One of our newest Spring 2007 titles, The Pirate Primer by George Choundas, was our best-selling title in the trade through the week ending June 17, 2007. Click on the cover to read more about this title, and also to download an excerpt.
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“Indescribable”
So you wanted another message from Ida, yeah?
There is no need to parade your problems
An image of Virgin Mary had been seen there
Can you imagine that you are healthy?
Answer the telephone
Wizards of the Coast, a hobby gaming company, has book recommendations for writers on their site. We’re flattered to say that Writer’s Digest Books titles comprise nearly half the list, including:
Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Nancy Kress
Characters and Viewpoint (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Orson Scott Card
Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities That Keep Readers Captivated by Nancy Kress
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes: (And How to Avoid Them) by Jack M. Bickham
How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
See the full list here. Thanks to Justin Combs for the tip!
One of our newest Spring 2007 titles, The Pirate Primer by George Choundas, was our best-selling title in the trade through the week ending June 10, 2007. Click on the cover to read more about this title, and also to download an excerpt.
Visit the official site at http://pirate.fwpublications.com.
Will Allison, whose debut novel is now available at a bookstore near you, recently divulged details of his days at Story magazine, once published by our parent company, F+W Publications.
I did have some trouble getting up to speed, though. Having only recently left the world of MFA creative-writing workshops, I was used to dutifully, painstakingly giving each and every manuscript its full due. Lois didn’t play that. If a story failed to hook her by the first page or two, she was on to the next. I was struck by her ability (and Laurie’s) to plow through a bin of manuscripts in a couple of hours, emerging with only a handful of stories requiring closer attention. It wasn’t just that she read with great confidence — in her taste, in her ability to recognize quality — but also with great impatience. How dare an unworthy story waste her time!
This weekend, the Poetry Society of Oklahoma hosts the 2007 National Federation of State Poetry Societies National Convention at the Oklahoma City Marriott. Our very own Nancy Breen, editor of Poet’s Market, makes an appearance.
Writer’s Market was recently reviewed in the Burning Void.
The annual “Writer’s Market” book alone has always been worth the price of admission for freelancers trying to find markets for their work, particularly for those at the beginning of their careers who could use the advice on query letters, simultaneous submissions, and so on as well. The extent to which the book has grown over the years amazes me; if it was worth it seven or eight years ago when it contained a fraction of the listings it does now, it’s certainly worth it now.
The BEA/WDB Conference, which took place on May 30, was covered by Reuters and picked up by the New York Times. Our very own Lauren Mosko was quoted in the article.
Here’s a little of what they reported:
Several dozen agents and editors were taking pitches at Wednesday’s “pitch-slam” at the end of a one-day seminar that also included workshops on writing the perfect book proposal.
“Don’t feel like you’re a failure if you don’t come out of here with a contract,” Lauren Mosko, editor of writers’ guide “Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market,” told her workshop.
Analyzing a pitch for a book of women’s letters about lessons learned in adversity, she said: “It sounds like a really ‘nice’ book but there’s nothing that really grabs me emotionally.”
Among the other pitches were a memoir of raising kids in the “hotbed of commercial sex” that is Bangkok, a novel about Internet geeks, a memoir of police corruption, an expose of the adoption system and a parody of Fox cable show “The O’Reilly Factor.”
One of our newest Spring 2007 titles, The Pirate Primer by George Choundas, was the best-selling title in the trade through the week ending June 3, 2007. Click on the cover to read more about this title, and also to download an excerpt.
Visit the official site at http://pirate.fwpublications.com.
One of our newest Spring 2007 titles, The Pirate Primer by George Choundas, was the best-selling title in the trade through the week ending May 27, 2007. Click on the cover to read more about this title, and also to download an excerpt.
Visit the official site at http://pirate.fwpublications.com.