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Not sure if this is the only Goodreads thread we have...but, this might be of interest...
The complete and unabridged guide to GoodReads for authors: Account set-up, customization, and widgets, lots of widgets
http://www.novelpublicity.com/2011/09/the-complete-and-unabridged-guide-to-goodreads-for-authors-account-set-up-customization-and-widgets-lots-of-widgets/
The complete and unabridged guide to GoodReads for authors: Account set-up, customization, and widgets, lots of widgets
http://www.novelpublicity.com/2011/09/the-complete-and-unabridged-guide-to-goodreads-for-authors-account-set-up-customization-and-widgets-lots-of-widgets/
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Book cover contest going on over at Authorsdb...and I just know ya'll want to vote for me...give my cover 5 stars, and maybe leave a nice, fat, tasty comment...
Here's the link for those so inclined...
AUTHORSdB - Cover Contest - I Often Wonder: a collection of poetry and prose
http://www.authorsdb.com/book-cover-awards/other/i-often-wonder-a-collection-of-poetry-and-prose-256
It might not be obvious how to vote, but where it says "Image Rating" there is a little green arrow pointing down...click on the arrow, and the stars will magically appear...
I'm also aware that the link to my author page isn't working...where it says "Visit Author's Page" should be an active link...I replied to this tweet yesterday about that...and nice to know my publicity efforts are working btw...I posted about this in a couple of groups over on Facebook yesterday btw...
Alan W. Jankowski,
You were mentioned in a Tweet!
AUTHORSdB
@AUTHORSdB
@Exakta66 is trending on AUTHORS DATABASE #1AdB authorsdb.com/authors-direct…
07:51 AM - 16 Apr 13
Reply to @AUTHORSdB Retweet Favorite
I think this is the actual tweet, if I am correct...
AUTHORSdB: @Exakta66 is trending
Anyway...go vote me up...you'll get that great feeling of major accomplishment you don't always get a chance to get every day...you can thank me for that later...and, of course, you'll get the chance to be part of this historic event my friends...
Here's the link for those so inclined...
AUTHORSdB - Cover Contest - I Often Wonder: a collection of poetry and prose
http://www.authorsdb.com/book-cover-awards/other/i-often-wonder-a-collection-of-poetry-and-prose-256
It might not be obvious how to vote, but where it says "Image Rating" there is a little green arrow pointing down...click on the arrow, and the stars will magically appear...
I'm also aware that the link to my author page isn't working...where it says "Visit Author's Page" should be an active link...I replied to this tweet yesterday about that...and nice to know my publicity efforts are working btw...I posted about this in a couple of groups over on Facebook yesterday btw...
Alan W. Jankowski,
You were mentioned in a Tweet!
AUTHORSdB
@AUTHORSdB
@Exakta66 is trending on AUTHORS DATABASE #1AdB authorsdb.com/authors-direct…
07:51 AM - 16 Apr 13
Reply to @AUTHORSdB Retweet Favorite
I think this is the actual tweet, if I am correct...
AUTHORSdB: @Exakta66 is trending
Anyway...go vote me up...you'll get that great feeling of major accomplishment you don't always get a chance to get every day...you can thank me for that later...and, of course, you'll get the chance to be part of this historic event my friends...
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Here is an essay contest for unpublished poets..."Janet Caldwell and Inner Child Press are conducting an Essay Contest. It’s EASY! Write an Essay of 200 - 250 words on why you think your work is worthy of being Published in your own book. I will select 3 winners, and we will publish 30 of your Poems for your own Chap Book to include About the Author and a Foreword. Many of you have been published in anthologies and in various online communities. Why not hold your book in your hand ?"...and btw, Inner Child Press is my publisher, and I have to say they do a fine job...they offer a lot of publishing packages you can purchase as well as hosting radio shows three times a week, and numerous other goodies, as well as having probably the most favorable royalty rates in the industry...they're quite an impressive organization really...check it out my unpublished poet friends...
Inner Child Press - Essay Contest
http://www.innerchildpress.com/essay-contest.php[/size]
Inner Child Press - Essay Contest
http://www.innerchildpress.com/essay-contest.php[/size]
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Looks like our very own Archana K. Nagpal, aka Archanaknagpal here on Stories Space is a runner up in this contest and will have her story published in an anthology...
Silver Tongue - Short Story Contest Winner!
http://www.silvertonguepress.com/[/size]
Silver Tongue - Short Story Contest Winner!
http://www.silvertonguepress.com/[/size]
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Damn, that's better than Stories Space...
"We consider unsolicited submissions of short stories and one-act plays no longer than 7,000 words. All-Story does not accept submissions between September 1 and December 31. Pays $1,000.00"...not too shabby, snail mail only though...check it out my friends...
Zoetrope: All-Story: Guidelines
http://www.all-story.com/submissions.cgi
This is from their Facebook page btw...
Description
In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched Zoetrope: All-Story, a quarterly magazine devoted to the best new short fiction and one-act plays. It has received every major story award, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction, while publishing today's most promising and significant writers: Mary Gaitskill, David Mamet, Ha Jin, Elizabeth McCracken, Yiyun Li, Don DeLillo, Andrew Sean Greer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Woody Allen, Yoko Ogawa, David Means, Susan Straight, Charles D'Ambrosio, David Bezmozgis, Neil Jordan, and Haruki Murakami among them.
Along with new stories, each edition of the magazine presents a Classic Reprint—a previously published short story that inspired a great film—to illustrate the narrative relationship between the art forms. Previous Classic Reprints include Liu Yi-chang's "Intersection" (which inspired Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love), Steven Millhauser's "Eisenheim the Illusionist" (Neil Burger's The Illusionist), Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (Sarah Polley's Away From Her), and Paul Auster's "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" (Wayne Wang's Smoke).
Zoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine, as the editors invite a different contemporary artist to illustrate and design each issue. Past guest designers include William Eggleston, Zaha Hadid, Julian Schnabel, Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellars, Helmut Newton, David Bowie, Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Ed Ruscha, David Byrne, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Chip Kidd, Yves Béhar, and Mike Figgis.
"We consider unsolicited submissions of short stories and one-act plays no longer than 7,000 words. All-Story does not accept submissions between September 1 and December 31. Pays $1,000.00"...not too shabby, snail mail only though...check it out my friends...
Zoetrope: All-Story: Guidelines
http://www.all-story.com/submissions.cgi
This is from their Facebook page btw...
Description
In 1997, Francis Ford Coppola launched Zoetrope: All-Story, a quarterly magazine devoted to the best new short fiction and one-act plays. It has received every major story award, including the National Magazine Award for Fiction, while publishing today's most promising and significant writers: Mary Gaitskill, David Mamet, Ha Jin, Elizabeth McCracken, Yiyun Li, Don DeLillo, Andrew Sean Greer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Woody Allen, Yoko Ogawa, David Means, Susan Straight, Charles D'Ambrosio, David Bezmozgis, Neil Jordan, and Haruki Murakami among them.
Along with new stories, each edition of the magazine presents a Classic Reprint—a previously published short story that inspired a great film—to illustrate the narrative relationship between the art forms. Previous Classic Reprints include Liu Yi-chang's "Intersection" (which inspired Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love), Steven Millhauser's "Eisenheim the Illusionist" (Neil Burger's The Illusionist), Alice Munro's "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" (Sarah Polley's Away From Her), and Paul Auster's "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" (Wayne Wang's Smoke).
Zoetrope: All-Story is also an art magazine, as the editors invite a different contemporary artist to illustrate and design each issue. Past guest designers include William Eggleston, Zaha Hadid, Julian Schnabel, Wim Wenders, Laurie Anderson, Peter Sellars, Helmut Newton, David Bowie, Gus Van Sant, Tom Waits, Ed Ruscha, David Byrne, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud, Chip Kidd, Yves Béhar, and Mike Figgis.
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Quote by DLizze
Are writers in general under the impression that it is easier to write poetry than prose?
I think to a certain extent that's true, and I think it's very true among people who have never actually written a poem...I know for myself, I often end up spending a lot more time writing a poem than I do a story...a lot of that time is spent sort of sitting and staring into space though, something I'm fairly good at btw...
There is definitely less typing involved with poems, and I think that offers a certain appeal...and you don't actually need a computer handy, you can write out a poem on the back of a bar napkin for instance, and don't ask me how I know that btw...but, that might account for the appeal of poems to some...
Personally, I think poems offer a whole different set of challenges...and "poetry" itself is such a broad topic...poems can rhyme, not rhyme, have all sorts of different forms...prose is rather straightforward I think by comparison...
Most of my poems in the past have been fairly traditional rhyming poems...I intend to deviate from that more in the future, and that to me presents a big challenge...so, for me at least, it's more or less something different...
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I know there are a ton of threads on the subject of scoring, and rejection notices, and negative reviews, and all that stuff...
Anyway, just had to post this somewhere...in other words, there will always be haters, so consider that when someone comes along and gives you that lonely 2 vote...and listen to Stephen, he has some good stuff to say...after all, who am I to argue?
“I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
― Stephen King, On Writing
“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
“Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”
― Jeffrey Robinson
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
Anyway, just had to post this somewhere...in other words, there will always be haters, so consider that when someone comes along and gives you that lonely 2 vote...and listen to Stephen, he has some good stuff to say...after all, who am I to argue?
“I have spent a good many years since--too many, I think--being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.”
― Stephen King, On Writing
“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space Suit—Will Travel
“Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”
― Jeffrey Robinson
“When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.”
― Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart
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This might interest some friends here who are trying to become happier hookers...
First Sentences of Great Books
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/04/first-sentences-of-great-books/?utm_campaign=BB1315&utm_source=BBeNews&utm_medium=Email
First Sentences of Great Books
http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/04/first-sentences-of-great-books/?utm_campaign=BB1315&utm_source=BBeNews&utm_medium=Email
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Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Live Rainbow Bridge Maui, Hawaii, USA 1970
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This one has certain memories for me because I was living in the neighborhood at the time...they walk past The International Bar & Grill at the beginning, on St. Marks place, and end up at The St. Marks Bar & Grill at the corner of St. Marks and 1st Ave. in NYC...these were my local bars at the time, and I remember when they were in the neighborhood making this very well...
The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend - OFFICIAL PROMO
The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend - OFFICIAL PROMO
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This might be of interest to my friends here interested in self-publishing...check it out...
Self Publishing Video Tutorials - GalleyCat
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/self-publishing-video-tutorials_b68391[/size]
Self Publishing Video Tutorials - GalleyCat
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/self-publishing-video-tutorials_b68391[/size]
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William S. Peters, Sr. aka Inner Child here on Stories Space celebrated a birthday today...and there was a very nice two hour radio show on Blog Talk Radio hosted by Janet Caldwell to celebrate the event...
I called in right around 75 minutes into the show, and Bill and Janet both said some very nice things about me...heck, they are my publisher...but, it was rather touching...I believe Stories Space was mentioned as well...the part with my call-in lasts about six minutes, but the whole show is nice btw...
It's a PARTY for Bill...
Bill is the founder of Inner Child Enterprises btw...
Inner Child has these radio shows over on Blog Talk Radio three times a week...and all are welcome to call in...check it out my friends...
I called in right around 75 minutes into the show, and Bill and Janet both said some very nice things about me...heck, they are my publisher...but, it was rather touching...I believe Stories Space was mentioned as well...the part with my call-in lasts about six minutes, but the whole show is nice btw...
It's a PARTY for Bill...
Bill is the founder of Inner Child Enterprises btw...
Inner Child has these radio shows over on Blog Talk Radio three times a week...and all are welcome to call in...check it out my friends...
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Oh yeah...I saw this the other day...Kristen is on my Facebook friends list btw...
I think at this point I'm sort of pre-Neophyte...I do know my ABC's, and can write my name without help...on a good day I can put three words together to make a complex sentence, but can't always count on it...I have mastered the "Five word sentence" thingy in the forum, but still have to count out the words on the fingers of my left hand while typing with my right...I think I'm making some progress though, and hope to tackle more advanced forum games like "Word Association" in the near future...
Actually, I think I'm in the "Apprentice" category...and maybe always will be...I'm never going to remember a bunch of rules, I'll always be sort of "wingin' it"...
I think at this point I'm sort of pre-Neophyte...I do know my ABC's, and can write my name without help...on a good day I can put three words together to make a complex sentence, but can't always count on it...I have mastered the "Five word sentence" thingy in the forum, but still have to count out the words on the fingers of my left hand while typing with my right...I think I'm making some progress though, and hope to tackle more advanced forum games like "Word Association" in the near future...
Actually, I think I'm in the "Apprentice" category...and maybe always will be...I'm never going to remember a bunch of rules, I'll always be sort of "wingin' it"...
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Somebody please read this article and let the rest of us know how it's done...thanks...
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/04/04/how-to-make-1000000-selling-e-books-tactics-and-case-studies/[/size]
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2013/04/04/how-to-make-1000000-selling-e-books-tactics-and-case-studies/[/size]
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Damn, it's hard to believe it's coming up on three years since I met Nancy K. Baldwin...I met her April 10, 2010, the day after her 53rd birthday, and we were together until December of that year...geographic separation is what ended the relationship, without going into details...she was a huge influence on my writing during that year though, starting with the poem "Nancy" written April 22, and was the influence behind some of my most popular poems, like "We Started As Friends" which may be my most popular poem...heck, I would not be using the name DirtyMartini if it was not for her, that was her idea...and she did introduce me to the drink, which is a good thing btw...
Just reminiscing...this picture was taken May, 2010 at the Chinese buffet restaurant on Main St. in Somerville, N.J...my father took the picture when he came up from North Carolina with my step-mother for a visit...
Nancy
How did you know I needed you?
That I really needed someone new,
How did you know I was alone?
When suddenly you came along.
Did you know you’d brighten my day?
That I really needed a friend today,
Did you really know it’s been a while?
That I have seen so bright a smile,
It’s been so long since I could share,
Time with someone for which I care,
I think we can both shed our past,
And make this thing really last
It’s been way too long since I felt like this,
A natural high, a state of bliss,
To be with someone who can understand,
The simple pleasure of holding your hand,
And after years of perpetual night,
Suddenly the future looks bright,
You brought me up from an all time low,
You came just in time, but how did you know?
04-22-10.
Just reminiscing...this picture was taken May, 2010 at the Chinese buffet restaurant on Main St. in Somerville, N.J...my father took the picture when he came up from North Carolina with my step-mother for a visit...
Nancy
How did you know I needed you?
That I really needed someone new,
How did you know I was alone?
When suddenly you came along.
Did you know you’d brighten my day?
That I really needed a friend today,
Did you really know it’s been a while?
That I have seen so bright a smile,
It’s been so long since I could share,
Time with someone for which I care,
I think we can both shed our past,
And make this thing really last
It’s been way too long since I felt like this,
A natural high, a state of bliss,
To be with someone who can understand,
The simple pleasure of holding your hand,
And after years of perpetual night,
Suddenly the future looks bright,
You brought me up from an all time low,
You came just in time, but how did you know?
04-22-10.
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Speaking of finding that perfect hook...had to share this one with my writer friends here today...
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Quote by Circle_Something
I just had a thought and decided to pose the question here. Do you think it's an addiction?
Not necessarily, but it could be for some...this article would give you a clue...
Psychology Today - What Is Addiction?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/addiction-in-society/201302/what-is-addiction
From the article...
As I wrote in Psychology Today magazine,
Addiction is the search for emotional satisfaction—for a sense of security, a sense of being loved, even a sense of control over life. But the gratification is temporary and illusory, and the behavior results instead in greater self-disgust, reduced psychological security, and poorer coping ability. That’s what all addictions have in common.
I've read a number of things about addiction over the years btw, and generally what distinguishes an "addiction" from a "compulsion" as Maggie put it, is negative consequences...by definition...
So...if you've ever skipped work to stay home and finish a story, or even stayed up all night writing and as a result couldn't function...or have at any time chose to write instead of taking care of other responsibilities, and as a result have had to face consequences...then yes, for you writing would be an addiction...
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DAW Books, an imprint of Penguin, is seeking science fiction or fantasy novels of at least 80,000 words in length. You do not need to have an agent to submit your novels for consideration...check it out my friends...
To find out how to submit visit:
DAW - Penguin Group (USA)
http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/daw/submissions.html[/size]
To find out how to submit visit:
DAW - Penguin Group (USA)
http://www.us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/daw/submissions.html[/size]
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Nosy Crow Seeking Books for Children
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Nosy Crow publish books for children aged 0 to 14. They are currently seeking more submissions from authors new or experienced. They mainly focus on books for children up to the age of 12 and are looking for "parent-friendly books". They buy world rights in all languages.
For more information visit:
Submission guidelines :: Contact us :: Nosy Crow
http://nosycrow.com/contact/submission-guidelines
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Nosy Crow publish books for children aged 0 to 14. They are currently seeking more submissions from authors new or experienced. They mainly focus on books for children up to the age of 12 and are looking for "parent-friendly books". They buy world rights in all languages.
For more information visit:
Submission guidelines :: Contact us :: Nosy Crow
http://nosycrow.com/contact/submission-guidelines
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This might be of interest to some here...
Stephen King On Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, Lovecraft & More (55:51)
Stephen King On Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey, Lovecraft & More (55:51)
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Quote by magnificent1rascal
In addition to the Rottweiler and cat, I have a goldfish and a talking calendar in my story. I hope I get extra credit for that!
Funny, but I don't remember the goldfish for some reason...the goldfish probably doesn't remember me either...
Good Luck with this one Maggie...