Tree trimmers in cherry pickers were setting strings of lights on the Union Square tree when we walked through the Square tonight. (We’d walked down to the Financial District, to the bank, to drop off mortgage refinance papers and were on our way to an early dinner (7 p.m.) in Cow Hollow at Cafe Maritime. …)
Mark your calendars:
Tree lighting. 6 p.m. Friday, November 24, 2006.
All y’alls are invited to stop by.
Alameda Ferry heading in to the Ferry Building.
The rain’s stopped. For now. 
Submission guidelines for Intergalactic Medicine Show.
We are looking for stories of any length in the genres of science fiction and fantasy.
“Science fiction” includes hard sf, sf adventure, alternate history, near-future, far-future, psi, alien, and any other kind of sf you can think of.
“Fantasy” includes heroic fantasy (based on any culture’s mythology), fairy tales, contemporary fantasy, and “horror” in the sense of supernatural suspense (not gory bloodfests, thanks).
Within these genres, we like to see well-developed milieus and believable, engaging characters. We also look for clear, unaffected writing. Asimov, Niven, Tolkien, Yolen, and Hobb are more likely to be our literary exemplars than James Joyce.
We pay 6 cents a word up to $500. Stories can be longer, but the word rate drops with increasing length to always yield a total of $500.
Buys exclusive rights for one year and nonexclusive rights in perpetuity.
Submission via internet using submission form.
Lit Agent X is the not-hardly anonymous Rachel Vater at Lowenstein-Yost Associates.
I say “not-hardly anonymous” because people address her by name on the blog and her LiveJournal profile tells you not only who she is but that she’s been an agent at Lowenstein-Yost Associates since January 2006. Prior to this, I worked as an assistant agent with the Donald Maass Literary Agency. Before moving to NYC, I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio and worked at Writer’s Digest Books for 4 years as an editor.
Vater’s blog is informative. She gives a peek into the thought processes of an agent looking for clients and selling her clients’ work. She also writes about writing and how to improve yours.
Read. Enjoy.
Cleared up broken links and deadwood and added agent/agency information at Towse’s Links to Online Guidelines – Markets for Writers – Agents
Rules for the 2007 HILLERMAN MYSTERY COMPETITION sponsored by the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference (THWC) and St. Martin’s Press, LLC.
[PDF file. If you don’t have Adobe Acrobat Reader, download here.]
DEADLINE 01 July 2007
“It is important that you submit your manuscript as early as possible. Our judges are volunteers …”
snippets from the rules
1. Open to any writer, regardless of nationality, who has never been the author of a published mystery (as defined … yadas. note: the definition defines what a mystery is, not what published is) and is not under contract with a publisher for the publication of a mystery.
One manuscript entry per writer.
2. Must be at least 60K wds, written in the English language. yadas.
The story’s primary setting is the Southwestern United States, including at least one of the following states: AZ, CO, NV, NM, OK, TX, UT.
5. Prize $10K advance against future royalties.
[via Miss Snark, who snitched it from Sarah]
STRANGE FRUIT: Senator Barry Goldwater’s kin try to seal embarrassing letters about them from public view. by Stephan Lemons
[via Romenesko]
After you read the article, click through to the archive of copies of some of the letters Goldwater’s kin are striving to keep from public view.
Hoo boy.
Seems this would never have come up (the actual copies being splashed all over the Web) if the kin hadn’t convinced the Arizona Historical Foundation to, at least temporarily, seal the Goldwater correspondence they had on file.
Here’s hoping that when the Arizona Historical Foundation revisits the decision at their January 9, 2007, board meeting, they’ll realize that Goldwater knew precisely what he wanted to do when he gave them those archives and they should honor his wishes and not those of his kin, who are just trying to avoid public embarrassment. Goldwater’s letters, you’ll note, are all typed, and he kept a copy for his files. He meant those files to be available to researchers, historians and, yes, snoopy news reporters.
This contretemps all began with a Phoenix New Times reaction (Goldwater Uncut, Phoenix New Times, 19 Oct 2006, also by Stephan Lemons) to Goldwater’s granddaughter’s hagiographic HBO paean to her grandfather.
CC Goldwater hadn’t realized until the critical Phoenix New Times article came out that her grandfather’s family letters were in the Foundation archives and available to the public. Ooops.
CC’s Paka Goldwater’s letters to her basically say, in a grandfatherly sort of way, that CC needs to find her own way and stop trading off her relationship to him. And yet, there she is … with a last name that now matches his (CC Ross legally changed her name to CC Goldwater) and his HBO biofilm on her resume.
Gosh.
.SarahQuibbling., the blog of a forensic chemist in Baltimore who writes about evidence and crime labs and writing and Baltimore and … more.
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