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Cheerios Children's Book Contest

Cheerios is promoting a children's book contest, with a deadline of July 15th. Entry must be an original story for a book for children ages 3 to 8. Only open to U.S. residents, and NOT open to anyone who has been paid for their writing (make sure you read the full contest rules).

The grand prize: $5000 cash, plus "the Grand Prize winning story submission will be offered to a reputable Children's Book Publishing company for possible future publication. Publication not guaranteed." Two first pri

Blame The Cat

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Proposal Failure

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Podcast for Writers: "I Should Be Writing" with Mur Lafferty

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I've been listening to podcasts and audiobooks more frequently in the past few months. I put everything on my iPhone and then listen to them while I'm doing housework, running errands, or while I'm out for a walk or run. I love Mur Lafferty's podcasts and videocasts. She talks about her own writing as well as the writing by other authors, plus offer tips for new and established writers. Focus is on science fiction, but her advice can often be applied to many other genres as well.

You can downlo

Cartoon Caption Contest #6

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C.S. Lewis was rejected 800 times before his first sale

C.S. Lewis, received over 800 rejections before he made his first sale.

Lewis's works have now been translated into more than 30 languages and have sold millions of copies over the years.

C.S. Lewis Quotes:

What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn't matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it's thrown into the fire the nex

John Kennedy Toole: told his novel "isn't really about anything," wins Pulitzer

John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana.

Toole sent the manuscript of his novel, Confederation of Dunces, to Simon and Schuster in the early 1960s and despite initial enthusiasm about the work, S&S eventually rejected it, commenting that it "isn't really about anything."

After Toole's suicide in 1969, his mother convinced author Walker Percy (then a faculty member at Loyola University New Orleans) to read her son's manuscript. Percy loved it, and LSU Press did an in

Autumn Procrastination

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Wendy Gets Rejected

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Cat Autobiography

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