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What would it take to finance, print, and distribute a high quality literary magazine in the Shenandoah Valley? Check out this interesting discussion at Perpetual Folly between blog owner Clifford Garstang and Chris Graham of The New Dominion — here’s a sample: I do see an untapped resource here in the Valley – in the [...]
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We have a computer network at our house that all our computers are connected to either by cable or wirelessly. Instead of saving files on our individual computers, we save them to our private folders on the server, where they are backed up every night. This is a great system — everything important is routinely [...]
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Via ReadingWritingLiving and Every Writer’s Resource comes — ta da! — The Big List of Literary Magazines! Links to over 1,800 literary magazine websites, plus a handy break-out of magazines that take electronic submissions (uploads).
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Teaser from an interview with Jackie Earle Haley at Salon.com: Fifteen years ago, Jackie Earle Haley had given up on acting. Now the former teenage heartthrob is back with an Oscar nomination for his creepy role in “Little Children.” We’re talking about Moocher from Breaking Away, right? Now, Breaking Away is one of my favorite [...]
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Here’s a book list that’s going around the blogs. Just the sort of thing that can keep me happily occupied for 15 or 20 minutes on a lazy Saturday afternoon. From Writing Under a Pseudonym: Oooh–a great book meme from Charlotte’s Web. Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicise [...]
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I finished the book I was making at VABC. The class was fun, and I’m pretty satisfied with the book I made even though it’s a little crooked and I messed up the end papers. So now I know how to make a book, and I have enough materials left over to make another one [...]
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In The Sheltering Sky, protagonist Port Moresby, husband of Kit and friend of George Tunner, thinks of himself in this way: He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of [...]
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‘Fess up — did you enter The Hook’s short story contest for a chance at that $700 first prize? Or were you daunted by the prospect of being judged by His Nibs John Grisham? I can’t wait to see the winning stories. Last year’s winners were Ginger Moran, Lincoln Michel, and Mark Lindensmith. Where are [...]
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