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1.	Bookmarks: 4	Japanese-Black author, Grace E. Lee introduces new book at Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival The book offers an intimate glimpse into Japanese culture through the innocent eyes of a mixed-blood child as she struggles for acceptance, guided by her wise father who meets prejudice with a disarming smile and passes profound life lessons on to his young daughter.
2.	Bookmarks: 0	Connecticut: A Source For Literary History Connecticut is full of history and not just any history, a literary history. New Haven has one of the oldest colleges with Yale University. One of the best reasons to travel to Connecticut is for their large selections of museums with paintings from some of the greatest names in art history. Then the capital of Connecticut, Hartford features some famous literary names such as Mark Twain and Harriet Beecher Stowe.In addition to being known for Yale University, New Haven is...
3.	Bookmarks: 0	Three Golden Ways & Steps To Mar Stress… Ask a literary person how to deal with stress & he will say you, do it the way Shakespeare, Wordsworth & Shelley did. Or, read the positivity of their writings and you will be stress free.Ask a modern stress management guru & he will come out with a whole set of CDs, manuals and modern techniques to beat the stress.…different people have different ways to mar the stress.What do you prefer? The object is one Stress Management. Let’s find out one by one how you can ...
4.	Bookmarks: 68	Building Your Dream- Locating Resources For Nonprofits Online A nonprofit corporation has the public’s best interest at heart. It may have an environmental, educational, religious, scientific, or literary focus (among others). In return for their services, the public can make donations to these companies and then deduct the amount from their federal taxes. In this way, it sure is a win-win situation.Although it sounds pretty straight forward, a nonprofit can be a complicated entity. Therefore, it is wise to know where you can find a...
5.	Bookmarks: 0	Writing Contests: Building Writing Credentials One of the ways many writers can successfully add credentials to their portfolio if to participate in a variety of literary contests. This type of contest encourages writers to put their best foot forward in both creativity and attention to detail.It is true that there are some contests that provide a cash award for their top finishers, but there are also publishing scams that will accept your work regardless of quality. When you receive notice that your work has been acc...
6.	Bookmarks: 0	The Start Of Belt Notching When the verdict was read my client smiled broadly and rapidly turned toward me and shook my hand vigorously and patted my shoulder at the same time. His quickness of movement surprised me and as I stared into his smiling eyes and I saw no relief, only gladness. He again reacted when he saw my look and darted his eyes upward as if to thank the ceiling. He brought his gaze back down as open eyed innocence.“Thank you much, counselor, thanks to you very much!” This time he s...
7.	Bookmarks: 3	Thesaurus: Word Roulette There is some beautiful literary styles that thrive on the repeated use of words and phrases. The language is poetic and beautiful. This, however, is not an article that encourages the use of repeated words.Unless you are writing in a style that demands the use of repetition it may be in your best interest to read through your text and determine if a word or phrase is overused.Example:BadThe purpose of this exercise is to find the purpose of the repeated use o...
8.	Bookmarks: 0	Stepping Stones, Ladders And Bridges. Start small work your way up. Take care of the little things and the big things will take care of themselves. Climb the ladder one rung at a time. Get your foot in the door and the rest will follow. Well worn platitudes all. But what does it have to do with writing?Many writers think that the secret to getting published by a major house is working their way up. Write a book, get it published by a vanity/utility publisher and that’s the first rung on the ladder to success....
9.	Bookmarks: 8	Seven Ways To Connect Your Writing And Your Life An important question for any artist is: How can I built a career and simultaneously be true to myself? It’s an important question, and during the twenty years I’ve taught writing, hundreds of students have expressed the belief that success and personal integrity are mutually exclusive.The Lifewriting™ approach to fiction suggests that not only do these two qualities overlap, but that the safest, surest, most satisfying path to discovering your true voice, your deepest cr...
10.	Bookmarks: 15	Scams, Schemes, And Shams: Who Can An Author Trust? Authors in their quest to get published can fall victim to scams. Here's a few tips to help you avoid the traps. Online Matching Services and Email Blast ProgramsThese services, for a fee, put your query letter, synopsis and first chapter online. Acquisition editors and literary agents then have the opportunity to peruse the offerings. You have to ask yourself if you truly believe that the average literary agent, who receives 1100 unsolicited queries a year, has th...
11.	Bookmarks: 0	Notches When the verdict was read my client smiled broadly and rapidly turned toward me and shook my hand vigorously and patted my shoulder at the same time. His quickness of movement surprised me and as I stared into his smiling eyes and I saw no relief, only gladness. He again reacted when he saw my look and darted his eyes upward as if to thank the ceiling. He brought his gaze back down as open eyed innocence.“Thank you much, counselor, thanks to you very much!” This time he s...
12.	Bookmarks: 0	How To Find A Literary Agent -- Or How They Find You How to find a literary agent is the first lesson new authors must learn. Is is hopeless? Do you have to be published to find a literary agent? Fortunately the answer is no.We asked over 60 successful literary agents:Where Do Agents Find Clients?Referral from one of their other clients 39%Direct contact by the writer 33%Referral from editors and publishers 9%Referral from other authors not their clients 8%Referrals from other agents 5%Attendance at write...
13.	Bookmarks: 26	How To Be Your Own Editor There is a stigma associated with writers turning to editors for assistance with their work. Some people see outside editing as an unfair advantage, a form of literary cheating. Writers are expected to be able to objectively evaluate their own work. Interestingly, this is exactly the opposite of what one finds in other professions.
14.	Bookmarks: 5	Excuse Me, Are You A Literary Agent? I have lived in New York City my entire life. I often feel privileged to be a part of the energy and magic of this Mecca of celebrity. Under the semi privileged dome of my existence, I encounter the rich and famous at every turn. When I was a teenager, I crossed paths with Jerry Lewis in Times Square and bumped elbows once with Marvin Gaye. As a passionate college student of Cinema Studies, I dined across the room from Woody Allen and stopped to compliment his latest film...
15.	Bookmarks: 0	Cross Pens: Putting Your Imagination Into Words Writing as an ArtNot many are born writers but for sure, there are a talented few. Many view writing as a mode of human expression but for some, it is also a form of art. If a painter creates majestic and colorful artworks and masterpieces using a brush and a canvas, a writer uses his or her pen to appropriately blend wonderful words and sentences into one engaging literary artwork. For a writer, it all starts to one's boundless imagination, a conjuring of thoughts and me...
16.	Bookmarks: 3	A Bad Literary Agent Can Be Worse Than No Agent At All. Types of things to watch out for with agents:* Charging the author a fee up front, to be accepted as a client. Can be called a reading fee, or a monthly "office expenses" charge. The best agents, and most successful ones, only charge a percentage fee of royalties the author earns, typically 15%. Suppose a realtor charged you a fee to come over and tour your house before getting the listing? How quickly would you show that realtor the door. . .* Charging back unusually...
17.	Bookmarks: 0	America's Next Great Writer Every once in a while a writer comes along that demands we take notice; one that avails just the right meter, tempo, and rhythm; one that can engulf us in a story and keep us glued throughout 200 pages; one that offers a style sure to be emulated by his aspiring peers, both of his generation and generations to come.Nelson Pahl is just that writer.With simultaneous debut releases, entitled Bee Balms & Burgundy and Two for Tuesday, Pahl flexes a literary muscle short in...
18.	Bookmarks: 0	Finding A Literary Agent You Can Work With So you have finally finished writing the book for which you toiled so hard and just like your newborn, is very close to your heart? And you thought that you have crossed the biggest hurdle? Well now comes the tougher part, which is to get your book printed and making it see the light of the day. For this, you would need the services of a book agent. Not just any book agent, but also someone who is good at his work. There are many kinds of literary agents and hence you have to...