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Joan Aiken’s The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories is highlighted by the Los Angeles Times as one of the books of the summer.
Geoff Ryman’s Was has a cover! Next up: Unconquered Countries.
The Shimmers in The Night
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Lydia Millet Summer 2012 · 978-1-931520-78-2 · trade cloth / ebook · $16.95 · 295 pp Cara’s mother is still missing. When her brother Jax texts her from “smart kid’s boot camp” in Boston, Cara and her two best friends go to the rescue. But the camp is a front for Cara’s mother’s organization who are fighting [...]
Was
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Geoff Ryman Trade paper/ebook · 9781931520737/9781931520386 · 320 pp · November 29, 2011 “A mythic meditation on the enduring power of fantasy and art and on the loss of innocence, both the innocence of childhood lost to the cruel realities of the grown-up world and the innocence of a nation lost to the cruelties of history. . [...]
Three Messages and a Warning
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Eduardo Jiménez Mayo & Chris. N. Brown, editors January 2012 · 9781931520317 · $16 · 240pp · trade paper/ebook Contemporary Mexican Stories of the Fantastic Introduction by Bruce Sterling. Events —January 26, 7PM, Book People, Austin, TX — Chris N. Brown, Eduardo Jiménez Mayo, Bernardo Fernández and Pepe Rojo celebrate the publication of Three Messages with an event at one of Austin’s premiere [...]
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A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2012
B&W spiralbound / ebook · 9781931520270 Available in two print on demand or PDF ebook editions. Standard Edition, 134 pages: — order the print edition ($13.95) — ebook: Weightless ($3.99) / Lulu ($3.99) Almanac Edition which includes all the prompts, exercises, reading lists, and articles from the two previous editions, 182 pages: — order the [...]
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The Freedom Maze
Delia Sherman“Adroit, sympathetic, both clever and smart, The Freedom Maze will entrap young readers and deliver them, at the story’s end, that little bit older and wiser.”
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Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 27
A. D. Jameson · Jessy Randall · K. M. Ferebee · Karen Heuler · M. K. Hobson · Carol Emshwiller · David Rowinski · Joan Aiken · Sarah Harris Wallman · Gwenda Bond · David Blair · Sarah Heller · Nicole Kimberling
Chuntering On and On
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Hello Wed 4 Jan 2012
2012? Wooee. Must be the future. Must remember to post about 2011 before it fades completely. In the meantime: we have a couple of podcasts to come—and did you listen to Rick Kleffel talking with Ayize Jama-Everett and Lisa Goldstein after their event at the Capitola Book Cafe? Not to be missed. We had a [...]
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33% off everything on Weightless Sat 31 Dec 2011
It is the end of 2011 and I am very happy about it. Good-bye, old year, good-bye. Do not be coming back, thank you. Although there were lovely parts, it will not be missed. 2012 looks much brighter. Anyway: we are celebrating with a one-day sale: 33% off all ebooks on weightlessbooks.com. Get your LCRW [...]
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get liminal! Tue 27 Dec 2011
Annalee Newitz reviews Ayize Jama-Everett’s debut novel and if you read the review you’ll see why we had to publish the book: “You’ll be sucked into a fast-paced story about superpowered people struggling for control of the underground cultures they inhabit…. The novel is a damn good read. It’s a smart actioner that will entertain [...]
Latest Eruption of Fiction Into the Universe
A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2012
B&W spiralbound / ebook · 9781931520270
Available in two print on demand or PDF ebook editions.
Standard Edition, 134 pages:
— order the print edition ($13.95)
— ebook: Weightless ($3.99) / Lulu ($3.99)
Almanac Edition which includes all the prompts, exercises, reading lists, and articles from the two previous editions, 182 pages:
— order the print edition ($15.95)
— ebook Weightless ($4.99) / Lulu ebook ($5.99)
A Working Writer’s Daily Planner is the perfect place to keep everything writing-related: whether it’s the minutia of deadlines and word counts, the writing ideas and inspirations that insist on being jotted down, or the most private hopes and dreams. There’s nothing like having this planner in hand to show how much time, effort, thought, and love a writer puts into writing.
Our redesigned third annual Daily Planner is the perfect gift for anyone interested in writing from teenager to grandparent. Cover and interior art by Kathleen Jennings.
Praise for previous editions:
“I know some writers who have spent many, many hours trying to figure out the ins and outs of residency programs, grant applications and even MFA programs in creative writing. A lot of that work is done for you here, with those deadlines detailed and looming some time before their due dates.”
—Jacket Copy, Los Angeles Times
“Like many writers, I have a thing for shiny new planners, dreams of organization and a complete lack of follow-through after March. No more, my friends! A gift from a fellow writer will keep my bad thang on track—at least until June. A Working Writer’s Daily Planner from Small Beer Press is a practical planner for those of us who are distracted by bright and shiny things (like Facebook, admit it). Spiral bound, good quality paper to take the ink and chock-full of goodies such as writing exercises, paper dolls and workshop information (plus much more), it’s already been marked up with deadlines and dog-eared.”
—Momgadget.com
“An incredible gift for your favorite writer, or yourself.”
—Kelli Russell
“What I just pulled out of the shipping box is a solid little book of 144 pages of text printed on a good stock of 6×9-inch paper and spiral bound to lay flat. The spiral, by the way, is made of a heavy wire and bent in at the ends, so it should both stay on the book and make it through the year.”
—Women of Mystery
TABLE OF CONTENTS
How to Format a Manuscript
“A Mayan Apocalypse Primer for the WorkingWriter,” Michael J. DeLuca
“Ladies, Please!,” Sarah Rees Brennan
State Arts Grants
“What I Know About Literary Agents,” Geoffrey Goodwin
“Rewriting,” Kelley Eskridge
“A Short 2012 Reading List,”Su-Yee Lin
Future Planning
Further Resources
Contest and Award Fees
CLMP Contest Code of Ethics
“A (Mostly) Contemporary British Reading List,” Rebecca Isherwood
Fifty First Sentences
Residency Spotlight
Submission Tracker
“111 Contradictory Writing Suggestions,” Geoffrey Goodwin
Science Fiction Spotlight
A Reading List of Favorite Romances,” Kelly Link
“Bestsellers: Do They Last?”
2010 & 2011 EXTRAS (Almanac Edition only)
Book Festivals
Writing Exercise: A Reality Show Story
“The Editorial Assistant,” Rebecca Isherwood
“How to Find a Writing Group,” Ben Francisco
Six Reading Lists
An Even Dozen Writing Prompts
Debut Author Interview: Kelly Link interviews N.K. Jemisin
Writing Exercise: A Play on Words
“Story Idea Generation,” Kelly Link
“What I Know About Writing,” Geoffrey Goodwin
Writing Exercise: Genre Musical Chairs
“Reading as a Writer,” Kelly Link
“How to End a Story,” Nick Mamatas
Writing Exercise: The Cliché Trainwreck
Where to Find Out About MFA Programs
April is National Poetry Month: Spotlight on Poetry
Writing Exercise: Truth or Fiction
“Beyond Competent and Accomplished: A Call to Action for Workshoppers,” Kelly Link
“Trivia Vs. Writing Real Stories,” Kate Wilhelm
Persevere
Writing Exercise: Dialogue
Online Writing Workshop Spotlight
Writing Exercise: Soundtrack First
Photo and Illustration Credits
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The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories
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A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011
Now 50% off! Bigger, better, fuller, smarter, and … timelier! Organize your writing schedule, track deadlines, and learn about grants, contests, and workshop programs.
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What I Didn’t See and Other Stories
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Meeks
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Redemption in Indigo
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Old Men in Love: John Tunnock’s Posthumous Papers
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A Life on Paper: Stories
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The Poison Eaters & Other Stories
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A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2010
Organize your writing schedule, track deadlines, and learn about grants, contests, and workshop programs
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Interfictions 2
Delia Sherman & Christopher Barzak, EditorsNovember 2009:
21 original and innovative writers including Jeffrey Ford, Brian Francis Slattery, Nin Andrews, and M. Rickert, and more. Introduction by Henry Jenkins.
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Second Line
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Hound
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