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Roxie's Blog: a site for writers, artists and illustrators, songwriters, and others seeking submission venues plus thoughts and snippets of interest
Top Twos-day: one winner plus one introvert equals rave reviews
Writer Susan Cain practiced law for seven years, knows how to speak in public, and says she’s basically a quiet-spoken person. Yet she’s all over the networks touting her new book, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, (Crown Publishing). Is this a conflict with her new work? Not according to Cain.
David Imus’ outdoorsman and avid mapmaker is no stranger to winning Best of Show awards. But his latest piece of art is causing a buzz in the cartography community a full year after the award-winning map entered the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society.
What’s all the fuss? The Essential Geography of the United States of America is a masterful map, the only one designed with colorful landscapes and landmarks of the US.
See samples of this masterpiece at Slate.com
Canadian publication interested in well-polished pieces
Brick Literary Magazine
seeks literary nonfiction manuscripts only
accepting snail subs only
no poetry, fiction, query letters or email subs
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Sunday Funny: Urban Anxiety
Roz Chast created her latest book, What I Hate From A to Z, as a therapeutic way to categorize her fears and dislikes. She uses a pen and ink cartoons to create pages filled with alphabet woes, such as:
“C is for Clowns, particularly awful at night”
“J is for Jell-O 1-2-3, the triple-layer gelatin dessert”
“Y is for yellow…It’s certain shades of yellow”
wanted: teaching materials for two publishers
Piano Press
accepts electronic queries
seeks original songs and piano pieces for teachers and students
publishing songbooks and CDs which are “fun and interesting materials for music teachers and students”
Teacher Created Resources
accepts standards-based teaching materials, correlated to national and/or state standards, and written by credentialed professionals and successfully used in the classroom
seeks all subjects, including thematic units
publishing products “created by teachers for teachers and parents”
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New Casting Call! HGTV looking for theatre workers!
Not your usual competition, but those of you in visual arts take note:
“Many theatre industry employees (set designers, master carpenters, electricians, etc.) could be great for the show!
We are in search of the “go to” person when it comes to quick fixes; a problem solver, someone who knows a little bit about everything when it comes to handiwork around the house! Essentially, we are looking for highly skilled men and women from all different backgrounds and careers that have the personality and DIY knowledge to compete in a handyman competition.”
popular site seeks submitters
Bucket List Publications
seeking contributors: authors and photographers
accepting Travel Adventures, Extreme Adventures, Top Tourist Destinations, Bucket List Adventures
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Top Twos-day – something borrowed something brainy
Something for your brain, The 50 most quoted lines in poetry, compliments of Inky Fool, aka Mark Forsyth, writer, journalist, proofreader, and ghostwriter. Forsyth penned The Etymologicon: a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the English language, and his blog states that the book is “…all about the strange connections between words in the English language. It explains the link between film buffs and buffaloes, monks and monkeys, science and going to the lavatory.”
Something for your emotions, hope…a newly agented Brittany Geragotelis’s did it, and you can too. Geragotelis used wattpad to attract enough of an interest in her book to turn the head of “…literary agent and a foreign rights agent and is sorting through an avalanche of proposals and related offers for Life’s a Witch and other projects…” according to Publisher’s Weekly. Success comes as her seventh novel, Life’s a Witch sees the light of day.
magazine about new south seeks submitters and interns
Garden and Gun: lifestyle magazine
accepts nonfiction pieces about sporting culture, food, music, art, literature, people, and ideas of the new south
seeks front-of-book pieces, features, and columns – send query first
also
Garden and Gun
accepts intern applications
specify department: editorial, advertising/marketing, or design
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Sunday Funny: Math?
Brought to us today by Robert Krulwich from Krulwich wonders: an NPR science blog.
“You can torture numbers into very unmathematical contortions — contortions that will make you smile” aka Screaming Equations.
The examples include an informal greeting to the heroic sign on a popular comic-book character. No brains exploded performing this math, just a quick click for relief. View Screaming Equations.
publisher seeks authors, poets, artists, photographers, animators, and mini-clip producers
XOXO Publishing
accepts literary fiction and nonfiction e-books
seeks “high quality original short stories, novellas, and novels that have never been published before, including non-fiction, how-to, self-help, cookbooks, educational essays, business, etc.”
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