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First pages checklist
Award-winning author and sought-after workshop presenter Linda Rohrbough presented a special version of her Writer’s Toolbox workshop sponsored by Carteret Writers in Morehead City, NC yesterday. She wowed the audience at the first workshop of hers I attended in 2009, and she wowed this group as well.
She has free articles available on her website and on the Pikes Peak Writers Blog. The Pikes Peak link takes you to an article with a checklist of the common nineteen things found in the pages of best-selling novels found in bookstores during a certain period of time. It’s an interesting list and some of the entries surprised me. Food, for instance. Food is a common thread in Southern literature and something we all relate to, but would you expect to find in the first two pages of a book? Just for fun, check out the list and see how many you have.
This relatively new publisher (March 2010) is open to short stories, novellas, and novels until Dec.1, 2011. They will again be open to submissions on Feb. 1, 2012. They consider romance, paranormal, fantasy, mystery, suspense, thriller, YA, MuseItYoung for 10 to 14 year olds, horror and dark fiction, science fiction. The Muse It Up Publishing Blog gives you specifics on what individual editors seek. If you have what they’re looking for, send it in before Dec. 1.
Their MuseIt HOT imprint takes erotica and is currently open to submissions with no deadline specified..
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