By Michael Mitchell The librarian takes Banquo’s order for a copy of Macbeth and goes out to the back room. Says he has started the process. “Try next week.” Next week Banquo follows up. He contemplates the back room, full of monkeys pounding away at typewriters, wall to wall. The librarian smiles and shakes his […]
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on Nathan Bransford: Greetings writerly people! I’m so happy to be here in this great community my friend Nathan has built to offer semi-regular posts about the publishing industry. For the last two decades, I’ve worked as a book editor at various Big Five houses, as a freelance editor and ghostwriter, and in October will […]
How an editor at a publisher acquires a book – by Christine Pride… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog
Here’s what’s going on over at The Chamber.
New issues appear Fridays at 10:00 a.m. CDT/ 4:00 p.m. BST/ 8:30 p.m. IST/ 1:00 a.m. AEST (Saturdays).
John Ryland has published work in Eldritch Journal, Otherwise Engaged, The Writer’s Magazine, Birmingham Arts Journal, Subterranean Blue, and others. His collection Southern Gothic and novel Souls Harbor are currently available on all major markets. His upcoming novel The Man with No Eyes, will be published by Moonshine Cove Press in March 2022.”
Hayden Sidun is a high school student whose short…
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Before you get excited: I have no problem with “Hills Like White Elephants.” In this classic story, Ernest Hemingway demonstrates a masterful, subtle use of dialogue—so much so that it has become, if not a totally clichéd, then at least a ubiquitous text in creative writing classrooms. I myself encountered it at least four times…
10 Short Stories with Great Dialogue That Aren’t “Hills Like White Elephants” — Literary Hub
54 years after her death, legendary author and wit Dorothy Parker’s cremated remains have finally been transported from Baltimore, where she was initially buried, to New York City, her primary home—and her tombstone has a new inscription. Parker was never based in Baltimore, but in her will, Parker left her entire estate to Martin Luther…
Dorothy Parker is back in New York City—with a new and improved tombstone. — Literary Hub
A native of the Metropolitan of Washington, DC, Mychea holds a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design and is the author of 11 fiction novels and 2 eBooks, resulting in over half a million book sales. She is also the writer and producer of 3 stage plays and a web series that were filmed in […]
Author Interview with Mychea — Write 2 Be Magazine
El Ciudadano El escritor argentino, Jorge Luis Borges, nació en la ciudad de Buenos Aires el 24 de agosto de 1899. Se le considera uno de los autores más destacados y una de las grandes figuras literarias de la lengua española del siglo XX. Durante su infancia, aprendió muy bien inglés gracias a su abuela…
10 obras imperdibles de Jorge Luis Borges — El Ciudadano
You know what they say: new books are just as good (if not better) than new friends. Okay, maybe they don’t say that. Maybe I made that up. Maybe my dog and I are feeling a little stir crazy, and the only thing we had to look forward to in the midst of the tropical…
14 new books to look forward to this week. — Literary Hub
on Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity: Here are ten literary magazines currently open to submissions of speculative fiction and poetry. They are seeking a wide variety of subgenres: Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Dark Fantasy, Horror, Fantasy, Magical Realism, Myth, Folklore, Surrealism, Slipstream, and Weird Fiction. All of these are paying markets. Some accept reprints. None […]
10 Speculative Fiction Magazines Accepting Submissions NOW – Paying Markets – by Erica Verrillo… — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog
#SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN: for the 55th issue of The Sirens Call eZine. We accept short #stories, #flash and micro #fiction, #drabbles, and #poetry that fit the #horror or #dark #fiction genre. Plus, this is the Halloween Issue, so let’s keep it creepy! #darkfic #flashfic #microfic visit sirenscallpub.com for details.
OPEN Call for SUBMISSIONS: The Sirens Call – Halloween 2021 – issue 55 | #Horror #DarkFiction #eZine #OpenCall #Reprints #fiction #stories #flash #poetry @Sirens_Call — The Sirens Song
“Life is a dance. And when you dance you enjoy the dance while you dance. No one goes dancing just for it to end.” – Alan Watts
Life is a dance — Wandering Ambivert
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet born in St. Louis, Missouri on 8 August 1884 In 1918, she won the Columbia University Poetry Society Prize for her collection Love Songs.The prize was later officially renamed the Pulitzer Prize. after newspaper publisher Joseph PulitzerWeakened after a difficult bout with pneumonia, she died by suicide in […]
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Eighty-five years ago today, on August 19th, 1936, Federico García Lorca—the Spanish avant-garde poet, playwright, and ardent socialist—was shot and killed by Nationalist militia before being buried in an unmarked mass grave somewhere outside Granada, where he remains to this day. A tortured genius who struggled to reconcile his public persona with his sexual identity, García…
Federico García Lorca predicted his own death in a poem. — Literary Hub
I find this quote from Elena at Short Wisdom to be very true.
Source: 20 Must-Read Southern Gothic Novels
Here’s an interesting article I recommend. It gives a good, although brief, synopsis of 20 novels of the last 100 years.
Phil Slattery, Writer, Publisher 