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Winter 2020– Winners of Writer Advice’s 2019 Scintillating Starts Contest are …

The Winners of Writer Advice’s 2019 Scintillating Starts Contest are Sue Stewart Ade, Sarah Russell, and Michael Jack Webb.  All are excellent writers and I love the voices represented here. The openings of their work are below. My compliments to everyone who entered. There are so many wonderful books out there.      In FIRST PLACE is  

Winter 2020 Intriguing Interviews with Carolyn Howard Johnson, C. Hope Clark, and Carol Smallwood

We have interviews with Carolyn Howard-Johnson, whose third edition of The Frugal Book Promoter came out recently with  C. Hope Clark, whose latest book is Edisto Tidings is a tale for all seasons, and with Carol Smallwood, whose book reviews you have read in many earlier issues of Writer Advice. Enjoy these inside looks into the

2020 — Contests & Markets Looking for Your Writing

Sites Seeking Your Work   It’s a new year, and the organizations below are looking for new writing, including Writer Advice. Go to Current Contest to learn more.   If you know of a contest or market you’d like me to publicize, please send the name of the contest and the URL through the Contact

Winter 2020 — Twenty-one Questions: A Non-Traditional Rubric for Judges

“‘If I started to wait for moments of inspiration, I would never finish a book. Inspiration for me comes from a regular effort.”      ~~Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa   Twenty-one Questions: A Non-Traditional Rubric for Judges By B. Lynn Goodwin Want an inside look at what contest judges are looking for?   Last spring I

Fall 2019 — Flash Prose Winners

“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”  –Joan Didion   Flash Prose Winners 2019   The Winners Are — Fall 2019   From the Editor: I continue to be impressed with all the creativity and effort on the part of participants. We

Dear Modern Love Editor: I Want to Be 1 in 100

Wonderful honesty. Both entertaining and insightful.

BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog

By M. Betsy Smith

Dear Editor:

I read the Modern Love submission tips and followed them as best I could – well, except maybe I already screwed up because I’m giving away the storyline too early. Points off for premature disclosure.

I am a new writer so I will make mistakes – this is the second one. Not good form to mention I am new at this. My writing might clue you in to that anyway. Wait, should I delete that “that”?

My favorite tip advises me to just write because if I do I will get better. I’m old, at least life makes me feel old, so I have to hurry up. I need to get all the stories pent up in me out.

I have been asked where I will submit my essays and my response is always the New York Times Modern Love column. I figure it’s…

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Sharing and Self-Promotion

Sharing and Self-Promotion

Forgot to take a picture of us at the boutique, so here’s one of my book covers

I rented a booth at a holiday boutique to sell my books. Knowing that I can promote other people’s products much better than I can my own, I invited two friends who write in basically the same genre to share my table. To my great delight, the scheme worked. We all sold books, and we all had a great time. To me, the moving target that is self-promotion is easier to vector in on with friends. It seemed that even the shoppers who didn’t buy our books spent more time listening to our pitch when there were three of us at the table. You might think bringing in competition would hurt my chances of making a sale, but it didn’t work out that way. Next time you’re planning a book event, consider helping another author and see how it helps you.

Luck and wisdom!

PS – Shameless self-promotion alert, you can buy The Chenille Ultimatum here.

Just Like Your Father

Always nice to have my work accepted and published.

Thanks Murmurs of Words.

Murmurs of Words

By Lynn Goodwin

“You’re just like your father,” spoken in a sing-song disdain is a refrain from my childhood. Auntie Deloris and Uncle Art confirmed it. And once when I was in my late teens, Art added, “It’s nothing to be proud of.” I couldn’t see how we looked alike, but I couldn’t see myself in the mirror either. I only saw a reflection.

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Flashy and Wise Writing Advice for Fall 2019

“Trust the reader.”   — Meg Pokrass Flashy Tips by Meg Pokrass   Thank you Meg Pokrass for sharing these excellent tips for those who write flash fiction and memoir. Though you’ll always be able to find this on our blog page, we recommend that you bookmark this page and use it when you enter

Fall 2019 — More Contests and Markets

  There are so many contests and opportunities out there that it’s hard to keep track of what’s new and appealing. Want to help? Send your contest information–name of contest, URL, deadline, fee, and prizes, and we’ll post it as often as we can.    From Writer’s Digest: https://www.writersdigest.com/writers...   Popular Fiction Awards ENTER NOW!