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THE ART OF SHORT FICTION What is it? Author Charles Blackstone tells.

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WRITING GREAT SHORT STORIES Elizabeth Kadetsky who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University’s School of Journalism serves up some advice.

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CRAFTING CHARACTERS THAT JUMP OFF THE PAGE Punching up your fiction? Where there's a tipster, there's a way. Discover Robert Gregory Browne's secrets to getting multiple book deals.

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BIOFICTION INTRODUCED Even as she receives 5 stars on Amazon for Trine Erotic while editing/publishing Entelechy: Mind & Culture, Alice Andrews takes time to chat about the esoteric world of this mind-bending read.

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A Smart Author's Toolkit is here!

 

A Smart Author's Toolkit 2008 Edition!

 

 

 

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Table of Contents

 

A Letter from the Editor

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PART ONE

Fundamentals of Writing and Publishing

 

 

Writing the Winning Query Letter

SHALLA CHATS with Dorchester author, Tess Mallory

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Writing Mystery Fiction

SHALLA CHATS with Artscape author, Frederick Ramsay

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Writing Your Mystery Novel

SHALLA CHATS with Hallie Ephron

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Write Erotic Romance

SHALLA CHATS with author, Shara Lanel

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Writing Vampire Paranormals

SHALLA CHATS with author Margaret L. Carter

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Write Sex: Getting Characters Chemistry Sizzling off the Page!

SHALLA CHATS with sexy paranormal author, Gena Showalter

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Writing Time Travel Romance

SHALLA CHATS with Native American themed romance author, Judie Aitken

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Insider's Look at Publishing the Rain Series

SHALLA CHATS with NY Times Best Selling author, Barry Eisler

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Writing and Bollywood Confidential

SHALLA CHATS with Chick-Lit author, Sonia Singh

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Writers: Why Get a Freelance Editor?

SHALLA CHATS with freelance editor and writing coach, Zaz LaMarr

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Working with a Freelance Editor

SHALLA CHATS with freelance editor Mike Sirota

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PART TWO

Essential Techniques

 

 

 

How I got a Literary Agent

SHALLA CHATS with contemporary, romantic suspense, paranormal / time travel author, Pamela Waller

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An Insider's View on Agenting and Publishing

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Caren Johnson

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The Basic Book Deal

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Mike Farris

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Actively Building A List

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Kelly Sonnack

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Getting to Know You

SHALLA CHATS with Writers House Literary Agent, Daniel Lazar

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Greyhaus Literary Agency Now Open for Business

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Scott Eagan

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Negotiating with Publishers

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Dr. Uwe Stender

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PART THREE

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What Comes After the call?

SHALLA CHATS with multiple Emmy Award winning TV news producer & author Marianne Mancusi

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The Low-down on Getting Published

SHALLA CHATS with paranormal author, Terry Spear

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Choosing to E-Publish

SHALLA CHATS with historical and contemporary romance author, Andrea Wilder

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The Great, Okay and the Ugly of E-Publishing

SHALLA CHATS with author Tina Gerow

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Chick Lit for Tor/Forge

SHALLA CHATS with Acquiring Editor Natasha Panza

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TRANSITA: Great books for Grown Women

SHALLA CHATS with Editorial Director Nikki Read

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Advice to Writers: from an Editor/former Book Publisher

SHALLA CHATS with Seamus Cashman

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Writing and Publishing Books

SHALLA CHATS with traditional, royalty-based publisher, David Smitherman

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The Current State and Future of the Publishing Business

SHALLA CHATS with NY Times Bestselling author, Bob Mayer

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Zumaya Publications Looks for Authors

SHALLA CHATS with Executive Editor, Elizabeth Burton

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BONUS

Promoting Your Book

 

 

Taking the Mystery Out of Promoting Your Book

SHALLA CHATS with author Patricia M. Terrell

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Publicize Your Fiction! How-to's

SHALLA CHATS with Publicist, Theresa Meyers of Blue Moon Communications

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Authors

“The
Current State and Future of the Publishing Business”

SHALLA CHATS with NY Times Bestselling author, Bob Mayer

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"Writing Mystery Fiction”

SHALLA CHATS with author Frederick Ramsay

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“ Writing Your Mystery Novel”

SHALLA CHATS with mystery author, Hallie Ephron

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Literary Agent, Alana Lennie of the

Lennie Literary Agency & Authors
Attorney

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top Literary Agent
Kelly Sonnack from the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency will be reading submissions for
SHALLA Magazine.

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Our SHALLA
Magazine is here, get your work read by literary agents

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What's Going On in Book Publishing? SHALLA CHATS with author Bob Meyer

What's going on in Book Publishing ?

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“The Current State and Future of the Publishing Business”

by Shalla DeGuzman

SHALLA CHATS with author Bob Mayer

First of all, who ’s Bob?

NY Times Bestselling author Bob Mayer has thirty-three books published under his own name and the pen name Robert Doherty. Bob graduated from West Point and served in the military as a Special Forces A-Team leader and a teacher at the JFK Special Warfare Center & School, experiences he drew on to write Who Dares Wins: Special Operations Tactics for Success. He also teaches novel writing for colleges, workshops and conferences based on his Novel Writer’s Toolkit, published by Writer’s Digest. He has over two million books in print including his latest novel, Don’t Look Down, co-authored with Jennifer Crusie.

He lives on a barrier island off the coast of South Carolina. For more information see http://www.bobmayer.org/ or http://www.crusiemayer.com/ for the infamous He Wrote/She Wrote blog.

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