Upcoming Themes for Boy's Quest Fun For Kidz and Hopscotch Magazines

The themes tend to fill up fast!

Enjoy the process,
Liz


Boys' Quest
Computers Oct. 2007
Basketball Feb. 2008
Trucks & Heavy Equipment Apr. 2008
Caves & Caverns Jun 2008
The North and South Poles Dec. 2008
Electricity Feb. 2009
Vacation Fun Jun 2009
Ancient Egypt Aug 2009
Football Oct 2009
Wheels, Levers & Pulleys Dec. 2009
Cowboys Feb. 2010
Animal Rescue Apr 2010
Farming Aug 2010
Hobbies Jun 2010
Always in need of items for Ticklers and Teasers


Hopscotch
Other Cultures Aug. 2009
Dancing Dec. 2009
Recycling Dec. 2010
To Say Goodbye Feb. 2011
Gymnastics Apr. 2011
Sunflowers Jun 2011
Science Fun Aug. 2011
Foot Fun Oct. 2011
Toys & Games of the Past Dec. 2011
Splish Splash Jun 2012
Digging up the Past Aug 2012
Disasters Oct 2012
Far & Away Dec 2012
White & Light Jun 2013
Time Feb 2013


Fun for Kidz
Fun in the City Jan. 2008
Fun with Rocks Mar. 2008
Fun on the Farm May 2008
Fun with Reading Nov. 2008
Fun with Inventions Jan. 2009
Fun with weather Mar. 2009
Fun with Business Jul. 2009
Ice is Nice Jan 2010
Fun with Plants May 2010

New agent at Peter Rubie Agency

Amy Tipton has joined Peter Rubie Agency as an associate agent. She will be focusing on "edgy fiction (gritty and urban)," women's fiction, nonfiction/memoir, and YA.

Enjoy the process,
Liz

Plot it...

Use this plotting tool to plot your book or to plot a book you've read.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/plot-diagram/

Enjoy the process,
Liz

Looking for a Freelance Writing Gig ?

This one was posted on http://www.poewar.com/page/2/

Common Ties, a new personal story website, pays writers competitively ($200 to $1,000) to write about what they know best – themselves. At its heart this is a citizen journalism project, inspired largely by the works of John Steinbeck, Charles Kuralt, and Studs Terkel. Since we launched in September the response has been truly tremendous. Join the effort today; share your stories and enjoy the others on the site!
Email your personal stories to CommonTies[at]gmail.com, and visit our guidelines for more: www.CommonTies.com/blog/submit-a-
story/

Enjoy the process,
Liz

New Agent - at Trident Media Group

Alyssa Eisner Henkin will be joining Trident Media Group around December 11th. She is currently an editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Alyssa will represent picture book, middle grade and young adult authors as well as illustrators.

Get your queries and synopsis, etc ready!

Enjoy the process,
Liz

Children's Books in New York Times Book Review

In the fal and in the Spring the New York Times devvotes an issue of their Sunday Book Review section to Children's Books

Here's the link for the Fall issue. Enjoy!


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/review/Garner.t.html?_r=2&8bu&emc=bu&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

The Novelist's Survival Kit

Here's a link to a great article for novelists

http://writersdigest.com/articles/rosenfeld_survival.asp

Got Plot? - but want some help. . .

Join plotspot@yahoogroups.com

Next speaker-- Award winning author, Dyanne Davis, is going to speak to us the weekstarting the 16th of November.
Dyanne writes contemporary romances, paranormal romancesand women's fiction for Genesis Press and Parker Publishing.
Visit her website at www.dyannedavis.com She also has an on-line blog where readers can post questions and photos.Http://dyannedavis.blogspot.com

In Dyanne's talk titled, Straddling the Fence Comfortably, she will discusshow to combine being a panster with some plotter techniques to get the bestbook you can write-without pulling out your hair (or too much of it).

Email lori@loridevoti.com if you want to join.

Online chat via email with Agent Stephen Barbara 0f Donald Maass Literary Agency

Join teenlitauthors@ yahoogroups.com

Novemver 6th Stephen Barbara will be the guest Agent ready to answer questions

for more info about him http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=467

Netflix- a great resource for the movies that go with The Writer's Journey

If you have the book, The Writer's Journey- by Chris Vogler, the next step is to join Netflix to get the movies that are used in the book. Some of the benefits of renting movies through Netflix - no late fees, movies delivered right to your mailbox, and then you just have to drop it in the mailbox when you're done.

Enjoy,

Liz

Watching movies helps you learn the Writer's Journey/Hero's Journey

It's true! Read Chris Vogler's The Writer's Journey. He explains the hero's journey and gives examples of movies to show what he's talking about.


http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780941188708&itm=1

Enjoy the process,

--LiZ

November is National Novel Writing Month NaNoWriMo

Check out info on this website

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Keep Writing!

Barnes & Noble Online Book Clubs

I enjoyed participating in free onlinre courses at the BNU Barnes & Noble University.
Barnes & Noble has discontinued the University and now they have online Book Clubs
where readers get a chance to ask the author questions and participate in book discussions with others.

http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/?z=y

Currently they are featuring Carl Hiaasen, Diane Setterfield, and Jack Canfield.

Enjoy,
Liz

It's November- Have you subbed a manuscript to Lerner yet?

Lerner Publishing accepts unsolicited manuscript submissions only in November.

http://www.lernerbooks.com/cgi-bin/books.sh/lernerpublishing.p

For Fiction Manuscripts
Zelda Wagner
Carolrhoada Books, Inc.
241 First Avenue
NorthMinneapolis, MN 55401

For Non-Fiction Manuscripts
Jennifer Zimian
Lerner Publishing Group
241 First Avenue
NorthMinneapolis, MN 55401