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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:
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 :) FWC Director www.fictionwriters.com Click here for the full line up of FWC member benefits and services Click here to Join FWC  click here to subscribe to Writer's Digest |
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