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New Blog from Kristen Lamb!

This is Gonna Leave a Mark: What Makes a “Real” Writer?

by Kristen Lamb

Those who’ve followed my blog long enough know I’m no fan of the Schrodinger’s Writer Game. Is the writer real or unreal? What IS a real writer?

For ages, we quibbled that a real writer had an agent. A real writer scored a legacy publishing deal. One had to pass the NYC gatekeepers to be a real writer.

On and on and…

Dinosaurs, the Alphabet, and Ten Things to Consider Prior to Submitting a Story for Publication

by Nate Brown | August 1, 2018 Link to original  Dinosaurs

I. To Begin, a Note about Pleasure

A few years ago, the late James Salter was honored at the annual F. Scott Fitzgerald Festivalwith a prize in Fitzgerald’s name. During his keynote address at the award ceremony, Salter said something that was stupefying in its simplicity: reading, he said, was among the very greatest pleasures in his…

26 Calls for Submissions in August 2018 – Paying Markets

  There are more than two dozen calls for submissions in August. As always, anything you can think of is wanted – flash fiction, speculative fiction and poetry, creative nonfiction, children’s stories, along with several interesting themed issues.

All of these literary magazines pay, and none charge submission fees.

Make sure to follow submission requirements carefully. Editors…

Review of Three Dreams in the Key of G

A Vigorous Workout

Marc Nash (Extra-Curricular) is an intellectual. Nowhere is that fact more obvious than in his most recent novel, Three Dreams in the Key of G. Here, three narrative streams coalesce to provide some of the deepest existential philosophies you will find, all the while remaining grounded in the everyday world.

The first of the three narrators, Jean, is an elderly radical woman,…

New Post by Kristen Lamb

Targeting Readers: Audiences Have Evolved & So Should Marketing posted on July 24, 2018 by Kristen Lamb

How many times have we been told we should be targeting our readers, audience, and customers? Am I the only one disturbed by this advice? Targeting seems like it should involve a Predator Drone…or at least a trebuchet.

For the record, I imagine many authors would view sales (and targeting)…

Where to Submit Short Stories

Where to Submit Short Stories: 23 Magazines and Websites That Want Your Work by Kelly Gurnett June 6, 2018

Not sure where to send those great short stories you’ve written?

As with writing contests and fellowships, sometimes it can be hard to know where to begin. To help you figure out where to submit short stories, we’ve put together this guide to 23 publications that publish short…

20 Publishers Accepting Nonfiction – No Agent Required

Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity

Erica Verrillo has written seven books and published five. She doesn’t know why anyone with an ounce of self-preservation would ever want to publish. But, if you insist on selling your soul to the devil, learn how to do it right: marketing, literary agents, book promotion, editing, pitching your book, how to get reviews, and … most important of all ……

Five Things Your Editor Hates About You

posted on June 18, 2018 by Cait Reynolds Actually, it’s you. Love, the Editor.

Harsh, I know. Alas, sometimes tough love is necessary for the greater good. Cait Reynolds here today, and what I’m about to reveal is the secret heart’s cry of pretty much every freelance editor (at least the ones that don’t just run manuscripts through Grammarly).

Having worked as a freelance editor for many…

Here is a great interview in Toofulltowrite’s blog. It also shows my new book Dream Poem! Take a gander!

New Book Release – K.D. Rose -“DreamPoem” – (Contemporary Poetry Collection Sourced From Literary Journal Publications) TooFullToWrite / April 18, 2018

Hey there everyone.

For all you poetry lovers out there, I’ve got a really exciting treat for you all tonight.

However, before we get to…

From Kristen Lamb’s Blog

Cocky-Blocked: How to Nuke Your Brand From Orbit

posted on May 10, 2018 by Kristen Lamb

Call me cocky for even weighing in on this issue (at your own peril). But, seriously, folks. It’s rare to run across something so epically wrong AND foolish and…ironically, cocky. As an author branding expert, I’d be remiss NOT to say something about Cockygate (though I seriously hate having to).

Cockygate.

Review of Dream Poem!

Here is a review of my book Dream Poem by Marc Nash. He is a very strong reviewer ( watch his podcasts) and a writer himself. So I am so pleased he really liked my collection! He gave it 4 stars on Goodreads. The review will be on his April podcast as well.

Dream Poem by K.D. Rose (Goodreads Author)

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5136053 Marc Nash’s review Apr 22, 2018

I read KD Rose’s first collection “Heavy Bags Of Soul”…

Branding and the Brain by Kristen Lamb

Branding & The Brain: How Social Media Changes but Humans Never Will

by Kristen Lamb

Branding is a word that seems to have one day—POOF—appeared out of the ether. In fact, when I began blogging in 2006 almost no one in publishing used the term. The rare few who did were hard-pressed to properly/clearly define what a ‘brand’ was.

In fact, many authorities believed authors didn’t need to…