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Call for
submissions
New short fiction ePublisher is
looking for quality submissions now.
Crime
fiction, science fiction, historical
fiction, articles, reviews, interviews,
puzzles and art wanted.
Check out
the submission guidelines page at www.Seismicfish.com
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New
Romance e-publisher launches
On February 14, 2004, Vintage
Romance Publishing, LLC opened its
doors. A new e-publishing company
specialising in old-fashioned romance,
they plan to host books set in the
early- to mid-twentieth century.
For more
details visit http://vrpublishing.com
Call
for scripts – Playspotting 2004
Playspotting, Australia's inaugural
International Playreading Festival
2004, is calling for new playscripts.
The
inaugural series of 20 Australian and
International plays to be read with 20
Playwrights, 20 directors at 20
different theatres over 20 weeks.
Playscripts
can be sent via email [.doc] to Benjamin
Daly
Include a
one to two paragraph synopsis and full
contact details. If you
wish to submit by hard copy via snail
mail send to:
Playspotting
- Inaugural International
Playreading Festival 2004, P.O. Box
5022, Middle Park, Victoria, Australia
3206
Entry is
free.
Red
Booth Review on hiatus
The magazine Red Booth Review
is on hold until May 2004, while the
editorial team travel around America
compiling a book entitled The Poetry
of Place. They hope to be back in
business with RBR very
soon.
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Does your
writing need a break?
Writers are always looking for a break – but here's one
with a difference. The Mountain High Writer's Conference in
Denver, Colorado, aims to help make your publishing dream come true
with a writing vacation between May 6 and 8, 2004. The
conference's purpose is to help you sharpen your writing skills and
learn about publishing and bookselling from the industry's most
successful professionals.
Whether you've just started writing or have a book you want
published, there will be top industry experts waiting to help. Advice
will also be given to those who have already published their
books on how to sell them to retail stores.
The conference also caters for screenplay writers, offering
an opportunity to learn more about
screenplay writing, and also to compete against other writers in a screenplay
contest – the prize for which is a free thirty-minute
production of your play.
For more information
contact:
Victoria Freudiger
Editor and Word Shepherd
Digi-Tall News & Media
Editorsheperd@aol.com
Roberts
Publishing seeks new writing
Roberts Publishing has announced
that they are seeking submissions of books on the following
specific themes:
- The Mound Builders of North
America
- Unique Caves Around The World
- Pyramids Around The World
- Haunted Places
- True Crime (Notorious Serial
Killers, for example)
They are also seeking submissions
more generally on a wide range of topics, including books for
writers; on computers and the web; New Age; the paranormal;
history; crafts; cookery; and language. For full details of the
specific books sought under each category, and more details on
how to submit, visit http://www.robertspublishing.com
and click on the "Author Submissions" button at the
bottom of the page.
If you think you can provide a
manuscript on one of these subjects send a brief introductory
email with "Book idea" in the subject line, including
your name and a one-paragraph synopsis of your book, to Dr
Roberts at MystAvalon@aol.com.
Make sure you do not attach any files or include any photos with
the email or they will be deleted unopened.
Engineer
Jane builds bridge to women's writing
A woman engineer has spanned the Arts–Science divide
with her ground-breaking work on a centre for early English
women's writing.
Multi-skilled Jane Alderson designed the foundations of the QE11
Bridge for the M25 Motorway near London. Now she's digging into
her intellectual resources to support the pioneering archive and
study centre for early English women's writing at the Chawton
House Library, Hampshire. The Chawton Estate was once owned by
Jane Austen's brother, Edward.
Jane will describe Chawton's achievements for an audience
hosted by The Bookworms Club at The Sha'arei Shalom North
Manchester Reform Synagogue in Whitefield, Bury, to include
representatives of libraries, academics and students from local
colleges and schools along with members of reading and writers'
groups.
Yorkshire-born Jane (42), who has also enjoyed a high-profile
position in finance with the European bank, ABN AMRO, says of
her latest role: "building and restoration takes me back to
my engineering; a large house and estate appeals to the romantic
in me; a rare opportunity to become involved in something a bit
out of the ordinary and the literary and academic side holds a
fascination for me, as I love to read and learn."
Chawton's financial backer is US businesswoman Sandy Lerner,
a co-founder of Cisco Systems, the field-leader in the
development of communication over the Internet.
The event will be opened by Mr Ivan Lewis, MP for Bury South
and a Minister for Education while the well-known novelist,
Sherry Ashworth, also based in Bury, will express thanks.
The event is at the Synagogue, Elms Street, Whitefield, on
Saturday March 20 (8.00 PM).
For further details contact Natalie Wood on +44 (0) 161 796
8018 or +44 (0) 798 9697934.
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