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ARTICLES FOR STORYTELLERS |
Attention-Grabbing Cover and Query Letters
You've labored over your manuscript for months. It's a polished, spell-checked, one-of-a-kind manuscript. Now it's time to approach an editor. Does the editor want to see a complete manuscript with a cover letter, or a query letter? Either way, you'll have about ten seconds to get his or her attention.
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"I've shot the Bear" - interview with Rosemarie Somaiah
Excerpts ...
Rosemarie:I was born in India and grew up there. India is a land of such incredible diversity, that anything you say about India could possibly be true of about a million people and possibly completely untrue of about 9 million people. So, though my childhood was unique in some ways, it was considered fairly standard for the people that I grew up with, in that particular time and place
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Association with Storytellers - interview with Dianne (Di) Bates
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Di:
Australia still has no national charter of rights for children, nothing
that legally standardises how adults shall treat children and what
rights a child has in relation to the law. This allows abusive parents
to move their children around the country at whim. Even within the state
where I live – NSW – the departmental body responsible for the care of
abused children is so under-resourced that child deaths can and do
occur, even when there have been multiple notifications of abuse from
concerned adults – doctors, relatives, teachers, neighbours. Yes,
superficially children appear to do well in our ‘civilised’ country, but
under the surface they are vulnerable. The law needs to be changed,
resources need to be greatly increased.
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 BRIGHT LIGHTS AND BAGPIPES
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The summer season has begun in Great Britain and in Edinburgh, this means festivals galore. Not only is Edinburgh the host city for the world famous annual military tattoo, but the city also orchestrates five incredible festivals throughout the summer months that bring thousands of visitors from around the globe. It is nearly impossible to walk down the Royal Mile during the month of August without being bombarded with flyers for various comedy shows, musicals, cabarets and Shakespearean plays performed on bouncy castles. From the month of June until September, Edinburgh takes New York’s title as the city that doesn’t sleep and overwhelms visitors and locals with the variety and diversity of the entertainment it provides on a twenty-four hour basis.
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 The higher you go (1)
Excerpts ...
“The higher you go, the cooler it becomes.” Really? Let us start from the fundamentals. It is a maxim we learnt form geography in school about the weather.
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Ladies of the Light
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It was a likely scene. A cul-de-sac next to an industrial estate. The kind of place which featured in a hundred police dramas. Bleak, rubble-strewn, desolate, save for a few under-dressed women, the occasional car favoured by sales reps. And a biting northerly wind.
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PAYING MARKETS FOR STORYTELLERS |
 Christian Writing Markets
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Christian Writing; it's a market so big that it cannot be ignored. Typical of Christian writing, both the publications featured below insist upon true stories. Would it be unchristian to pass off as a true story something you invented? I'll leave you to make up your own minds on that one.
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 Piece of Gold
Once there was a holy man who sat with his begging bowl in hand at the entrance to a village. A peasant traveling down the road into the village stopped to stare at the beggar.
“Aren’t you tired of being poor?” the peasant asked the holy man.
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STORYTELLER'S NUTS AND BOLTS |
 Writing Quotes and Speech
When it comes to writing quotes and speech many writers get confused about the use of quotation marks and the placement of closing punctuation.
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Leo's Child
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Leo’s children are much more sensitive then people think. They can walk around like little kings wearing crowns, but almost every Leo adult I have ever met is carrying around a deep haunting childhood wound. They are also more insensitive then people think. These same adults can write you off as a loser in a heartbeat and will probably never change their minds. Even if they did find out later that they were wrong about you, they would still blame you for having misrepresented yourself. Those Leos that are lucky enough to have happy healthy childhoods are incredible leaders with a charisma and charm that is unlike any other. How do you make sure your little Leo turns out well?
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The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Excerpts
... For me, this novel is a cross between a murder-mystery novel and a literary
one. For one, the plot of this story is very much in the style of a whodunit –
throughout, the reader is kept guessing about the answer to the question, “Who
murdered this dog?” All the clues are placed in the appropriate places in the
novel, the characters are defined and dialogue genuine. And yet, the style of
writing is so unique:...
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With two
self-published novels under his belt (one of which was shortlisted for
the Portico Literary Prize) Bill Keeth recently self-published
Write It Self-Publish It Sell It ISBN 978 0 9558863 0 0 in
response to other writers’ enquiries as to what exactly is entailed in
taking the self-publishing route.
In this robustly written testament
to his achievement, the author encourages the reader to avoid the
pitfalls and emulate his personal success, relating, often in humorous
fashion, how he himself wrote, self-published and marketed his books
(2,000 copies and counting!) via book launches, booksignings and
presentations, in addition to placing them with the major bookstores and
public libraries
‘Truly informative’ Billy Hopkins,
best-selling author of Our Kid.
BUZZ WORDS
An online professional Australian-based magazine, Buzz Words (All the Buzz about Children’s Books), is targeted at children’s writers, illustrators, librarians, teachers and editors. On the 1st and 15th of every month the e-zine features a free-entry writing contest – with prizes – as well as interviews with editors, authors, illustrators, agents, booksellers and publicists as well as writing markets, opportunities, competitions, courses, conferences, book reviews and valuable industry information all related to the children’s book industry. If you wish to download a sample issue, go to
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Compiler/editor Dianne (Di) Bates pays for articles and interviews. The magazine was begun in July 2006 and to date it have published over 700 reviews of children’s books. An online review magazine, Books Buzz, a Buzz Words' supplement, is also sent to subscribers bimonthly. Check out Di’s books on her website
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