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Contents
This Week's Backstories! How did these authors get the ideas for their books?
Paying Markets for Writers and Photographers for 12/12/19
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Angela's Desk
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Where chocolate and pizza are concerned, my mantra has always been: Better too much than not enough! However, that's not at all true for books.
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News From the Floating Home Office
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About an hour after lunch, one of our lead actors was puking. The play had just begun and there were no understudies. He had several scenes, including a solo and a fast and challenging dance number...
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This Week's Backstories
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In Don’s painting, a black soldier leads a saddled cavalry horse. Admiring the flyer, I said to no one in particular, “Someone should write his story.”
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Across the room, my wife said, “Why don’t you write it?”
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Not realizing that she had heard me, my jaw dropped. Huh? Me? The chemistry major, turned soldier, turned IT guy?
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After many years of living with the memories of Vietnam haunting me day and night, lost jobs, lost loved ones, and suicidal thoughts, I was told by a doctor that sometimes just writing things down may help. I also found a marine corps webpage that had a bunch of Nam vets on it, and started writing some of my experiences. Many of them told me that I should write a book...
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Feature Article
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My desire to write for a living resulted in revenues from tuition, royalties, and coaching fees!
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Ask the Expert
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"Three of my characters are based directly on real, living people. All three have read my novel, and given me permission to represent them as I have but..."
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In The News ...
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Paying Markets for Writers
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"We cover contemporary and classical dance internationally." Welcomes new writers. Quarterly. Pays after publication. Period between acceptance and publication varies. Buys non-exclusive rights. Occasionally accepts reprints. Responds promptly. Sample articles online, or try your local newsstand or library. "The best guidelines are to read previous issues."
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“Celebrating the Arts & Living in Southwest Florida.” Welcomes new writers. Circ 2K. Bimonthly. Pays 30 days after publication. Publishes ms 1-6 months after acceptance. Buys one time rights. Accepts reprints. Responds in 1-6 weeks.
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25% freelance. “The business journal of the beef cattle business of the Southwest.” Welcomes new writers. Circ. 20K. Monthly. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms 15-30 days after acceptance. Buys first rights. Accepts reprints outside of the Southwest. Responds in 2-4 weeks. Submit query by email.
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Pays $500 for 1,200-1,800 words.
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“Fine Books & Collections covers a broad range of topics and subjects of interest to book collectors, dealers, librarians, curators, and bibliophiles, from early manuscripts, to modern first editions and fine art, and everything in between.” 90% freelance. Welcomes new writers. Circ. 8K. Quarterly. Pays within 30 days of acceptance. Publishes ms 2-3 months after acceptance. Buys all rights. No reprints. Responds within one month.
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Pays $0.20/word or negotiable rates for 500-2000 words.
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“For over 70 years, The Fiddlehead has continually upheld its mandate to publish accomplished poetry, short fiction, and Canadian literature reviews; to discover and promote new writing talent; to represent the Atlantic region's lively cultural and literary diversity; and to place the best of new and established Canadian writing in an international context.” Welcomes new writers. Quarterly. Pays on publication. “Accepted work usually published within one-three issues of acceptance.” Buys first serial publication rights. “All other rights remain with the author, but we ask if the work is reprinted elsewhere that the first publication in The Fiddlehead be acknowledged.” No reprints. Responds within 1-6 months.
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“A quarterly magazine about environmental threats and the people who are working to address them.” Welcomes new writers. 75% freelance. Circ. 12K. Quarterly. Pays on publication.
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Pays $0.25/word for print, $100 flat fee for online. Submit query by email.
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