Like Coaching Class on Editing and Query Letters Only Free

Opportunity to ask, learn and promote:

Carolyn Howard-Johnson (http://www.carolynhowardjohnson.redenginepress.com/) and Yvonne Perry (http://writersinthesky.com/about-yvonne.html) will be facilitating a one-time class to air on Tuesday, January 13, 2009.

"Conversation with Editors" will cover some of the common mistakes writers make and how to correct them. We will also provide helpful tips for impressing a publisher with your query letter.

If you would like your questions about editing and querying answered in this audio class, please post them by using the comments feature beneath this post. If you are an editor and would like to chime in on what mistakes you see most often, please contact Yvonne.

There is no need to register for the class. To get an e-mail with the link to the recording on January 13, simply sign up for the RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/WritersInTheSky)to our blog or contact Yvonne ( http://writersinthesky.com/contact.php) on her Web site.

Carolyn is an editor and author of The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward To Avoid Humiliation And Ensure Success (How to Do It Frugally).

Yvonne is a full-time freelance ghostwriter and editor, and the owner of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services (http://writersinthesky.com/).

Participating in podcast like this is a great way to get the title and Web address of your book mentioned!

Free Teleseminar to Nudge You To Write Your Life Story!

I want to remind you that publisher Patrika Vaughn, talented Toastmaster award-winner Allyn Evans and I are teaming up to present a free teleseminar to writers who want to tell their own stories, as memoir or as fiction. Thus it is for genealogists, journalers and story tellers everywhere. It is titled "How To Write Your LIfe Story."

I'll share my experience turning my family's genealogy and stories into my award-winning novel This Is the Place and how I used the leftover stories from that effort in a book of creative nonfiction short stories, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered. I hope my experiences will inform those inclined to publish their stories but who need more information about how that might come to be. I even used family memories in my chapbook of poetry, Tracings.

Patrika is author of How to Write Your Own Life Story or Your Family's Saga available as a CD set. She will talk about how to turn this material into a book, covering:

1) why you should write it

2) how to go about it (even if you've never before written anything but emails)

3) how to make it interesting to others


The teleseminar will be moderated by Alyn who is also the author of Grab the Queen Power: Live Your Best Life, based on her own experiences.


Writers are invited to listen and come prepared with their questions at noon on July 12th EST . Call 1-218-936-7999. When prompted use this access code: 390175. If asked participants may need this pin number: 2823.

The teleconference will be available as a podcast afterward at :

Authors' Coalition, www.authorscoalitionandredenginepress/podcasts_&_radio.htm
The ACapella Publishing site, www.acapella.com/
Allyn Evans' site, www.allynevans.com
On Allyn's Queen Power site, www.queeenpower.com .
And on Carolyn's Resources for Writers page at www.howtodoitfrugally.com

Those with questions may contact Patrika at acappub@aol.com

The seminar is offered as a service to the writing community through the auspices of Authors' Coalition (www.authorscoalitionandredenginepress.com) and Vaughn's publishing firm, A Cappela Publishing (www.acapella.com).

We three would love it if you could (or would!) pass this information to your fellow writers. How about your fellow critiquers and writing club members? (-:
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Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author THIS IS THE PLACE; HARKENING: A COLLECTION OF STORIES REMEMBERED; TRACINGS, a chapbook of poetry; and two how to books, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T; and THE FRUGAL EDITOR: PUT YOUR BEST BOOK FORWARD TO AVOID HUMILIATION AND ENSURE SUCCESS.
Her other blogs include TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com and AuthorsCoalition.blogspot.com, a blog that helps writers and publishers turn a ho-hum book fair booth into a sizzler.

A Summer of Classics Anyone?

This is a guest entry from Mindy Lawrence. I thought it so full of good resources on the classics, you'd want to see it. (-: Carolyn, co-blogger with Joyce Faulkner.

Dr. Dan Skelton, my client at MPL Creative Resources and my former English professor, sent me his reading list for the World Lit I class he is teaching this summer. I'd read all but two of the pieces (I haven’t read Seneca or Apuleius’ “The Golden Ass”). However, I looked for the main text that he recommended on Amazon and several other places. A new book was almost $70. I got the idea of finding all the works on the Internet where his students could access them if they couldn't afford the book. I found versions online of every work on his list. I've attached it here so you can see.

I was most enthusiastic about a paid site for Beowulf which I didn't include on my list because, well, it cost money. However, the program looked interesting and the graphics on the main page were beautifully done. See the rest of the freebie list below.

Would I like to be in Dr. Skelton’s class again, this time learning from the ancients to the Renaissance? You bet!

Mindy Lawrence
MPL Creative Resources
mplcreative1@aol.com


World Literature I – Reading List Online
Instructor: Dr. Dan Skelton

Gilgameshhttp://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab1.htm

The Hebrew Bible
http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/index.htm

The Iliad
http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html

The Odyssey
http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/odyssey.html

Agamemnonhttp://classics.mit.edu/Aeschylus/agamemnon.html

Oedipus the King
http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/oedipus.html

Antigone
http://classics.mit.edu/Sophocles/antigone.html

Lysistrata
http://drama.eserver.org/plays/classical/aristophanes/lysistrata.txt

Seneca, “On Anger”
http://www.stoics.com/seneca_essays_book_1.html

Apuleius, “The Golden Ass”
http://manybooks.net/titles/apuleiusetext99gldns10.html

Augustine
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/augustine/textstrans.html

Beowulf
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf/main.html
In Old English and Modern English

The Canterbury Tales
http://www.librarius.com/cantales.htm

Everyman
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/everyman.htm

Carpe Diem poems:

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
http://www.bartleby.com/106/5.html

The Flea
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/flea.php

To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/herrick/tovirgins.htm

Shakespeare, Hamlet
http://www.tk421.net/hamlet/hamlet.html

John Milton, X – Paradise Lost
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/pl/book_10/index.shtml
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Entered by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This Is the Place, Harkening and Tracings, a chapbook of poetry. www.carolynhoward-johnson.com

Welcome to Yarnspinners and Wordweavers New Blog

Pat Avery and I have been publishing the YandW Newsletter for a year and a half. Laying out a newsletter like this usually takes me about 3 days. That's 3 days I can no longer afford. We love it but the time has come to focus more of our energies on income producing jobs. Rather than drop the YandW completely, we've decided to move it to a blog format starting immediately. That means that you can still send me your work and I'll still publish it.

We will post your articles, poetry, flash fiction and artwork on this blog. There will be an unexpected advantage -- we can post videos, podcasts, interviews and audio readings here too.

For those of you who are also members of Authors' Coalition, rest assured that your work will be announced as you submit to me and that your book covers will continued to be displayed.

BE SURE AND SIGN UP TO RECEIVE YandW IN YOUR EMAIL! I'll send out for the first few times to the larger list, but if you want to keep receiving it, please make sure you've reregistered.

In the meantime, here's the January, 2008 version of Yarnspinners and Wordweavers. And here's an online version of the Word Search Puzzle. I hope that you enjoy.

Joyce Faulkner