashamed of his beliefs, and his desire to share them with others is the result of a moving personal journey that he also shares within these pages. However, Jenkins also possesses a wry, thoughtful tone and a realistic outlook on life that prevents this outreach from pushing or preaching. I never felt excluded in any way as a non-believer, nor did I feel that Jenkins’ advice and words had no relevance to me and my experience. I can’t speak for everyone obviously, but my feeling is that this book would be perfectly useful and interesting to folks of any religion (or none at all).
FictionAddiction.net has posted terrific reviews of the Market Books listed below. (They are one of the Top 101 Writing Web Sites selected by Writer’s Digest magazine.)
2007 Writer’s Market
http://reviews.FictionAddiction.NET/2007market.html
2007 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market
http://reviews.FictionAddiction.NET/2007novel.html
2007 Guide to Literary Agents
http://reviews.FictionAddiction.NET/2007agent.html
2007 Children’s Writer’s & Illustrator’s Market
http://reviews.FictionAddiction.NET/2007childrens.html
2007 Poet’s Market
http://reviews.FictionAddiction.NET/2007poet.html
For the fourth week in a row, our new guide to novel writing, Your First Novel, by agent Ann Rittenberg and Laura Whitcomb, was the best-selling title in the trade through the week ending Oct. 22. Click on the cover to read more about this title—and to download quick tips from the book in PDF form.
The October issue of The Vocabula Review (edited by WDB author Robert Fiske) is now available. It happens to feature an excerpt from our velvety spring 2006 title, The Gilded Tongue.
The Vocabula Review has been around since 1999, and offers articles on the English language. Its tag line: “A society is generally as lax as its language.”
D.P. Lyle (author of a forthcoming WDB book on forensics), will soon release a new DVD, Forensic Science for Writers, which is part of the Killer Fiction Workshop DVD lecture series. It offers five hours of basic forensics for mystery writers, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Crime Lab Project, a project for raising funds for and increasing awareness of the extreme underfunding of crime labs everywhere.
The first DVD in this series—titled Writing Killer Mysteries—was done by
Kris Neri and is currently available. For more, check out www.krisneri.com.
Bev Walton-Porter, author of Sun Signs for Writers, has been selected as a featured guest author at Midnight Moon Cafe. On November 9, the site will post an author Q&A and a copy of Sun Signs for Writers will be given away in their reader drawing.
PBS TeacherSource briefly reviews I’m an English Major—Now What?, saying that it “belongs in every high school guidance office.”