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Algonkian Writers Conference Events and Retreats - Ongoing Client Review: Manuscripts to Market Editorial Service - $2300.00+ - Rolling Admissions: Novel Development and Writing Program, Online, $799 - October 22 - 25, 2021: St. Augustine Author-Mentor, FL, $2860 - (Map/Directions) - December 2 - 5, 2021: New York Pitch Conference, LIVE IN NEW YORK, $795 - December 16 - 19, 2021: New York Pitch Conference, ONLINE WITH ZOOM, $795 - March 23 - 27, 2022: Algonkian Park Workshop Retreat, $1095 - (Map/Directions) - April 14 - 18, 2022: Monterey Writer Re…
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About Algonkian Events and Workshops Haste born of impatience is a writer's second worst enemy. Hubris is the worst. - Director Michael Neff Algonkian Writer Conferences began in late 2001 on the banks of the Potomac River at Algonkian Park in northern Virginia. With its beautiful setting and cottages, it seemed a natural place for a workshop, and thus, Algonkian Writer Workshops was born. By 2004 it had expanded to include more professionals in the literary business, i.e., agents, editors, and authors, as well as more events such as the New York Pitch Conference. At Algonkian events, we maintain intimate, carefully managed enviro…
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A couple of big projects at the NYPC were recently signed by the renowned literary agency, Moveable Type Management (MTM), for representation to both book and film markets. These include the WW II historical fiction pitched at the 03/21 NYPC, THE LAST AIRMAN by Roy Qualls, and A MILLION MILES TO DAISY by Sam Nahins, a novel about an assasination drone pilot out of Vegas seeking redemption by struggling to save his mother from a corrupt and brutal nursing home--pitched at the 12/20 NYPC. NEWS : NEW YORK PITCH ONLINE At recent 2020/2021 New York Pitch events held online via high-tech video conferencing, upwards of 67 projects were chosen for professional consider…
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What is the Purpose of Algonkian? To give writers in all genres a realistic chance at becoming published commercial or literary authors by providing them with the professional connections, feedback, advanced craft knowledge and savvy they need to succeed in today's extremely competitive market. What is Your Strategy for Getting Writers Published? - A model-and-context pedagogy that utilizes models of craft taken from great fiction authors and playwrights, thereby enabling the writer to pick and choose the most appropriate techniques for utilization in the context of their own work-in-progress. - Emphasis on providing pragmatic, evidence-ba…
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Steampunk, a Boxed Set, & More
Finding Joy Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera is 99c! What a cute illustrated cover! This was mentioned on a previous Hide Your Wallet and appears to be a stand alone and not part of any sort of series. Have you read this one? As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he’s been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life–his first hom -
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Desmond’s Drops: September Edition
Welcome to a new edition of Desmond’s Drops! This month, enjoy three drops about: Combining Characters Escalations Flashbacks Email subscribers, please click through directly to writerunboxed.com to view. Look for more of Desmond’s Drops in October. Have your own bit of wisdom to share? Drop it in comments. About Desmond HallDesmond Hall, author of YOUR CORNER DARK, was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and them moved to Jamaica, Queens. He’s worked as both a high school biology teacher and English teacher, counseled at-risk teens, and served as Spike Lee’s creative director a -
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How I Started Writing Cozy Mini Mysteries for Woman’s World (and Published a Book)
By Loretta Martin “Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.” ~ Julia Cameron I think of cozy mysteries, a subgenre of crime writing, as felonies for fun. A mini cozy, then, is like flash fiction—short yet completely satisfying. Years ago, I edited drafts for a romance author whose work appeared in Woman’s World (WW), a weekly national magazine (readership: 5.5 million). I bought issues to see the final version of her stories. Later, I bought them for the solve-it-yourself cozy mini mysteries. As a diversion from my own writing, I began submitting stories to WW. In Febru -
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Whatcha Reading? September 2021, Part Two
http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Fotolia_17773066_S.jpgWe are closing out September! Can you believe it? October is busy busy (for me at least), but hopefully we can all squeeze in some quality reading time. Sarah: I’m currently reading Payback’s a Witch ( A | BN | K ) and oh wow am I enjoying it so freaking much. Chasing and clever and beautiful bits of writing. Carrie: I just finished reading Praying With Jane Eyre( A | BN | K ) which I found to be transformative – truly one of those books that makes you look at everything differently. By Vanessa Zoltan. E -
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Podcast 476, Your Transcript is Ready!
http://smartbitchestrashybooks.com/WP/wp-content/themes/smartbitches/images/podcast/header_05c.jpg The transcript for Podcast 476. Behind the Scenes of Reviewing Romance with Shana and Amanda has been posted! This podcast transcript was handcrafted with meticulous skill by Garlic Knitter. Many thanks. ❤ Click here to subscribe to The Podcast → View the full article -
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DRAINING THE SWAMPS OF BABYLON--Brian C. Lockey, Upmarket Fiction
Brian C. Lockey DRAINING THE SWAMPS OF BABYLON Upmarket Fiction Comparables: The Odyssey meets ’70’s counterculture and Southern Rock in my 97,000-word upmarket novel, reminiscent of Roddy Doyle (The Commitments), Dana Spiotta (Stone Arabia), and Nick Hornby (High Fidelity; Juliet, Naked). Hook Line: A former Rock ’n’ Roll singer makes an improbable journey home to help his aging father and reconnect with the love of his life—but before he can resurrect his music career, he must revisit the Devil’s crossroads that beset his youth. Pitch: Having -
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Chefs, Dukes, & More
Someone to Care Someone to Care by Mary Balogh is $1.99 and part of today’s Kindle Daily Deals! This is book four in the Westcott series and I thought there was a review for this one, but nope. Sometimes everything just blurs together. If you’re new to Balogh or count her as one of your faves, I highly recommend this guest post. The legendary New York Times bestselling author is back with a new Westcott novel about the dispossessed countess and wife of the late Earl of Riverdale, who throw -
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literary fiction A WOMAN IN THE RIVER, Literary Fiction – Rose Eggert
Name: Rose Eggert Title: A WOMAN IN THE RIVER or RECKLESS RIVER Genre: Literary Fiction, Commercial Fiction Comps: The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali meets White Teeth by Zadie Smith and The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Hook line: After the accidental drowning of her youngest child, Joline Delaney refuses to speak for years, until an old flame turned homeless vet blows a hole in the hydro dam, releasing the baby’s bones and Joline’s tongue. Pitch: The story begins in 1973. It is the time of the ERA, a Women’s March on Washington, and troops are standing down f -
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SPFBO 7 – The Fifth Quarter-Final – “EXTRA TIME”
As you may remember our fifth quarter-final – the one from the “starting anew” batch – could not be settled in “normal time.” Having read both books to the 20% mark or so, our judges couldn’t decide which of The Spear of Akvaloon and Windward deserved the accolade of Fantasy Hive SPFBO7 semi-finalist, so the contest went to “extra time.” Each judge has read on in both books far enough to clarify their judgement. We’ll go through each judge in turn and out of the five of us the decision will be on a simple majority vote to decide the sixth and final Fantasy Hive SBFO 7 Semi-finalist. So w -
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Space and Shadows
Photo by Ted A small painting hangs in my hallway. Created by a friend some years ago, it is one of my very favorite things, and illustrates a poem by Sappho: People do gossip And they say about Leda, that she once found an egg hidden under wild hyacinths When I asked my friend to paint the poem for me, I had an idea of what I wanted it to look like — a girl in a white dress perhaps, discovering an oversized egg on the ground. But I kept my thoughts to myself, and I’m so glad I did, because the end result was so much better than what I’d anticipated. Brilliantly, my friend painted neit -
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Which International Thriller Should You Binge This Weekend?
It’s officially fall in the northern hemisphere and you might well be thinking this is a good weekend to stay indoors with a bottle of something earthy and the bounty that is the contemporary international streaming scene. For me, late September is a time for things that are unusual, inventive, and in that vein I’m personally going to be watching Reservation Dogs this weekend. It’s not exactly an international thriller, or else it would be the answer to the headline above, but by all means you, too, should feel free to enjoy Reservation Dogs, now streaming on FX on Hulu, since it is sort of a -
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The Heist of the Century: Who Cracked the Manhattan Savings And Loan Safe?
Thomas Byrnes was still in his Sunday best on the morning of October 27, 1878, when he heard that the Manhattan Savings Institution had been robbed. It was unimaginable that this venerable bank, located at the corner of Bleecker Street and Broadway, within Byrnes’s own Fifteenth Precinct, had been breached. Thought to be an impregnable fortress, it featured a maze of bolts, locks, and thick steel doors that opened to a steel vault with a separate safe within. In addition to holding millions in cash and securities, the bank was a repository for the money, jewelry, and other valuables of wealthy -
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8 True Crime Podcasts You Need to Listen to This Fall
When Keats described autumn as a “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” he probably didn’t have doomsday religious cults, deathbed confessions, and Silicon Valley intrigue in mind, but that (and so much more!) is exactly what’s in store for this fall. So grab your sweater, a warm beverage of your choice (no judgment if it’s the much-pilloried PSL), and your headphones, because autumn 2021 is a veritable buffet of just-in-time-for-Halloween true-crime goodness. The Dropout: Elizabeth Holmes on Trial (ABC News) and Bad Blood: The Final Chapter (Three Uncanny Four) Okay, I know thes -
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YA Mysteries: The Prep School Edition
Whenever I’m asked about my favorite reads, my go-to recommendations are almost always YA mysteries. I have an expensive habit of auto-buying any and every new release in the genre and devouring the books the moment I get my hands on them! My own YA mystery, This Is Why We Lie, is set to be released September 21st with Inkyard Press. The story follows Jenna and Adam as they race against time to solve the murder of a local teenager. With prep school sandals and small-town secrets, someone will take the fall. In the lead up to the release of This is Why We Lie, I thought I’d take a more in-dep -
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Motive Is the Core of Mystery
In one of the best considerations of mystery writing that I’ve heard, American historian Karen Halttunen argued in a lecture that the genre has its foundations in public execution. Murderers used to be put to death on a public scaffold, and they were expected to confess their crimes to the crowd before they died. Often these confessions (or imagined versions of them) were then made into ballads that were printed and sold to the public. With the decline in these executions, there was a decline in public confessions, and the gap was filled by mysteries: people need to know what prompted a murder
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