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Beneath Ceaseless Skies responded quickly on my story the "The Water Singer". They passed on the story, but did give a personal reply with comments and encouraged me to submit again. Today I submitted that story to Tor.com. They take submissions via email. -- Dale  Ah, too bad, Dale, it’s a good story, but you’re suffering through the ‘breaking in blues’. Send C.S. more since they asked for more and good luck with Tor.com!

 

I'm a Long Ridge student (Shape, Write and Sell Your Novel...). Recent events in my life prompted an essay that was published as a commentary by a local weekly newspaper owned by Morningstar Newspapers -- a small, national publisher of daily and weekly newspapers. The commentary can be viewed at http://cvm.msu.edu/about-the-college/news-events, click onto CVM newsclips, then CVM e clips week of July 19, 2010. 
Scroll down to "Remembering Nell..."  After the piece was published, I received several offers to help with fundraisers my husband and I are holding to help raise money for the worthy cause mentioned in the commentary. That led to meeting a woman who is attempting to raise funds to match a grant that will help the local animal shelter build an environmentally friendly (green) animal shelter. I'm now working on two articles relating to the woman's efforts, while helping with the bowling fundraiser. I'm also interviewing a local man who's been a bowler and owner of a bowling alley for more than fifty years. Can you imagine that? And he has some fascinating stories to tell about life in the gutter (sorry, couldn't resist the pun). His story provides a nice blend to the bowling fundraiser. AND...I'm getting paid for the articles, so it looks like I can't escape the newspaper freelancing I did several years back after completing LR's Breaking Into Print. Planning to donate the payment to the fund described in the commentary on the MSU site. It's a great cause. Student course assignments continue. Thanks, LR, for being patient about assignment extension requests. –Marget  Wow, you’re on a roll aren’t you?  (Here’s your pun right back atcha!).  Nice job and keep up the good work!

 

I just submitted my article "Ashes to Sunflowers, Dust to Roses" to the WOTS contest. Writers on the Sound (referring to the Puget Sound in Washington State) is a writers conference held in Edmonds, Washington. The conference is October 1 - 3. It's my second submission. My first submission, "Lunch Break" was accepted by the Pike Street Market News ages ago, but I still like to shout about it! Wish me luck! Kathryn Minturn  Good luck indeed, Kathryn!  And have fun at the conference. Write a review for the Newsletter will you?  That’s a clip!

 

I attended the Willamette Writers Conference in Portland this past month. My daughter and I drove down from Vancouver Canada, with the hope of learning a few things about writing and the professional side of this activity. The conference was great had lots of great opportunities. Which I took advantage of. One was the pitch sessions. I didn¹t even know what a pitch was until I went into their practice sessions. Here I learned all about how to approach an agent and discuss my book with them.
Anyway, I practiced pitching, and went to other workshops and practiced more pitching. Spent lunch practicing with people at my lunch table. Everyone was doing it. All quite fun. The repetition always helps solidfy what really works.  Then I took a workshop on how to pitch and write a cover letter when submitting to a publisher. Great info there and an opportunity to practice. Called the Hook, Book and Cook by Jane Marr. Here we got to practice with Jane and try out what we had learned. It all was good fun and a positive learning experience.
Finally, I thought, you coward ³just do it² so I signed up for a pitch to a live agent and on the last day at the last appointment, I got to meet Kristen who listened to my pitch, asked a few questions and then to my amazement said I could send her my first three chapters and synopsis. I walked out of there floating on a cloud. Someone liked my story. Of course that doesn¹t mean a book contract, but step one has been conquered. I went home and got my story organized, packaged up and sent it off. That was the best part. I am still floating.
Thanks for the opportunity to share my small success with others. I hope it is encouraging.  -- Caroline   Oh, good for you, Caroline. And you’re right…even if a contract does not result, you have taken that VERY difficult first step to actually pitch your book.  And now you know a lot better how to do it, too.

Great news, I want MORE!!!   I always want more!   Send YOUR news  to me at:  MaryRosenblum@forums.longridgewritersgroup.com  

 

NEWBIES, GRADUATES, AND FIRST STEPS;  Ron Geelan

 

I am a graduate of the Long Ridge BIP course, and I have some more great news to share.  The War Cry will be publishing an essay I wrote with a Thanksgiving theme and The Christian Science Monitor accepted an essay I wrote about my son leaving home for college.  I can't wait to see both of them in print.  

Oh, good for you, Ron!   It sounds as if essay form is really working for you.  Keep it up.  Now you have some clips to go with your query letters and the CSM is a VERY nice clip indeed!  Well done!

 

I always need more news!  Are you new to Long Ridge?  Waiting for that Assignment One to come back?   Are you getting near the end of the course, looking to writing beyond Long Ridge assignments?   Say hi and tell us what you’re doing, where you’d like to go.    What did you want to write when you started and what were your writing goals when you finished?  The same?  Different?  You can send me the answer to that question or your news as new LR student or graduate  at:  MaryRosenblum@forums.longridgewritersgroup.com  Some people are getting emails to me at this address bounced back. I’m not sure why it’s happening – it’s only afflicting a handful of people. But if yours comes back, you can also email me at;  LongRidgeWebEditor@LongRidgeWritersGroup.com

 

 

SPOTLIGHT:  Writers Software    

PROFESSIONAL CONNECTION POST A NOTE CONVERSATION  

 

Ah, I had a great guest for August!   Have you checked out www.ralan.com?   This is THE speculative fiction market index.  Ralan not only keeps you current on what you can sell where, but he’ll tell you want the average response time is, and a host of other useful information. He’s a market-list-god for sure and he was a gracious and entertaining guest with some very good things to say.  If you missed our conversation it is still up in the Forum. Scroll down to the Professional Connection section. 

  

Note:  Because of a nasty spam attack, all new members must be checked out and approved before they can gain ‘member’ status, and guests can no longer post.  I apologize in advance for the inconvenience.  When you register, you  should receive your approval within 24 hours.   If you see strange or illegible posts, do please report them or email me at:   MaryRosenblum@forums.longridgewritersgroup.com 

OPEN FORUM REPORT:

Every Monday,  look for the Forum topic near the top of the page on the Post a Note board.  Now you have all week to ask questions and get answers, no matter what your work schedule is like or what time zone you live in!  Drop in and pick up the conversation. Don’t be shy, ask a question. No question is too basic!  We have everybody from raw beginners to breaking-in folk on this website and everything is good.    

THIS WEEK’S  FORUM:   First Person POV              

I bet some teacher told you that first person was the ‘natural storytelling voice’.  An awful lot of novice writers want to tell every story in first person. Well, it ain’t as easy as it might seem and sometimes it’s simply the wrong POV for the story.  Let’s talk about good first person, not so good first person, and when it works and when it does not work.

Al Forums take place on the Post a Note Board 

Because of some nasty spam attacks, all new Post a Note registrations must be approved by me, so expect a brief delay after you create your user name before you can actually use the board. 

Check the Calendar Page and this newsletter for current topics.

FROM THE INSTRUCTOR'S DESK

Writing tips from Donna Ippolito, Long Ridge instructor.

Donna Ippolito has been writing, editing, and teaching others to write for more than 20 years. From 1985 to 2001, she was editor-in-chief at FASA Corporation, a Chicago publisher that packaged best-selling science fiction and fantasy novel lines for Penguin Books and Time-Warner. These included the popular BattleTech, Shadowrun, Earthdawn, and Vor series. So check out her websites at www.expert-editor.com and http://dreamscoop.blogspot.com/.

Prior to that, Ms. Ippolito was an editor at the Swallow Press, a prestigious publisher of both literary and commercial titles. Writers published by Swallow include celebrated novelist Anaïs Nin; Jungian analyst Linda Leonard; futurist Robert Theobald; Zen poet Lucien Stryk; and distinguished anthropologist W. Y. Evans-Wentz. She also worked as a senior editor for Consumer Digest Magazine and was a founding editor of Black Maria, a quarterly journal of women’s writing.

Karl P asks:  I was devastated when my last story came back with just some standardized form letter. I want to get published, but how do I overcome the fear of rejection?

 

Donna writes: In his book on writing, Stephen King tells of hanging his rejection slips, one after another, on a nail in the wall. When the nail wouldn’t hold them all anymore, “I replaced the nail with a spike and kept on writing,” he says. From this, any writer can take heart. Yes, you’ve got to study the markets so you don’t send a cowboy romance to a dark fantasy magazine or an article on helping children with homework to a magazine for seniors. Once you’re on the right track, however, it’s really a numbers game. Be patient, be persistent, and one day your work and some editor will finally meet and fall in love.

 

It’s also a good strategy to think small. Many writers get their first taste of publication in local, regional, or specialized magazines or newspapers. When starting out, your goal is to create a track record. Even if you don’t break instantly into the big-name markets, you can still build an impressive list among lesser-known magazines. As an editor, any track record at all persuaded me to give a writer’s work a closer look.

 

SF writer Jeffrey Carver says there’s only one rule for getting published. If your story comes back rejected, “GET IT IN THE MAIL TO ANOTHER MARKET THE SAME DAY.” (The capitals are his.) "I collected rejection slips for 6 years before I finally sold my first short story,” Carver adds. Why did he keep going? “I was convinced I could do it, and I refused to take no for an answer."

 

Like Carver, you’ve got to keep the faith and not take rejection personally. You’ve done the sometimes exhilarating, sometimes maddening work of writing, revising, and bringing forth what has never existed before. Now, that newborn story or novel needs you to stand up for it, stick by it, and fight for its place in the world. If you don’t take yourself seriously, who else will?

 

 

   Do you have a question that you’d like Donna to answer?  Here's your chance to ask her something. Email your question about all things writing to me and I'll pass it on so that she can answer it in the next Newsletter issue. You can mail your question to me

at:    MaryRosenblum@forums.longridgewritersgroup.com 

 

Some people are getting emails to me at this address bounced back. I’m not sure why it’s happening – it’s only afflicting a handful of people. But if yours comes back, you can also email me at;  LongRidgeWebEditor@LongRidgeWritersGroup.com

 

 

 THE OF THE ESSENCE PROMPT:   

 

I asked you to think of something vivid --  something that evokes an instant sensory and visual response. I got some very  nice responses, and some very evocative prose.

Sharon Simpson 

Cooling off in the Burning Town Creek when the North Carolina Mountains have one of their heat spells is pure paradise. One section of the creek that is filled with many rocks and waterfalls also has a natural formed rockslide. You climb out on the rocks, slide down into a shallow pool then climb out over some more rocks and slide again and again until you feel cool. Or you can grab a truck size inner tube and tube in the creek to the Little Tennessee River. Since the river flows one way, you must arrange for transportation back to the starting point. Along the way back, you travel the clay river road, which in some places you squeeze between the river and the mountain, hoping and praying another car is not coming in the opposite direction. Stopping along the way, one can walk or should say sway across
the suspension bridge to an island in the river. You have to hold on for dear life, cause it's just a rope bridge with narrow slats to step on. If you fall off the bridge, you will land in the rocks in the swirling foaming water below. For those who cannot swim, just stick your feet in the cool creek, in five minutes you will be refreshed.  [My last sentence is mainly what I was trying to convey . A true story, when
the temperature gets in the 90,s and no air cond cause in some parts of the mountains, you really don't need air, unless you
are in the cities. But living on the creek, a five minute soak will cool you off. I used to put a metal chaise lounge in the shallow part of the creek , along with a book and read until I felt cool enough.] 

Very nice sense of the larger place and time – summer -- rather than just the creek or the water, Sharon.

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Kimberly McMillian

My toes tingled from the gritty, slimy sand that had washed over my feet, and I was met with a dash of salty liquid that stung my newly shaven legs.  The coolness shocked and refreshed my tired legs.  The lasting warmth calmed my frazzled mind from the chaotic bustle of the day.  I sat down upon the padded grit and closed my eyes as the jolt of liquid swayed my body from side to side, forwards and backwards.  The  fluid's rhythm nearly rocked me to slumber, but in the distance I heard, "Get out of the water.  Sharks!"

Ah, I remember sitting in the surf and enjoying that mesmerizing rhythmic tug of the waves.  No sharks off Nags Head, but I always got ducked and tumbled  by one really big wave, just as I was totally blessed out. 

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   Ty Mall

 You step out on to the porch, and she toddles up.  She's unsteady on her feet still, but that'll come.  With a little help, she
eventually takes the seat next to you.  Her mother takes great care of her.  Her soft hair tells you that.  She looks up at you with big blue
eyes and yawns.  She doesn't mind that you might think it rude to yawn, open-mouthed, if she were older.  When she taps your leg, you
smile.  You can't understand what she's saying, and you probably never will.  She says some more, runs away, and grabs a flower.  Somehow, you can't tell her not to put flowers in her mouth.  You pat her back, and tell her she's adorable instead.  She sets a purple blossom at your feet, and sits near it.  Someone her age comes to look at her present for you, and she shoos them away.  She's small, and yet still holds her own.  If the others won't let her in on their games, she'll wait a while, and then try again.  You realize why you like it so much when she comes for a visit.  She's innocent.  Something that reminds you the world isn't cruel, stark, or hopeless, if only for a while. Her mom comes to pick her up, finally.  She nudges the flower closer to you.  Then she trots to the litter box, making sure to lift her tail carefully.  You shake your head and turn away.  Maybe things will be better tomorrow.

Cute, Ty.  Everybody is going to think this is a child until the litter box shows up. 

 

THE WEBEDITOR’S PICK –  What’s New at the Library from Dale Ivan Smith

What's new at the library—eBooks eBooks are big news these days. Hundreds of thousands of titles are available electronically. Recently Amazon announced that the kindle format had surpassed hard cover sales at their website. Things are changing, book wise. Amazon's Kindle, Barnes and Nobles's Nook, and Sony's Reader are the leading eBook reading devices on the market. Then there is Apple's iPad, the new tablet computer that can display eBooks: not only Apple's own iBooks but also Amazon's Kindle format, the EPUB format used by the Nook, the Sony Reader and several other eReaders, and also PDFs.

Amazon's Kindle's uses it's proprietary .azw format, while the Sony eReader, the Nook, and Borders's Kobo reader, among others, all use the EPUB format. With either format the eBook will have some from of digital rights management, DRM for short, which is essentially copy protection ended to keep the books from being freely copied to other readers's devices. The Nook does allow users to electronically transfer a title to another Nook owner's device for two weeks, a digital version of book sharing. As far as I am aware that's the only device which allows this.

Libraries are keenly aware of these developments, always concerned about meeting the needs of patrons. Many public libraries provide
eBooks for borrowing using the Overdrive software, the same software they use to allow patrons to download audio books. Overdrive handles the copy protection, so that you can checkout a title for a limited amount of time. Libraries will own a limited a number of eBooks for any one title, so you may have to be on a waiting list to check out a title. Once you've downloaded the eBook, you can transfer to a eReader device. After the borrowing period ends the eBook will become unreadable on the computer you downloaded it to. But in many cases a book might be able to remain on an eReader like the Sony, the Nook, or Borders's Kobo reader for an unlimited amount of time. It depends upon the particulars of the publishing license. Check out your local library's website or ask a librarian about this service.

At this time the EPUB format cannot be read by the Kindle or iPad.

Overdrive also makes books available in Adobe's widespread Portable Document Format (PDF for short, a very common format for forms, used by government agencies such as the IRS).

When the Kindle was released several libraries in the eastern U.S. purchased the device and allowed their patrons to check it out, and even had a system by which patrons could add books from Amazon for the Kindle. More recently I've noticed a few libraries have purchased the Sony Reader and made if available for checkout, loaded with titles. It will be interesting to see if loaning eBook readers becomes more widespread. With prices of eBook readers continuing to fall, the devices may become affordable enough that the vast majority of libraries will decide it will not be necessary to make them available for borrowing.

Many people may not realize that libraries have provided access to eBooks for far longer than the Kindle or the Nook or the iPad have
existed. For years my library had allowed our patrons to view eBooks (in PDF): we had a small collection of mostly non-fiction and technical titles.

Libraries well understand the utility of eBooks. Moreover, there is limited shelf space available for print versions of books. Libraries
monitor an item's "circulation" (how often a particular book, CD, or DVD is checked out) and work to insure that titles that are not being checked out are removed ("weeded" in library jargon). Typically half or more of books owned by a particular library may be in use at any one time. If circulation declined, shelves would become full and excess books would end up on shelving trucks (aka "overflow carts"). eBooks on the other hand do not take up any shelf space.

Project Gutenberg (gutenberg.org) is huge collection of public domain titles titles, running back to ancient times. Michael Hart created
Project Gutenberg in 1971. I became aware of it in the late 1990s when my library system became connected to the web. You can download plain text or HTML formatted versions of Moby Dick, Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and thousands more. There's no charge. The downloaded file can be read on a PC or Mac, or also transferred to a Kindle, or a Nook, the Sony Reader, iPad, even a smart phone!

Most public libraries provide internet access to the patrons and often also wireless access in their buildings, which means patrons can
access Gutenberg titles at the library as well elsewhere. Project Gutenberg is also a great alternative for high demand books on high
school reading lists, classics that students often must read and that no library can ever stock enough of when whole classes are required to
read a particular title.

The nature of books is changing. Libraries recognize this and also recognize their function as providing access to books, in whatever the format, be it print, audio, or a digital book. Publishing will change. No doubt our libraries will continue to adapt to changes in book
publishing and available formats.
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Dale Ivan Smith lives in Portland, Oregon and works for the largest public library system in the state. He writes science fiction and
fantasy, and is also interested in historical mysteries and suspense fiction. He has sold stories to 10Flash Quarterly and Everyday Fiction. Mary Rosenblum is his teacher at  Long Ridge.
History, gaming, astronomy, and fiction are some of his passions.

JANET HARTMAN’S POTPOURRI --

Janet Hartman writes both nonfiction and flash fiction, and currently serves as president of Carteret Writers. Her articles about boating, life on the East Coast, and writing have appeared in national magazines, anthologies, and online. For more about Janet, see http://www.JanetHartman.net. Her weekly Potpourri is eclectic – it may include information about a contest, interesting web site, publisher or market.

 

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THE PEDESTRIAN QUARTERLY ESSAY CONTEST
http://thepedestrian.org/quarterly-essay-contest

No entry fee.

Deadline: September 15, 2010

Word limit: 5,000

Prize: $500 plus publication

The theme for the February 2011 issue of The Pedestrian is "play."  Submit a familiar essay on the subject of a game, sport, or other activity in which one plays. Ideas include, but are not limited to, cricket, volleyball, or golf; cribbage, backgammon, or chess; Pong, Donkey Kong, or Pokémon; four-square, kick­ball, or capture the flag; Double Dutch, yo-yo, or charades; croquet or shuffle­board.

 

THE IOWA SHORT FICTION AWARD
http://www.uiowapress.org/authors/iowa-short-fiction.htm

No entry fee

Deadline: September 30, 2010 (postmark). No e-mail submissions.

Do you have a collection of short stories looking for a market?  This contest is for you.  Any writer, worldwide, who has not previously published a volume of prose fiction is eligible to enter.  A small print run of self-published work is not considered publication.  Your manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word-processed, double-spaced pages. Award-winning manuscripts will be published by the University of Iowa Press under the Press's standard contract. 

  

 

THE WANT ADS:

 

Writing and Spirit: Retreat for the Creative Soul           
Thursday, Oct. 7- Sunday, Oct. 10 
Lake Shore Farm, Northwood, New Hampshire
The partnership between our inner life and our creative expression benefits immeasurably when we offer it the gifts of time and retreat. 
Steeped in a pleasing natural setting, these minimally structured days offer creating souls lots of time with their work while immersed in New England's autumn beauty and the companionship of others devoting time and focus to creative efforts. Participants are encouraged to bring work-in-progress, or projects they wish to initiate.
Facilitator Phyllis Ring, author of several works, including a collection of essays, Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details, also writes fiction. She has worked as an editor, as instructor for the Long Ridge Writers Group, and facilitates workshops for soulful writers and investigating souls.  For retreat information please visit: www.phyllisring.com

 

 

 

Don't forget, if you need expert help, if you want a critique partner, if you're a publisher and you need submissions for your new contest, this is the place for your free ad!  And for heaven’s sake self promote your book here!  What are you waiting for , people?  

 

Send your want ad to me at: MaryRosenblum@forums.longridgewritersgroup.com and I'll post it here. Don't forget to include contact information so that people can reach you with their responses.  

 

 

 

REVIEWS AND TIPS:  

 Writer's Workshop
Sponsored by The Writers, Readers and Poets Society (WRAPS) of Nashville,  Indiana

Reviewed by Carolyn Davis  

A writer's workshop was held on Saturday, August 21, 2010, from 9:30 a.m.   to 4:30 p.m. at the Brown County library in Nashville, Indiana.  The  cost  was $20.00 and included lunch.  
 
The opening speaker was Leah Jackman-Wheitner, Ph.D.,  career  consultant  and author of several books, including Unlocking the Confidence Code:  Five  Steps to Complete Core Confidence.  She spoke about gaining confidence  in  ourselves; needing team support from people you trust; and pushing ourselves,   believing it can be done.
 
Leah also stated that there is no such thing as perfection and to expect it   is not helpful.  she encouraged us to define our goals; do we want to be a   best-selling author or just enjoy seeing our completed manuscripts in   print?  She said the best selling author is not always the best selling   writer.  Marketing is very important and it is something that must be  learned.   One very important point was for each of us to run our own race  and to  compare ourselves with others in our own reference group.  I knew at  that point  that I was never going to be a Stephen King.
 
Breakout Sessions followed three tracks: 
1. Light and Legacy-Journaling with Betty Moebs, teacher at Ivy Tech in   Columbus and author of short stories and children's books.  There  were three  sessions in this tract, including Journaling Newbies, for people who  have  never journaled.  

The 2nd session was Am I an "Assumer"?  This  was an  interactive workshop explaining the difference between hypothesis and  inference. 

Session 3 was called Where do you go for help when the  well runs dry?   This session offered remedies for "Blank Page  Syndrome."
 
2.  Poetry with Doris Lynch, winner of awards from the Indiana Arts   Commission, the Poetry Society of America and the Alaska State Council on the   Arts.  She has also published Praising Invisible Birds by Finishing Line  Press. This consisted of three different sessions, also, each one building on the   next.
 
3.  Fiction with C.S. Marks, best know for her trilogy of high fantasy   novels, Elfhunter; Fire-heart; and Ravenshade. She illustrates her own books  and  has a Ph.D. in Life Sciences.  She is a professor at  Saint  Mary-of-the-Woods College, where she teaches equine science.  Her books can  be found on  Amazon.com.
In the two sessions Ms. Marks taught how to develop a character and  how to  place the reader in the scene; how to get them there and how to keep them  there.
 
There was a mini workshop titled Micro-Fiction led by Deborah Cronin. This consisted on only one session and Ms. Cronin spoke  about writing  short stories. An interesting point made here was taking a  concept and  developing it from different points of view.  An example I  found very interesting was using a story about a young soldier and his  horse during the Civil War.  The story was written looking at it from the  soldier's view point and then again, using the horse's view.  Fun!
 
Another interesting example in this workshop was taking a story and writing   it backwards.  In other words,  start from the current generation  and  write it going backwards to the beginning of the family history.
 
This was a very worthwhile workshop and the lunch provided was  wonderful.  It gave everyone an opportunity to network and to sell their  books at a table set up in the lobby.  The organization, WRAPS, meets the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month at  
the Brown County library, in Nashville, Indiana.  They are eager to  see new  faces and would welcome new comers.

Thank you so much, Carolyn, for a fine review!  I would love to have more reviews of conferences you have attended. There are lots out there and they cost money. It’s nice to know what they offer and which ones are particularly well run. 

Send those reviews to me at:    MaryRosenblum@forums.longridgewritersgroup.com  Some people are getting emails to me at this address bounced back. I’m not sure why it’s happening – it’s only afflicting a handful of people. But if yours comes back, you can also email me at;  LongRidgeWebEditor@LongRidgeWritersGroup.com

 And are you self published?  Review your own book here.  Why not?  Make us want to buy it, it’s hard to get PR when you self publish!  Include a link, too.

 

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