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Burning the Midnight Oil Book Zine - a FR*E*E monthly ezine for writing parents. ************************************************************** You are receiving this e-zine because you subscribed through e-mail. Unsubscribe information is below. ************************************************************** TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. WELCOME NOTES 2. QUOTES FOR THE MONTH 3. EDITOR'S ARTICLE: FACE YOUR FEARS AND START WRITING YOUR BOOK! By DAWN COLCLASURE 4. CONTEST CORNER 5. ADVERTISEMENTS 6. GUEST ARTICLE: THE OPPORTUNITIES FOUND IN REJECTION By ROY A. BARNES 7. BOOK EXCERPT: The Frugal Editor by Carolyn Howard-Johnson 8. BOOK GIVEAWAY 9. WHAT’S UP WITH THE BOOK’S WRITERS 10. BOOK NEWS 11. SITES SITED 12. FREEBIE CORNER 13. WRITING PARENT TIPS FOR MAY 14. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 15. UNSUBSCRIBE INSTRUCTIONS ************************************************************** WELCOME NOTES Hello, Everyone! Welcome to another issue of the Burning the Midnight Oil Book Zine! As always, feel free to send me any email at BurningMidnightOil@myway.com with comments, suggestions or just to plain chat. It’s our birthday! It’s our birthday! That’s right, folks: The BTMO Book Zine turns 3! Woo-hoo! Thank you for sticking around to see what it’s all about! It’s been an educational and inspiring three years. Here’s hoping we’ll have many more! In this issue, my article tackles the one gremlin holding back many aspiring authors from achieving their dreams: Fear. When I first started writing books, I never let fear get the better of me. I just wrote! But sooner or later, fear crept in and started bugging me with questions like “what if people hate it?” or “what if it doesn’t sell?” The important thing is that we overcome our fears of writing. We love to write and just can’t imagine a life devoid of writing to our heart’s content. My article offers suggestions on how to beat fear and start writing! Roy A. Barnes returns this month with the article “The Opportunities Found in Rejection.” Rejection is an unfortunate downside to every writer’s life, but Roy talks about how rejection can have its upside, too! Check out his article below to see just what those upsides are and start using them yourself! Enjoy this issue! Hugs, Dawn Colclasure Editor and Publisher http://dmcwriter.tripod.com/ ************************************************************** QUOTES FOR THE MONTH “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”—Dorothy Thompson “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.”—Eleanor Roosevelt “Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.”—H. Jackson Browne “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.”—Jane Addams “I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”—Louisa May Alcott “Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”—Japanese proverb “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the Titanic.”—Unknown “Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.”—Betty Bender “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”—James Stephens “Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”—Bertrand Russell “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”—Sven Goran Eriksson "The key to change...is to let go of fear.”—Rosanne Cash “Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.”—Unknown “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”—Mary Manin Morrissey ************************************************************** EDITOR’S ARTICLE Face Your Fears and Start Writing Your Book! By: Dawn Colclasure You’ve always wanted to write a book. You dream of living in your own fictional world, writing about action, adventure, suspense, and long to bring your characters to life on paper. The only thing holding you back are your fears – fears of rejection, imperfection and doubt. Learn how to get past these fears to start writing your book, right now! The best way to do this? The first thing to do is acknowledge that you do, indeed, have fears tugging at your heartstrings and silencing your muse. There’s a difference between something being an excuse and a fear. How to tell the two apart? See them for what they are. If you’ve got a small voice reminding you that there’s never time to write your book because you have children to take care of, that’s an excuse not to write, not a fear holding you back. But if you’re worried about perfection or self-doubt, and feel those worries flooding you with dread or anxiety, those right there are bona fide fears. Next, ask yourself WHY you have these fears. Why are you afraid your book won’t be perfect? Why are you afraid people won’t like it? Why are you afraid to start writing the book when you don’t even have a title, character names or an outline? Take a few moments to think about this. Of course, an answer can be something like “I was never good at writing” or “everybody tells me it’s no good.” There are easy solutions to these drawbacks. You can practice your writing every day to get better. You can show your work to professional writers, editors or a writing group, all possibilities where you’ll get constructive, helpful feedback on how to improve. Another reason you might be fearful to write your book is because of the very fact that it’s a BOOK you are writing, not a paragraph, a poem or short story. You are actually going to fill up 50-400 blank pages with YOUR words! That might seem like a huge job on your hands, but, really, if you break it down, write the book anyway, and keep your eye on the prize, it won’t seem so gargantuan after all. In fact, once you start getting into the writing of your book, the ominous task of writing a whole manuscript starts to fade and all that matters is the writing itself. Remember that no one is asking for your book to be perfect. You are only writing your first draft. You are only getting your story onto paper. There’s no rules involved saying when you have to write, how you have to write, or why you have to write. What matters is that you actually take the leap to start writing your book. This is something you have only DREAMED about doing. Why not go for it and start writing it today? Every problem has a solution. The trick is to really get to the heart of why you are afraid and actually make an effort to solve that problem. Once you’ve taken the time to consider your fears, and what you can do to resolve them, you’ll soon be on your way to start writing that book you’ve only dreamed of. Do this for your children. Do this for your family. But most of all, do this for yourself. There is absolutely nothing more satisfying than overcoming your fears and doing something you’ve only thought about doing. Tackle your fears, go after your dreams of writing a book, and soon you’ll be on your way to writing many more! *** Dawn Colclasure edits and publishes the Burning the Midnight Oil Book Zine, which is a product of her book: BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL: How We Survive as Writing Parents (Booklocker). She also writes for the newspaper SIGNews and the Web site, The Shadowlands. She’s been published both on and off the Web, in magazines such as Mothering, American Fitness, Home Education Magazine and HOMEspirations, and Web sites such as Absolute Write, Writing Etc. and Writing World. Visit her on the Web at http://dmcwriter.tripod.com/. ************************************************************** CONTEST CORNER The Inglis House Poetry Contest is an annual contest that begins each year on April 1 and runs until June 1. The purpose of the contest is to raise awareness of writing about disability and to help promote the work of writers with disabilities. It is also to contribute to the building of a core of disability literature through the genre of poetry. The guidelines for the Fifth Annual Contest are listed below. To view information about the contest prizes, click on the link to the "Printable Guidelines". • Category 1 • Open to all writers • Poems must relate in some way to disability • No more than 60 lines per poem • 2 Poem limit • Category 2 • Open only to poets with disabilities • Indicate disability in cover letter • Poems can be on any subject • No more than 60 lines per poem • 3 Poem limit Mail contest entries to: Inglis House Poetry Contest 2600 Belmont Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19131 or submit entries by e-mail to inglispoetry@hotmail.com Contest deadline is June 1. *** Best First Crime Novel Competition: http://minotaurbooks.com/competitions.html The Peter Gzowski Literacy Award of Merit: http://www.abc-canada.org/public_awareness/pg_award.asp The 2007 ASF Translation Prizes: http://www.amscan.org/translation.html The 2007 Happy Hour Poetry Awards (Editor’s note: Click on Contest): http://www.alehousepress.com/ The 2007 Akron Poetry Prize: http://www3.uakron.edu/uapress/poetryprize.html Doug Fir Fiction Award: http://www.orlo.org/orlo.html ************************************************************** ADVERTISEMENTS New Message Board for Writers, Writing Parents and Booklovers!!! The Write Stuff is a new message board created by Dawn Colclasure, a disabled writing parent who loves books! The board offers anyone of similar situations a chance to discuss being a disabled writer, a writing parent or a booklover! The write Stuff offers registered members a chance to swap books, talk shop or discuss Dawn’s books, as well! All writers and booklovers of any age or stage are welcome to participate! Check the new board out here: http://p105.ezboard.com/bthewritestuff66370 *** Check out the FREE Ebook for writing parents EVERYWHERE! From one writing parent to another, “Survival Strategies for Writing Parents” by Dawn Colclasure gives the lowdown on finding time to write, strategies for writing the “skeleton” article and tips and ideas for your home office! Details: http://dmcwriter.tripod.com/id31.html *** Pop artist BRANDON is back! Brandon who gave us the Top 100 Billboard HITS like “Kisses in the night”, “Destiny” and the classic dance tune “Moves” is ready to do it again! Bal Harbour Records Inc. is proud to present our featured artist Brandon with his new single "Don't Go Away". Available now for purchase at our website at: http://www.balharbourrecords.com Go ahead and surf into our website and listen before you buy. Let Brandon take you on a freestyle journey into a whole new dimension. A Portion of the proceeds from the sale of this CD will go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) The foundation provides college scholarship grants, along with financial aid and educational counseling, to the children of Special Operations personnel who were killed in an operational mission or training accident. www.specialops.org Thank you for all your support Now lets get this party started! Bal Harbour Record Staff *** In Husbands, Hot Flashes, and All That Hullabaloo!, award-winning humor writer Vicky DeCoster takes you on a hilarious hormonal journey from bikinis to granny panties and control top pantyhose to knee-highs as she teaches you not to take yourself too seriously. Any woman tackling the second act of her life will relate to DeCoster’s humorous personal essays as she makes fun of matrimony malfunctions, female fervor, corporate craziness, parenting pandemonium, and aging anatomies. This new-age Erma Bombeck entertains readers with her comical anecdotes on dieting with her husband, the roller coaster of emotions that accompany trying on swimming suits in your forties and beyond, and the unwelcome neuroses that often occur during parenthood. DeCoster amuses with outrageous tips on how to knit without catching the yarn on fire and her witty spin on the story of a mall Easter Bunny gone wild. It’s safe to say that you’ll never suffer through a hot flash the same way again after you experience one through her eyes! Husbands, Hot Flashes, and All That Hullabaloo! will have you laughing out loud at the realities of life as a middle-aged woman, ultimately leaving you with the comforting secret that life is too funny to take seriously. Visit her web site at www.wackywomanhood.com for more details on how to order the book! *** Learn More about Promoting! To promote better, authors need to know the ups and downs, ins and outs of contests, not just the same old, same old. Here's everything a writer needs to know from sponsoring a contest of her own to how to use contests to improve her writing. Yep, they can be used for that and more! Contest Facts: How to Add Award-winning to Your Name Instructors/producers and moderators are: Allyn Evans Joyce Faulkner Kathe Gogolewski Carolyn Howard-Johnson Published by Double Dragon Press: Our Price: $9.99 USD SALE PRICE: $8.49 ISBN: DDPAUDIO00002 Genre: Self Help - Non-Fiction Audio Duration: 60 Minutes Published: November 2006 Imprint: DDP POD RADIO Go to: http://double-dragon-ebooks.com/single.asp?ISBN=DDPAUDIO00002 *** What's Momfidence? It means believing Oreos make a fine snack...TV won't rot kids' brains...Locks are for doors, not toilets...Hollering happens...Toy guns are harmless fun...And Saturday mornings are for sleep, not tiny-tots soccer. Worry less, wing it more. MOMFIDENCE! An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting by Paula Spencer "Bold, true, and a hoot." —Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean, mom of seven "If I weren't dead, I'd give 'Momfidence' Five Stars!" --Erma Bombeck Based the popular "Momfidence!" column in Woman's Day and Paula's features in Parenting and Baby Talk Crown/Three Rivers Press To pre-order: http://tinyurl.com/rty64 http://www.momfidence.com http://www.paulaspencer.com/work1.htm *** Got a book inside you? Having trouble landing a publisher? Like the idea of actually making a living off your book? If you haven't checked out my latest, here's the scoop... The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living http://www.wellfedsp.com As most of you know, I self-published both The Well-Fed Writer and TWFW: Back For Seconds, and together, these two books - over 50,000 copies in print - have provided me with a full-time living for over five years (and counting…). This latest work explains, in step-by-step detail, exactly how I did it… But that's not all. To truly simplify your marketing efforts, I assembled virtually every piece of marketing material I created in the course of my successful book promotion campaigns in one phenomenal 100-page ebook resource called… The Well-Fed SP Biz-in-a-Box To quote one of my first buyers: "I took a quick look at the Biz-in-a-Box. You're drastically undercharging." You said it, my friend. You have to see this beauty to believe it. The cost? Ridiculously low. About what an evening at the movies (okay, with popcorn and drinks…) would cost: $29.95. But, it gets better… Purchase the Biz-in-a-Box along with the book, and it's only $19.95! Check it all out at http://www.wellfedsp.com. And may all your writing - and now your books, too! - be "well-fed"! Peter Bowerman Know anyone who dreams of making a GOOD living as a writer? Steer them to www.wellfedwriter.com for a FREE report, “Why Commercial Writing?” by Peter Bowerman, author of the award winning Well-Fed Writer titles - how-to standards in the field of lucrative commercial freelancing. Subscribe to THE WELL-FED E-PUB, the critically acclaimed FREE monthly ezine and companion to The Well-Fed Writer series: www.wellfedwriter.com/ezine.shtml. Just Released! The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book Into a Full-Time Living. For full details and FREE report, visit www.wellfedsp.com.. www.copywriter.pro - Freelance Copywriting Services *** My newest e-book is here!!! Whether you're a first time home buyer or already living in a great house, "Home is where the Heart/Money Is" will build your financial future. This 135-page e-book is filled with savvy tips and designer secrets to turn your house into a haven for your family and friends. Buy "Home is where the Heart/Money Is" for only 19.99 and download it instantly. From realizing your dreams of home ownership, to living a thankful life, "Home is where the Heart/Money Is" will help you build wealth and give you a great foundation for your financial future. Buy it today! --SHAUNNA PRIVRATSKY http://www.vonage.com/startsavingnow/ *** Hello Fellow Writers, In celebration of the successful release of my new novel, Pressed Pennies, my publisher has proposed the following: Although the book can be found on B&N.com, Amazon.com (please see posted reviews) and in your local bookstore, you can now purchase the book directly from the publisher at www.SunpiperBooks.com for $10.00, a $5.95 discount (just click on the *Book Clubs Only button)! The publisher's hope is that you will enjoy the book and spread the word to other avid readers. Early Reviews: “Steve Manchester has a gift for expressing through his writing the complicated and transcendent beauty of the human experience with poignant clarity.” – Yolanda King (eldest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King) Higher Ground "Pressed Pennies is priceless! Steve Manchester has an obvious love of words and an amazing ability to use those words to create lasting images in the reader’s mind. His detail-oriented, richly drawn characters and descriptions make this story leap off the pages." - Joyce Handzo, In the Library Reviews "Pressed Pennies is a tale of love and second chances and affirms that love can come at any stage of life if we are just open. This is a book that is sure to warm your heart." - Roberta Austin, The Compulsive Reader Sincere thanks for your time and consideration. Best, Steve www.StevenManchester.com ************************************************************** GUEST ARTICLE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOUND IN REJECTION By Roy A. Barnes Hours have been spent crafting a piece you believe will be right for a certain publication, including research and redrafts. You followed the writers’ guidelines to a tee. The article is submitted. Hope and anticipation fill the ensuing wait. Days or weeks later, you get a message that every writer dreads seeing in their mailbox or email in-basket: "We're not interested". My first reaction upon reading these words, after the initial blow to my feelings, has sometimes been one of wanting to quit writing altogether. The answer doesn't lie in taking the easy way out. I have to decide how I am going to cope with my work being turned down again. Here are some ways to make the most of a door to potential publication being closed. 1. Keep a list of publications you can immediately send the piece to if a rejection slip or email arrives. As a result, you won’t be wallowing around in self-pity. If possible, don't let your article be contingent upon the acceptance of just one publisher. Your writing submissions are a lot like the lucky numbers you choose when playing for the big Powerball jackpot. Would you play the same set of lucky numbers for just one drawing, or would you have your ticket validated for several drawings? Eventually you will get to the pay window with your article if it has been written well, is within the publication guidelines, and is targeted to the appropriate markets. 2. Send your article out to at least one other publisher concurrently as long as the publications you submit to don’t forbid simultaneous submissions. This way, if you get a rejection from one publication, you already have the article out elsewhere. If the second publication accepts your work before you hear back from the first publication, you can inform the editor of the other medium that your work has been accepted elsewhere. 3. When you receive that rejection notice, go over the article again and see what improvements can be made. I've found that I am not the same person who wrote the article days or weeks earlier. I can always find a little bit better way of getting my point across, and may have a better insight on the subject matter of the article than I did when I first submitted it. Rejection can be looked at two ways. You can look at it as a sign to just give up, or you can see it as an opportunity to not only improve your writing, but also as the potential to score a more lucrative sale. You may even forge a new relationship with an editor you wouldn’t have otherwise come into contact with had rejection not materialized! Biography: Roy A. Barnes knows a lot about rejection. Since 2004, over 500 of his querys and submissions have been rejected, but he keeps on writing and submitting! Besides Burning The Midnight Oil, his writing-themed works have been published by The Willamette Writer, The Dabbling Mum, The Fabulist Flash, Writing for DOLLARS, and The Busy Freelancer. Roy writes from the windy plains of southeastern Wyoming. ************************************************************** BOOK EXCERPT Excerpt from: The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success Publisher: Red Engine Press ISBN: 978-0-9785158-7-4 (trade paperback) http://tinyurl.com/2b5z3l Why You -- Yes, You Who Aced English -- Need an Editor "Publishers -- even traditional publishers -- do not want to edit anymore; they want to print a 99.9 percent finished product directly from the author. It's a cost-cutting thing. Many publishers can't afford to give your book that attention they once did." ~ Leora Krygier, twice-published literary author reviewed in the likes of Newsweek and featured on Connie Martinson Talks Books. Just as I was finishing the Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success, Poets & Writers published Peter Selfin's "Confessions of a Cranky Lit-Mag Editor." It was a kind of mini-rant on how authors influence editors negatively with minor (and not-so-minor) errors. He tells of one author who informs him in her cover letter that she has published three stories in the New Yorker and then "blunders into her essay with 'Growing up, there were two types of food in my family.'" He says it "reads like very sloppy editing" and goes on to reject the piece. (By the way, one of my readers with a master's degree could not identify the error here. If you can't, you will be able to by the time you've finished the section in the Frugal Editor where I talk about dangling participles. If you can't wait, use the index to find dangling participles to research this serious grammatical error now.) The lesson here for all of us is that attention to detail and craft counts, and that even experienced writers can flub an opportunity if they don't pay attention to that last great step toward publishing, a good edit. Any author who had recently refreshed her understanding of participles by reading the Frugal Editor would not have dangled hers. At least, not that conspicuously. Perfection is not possible. Even Editor Selfin admits he overlooks a mistake or two if the writer's voice captures his interest. With better editing we can guard against humiliation and in the process increase our chances for publication. Leading a horse to water and other all-wet ideas about editing In the Frugal Book Promoter I talk about branding. In that book, I felt a need to convince authors that sales, marketing and promotion are not dirty words, that we are participating in these disciplines every day when we brush our teeth and choose the proper clothing for whatever occasions loom on that day's calendar. I don't need to convince most authors to be cautious about errors. There are so many writers who are so uptight about a typo creeping into their copy that their fear contributes to nightmares or at least to writer's block. Thus, the Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success is an easy sell. Where my job becomes difficult is in convincing writers that they need an editor--a real editor, an editor with credentials--before they begin to submit. Because I am also Frugal, I recognize that my tendency to avoid spending money for something that will probably be done by someone else anyway may well exist in other writers. I know that many writers will nod their heads and then attempt the publishing process without an editor, even though they may have had the best intentions when they were agreeing with me. I am also aware (because I hang out with writers of all kinds) that authors fear the sharp pencil point of an editor. These are usually new writers who are convinced that an editor will make their work into something other than what it is or will change it beyond recognition. I want to assure these writers that a good editor won't do that. A good editor will help a writer find her voice, remain true to it and still move the manuscript from a rough rock to a polished gemstone. I agree that it is no fun to encounter unexpected flaws in one's book. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have written a book on editing. However, mistakes in a writer's query letters, cover letters and book proposals can be more deadly than those in a manuscript. It is in these documents that editing failures can doom your entire book to failure. You and the quality of your book idea will be judged on these first contacts with agents, publishers, editors, and producers as surely as you would be judged at a board meeting if you left rats' nests in your hair that morning. In the Frugal Editor I approach the editing process of every document as if it were a manuscript. It is easier to edit the much shorter introductions (queries, cover letters and proposals) that are being sent to the people who have the power to accept or reject your work, but the processes used are approximately the same. It is only a matter of degree between a full manuscript and your one-page query letter. So adapt the guidelines I give you accordingly. You, and only you, know where your strengths and weaknesses lie. You will know where to abbreviate or eliminate steps for these shorties, and for more intricate efforts (say an academic thesis) you may want to expand on the processes I suggest. You probably already know that gremlins--very clever guys bent on your destruction--are at work during the entire publishing process. You fight them with a vengeance, with every ounce of writing craft and publishing knowledge that exists in your body. If, however, a typo or grammar error slips through the careful net you cast for them, please don't lose any sleep. It will happen to every writer somewhere along his or her career path. Instead, be patient with yourself. And while you're at it, if you see an error in someone else's work, give the writer (and the publisher!) the benefit of the doubt. It's all about Karma. We're all fighting the same gremlins here. Many mistakenly use the word editing synonymously with finding typos. I worry that the Frugal Editor may contribute to that notion because it does not address essential elements of the writing craft like character development, setting or structure. Those are topics of their own. Reworking these aspects of writing really constitutes revision, not editing. Many complete books cover each of them thoroughly. For me to attempt to stipulate everything a polished manuscript needs would be impossible in one book. To cover revision topics briefly and then abandon the writer to struggle with incomplete understanding would not be in her or his best interest. Therefore, I merely mention that your final draft should take these writing fundamentals into consideration because I can't assume that all authors will have undertaken revision before they move into editing. So, please, before you begin your editing process, review the larger elements of your craft. Experienced writers can approach this with the expectation that they may need only to fine-tune one or two elements of their books, but even minor learning curves are journeys worth taking. Suggested reading for things like the niceties of dialogue (Writing Dialogue by Tom Chiarella), are included in the appendixes. I include some grammar guidelines. You can tell these are not meant to be complete. I chose them because they are mistakes that many experienced writers (and editors) miss. I threw in a few of the ones that most writers understand but inadvertently make because when a writer does let them creep into her work, they are more noxious to my editing sensibility than the average error. I expect that when I mention some you already know, it will remind you not to backslide. It may even prompt you to check your references for more advanced information on those subjects. I want you to learn from the Frugal Editor just as I learned from writing it, but I'd also like you to enjoy the editing challenge, the process itself. Pretend the task before you is a puzzle. It's work. It's detail-oriented work. But it can be fun. When you're done, please still hire an editor, especially if you are self- or subsidy-publishing. The Frugal Editor will tell you how to find a great editor, one that will work for the betterment of your book. ----- Carolyn Howard-Johnson is an instructor for UCLA Extension's world-renowned Writers' Program and was awarded Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment by members of the California Legislature. The Frugal Editor is second in the HowToDoItFrugally series (www.HowToDoItFrugally.com) after The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't, USA Book News' Best Professional Book and winner of the Irwin Award. Learn more at www.HowToDoItFrugally.com COPYRIGHT 2007 BY CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART MAY BE USED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR. REPRINTED HERE WITH PERMISSION. ************************************************************** BOOK GIVEAWAY No giveaway this month. ************************************************************** WHAT'S UP WITH THE BOOK'S WRITERS? The following is news of writers you can read interviews with in Volume One of the MIDNIGHT OIL book. No news this month. ************************************************************** BOOK NEWS What's the latest with the first volume of BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL: How We Survive as Writing Parents? No book news this month. ************************************************************** FREEBIE CORNER Get the free eBook, Become a Freelance Writing Success, when you subscribe to Writeaholic News: http://www.writeaholic.co.uk/ Free quick online recipes: http://www.freequickrecipes.com/ Free bookkeeping tutorial: http://www.dwmbeancounter.com/tutorial/Tutorial.html Free streaming media online: http://all-streaming-media.com/streaming-audio-and-video-online/ Free e-mail formatting utility: http://www.formatit.com/ Download the free CD Earth Folk (Editor’s note: the person advertising this offer said it was downloadable for free. I am deaf and have no way of testing this myself, but it appears the songs can indeed be heard for free): http://www.mp3.com/albums/20144639/summary.html ************************************************************** SITES SITED The following are interesting, helpful sites that I’d like to pass on. Creative Homemaking: http://www.creativehomemaking.com/ Freezer Pleasers: http://www.freezerpleasers.com/ StumbleUpon: http://www.stumbleupon.com/ Cannoli-Enterprises.com: http://www.cannoli-enterprises.com/ FrugalFun.com: http://www.frugalfun.com/ EARNWorks.com: http://www.earnworks.com/ Mystery Mentor: http://www.mysterymentor.com/ SpaceWeather.com: http://www.spaceweather.com/ Pollstar: http://www.pollstar.com/ International Association of Haunted Attractions: http://www.hauntedhouseassociation.org/ ************************************************************** WRITING PARENT TIPS FOR MAY: No tips this month. ************************************************************** WANNA SUBMIT TO THIS E-ZINE?? I am always open to submissions for the E-zine!! Feel free to submit any of the following: 1. An article. Any style and length. Articles must relate to writing, being a writing parent or successful business/marketing ideas. If the article is a reprint, you must own the reprint rights. 2. Tips for writing parents. 3. Advertising info, a freebie link, fan mail or, if you are included in the book, news and updates on what’s going on in your writing life! PLEASE NOTE: Payment for submissions has been restored to $5 per article, payable on publication. And, please, be sure to include your bio with submissions. It gets everything moving a little faster. :) ************************************************************** You are subscribed to this E-zine because you requested a subscription or signed yourself up on your own. To unsubscribe, send a blank e-mail to: 59308-unsubscribe@zinester.com |
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