Simultaneous submissions break hearts

Poking around on the Glimmer Train site, I find a sterner than usual warning about simultaneous submissions: Simultaneous submissions are not okay, I’m sorry, especially in competitions. (It breaks our hearts to fall for a story we can’t publish.) I have heard writers occasionally complain that it breaks their hearts to submit stories and not [...]

Tap your spinal obsession

Do you share David McKie’s obsession? I do, to the point that I had to pause Bush’s Brain so I could zoom in on a frame in order to read the titles on a stack of books sitting next to one of the interviewees.

The Great Gatsby — Chapter VII

Would you read a book titled Trimalchio in West Egg? That was one of Fitzgerald’s proposed titles for The Great Gatsby: Fitzgerald had completed the work when he announced its new title, Gold-hatted Gatsby, to his editor, Maxwell Perkins. But a few weeks later he’d changed his mind: While working to revise the final proofs, [...]

New directory lists paying book review markets

From The Practicing Writer: And speaking of good news for book reviewers (yes, contrary to popular belief there is some good news in that realm): Are you looking for more paying markets for your book reviews? The latest edition of The Practicing Writer’s Directory of Paying Markets for Book Reviewers is now available. Download the [...]

Books I don’t read

What a lovely weekend, eh? I had so much energy! I got lots of chores done and yet also had plenty of time to read. I’m making my slow way through Don Quixote at present, so I was looking for something light, preferably nonfiction, to go along with it. (I like to keep a couple [...]

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