We lost our beloved doggie, Percy, last week. We adopted him from the shelter for Frank, who was around 12 years old at the time. However, Percy attached himself to me. Frank didn’t mind that his dog was protecting his mom. Percy followed me everywhere, even to the bathroom. He suffered from severe separation anxiety…
The Summer, 2014 Short Story Contest will start at 12:00 p.m. (noon) on Saturday, July 19th. Rather than sweating and getting a sunburn, spend the day in the cool air conditioning, and come play with us…
I totally support your blacklisting of journals that charge reading fees. I have never sent any of my work to such journals. Neither do I charge writers any money to send their work to Verse-Virtual.
It’s really outrageous that publishers of LITERARY journals can be so petty. One would think they’d be above that kind of behavior. And, I don’t believe all that nonsense about how they can’t handle so many submissions and that’s why they charge fees. They should be grateful for submissions! Instead, they resent them. What? Thank you for standing up to these greedy magazines. Thank you for supporting writers.
–Firestone Feinberg
https://www.verse-virtual.com
If I make it, will they come?
It’s a question a lot of writers have when they’re working toward establishing an online presence.
What is the difference between a fee contest by a publication and charging a submission fee?
I have had success condensing essays to fillers, expanding devotionals into expository compositions, and re-working a serious article into a poem. I even combined several un-sold manuscripts into an article about a sales drought and sold it to a writing magazine. Generating a manuscript in various forms for various audiences increases its marketability. Whether the original piece has been sold or is sitting in your hard drive, consider whether it could be worked into a different genre…
On Monday night, we had just eaten dinner, and were watching TV when I glanced outside, and noticed this sky…
Todd Engel (the cover designer for BookLocker and Abuzz Press) took my vision and turned it into reality. A true rock star.
–Peter J. Gallanis, author, The Reporter, Book I
I used to think that Print-on-Demand (POD) publishers sold their services only to desperate writers not good enough to win a contract with a traditional publisher. I learned differently when I explored the publishing world more closely.
I need to please ask you a question. I have started sending a copy of my book to some large bookstores out west. My first response was no, they wouldn’t accept it because of my publisher’s no returns policy. I’m afraid the other stores are going to say the same.
