Now I’m doing version 2.1 in which I fix some details of my story and stuff… MEANWHILE I should want this book! Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Just imagine Pride and Prejudice… WITH ZOMBIES. Clearly it would be a very interesting book to read indeed. Only released in April though so there’s quite a bit of time to wait for it, heh.
Ps. Nooo, this isn’t for the chic lit competition. This is a different story altogether that I wrote last year for Nanowrimo.
OMG, FINALLY, my friend’s book no longer on “pre-order” status. I’d been waiting for her book : Orlando Ghosts: Rouse Road and Other Central Florida Haunts . Yeah, I know, it’s non-fiction or well it’s kinda historical myths and legends and stuff too. In any case, I was waiting so I can buy my books together to save on the shipping bits. What other else am I getting on Amazon?
Obviously things I can’t find here… Baah.
Like ohh…
PASSION’S BLOOD by Cherif Fortin and Lynn Sanders!!!!! Okay, it’s actually an ART BOOK. But not any art book.
It is a ROMANCE TRASHY ART BOOK!!!! Bet you guys didn’t know there’s such things as illustrated romance books… Plus their artworks’ gorgeous.
And lastly… OH WHAT THE FREAKING HECK?
Cryptic Tonic’s out of print?! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Gee, thanks Amazon. All my saving up for time to get a bunch of books together is all for naught. Guuuh. Well, I suppose I could wait if it’ll be on order again or if in last case scenario wait till October-Novemberish when the author is supposedly is back here again, including the third book (I hope!).
Baaaaaah, at least Kinokuniya has the last book in my list which is Rapunzel’s Revenge by Shannon Hale, Dean Hale and Nathan Hale (no relation to the other two).
Oh wait, nevermind! The library has that one at least, yay!
Oh man, the info I got was on a gif e-flyer so I’m retyping the major infos instead and oh I emailed them to ask who’s doing the plenary sessions too.
Date: 21 Feb 2009, Saturday
Time: 10am – 6pm
Venue: Blue room at The Arts House
Admission: Free
Note: February’s HSWG will be on 21st Feb, 2pm at Geek Terminal!
So it was pretty cool. Nerwen, NotKieran, RavenAzure and RavenSilvers came by to Geek Terminal and we did our thing. Oh a note to you guys, if you guys DO want to follow the plan, you got to email at least 3 chapters and a summary to Rozen to see if she’ll accept it and stuff for this year.
Meanwhile… I totally like GT since I got this.
Details are HERE! But I’ll copy paste SOME of the info which we wanna know but click the link for more intimate details.
The stuff:
This coming Saturdaaaaaaay!
There is an agenda of what the heck are we gonna do and how. Also, deadlines to meet if we wanna get things done along with other plottings in the midst of random literary talk and coffee and cocoa (since I don’t drink coffee but like the cocoa there).
Yes, Singapore IS a commonwealth country. Anywho, details are up, look, look!
The Commonwealth Short Story Competition exists to increase
understanding between and appreciation of different Commonwealth
cultures – to showcase the rich diversity of the Commonwealth and to
support rising literary talents.
The Competition is an annual scheme to promote new creative writing.
Established in 1996, it is funded by the Commonwealth Foundation and
the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, who work together to
administer the scheme.
Each year, 26 winning and highly commended stories from the different
regions of the Commonwealth are recorded onto CDs and broadcast on
radio stations across the Commonwealth. The winner receives a prize of
£2,000 and there are regional prizes of £500.
How to enter
– The competition is open to all people who are citizens of a
Commonwealth member country.
– There is no age limit or requirement to write about a particular
theme. Entries may be made by both amateur and professional writers.
– The deadline for entries is May 11, 2009.
For rules of the competition and more details, visit HERE!
Okay, I got this email from Tidesong that you guys might want to know too (I asked permission if I could blog on it). The question is about first rights according to publishing short stories or rather stories in general. Here it is (after edits cause I smooshed two email questions into one, for context this was regarding Sci-Fi short stories)!
What kind of markets are there in Singapore at all and do they often go after those first publishing rights thing? I noticed one magazine overseas only claim rights to
North America… How does this whole thing work out? How would it work out if I then attempt to sell it in Singapore or vice versa. Would it be considered a reprint regardless of location?
And so, I got Rozen aka Rosemary to help answer that more accurately!
Continue reading Question and answer about first rights in publishing!
From the Straits Times, Life section, 11 January 2009, I’m copy pasting a page!
Seriously, are they actually giving us support now? That’s actually quite nice. ANYWAY, here we go:
First meeting shall be at Geek Terminal, 2pm on the 17th. You can come earlier if you want… We’ll be editing/blablaing about our WIP novels that we wrote during Nanowrimo 08 to scrub it up into publishable form.
Oh man, is my topic title long but the info on submitting work your work and getting a literary agent AND the young writers’ seminar is under the “more” cut! Got the info from Rozen who got it from NAC, I think.
COPY PASTING GALOOOOORE!
Italics in this font are just MY comments by the way, hur hur.