[stylist] Catching up

Thu May 7 18:08:39 UTC 2009

Awesome!  I'll put that one in my "business" budget, which so far is a list
of stuff I can't afford until I make some money...  /smile/

Tami Smith-Kinney

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of LoriStay at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:46 AM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [stylist] Catching up

Writer's Market is online, but you have to join to use it.   It's about $20 
a year, give or take.
www.writersmarket.com

Lori

In a message dated 5/7/09 3:18:12 AM, tamara.8024 at comcast.net writes:

> Kerry,
> 
> When I was doing my research on submissions and queries and all that fun
> stuff, it was back when the internet was still geek territory with only
> thousands of users...  Well, anturally I was on it!  /grin/  It was not 
> the
> unlimited fount of all information it is today, except on the subject of
> computers.  I couldn't afford my own copy of the Literary Marketplace, so
> there was nothing for it but to trundle down to my local library and haul
> the thing out (I think I strained various muscles a time or two) and lay 
> it
> out on the table in inadequate lighting (what's with libraries and crappy
> light?) to wade through seventy million  gzillion teeny tiny pages of 
> tiny,
> tiny print....
> 
> My memory may be magnifying the horrors by now, but when I get to it 
> again,
> I will happy to use the internet.  /grin/
> 
> Now I need to focus on slogging away at the tedious details of the small
> stuff so I can start getting something out there to build on.  /smile/
> 
> Tami Smith-Kinney
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Kerry Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:24 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [stylist] Catching up
> 
> Hi friends,
> 
> Tami, unfortunately queeries, like submissions, need to be taylored to 
> each
> market. Some publishers specifically say to include sample chapters,
> typically the first three chapters of the novel. Sometimes though the
> publisher wants to see more than this, typically a complete outline and/or
> table of contents; sometimes the queery and only the queery. More tedium,
> I'm afraid, but you need to consult an up-to-date edition of _Writer's
> Market_ or an up-to-date online reference. I  presume such references 
> exist?
> Perhaps Writers Digest online? Ideally, consult the submission guidelines 
> on
> the web sites of each individual publisher. Yes, it's a major drag! But,
> publishers don't like getting queeries or submissions that don't adhere
> exactly to their own particular guidelines. *shrug* What can you do? 
> They're
> fusspots. *grin*
> 
> I'm glad my explanation of blogs was helpful.
> 
> Helene, I cannot urge you strongly enough to avoid tangling with J.K.
> Rowling! She and her legal team have no compunction about destroying 
> people
> who infringe her copyright or even look like they might be thinking about
> infringing her copyright. Make up or reapply your own word for a 
> nonmagical
> person born to a magical family.
> 
> By the way, Rowling did not invent the word squib. It already existed,
> meaning a type of firework. She applied it to the particular usage she
> needed. You might do something similar; that is, find a word that is not
> much used in ordinary current day speech and apply it to this usage.
> Alternatively, make up a word and define it clearly.
> 
> As to the dogs: you could call them Shepherds or police dogs, or give them
> another place-derived name from your fictional world. Actually, I thought
> Brits called German Shepards Alsatians. The more I think of it, the better
> it seems to me for you to use a name analegous to German Shepherd
> substituting a nationality from your world for German. That would be the
> easiest for you and the clearest for the reader I think.
> 
> Robert, excellent Provoker!
> 
> One fell swoop is from MacBeth.
> 
> The Crowd, er, Addy? That piece you posted was nothing more nor less than 
> an
> infomercial, long on hype, very short indeed on substance. There are
> reputable print on demand (selfpublishing) companies, and I suppose
> Outskirts Press may be one. But, others are unscrupulous, nothing more 
> than
> vanity presses that demand the author pay them some outrageous amount for
> the privilige of seeing his book in print. I rather suspect Outskirts 
> Press
> to be one of this latter type. In any case, it behoves a writer to check
> very carefully into any such company in order to protect his reputation, 
> his
> selfrespect and, most importantly, his wallet.
> 
> Having given that strong caveat, I've heard of Lulu (sp?), a print on 
> demand
> outfit that produces good quality books. Recently, they have instituted a
> program whereby, for a fee, they will place your book on amazon.com.
> Cafepress also allows for selfpublishing. The chief problem I see with
> selfpublishing is that of marketing. Let's face it. Marketing genre and
> niche books is hard enough when they have a known house or imprint name on
> the title page. When you have to be your own marketing department, things
> must get even hairier. I doubt that in real life very many selfpublished
> authors make a lot of money. Not so many authors published with 
> established
> houses make a lot of money. But, that doesn't generally deter writers from
> writing or would-be authors from seeking to get published. It can be done,
> and done successfully, with a large, mainstream house, a speciality
> publisher or a print-on-demand company. Just make absolutely **sure** you
> know what you're signing up for!
> 
> Solidarity and Peace,
> Kerry
> 
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