I'm Moving

I have decided to combine my blog with my new web site. I'm still making adjustments and adding pages, but future blog posts will be located on the new site, www.JanetHartman.net. Here's a direct link to the blog. Hope to see you there!

Memoir Writers/Magazine Market

Writer’s Thought for the Week: An inveterate and incurable itch for writing besets many… ~ Juvenal

If MEMOIR is your genre, check into the National Association of Memoir Writers. Membership includes monthly teleseminars and access to archived sessions, free e-books, monthly newsletter, and more.

SLICE magazine is open for short fiction, nonfiction and poetry submissions until August 1, 2013 for Issue 14 (Spring/Summer '14). The nonfiction theme for this issue is “Escape." Fiction and poetry submissions are not bound by the theme. Pays $100 for stories and essays and $25 for poems.

Talking to Readers (Free session!)/Poetry and Prose Market

Thought for the Week: The river may be wide, but it can always be crossed. ~ African proverb  

TALKING TO READERS

I’ve been to book signings that were deadly dull. The author just sits there at a table with books. If no one is at the table perusing a book or making conversation, the author looks hungrily, sometimes desperately, at anyone who enters the room. It’s painful to watch.

I’ve found lots of advice on how to talk to agents or editors, but none on how to talk to readers. Savvy Authors has a free one-hour session on this topic on July 24, 2013. You must be a basic or premium member of Savvy Authors to attend, but basic membership is free, too. I’ve registered to attend. Want to join me? The info is here. 

VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW is open for submissions until August 1. They consider unpublished short fiction (2,000 – 10,000 words), poetry, and nonfiction. Pays: "For poetry, we pay $200 per poem; for poems longer than 50 lines, the payment is higher. For prose, we generally pay approximately 25 cents per word, depending on length. For investigative reporting, we pay at a higher rate, sometimes including pre-approved travel expenses."