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A SAMPLE OF TIDBITS
Greetings Members! Inside you'll find the following Tidbits:
- FWC News
- Amazon and Writer's Digest Click-Thrus
- FWC Email Courses
- Advertising in FWC's Online Newsletter
- Online/Offline Critique Groups
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- Contests
- Markets
- Storm Warnings
- A Little Writing Humor
- Toot Your Horn
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FWC
Any news of interest to members will be listed in each issue.
AMAZON.COM and WRITER'S DIGEST MAGAZINE
CLICK-THRUS
Help support FWC and do all your Amazon.com shopping through our website. You
can also subscribe to Writer's Digest Magazine through FWC. Go to
www.fictionwriters.com and click on the Amazon.com logo and the WD banner.
Also click on Bookstore to see some recommended titles for writers.
FWC EMAIL COURSES
All our courses are conducted via email and you can register at any time and
start at any time. FWC members receive a discount on course fees. Each course
offers students individual attention, with assignments and lectures sent via
email, informational files in a class library or via email, and your
questions answered by your instructor within 48 hours. All of our courses are
geared to helping you improve your writing and learn how to get published.
Go
to http://www.fictionwriters.com, then click on Email Courses and you'll see
the descriptions for the following courses:
- Elements of Novel Writing
- How to Write a Novel Synopsis
- How to Write Winning Query Letters
- See You at the Movies! (for screenwriters)
- Writing Magazine Articles
ADVERTISING IN FWC'S ONLINE NEWSLETTERS
Would you like to sponsor an issue or more of FWC's free online newsletter,
Tidbits? Let writers know about your workshop, conference, new book,
writing-related product, or service. Email FWC Director Blythe Camenson at
BCamenson@aol.com for rate information and other details. Paying markets,
contests, and free services to writers will continue to be listed in our
newsletters at no charge.
ONLINE/OFFLINE CRITIQUE GROUPS
Your request to start or join a group will be listed here. Members can email
their request. Details will be provided when you join.
CONTESTS
Contests with current deadlines will be listed as they are made available.
Markets
FWC will list markets in Tidbits as they are made available. Listings are for
paying markets only.
A LITTLE WRITING HUMOR
Bad Suspense Novel Metaphors
The situation had become topsy-turvy -- like Christmas in the
summer, if you're in Australia.
The information imbedded on the stolen computer chip was like an explosive so
explosive it could explode, creating a massive
explosion.
The killer was a misplaced comma in the jaunty, happy sentence
that made up the party crowd.
His face looked like an ice sculpture. Not one of those pretty
ones in the middle of a cruise ship buffet, but the kind they do in
a contest with a chainsaw -- and it had been out in the heat too
long.
Like any family, this house had its secrets, secrets it grimly
refused to reveal, and would continue to refuse to reveal even if it
could speak, which unlike a family, or at least most members of most
families, it couldn't.
From his vantage point in the balcony, the would-be assassin
looked down on the debating candidates like a webhead looking down on an AOL
user.
There was something funny about the kidnapping crime scene that Special Agent
Frievald couldn't quite place, and the thought stuck with him throughout the
rest of the day, like those tiny little bits of the circumferent skin from
the bologna slices on a foot-long
Subway Cold Cut Trio that get stuck in between the last two molars on the
upper left, on the tongue side where you can't possibly reach them with a
toothpick, your fingernails, or even a systematically straightened paper
clip, they just sit there and make everything you eat at your next meal taste
vaguely like vinegar and mayonnaise, and then somehow -- quietly but
miraculously -- they disappear by themselves in the middle of the night while
you're asleep, just like the visiting Countess appeared to have done.
TOOT YOUR HORN
Way to go!!! to the following Tidbits subscribers:
John Dunne (voyagemag@zyworld.com ) tells us: "My feature Know Your Rights
has just been published by World Wide Freelance Newsletter at
http://www.worldwidefreelance.com/know_your_rights.htm."
H.D. Mann (hd_mann@yahoo.com) tells us: "I was chosen
as a semi-finalist for the North American Open Poetry Contest, as well as
having a poem chosen for an anthology to be released this summer titled,
In-between Days. This is my first real publication. Log on to poetry.com to
read my poem, (it is listed
under Heather Luby)."
Ekaterine Nikas (KNikas@aol.com) tells us: "I'm delighted to announce the
sale of my romantic suspense novel, THE DIVIDED CHILD, to Avid Press. It will
be coming out this winter as both a mass-market paperback and an e-book. The
book is set on the Greek island of Corfu and is the same manuscript that
recently earned me the Karen Besecker Memorial Award for novice mystery
writers from FUTURES magazine."
Bonita M Quesinberry (bmq@tscnet.com) tells us: "My novel, 'SHADES OF THE
RAINBOW' published in PDF and HTML by Bookmice.com/shades.htm, has just come
out on CD and is now available at Barnes and Noble, Powells.com and
Amazon.com. Yesterday, yet another glowing review of 'Shades' was published
in Authors N Books, an ezine put out by Shai Manuel-Coggins. Authors can
reach her at shaimanuel@yahoo.com. AND, I just sold an article about gifted
children to the Adventist Review, a print magazine. It is slated for
publication in an issue following July."
Tamara Fairchild (TamFWC@aol.com) tells us: "The other day I received a
contract for my cover story, Raymond Fairchild- A Personal Interview. It will
appear in the Bluegrass Unlimited, an international magazine dedicated to
preserving bluegrass music later this year. Also, my story Rob Mashburn-The
Picker came out in the May issue of the same magazine."
Diane Compagno (adcompa@aol.com) tells us: "I am pleased to announce the
publication of STOLEN MEMORIES One Family's Experience With Alzheimer's
Disease written under the pen name Marie Cloud. Presently it is only
available at iuniverse.com but at a later date it will be in book stores such
as Barnes and Nobles and Amazon.com."
Let FWC help you Toot Your Horn. Send your successes, following the above
format, to BCamenson@aol.com. Be sure to put Toot Your Horn in the subject
line.
If you would like to join a critique group, on or offline, email your
requirements to BCamenson@aol.com.
Till the next time,
Keep Writing!
Blythe Camenson
FWC Director
www.fictionwriters.com
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