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Race and Writing
Hey guys, DP is working with some of our authors to do a kind of online mini author con in May. There will be a month long writing challenge with prizes; word wars in the chat room; and various guest chats about writing. We're interested in having many more than one perspective, and one thing we want to do is talk about being inclusive ( Read more... ) -
Brenda Novak’s Auction
Every year, DP and I donate something to Brenda Novak’s Auction in support of Juvenile Diabetes research, but this year Brenda tells me the goal is 1 million, so we’re going all out. For the press, we’re offering a couple of manuscript edits, one full length up to 120k words, and one shorter work or partial. I’m personally offering 1. art; 2. an ( Read more... ) -
What they said
Kara asked me to tell her the truth: "No one in my class believes. Is Santa Real?" I assessed her state of mind and told her. I assessed wrong. I backtracked. "Well, you believe, and Daddy's still planning to trap him and stuff him in the closet, so someone's wrong." Her answer: "You are ( Read more... ) -
I have a snowflake!
Thanks, Beathen! -
The Terrible Bargain... via Shakesville
Melissa McEwan posted something that I wish I'd had the words for. The key paragraph, for me:
There is the unwillingness to listen, a ferociously stubborn not getting it on so many things, so many important things. And the obdurate refusal to believe, to internalize, that my outrage is not manufactured and my injure not make-believe-an inflexible ( Read more... ) -
Good Advice
I was behind on a deadline but the children were starving, so I finally got up to make dinner (curse the office being IN the house, however convenient it is to have conference calls in jammies), and this conversation occurred ( Read more... ) -
Link me?
I know there are a lot of authors out there doing the pass the rice/buy me a beer/serialized model of publication online, but I've lost track of who and where. I'd like to list some of them in the upcoming issue of Membra Disjecta. Could you, my so widely-read FL, link me up, please?
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5 Reasons I Say “No Thank You”
I’ve been powering through submissions this weekend, and I decided to do another list in hopes of helping future submitting authors understand what makes a submission an almost instantaneous no. Some of these are probably universal nos, some of them may be just my own quirks. Most of these authors will receive a form letter on Monday morning ( Read more... ) -
IBARW
It’s International Blog Against Racism Week, and there are plenty of worthwhile, thought-provoking posts out there in the blogosphere. Many of them are bookmarked on Delicious.
I have always considered myself an ally, though I would never have used that term. I didn’t know that term. I knew people. Different colors of wonderful people. I liked them ( Read more... )
