Vol 3 Num 1 -- April 1999 Announcements MALICE DOMESTIC® XI
April 30 - May 2, 1999
Renaissance Hotel
Washington, DC
http://www.erols.com/malice
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From: Barb Lakey <barbl@tela.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999
Have you just written your first short story and you and your writer's group believe it to be worthy of publication but you hesitate, knowing that the competition is stiff?
FUTURES magazine had you and your first story in mind when we created STARTING LINE. This section will be devoted exclusively to new writers. We LOVE helping new writers launch their careers. So, just do it! Send your story to FUTURES Magazine for consideration. Any story accepted for publication will also be eligible for a Fire to Fly Award at years end.
Interested? Please send submissions to Babs Lakey at < BARBL@tela.com > And if you're interested in FUTURES but would like to see it before subscribing, you can also request a free copy from Babs.
We look forward to reading your work!
Babs Lakey, Publisher Kit Sloane, Associate Editor http://www.firetowrite.com
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From: Realm, dala@wt.net
Date: 3/12/1999 10:53 AM
Writer's Realm TryMonthly Newsletter - March 1999
You can view the newsletter in all its decor here. http://web.wt.net/~dala/marnews.htm
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From: Tabatha Yeatts <yeattslo@mindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999
A short-story writer won this year's fiction prize from the National Book Critics Circle, a not-for-profit group of editors and critics. The 1999 winners:
Fiction
Alice Munro - "The Love of a Good Woman"
Nonfiction
Philip Gourevitch - "We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda"
Biography/Autobiography
Sylvia Nasar - "A Beautiful Mind"
Criticism
Gary Giddins - "Visions of Jazz: The First Century"
Poetry
Marie Ponsot - "The Bird Catcher"
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From: Barb Lakey <barbl@tela.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999
GREETING CARDS FOR WRITERS
WRITER'S CRAMP is a new line of Greeting Cards designed with writers in mind. If you need to send your agent a note or drop a line to a publisher, get WRITER'S CRAMP. If your buddy has 'blank page' syndrome and needs a boost, give her WRITER'S CRAMP. And, best of all, get your query letters out of the slush pile with WRITER'S CRAMP. We have three full sets of cards ready for shipping to you. And if you are interested in murder and mayhem try MURDERER'S ROW. If there are no bank jobs in your future plans you might want to contact us to use WRITER'S CRAMP and MURDERER'S ROW as a fundraiser for your writer's group. If you'd like to have information sent to you about the cards and/or ordering them please contact:
Babs Lakey Publisher of FUTURES Magazine for artists and writers with the fire to fly! BARBL@tela.com http://www.firetofly.com 3039 38th Ave So Minneapolis, MN 55406 612/724-4023
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From: David Firks <dfirks@saw.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999
Dear SMFS Listers,
Blue Murder Magazine is offering 3 choices to read the nominated stories for the Derringer Awards written by Kate Thornton, Kris Neri, Diane Arrelle and Robert L. Iles.
1) Point your web browser to the URL address of: http://www.bluemurder.com/pages/chicago.html
2) Contact us at info@bluemurder.com and we will email you a copy.
3) Email us your snail mail address and we will send you a disc free of charge.
Much thanks from the crew at Blue Murder for considering our mag to be in company with the talented writers, editors, readers of this digest. We spend many hours sitting in front of computer screens and this is simply a joy, which is rare, an honor in good company.
Best, David Firks/editor Blue Murder Magazine
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From: James Prickitt <james@newfront.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999
Hello everyone,
Derringer Award-Nominated stories published on TheCase.com are now available at one place: http://www.TheCase.com/derringers/
You'll find stories by Fay Thompson, Kimberly Brown, Paul Harrison, Jesse Knight, Sheryl Snell-Massie, Dale B. Hall, Linda K. Wright, Kate Thornton, Richard Ciciarelli, and Dorothy Francis.
Congratulations to all from MysteryNet, and we look forward to working with more SMFS Listers in 1999 and beyond.
All the best,
James
++ James Prickitt, Producer, MysteryNet.com
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From: Barb Lakey <barbl@tela.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999
Just in time for National Poetry month, FUTURES Magazine editor B. Lakey announces the winner of the 1998 O Cyber poetry contest. The certificate of award and $100.00 goes to Sharon Chmielarz for her poem 'At the Height of Process'. Final judge/RC Hildebrandt.
Babs Lakey/Publisher FUTURES Magazine for writers and artists 3039 38th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55406 BARBL@tela.com http://www.firetowrite.com
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From: KrisMyst@aol.com
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999
May I engage in a little BSP? I will be teaching an online 8-lecture class called "Writing the Mystery Short Story" for the Kiss of Death online mystery/suspense chapter of RWA. The cost is $10 to members; $20 to nonmembers. Email Eileen Liberti for registration/information <liberti@erols.com> Registration closes April 28th.
I'd like to thank Michael Mallory, Siri Jeffrey (Elizabeth Dearl), G. Miki Hayden, Lynda Douglas and editors Margo Power and David Firks for their help and for allowing me to quote them on various topics in my lectures. Those lectures are richer for those quotes and comments.
Kris Neri "Capital Justice," Blue Murder Magazine, Issue #1
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From: Gay Kinman <gtkinman@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999
i coordinate workshops for writers at cal state san bernardino extended education, and need instructors for the following classes which will each be a one half-day saturday session between sept 20 to dec 10. the instructor selects the date and time. compensation is approximately $200.
.how to write comic books
.how to write children's books
.how to put together the family recipe book
please contact me if you are interested. deadline is march 25
dr. gay toltl kinman gtkinman@juno.com
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From: Barb Lakey <barbl@tela.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999
FUTURES magazine for writer and artists with the fire to fly announces a special award beginning in 1999. In conjunction with the FUTURES Annual 'fire to fly' Awards, there will be a new award of $100 given to a **novice mystery writer.
Karen Besecker was 32 when she suddenly and without previous warnings passed away in her sleep just 3 days after she saw her first paid for mystery story published. She was a shy woman, but a determined one; by herself she established the San Joaquin chapter of Sisters in Crime. Her funeral was so heavily attended by her friends that they filled the chapel and the hall and then some. An anonymous donor of the $100 prize states, "I would like the award to be given for a novice mystery writer and believe that FUTURES' compassion for new writers makes this connection with FUTURES Karen's style". *FUTURES will continue this award each year in honor of Karen and the untold others like her who give of themselves to help make all of our creative dreams come true.
All novice mystery writers who wish to be considered may send either a short story or the first chapter of a mystery novel to: FUTURES magazine Karen Besecker Memorial 'fire to fly' Award 3039 38th Ave So Minnepolis, MN 55406
No entry fee. Winner will receive $100 along with a 'fire to fly' certificate and publication in FUTURES magazine. *e-publisher Gina Haldane of www.starpublications.com has offered to publish an anthology of the finalists in this contest (providing we have top quality entries). AND, this anthology will be sold with their other e-books and the profit put into a fund for the next years Karen Besecker Memorial Awards. So those of you who participate may be helping this Award live on.
**novice will be defined as a writer who is not published in novel length mystery and has three or fewer short stories published.
You may contact me with questions or suggestion. Babs Lakey/Publisher FUTURES Magazine BARBL@tela.com http://www.firetowrite.com
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From: Tom Kreitzberg <tak@smarty.smart.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:16:19
I don't know if this has been posted before; I just came across it today:
Adventure Writer
The E-mail Adventure Company
31441 Santa Margarita Pkwy
Suite A-126
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
Contact: Jeffery Zettel
Email: (Lesswork@aol.com)
Fax: 949-713-3470
Location: Submit work via e-mail
Job Description: The E-mail Adventure Co. is an entertainment organization offering murder mystery adventures through e-mail. On the first of each month participants are contacted by a mysterious source and challenged to solve the murder mystery. We need a murder mystery writer to provide one mystery each month.
Experience: Experience writing short stories or murder mysteries a plus.
Hours: part time
Salary: negotiable
How To Apply: Please contact Jeffery Zettel by E-mail
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From: SunnyeT@aol.com
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 07:35:17 EST
A 6-week course on writing Short Mystery Fiction, which I present through the auspices of Writer's Club University on the Internet.
Some points covered in the class (and students write a short story as a project) include:
The difference between straight fiction and mystery fiction. Problems in writing short mysteries. Creating characters in the fewest possible words. Why the villain must be strong, creative and imaginative and not be all bad. The importance of relationships. Dialogue and backstory. First sentences and how they grow. What Happens Next? Introducing the protagonist and setting him/her to the task. How to describe characters concisely and succinctly. Clues and Red Herrings: -- How to hide them in full view. Marketing.
Teachers Biography: Sunnye Tiedemann is an experienced teacher, editor, and online communicator, as well as the author of hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and short stories. She has taught writing courses for the past 20 years, ranging from Freshman Composition and Creative Writing in a private college to all phases of fiction and nonfiction writing in community adult education classes. She runs workshops for writer's organizations lectures on writing and online communications. She was a systems operator on Time/Warner's Authors Forum on Compuserve for three years. Her biography appears in several Who's Who editions. Sunnye's self-published cookbook, DINING IN, the subject of a feature in the November, 1997 issue of Southern Living magazine, is going into its fourth printing. Her book reviews, stories and articles have appeared in such diverse publications as Byline magazine, Writers Digest Forum, Horizon (the magazine of the arts), Persimmon Hill, Murderous Intent, New York
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From: Kate Derie <cluelass@cluelass.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:07:25 -0700
I'm pleased to be able to tell youse guys about a new "pulp" magazine on the net called "Plots with Guns." Here's the announcement they sent me:
Announcing Plots With Guns, a new internet crime journal of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction--as long as it's got a gun in it. Visit the site at http://www2.netdoor.com/~ansmith/
The first issue (other will follow bi-monthly) is in development and is currently accepting submissions. It includes work from Victor Gischler, who will be appearing in the Best American Mystery Stories 1999 anthology (from Houghton Mifflin).
Alas, it's not a paying market at this point. Can't tell how it's going to turn out, yet, but it looks stylish, anyway. Take a look and decide for yourself if it's worth reading and/or writing for.
http://www2.netdoor.com/~ansmith/
Regards,
Kate Derie
Creator of the ClueLass HomePage, http://www.cluelass.com
Editor of the Deadly Directory, http://www.deadlyserious.com
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