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The Alternative Guide to New Books, Magazines & Music along with News & Views from the Net of Interest to Booksellers, Publishers, Librarians, Writers & Readers.

Take a look -- you'll be glad you did!

National Leftovers Day

As everybody is checking their refrigerators for the things they liked best from yesterday's feast or the things they may have missed, why don't you take a look at the old posts (on the right side) or the ever-growing list of links on the left?

There's plenty there for everybody!

Calista's Wednesday Links

Wednesday Links ~*~ 26 November 2003

Bartleby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/
Complete referencing materials including Author/title/subject indexing,
Roget's Thesaurus, Strunk's Elements of Style, The King James Bible,
to history and contemporary quotes.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
http://www.bloomsbury.com/WritersArea/Get_Published.asp
http://www.bloomsbury.com/writersarea/AgentsUS.asp
http://www.bloomsbury.com/writersarea/AgentsUK.asp
Website offers Literary Agency address, practical information
on what to look for in an agent, useful resource links and
other information vital to a successful writing career.
Thanks Jim!

CIPRO ~ Copyright Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office
http://www.cipro.gov.za/products_services/copyrights.asp
Cipro is the result of a merger of the South African Companies Registration dictorate
and the South African Patents and Trademark office. Site offers fee scale and on
line registration, and information.

Crime and Clues:
The Art of Criminal Investigation
http://crimeandclues.com/
Website dedicated to forensic investigation, contains great information
and links for mystery and crime writers. Great articles.

Journalism Net
http://www.journalismnet.com/
Current news, job listings and almost anything
journalism-related.

Screen Talk
http://www.screentalk.biz
http://www.screentalk.biz/currentissue.htm
http://www.screentalk.biz/software.htm
Online magazine for screen writers.

The Market List
http://www.marketlist.com/
A resource for genre writers. Site offers links and job
market listings broken down by experience.

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Simon and Schuster Publishing
http://www.simonsays.com/
http://www.simonsays.com/book_man.cfm
Well established print publishing house owned by
Viacom International.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York NY 10020
United States

Tyborne Hill Publishers
http://www.tybornehill.com/
http://www.tybornehill.com/contactus.html
Electronic publisher of poetry, fiction and
reference material.
Email submissions only:
rserebreny@tybornehill.com
publisher@tybornehill.com
2730 South Court Street
Palo Alto, California, 94306, US

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FACES
http://www.cobblestonepub.com/pages/writersFACEguides.html
A division of Cricket Publications, Faces is seeking a themed
publication for children. Seeks articles, supplimental fiction, and non-fiction.
Upcoming themes:
Creole Culture query date 12/15/03
Newfoundland & Labrador query date 1/13/04
Peace Corps query date 2/10/04
Israel query date 3/17/04
Denmark query date 4/14/04
Oil & Its Impact on Culture query date 5/12/04
Mail queries to:
Elizabeth Crooker Carpentiere, Editor
FACES Magazine
Cobblestone Publishing
30 Grove Street, Suite C
Peterborough, NH 03458
Or email them to: facesmag@yahoo.com

Oklahoma Today Magazine
http://www.oklahomatoday.com/
http://www.oklahomatoday.com/home%20pages/HomeEditorial.html
http://www.oklahomatoday.com/HTML%20Pages/General-Edit20Info/writerphotographer_guidelines.htm Bi-monthly magazine focuses on Oklahoma's people and events.
Accepts articles, columns, essays and photos. Many of their issues
are theme specific.
Editor
Oklahoma Today Magazine
P.O. Box 53384
Oklahoma City, OK 73152

Travel + Leisure.Com
http://www.travelandleisure.com/index.cfm
http://www.travelandleisure.com/contact/index.cfm#ed
They bill themselves as a magazine for sophisticated,
active travelers who look to them for planning both pleasure
and business trips. About 95 percent of the magazine is written
by freelance writers on assignment. Service information is
important to every destination article.
Artical Queries and Submissions: tlquery@aexp.com
Photography portfolios may be sent to:
Travel + Leisure Magazine
Photography Department
1120 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

ZYZZYVA: The Last Word
http://www.zyzzyva.org/
http://www.zyzzyva.org/zy-subs.htm
Literary magazine and affiliated website that features west coast artist and
writers. Accepts a widerange of submissions for publication, from poetry
and fiction to non-fiction.
Query only: editor@zyzzyva.org
Submissions:
ZYZZYV
PO Box 590069
San Fransico, CA 94159-0069

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Do you have a writing link that you want to share? Collating an anthology
and looking for works to include? drop me a link and your info at
cstantur@winfinity.com

Write On!
C'alista
© 2000-2003 Calista Cates-Stanturf

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Google, Blogger, and the issue of trust

Dave Winer was talking about how it's now becoming a problem to trust Google.

To add to that, why is it that they've got Blogger set up now with no RSS feed? I'm now getting e-mails from new bloggers almost daily, asking me how they get that RSS for their Blogger-hosted blogs. And I have to tell them they can't, at least not with the knowledge most of them have.

So why did Google take the essence away from their own blogs? After all, and I've said this before -- with no RSS feed, you may as well have a static website.

Realities of award-winning literature

Last week Stephen King accepted an award for his contribution to American literature. In his acceptance speech, he pointed out there really wasn’t much value in deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture.

The icy response he got from a woman who claims she writes in longhand and doesn’t own a TV really brought back some memories. Before I published my first two novels, I belonged to an online discussion group for writers, and there was a lot of that same elitism and exclusivity floating around there. I can’t forget one lady who had 500,000 words of a novel written in longhand in spiral notebooks. Even though this was several years ago, I’d be willing to bet she still hasn’t finished or published the thing.

I think that writing is about communicating an idea of some sort to as many people as possible. Literature shouldn’t be reserved for an imaginary, limited group of people who somehow are equipped to see something in books that the rest of world does not. That’s why libraries work so hard to get people in to browse their shelves, use their computers, or whatever services they have to offer. Librarians want to see literature in any form in the hands of as many people as possible.

Because the book-length works I write have more to do with entertainment and the ideals of ordinary people, I’m sure I’m in no danger of ever being nominated for any kind of “literary” award. I want a lot of people to read my work, and I don’t care who those readers are. To me, there is absolutely no point in writing books for a limited group of people who are deliberately ignoring the rest of the world, anyway. The attitude that because a book is popular automatically makes it less “worthy” somehow is insulting – not just to the author, but to the readers, both current and potential. This attitude is ultimately damaging to the cause of literature, because it discourages people from reading books of any kind.

Now that’s a thought – what if those who are writing and publishing this exclusive, award-winning stuff are the ones who are actually responsible for the downturn in the publishing industry as a whole? Maybe there’s some unspoken, invisible warning around what is perceived as “excellent” literature, something like “Don’t even think about buying this book! You are too stupid to understand it!”

Maybe the book awards people are cutting off their own noses to spite their face. H’mmm…

New links added!

We've got some new additions to the blogroll over there, so take a look!

To blog or not to blog -- the debate continues

Some of you, who've been with us since the Crosbie/Pirillo flap , may be sick of this already.

The cool thing about all this discussion of blogs, both pro and con, is that it's happening at all. My personal philosophy (and I've said this before) is that negative feedback on any issue really only means somebody is paying attention.

There will be some diehards who will fight blogs to the bitter end, because there are a lot of people who have plenty invested in e-mail for the same applications and refuse to believe it really is on its way out. Some just resist change because that's the way they are. ;>)

There is still a lot of misunderstanding of blogs, and some do persist in believing they are entirely personal journals and nothing more. Yet with the proper education and explanation of blogs/RSS, eventually the whole subject will become much less of a point of contention. There was a time when much the same kind of discussion was going on about the validity of the Internet.

The other day I was at a meeting of my local Chamber of Commerce, and the subject of blogs replacing such things as e-mailed newsletters was one of great interest. Once you get past the idea that a blog must be personal in content, or produced by an individual for personal reasons, then the wider application and huge potential of blogs can be more easily understood.

For the latest volleys check here:

John Dvorak

Steve Gillmor

Jim Lynch

Calista's Wednesday Links

Wednesday Links ~*~ 19 November 2003

AWOC.COM The Writer's Place
Extensive database for paying and non paying markets. And
compiles the Writing for Dollars newsletter.

CopsOnline
Crime and mystery writers will find a great wealth
of information about officers, scams, law enforcement
training and courses. And if you can't find it you can
"Ask A Cop," and search their great archives.

Fiction Factor
also
http://www.fictionfactor.com/markets.html
Well rounded resource site offering insightful, helpful articles on writing
and a wide variety of market listings....

Ink Tip
Network for screenwrites. Site includes resources,
articles, industry tips, and a newsletter.

The Legal Information Institute
also
http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/copyright/
American copyright overview, federal statues
and recent opinions. Extensive legal search engine.
Laws and opinions broken down
into workable databases by law topic.

Literary Agents
Site for Indian writers host a plethora of links for sites relating
to literary agents in the UK, US and India. Also offers links for
sites of general interest to any writer.
Thanks Jim!

Thesaurus dot Com
Offers dictionary and thesaurus word
search capabilities.

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Ballantine Books
also
http://www.randomhouse.com/BB/aboutus/submissions.html
A member of the Random House family, Ballantine specializes
in fiction, health, biographical and historical. Ballantine also
offers ebooks and books for reading circles.
Ballantine Books
1745 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
bfi@randomhouse.com

LTD Books
Canadian publisher in both electronic format
and selective paperbacks. LTD books publishes
science fiction, mystery, romance, mainstream and
young adult. While currently closed to submissions, the LTD site
states they expect to open to submissions soon. Submit by
email: editor@ltdbooks.com
LTDBooks
200 North Service Road West
Unit 1, Suite 301
Oakville, ON Canada L6M 2Y1

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Adbusters Magazine
also
http://www.adbusters.org/information/guidelines/
Seeks all truly political materials: "scholarly probes environmental forays
and sci-fi carpet rides or humorous spoofs." Welcomes editorial queries
and submissions. Also features articles, op-ed pieces, short fiction
and poetry.
Submissions will not be returned
Adbusters Media Foundation
1243 West 7th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
V6H 1B7 Canada

Downstate Story
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfgeh/dss/guidelines.html
A non profit literary magazine published each fall. Midwest or
Illinois storyline connection perferred, but not required.
Does not accept email submissions.
Downstate Story
1825 Maple Ridge
Peoria, IL 61614
Email ehopkins@prairienet.org

National Parks Magazine
http://www.npca.org/flash.html
http://www.npca.org/magazine/writers_guidelines.asp
Publication by the National Parks Conservation Association
dedicated educationing the public about areas inside the National Parks
system, legistlative trends, trouble areas inside the NPS, and new
trends of use in the park system.
Query letters to:
National Parks
1300 19th St., NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 223-6722

Spire Press
www.spirepress.org/submit.html
Biannual literary magazine publishes poetry essays and
short story fiction. Spire Press coments they plan to publish
an anthology and offers chapbooks.
submit to editor@spireweb.org
Spire Press
532 LaGuardia Pl
Ste 298
New York, NY 10012

Would That It Were
http://www.wouldthatitwere.com/guidelines.html
Magazine dedicated to historical science fiction, with an expaned format to include
Gothic, and neo-Loviancraft. Very strict submission guidelines.
email submissions only editor@wouldthatitwere.com

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Welcome to the Florida Writer Association of Brevard County, the latest group to be
added to Wednesday Links.

Do you have a writing link that you want to share? Collating an anthology
and looking for works to include? drop me a link and your info at
cstantur@winfinity.com

Write On!
C'alista
© 2000-2003 Calista Cates-Stanturf

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