New Agent Alert: Stephanie Sun of Weed Literary
Posted by Chuck
Reminder: Newer agents are golden opportunities for new writers because they're likely building their client list; however, always make sure your work is as perfect as it can be before submitting, and only query agencies that are a great fit for your work. Otherwise, you're just wasting time and postage.
About Stephanie: Stephanie Sun of Weed Literary is a graduate of Boston College, and she joined the agency in 2009 after working at Bedford/St. Martin's, Tor/Forge, and Trident Media Group.
She is seeking: Her interests are diverse and she enjoys reading commercial fiction (middle grade, young adult, debut, and upmarket fiction), commercial nonfiction (narrative nonfiction and memoir) and books dealing with sports or pop culture (blog, food, and music). "Weed Literary does not handle the following: Picture books, mysteries, thrillers, romance, military."
How to contact: "We prefer queries to be e-mailed to info (at) weedliterary.com. Please keep letters to one page and do not send attachments unless they are requested. If you prefer snail mail, please send, along with an SASE for our reply, to: Weed Literary, LLC, 27 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011."
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Writers Digest Short Short Contest!
hort Short Story Competition
We're looking for fiction that's bold, brilliant...but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or fewer.
But don't be too long about it—the deadline is November 15, 2011.
PRIZES
First Place: $3,000 and a trip to the Writer's Digest Conference
Second Place: $1,500
Third Place: $500
Fourth Through Tenth Place: $100
Eleventh Through Twenty-Fifth Place: $50 gift certificate for Writer's Digest Books
* The names and story titles of the First-through Tenth-Place winners will be printed in the July/August 2012 Writer's Digest, and winners will receive the 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market and 2012 Guide ti Literary Agents. Plus, all First through 25th place winners will receive a free copy of the 12th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection.
We're looking for fiction that's bold, brilliant...but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or fewer.
But don't be too long about it—the deadline is November 15, 2011.
PRIZES
First Place: $3,000 and a trip to the Writer's Digest Conference
Second Place: $1,500
Third Place: $500
Fourth Through Tenth Place: $100
Eleventh Through Twenty-Fifth Place: $50 gift certificate for Writer's Digest Books
* The names and story titles of the First-through Tenth-Place winners will be printed in the July/August 2012 Writer's Digest, and winners will receive the 2012 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market and 2012 Guide ti Literary Agents. Plus, all First through 25th place winners will receive a free copy of the 12th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection.
Jump Start your writing!
JumpStart!
Just like a car needs extra juice when it’s running low, we as writers need to jump start ourselves.
That may mean getting the extra juice or power from another writer or another source.
It’s time to
• Go to those blogs you subscribe to—the ones that bombard your email with updates-yep, those little blurbs that you so often delete!
• Go to the bookstore—the smell of printed words and the vision of other authors work is enough to inspire and invigorate
• Go to the car—drive somewhere, turn the radio up and sing along—a lyric in a song may be all it takes to inspire an idea
• Go to the journals—you remember, those books where you wrote down every thought –no matter how nonsensical? Sometimes a fresh look inspires a new ideas
• Go to one of those unfinished projects—the ones we toy with for months and years on end—pick it back up, you might see a new twist, a new approach, a new voice.
• Go to the treadmill or the sidewalk—get moving; sometimes moving your body moves your mind and it definitely increases your energy!
• The message is GO!
Do something!
Let me guess—you don’t “feel like it”? Do it anyway!
As they say in 12 step circles “Fake it till you make it!”
No one EVER has enough time to do everything they want , if it’s something you desire, you will create the time. Otherwise, it’s only a wish, not a career.
Are you going to wish on a magic bottle?
Or JumpStart yourself into action?
Are you a writer or a wisher?
Just like a car needs extra juice when it’s running low, we as writers need to jump start ourselves.
That may mean getting the extra juice or power from another writer or another source.
It’s time to
• Go to those blogs you subscribe to—the ones that bombard your email with updates-yep, those little blurbs that you so often delete!
• Go to the bookstore—the smell of printed words and the vision of other authors work is enough to inspire and invigorate
• Go to the car—drive somewhere, turn the radio up and sing along—a lyric in a song may be all it takes to inspire an idea
• Go to the journals—you remember, those books where you wrote down every thought –no matter how nonsensical? Sometimes a fresh look inspires a new ideas
• Go to one of those unfinished projects—the ones we toy with for months and years on end—pick it back up, you might see a new twist, a new approach, a new voice.
• Go to the treadmill or the sidewalk—get moving; sometimes moving your body moves your mind and it definitely increases your energy!
• The message is GO!
Do something!
Let me guess—you don’t “feel like it”? Do it anyway!
As they say in 12 step circles “Fake it till you make it!”
No one EVER has enough time to do everything they want , if it’s something you desire, you will create the time. Otherwise, it’s only a wish, not a career.
Are you going to wish on a magic bottle?
Or JumpStart yourself into action?
Are you a writer or a wisher?
Monday, June 13, 2011
Murfreesboro Writers Group: Meet Our Members! Introducing Amy Williams!
Murfreesboro Writers Group: Meet Our Members! Introducing Amy Williams!: "Amy has been a member of the MWG for two years, and writes poetry and short stories. Amy often writes in a style reminiscent of Emily Dickin..."
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Sex Education in Schools--effective at what????
Back in 2007, the late great Mahatma Basmati began one of the most intense threads in the history of the Citizen blogs regarding the absolute failure of Abstinence ONLY sex education in America. The link is HERE
At that time, the state of Massachusetts decided to forego millions of dollars in Federal sex education money, because big-government social conservatives placed language in the legislation that forced school systems to adopt an Abstinence based curriculum.
We now have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we now know the results of that controversial decision as the CDC today released data detailing teenage birth rates by state within the United States for the year 2008 (latest year available).
The results were unequivocal: Abstinence ONLY education does not work, and Abstinence centered sex education is not nearly as effective as comprehensive sex education.
The results of live births for white women for selected states in 2008:
United States Average-27.2 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-13.7 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-38.5 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-45.2 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
The results of live births for black women for selected states in 2008:
United States Average-64.2 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-39.4 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-66.7 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-77.7 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
The results of live births for hispanic women for selected states in 2008:
United States Average-81.8 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-71.2 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-139.6 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-174.8 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
The link to the CDC report is HERE (PDF file, adobe reader required)
It's a shame that the ardent "abstinence only" crew of Denise Connor, BPR, Retd Army MAJ, Paul Perkins and PentaPenguin no longer post here.
Abstinence ONLY sex education does not work.
Abstinence BASED sex education appears to be inferior to comprehensive sex education.
Listen to Sarah and she will tell, how Paul Revere rang his mighty bell.
Top
At that time, the state of Massachusetts decided to forego millions of dollars in Federal sex education money, because big-government social conservatives placed language in the legislation that forced school systems to adopt an Abstinence based curriculum.
We now have the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, we now know the results of that controversial decision as the CDC today released data detailing teenage birth rates by state within the United States for the year 2008 (latest year available).
The results were unequivocal: Abstinence ONLY education does not work, and Abstinence centered sex education is not nearly as effective as comprehensive sex education.
The results of live births for white women for selected states in 2008:
United States Average-27.2 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-13.7 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-38.5 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-45.2 of every 1000 white teens gives birth
The results of live births for black women for selected states in 2008:
United States Average-64.2 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-39.4 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-66.7 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-77.7 of every 1000 black teens gives birth
The results of live births for hispanic women for selected states in 2008:
United States Average-81.8 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Massachusetts-Comprehensive Sex Education-71.2 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Georgia-Combination Abstinence ONLY and Abstinence Based Sex Education-139.6 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
Tennessee-Abstinence ONLY Sex Education-174.8 of every 1000 hispanic teens gives birth
The link to the CDC report is HERE (PDF file, adobe reader required)
It's a shame that the ardent "abstinence only" crew of Denise Connor, BPR, Retd Army MAJ, Paul Perkins and PentaPenguin no longer post here.
Abstinence ONLY sex education does not work.
Abstinence BASED sex education appears to be inferior to comprehensive sex education.
Listen to Sarah and she will tell, how Paul Revere rang his mighty bell.
Top
Friday, June 10, 2011
Another Very WEIRD article .....Hale Bopp, Heavens Gate and government conspiracies...
Whistleblower Michael Prince has stated in his book James Casbolt MI6 Buried Alive that U.S. and U.K. intelligence knew that the 1997 Hale Bopp comet was being followed by a Draco Reptilian Mothership, to which grey extraterrestrials transported 100,000 humans as tribute. U.S. and U.K. intelligence triggered suicides in the Heaven’s Gate cult at the time to deflect media and public attention from this incoming threat. Mr. Prince has also witnessed underground prisons at which human souls are technologically held in cages by grey extraterrestrial captors.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Researcher: Comet Elenin and brown dwarf star are part of ET reptilian invasion - Seattle exopolitics | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/researcher-comet-elenin-and-brown-dwarf-star-are-part-of-et-reptilian-invasion#ixzz1Ot0989sE
“I was told by an NSA contact, whom I’ll refer to as X3, that the Heavens Gate cult was under US intelligence trauma-based mind control and that Admiral Bobby Ray Inman ordered the triggering of Omega alters in the cult members. A lot of people in the intelligence community are not going to be happy about me naming old Bobby Ray, but the truth is all coming out now.
“Omega is a self-destruct, suicide alter that can be triggered in a mind control victim. The reasons for doing this seem to be to discredit all the talk about an alien spacecraft behind Hale Bopp and to make it seem like religious hysteria. X3 told me there were mind control programmers in the Heavens Gate cult who were ex-NSA and some of the best programmers in the business.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Researcher: Comet Elenin and brown dwarf star are part of ET reptilian invasion - Seattle exopolitics | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/researcher-comet-elenin-and-brown-dwarf-star-are-part-of-et-reptilian-invasion#ixzz1Ot0PJBXq
Continue reading on Examiner.com Researcher: Comet Elenin and brown dwarf star are part of ET reptilian invasion - Seattle exopolitics | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/researcher-comet-elenin-and-brown-dwarf-star-are-part-of-et-reptilian-invasion#ixzz1Ot0989sE
“I was told by an NSA contact, whom I’ll refer to as X3, that the Heavens Gate cult was under US intelligence trauma-based mind control and that Admiral Bobby Ray Inman ordered the triggering of Omega alters in the cult members. A lot of people in the intelligence community are not going to be happy about me naming old Bobby Ray, but the truth is all coming out now.
“Omega is a self-destruct, suicide alter that can be triggered in a mind control victim. The reasons for doing this seem to be to discredit all the talk about an alien spacecraft behind Hale Bopp and to make it seem like religious hysteria. X3 told me there were mind control programmers in the Heavens Gate cult who were ex-NSA and some of the best programmers in the business.
Continue reading on Examiner.com Researcher: Comet Elenin and brown dwarf star are part of ET reptilian invasion - Seattle exopolitics | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/researcher-comet-elenin-and-brown-dwarf-star-are-part-of-et-reptilian-invasion#ixzz1Ot0PJBXq
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