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By Kathleen Bolton | September 24, 2007 |
Therese and I are going to be busy over the next few days tabulating the votes for the winner of WU’s unique word contest, ergo, apologies for a hasty post. But there are a few newsy items of interest to fiction writers that I wanted to highlight, in case you haven’t been skimming Therese’s wonderfully comprehensive Google Notebook tab:
Slushpile Reader is the latest in publishers collaborating with the masses to select the next great works of fiction. They follow on the heels of Gather.com and others who are hoping to break the stranglehold of a few rarefied editors determining what gets published:
At Slush Pile Reader authors’ manuscripts will be showcased to an audience of on-line readers. The readers then get their say by answering a simple question: Should this manuscript be published?
If enough readers agree that, yes, it should be published, Slush Pile Reader will do just that. We will publish the most popular manuscripts.
Latest publishing fad or wave of the future? We’ll be keeping an eye on Slushpile Reader to see how the project progresses.
Looks like James Frey’s out of the doghouse.
Aspiring SFF novelists take note: Neil Gaiman is teaching a workshop at the highly-regarded Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Workshop in 2008. It’s being held in my old stomping grounds of UCSD, which overlooks some of the best beaches in San Diego county. If you can afford it, GO.
Some good news on the e-book front: eHarlequin is now making it’s catalog available solely in e-book format.
We’ll be able to announce the winner of our contest soon. Until then, write on!
Kathleen Bolton is co-founder of Writer Unboxed. She writes under a variety of pseudonyms, including Ani Bolton.
She has written two novels as Cassidy Calloway: Confessions of a First Daughter, and Secrets of a First Daughter–both books in a YA series about the misadventures of the U.S. President’s teen-aged daughter, published by HarperCollins, and Tamara Blake, for the novel Slumber.
you never do those writer horoscopes anymore
Oh God, thea! I forgot all about them…thanks for the reminder!