by Charlene Teglia | Nov 24, 2004 | Uncategorized
Lulu is FAST. So’s my husband. From my front page there is now a link to S.T. to buy the ebook and one to Lulu to buy the trade paperback. In about two weeks the ISBN will list in Books In Print, at which point anybody can order it from their local bookstore by asking for ISBN 1-4116-1832-7.
Kudos to Pat for cover design, formatting, and all the details that go into making a print-ready PDF. The print version differs slightly from the ebook version, because Deborah at ST didn’t want to branch out into print on demand at this time. I retained print rights since she didn’t want to exercise them, but I didn’t feel right about taking the version she edited since she wasn’t profiting on print sales. So the print version is edited by yours truly. Any mistakes are fully mine.
And I’ll end this with a quote from a writer who’s already read the book: “This is the funniest book I’ve read in years!” Thank you, E.!
by Charlene Teglia | Nov 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
Are those canned holidays tunes already getting on your nerves? Do you need a little Lovecraft, right this very minute? Then holiday hits like Shoggoth On The Roof will be music to your ears!
And to deck the halls to match, the adorable Christmas Plush Cthulhu.
Yule Be Mine update: I got enough questions about a possible print version that my web guru husband did some investigation and turned up an affordable option, Lulu. A Lulu storefront has been set up and things are in process to get the print-on-demand version of Yule available in trade paperback. Not sure how long it takes to go through the steps, not having done it before, but it’s underway. Cost for the trade paperback version will be approximately $10.99.
by Charlene Teglia | Nov 22, 2004 | Uncategorized
A romantic comedy to kick off the holidays is now available through Scheherazade Tales. Follow the banner ad to read the first chapter online!
And as a side note to anybody who buys the book, the local legend Luke tells Jordan is fictional, but apparently I was very convincing because New England residents who read the ms. thought it was genuine.
by Charlene Teglia | Nov 21, 2004 | Uncategorized
Just read the latest Romance Writers Report (the professional journal of the Romance Writers of America) and I’m so impressed with the changes in the organization. Since the problems got a lot of publicity, I wanted to share a bit about the solutions.
First of all, a bit of history. RWA ran into problems in the first place because they did something very unusual. To join the mystery writers or the science fiction writers organizations, you have to first publish a novel (or equivalent). RWA offered memberships to those who had published a romance novel AND to complete beginners who wanted to write a book but didn’t know how. This meant very different needs for different members, so RWA set up the Published Authors Network (PAN) to address specific issues you run into after you’re published while providing workshops and articles for everybody, trying very hard to support two vastly different groups with those differences naturally creating a lot of friction.
I didn’t know this when I joined. I applied for membership after I’d written three complete romance novels that editors at various publishing houses requested I submit. I figured, well, I guess I’m a romance writer so I should join RWA. At which point I found myself in sort of no-writers-land in RWA, where I wasn’t one of the beginners who wanted to learn how to write a book or who had never sold anything (I was already published and paid for writing in other fields) but I wasn’t published by RWA standards.
There were a lot of us in that no-writers-land, which is inevitable, because if you start as a beginner, you invariably finish a book and then try to market it and get rejected and try again, and then eventually sell. Given the number of beginners and the quality of workshops available, some members had to be going up the ladder. A lot of them, in fact. But it can take years to get from “I’ve finished my first novel” to “I got my first novel contract”, and for those years, RWA now offers the PRO program. This is a huge step.
It’s only one of many changes in the organization since the big shake-up, but RWA is now set up to offer something really valuable, something that can be of great benefit to other writers even if they have no interest in writing romance. Specifically, a large, national professional organization that is set up to educate and support the writer at every stage of the writer’s journey. From learning how to write a novel in the first place to how to market it to what to do when you’re offered a 3-book contract, RWA has resources that a small local group can’t match. Whatever point you’ve reached as a writer, there are members who have been there and done that and learned from it. This pool of experience, talent and knowledge is tremendously helpful.
The RWA National website has lots of in-depth information about what is available to a member, but honestly, if you want to learn to write a book, then how to sell it, and get the opportunity to meet agents and editors at a conference, in short, if you’re serious about a career writing novel-length fiction, then RWA can help you. Even if you want to write mysteries or fantasy or something other than romance. My chapter has romance writers, speculative fiction writers, and mystery writers, and all of us are getting something out of membership.
Myself, I’m not really a romance writer. I’m sort of a cross-genre hybrid. But all writers need the company and support of other writers, because there are common problems and struggles that only another writer can relate to. Which is why I’ll renew my membership again in 2005. RWA and my chapter of mixed bag writers offer me something I value and benefit from.
by Charlene Teglia | Nov 20, 2004 | Uncategorized
Scrolling through my webstats, I see that somebody found my site by searching for “belly-shooting boy”. What the? Can I even use that in a sentence? It’s not a term I’ve ever heard before and one wonders how a search engine returned me as a response. Mysterious are the ways of the internet.
Anyway, now I’m wondering what in the world a belly-shooting boy is and if there’s a porn site out there somewhere dedicated to them. Probably. You wouldn’t believe the results I got when I searched on an innocent word like boots. Or maybe you would.
So just in case anybody is reading this and feeling deeply disappointed that this is not the site you were looking for, I did actually strive to use the term in a sentence just to see if I could. Maybe that will console you as your endless search continues.
To sum up, this is not a site dedicated to boys or bellies or shooting, although all three topics may be covered individually or together as they relate to writing. Such as the blog entry about Joe* crawling on his belly while shooting at the cowboys in black hats. But as a general rule, this is not in fact a source for in-depth information about belly-shooting boys.
*No cowboys, named Joe or otherwise, were harmed in the writing of the above-mentioned blog entry.
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