NEWSLETTERS
November 2006
The Write Stuff
Online Newsletter of Word Journeys
November 2006
IN THIS ISSUE:
• Christmas gift packs
• The New WordJourneys.com
• Coyotes in Broad Daylight
• Premier Issue of Literazine
• Self-Publishing
• New services
• Grist for the Pen: Tips
• They Said It
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS:
• November 7: Have I Got A Story For You! Crittenden County KY Library 270-965-3354
• December 5: What A Character! Crittenden County KY Library 270-965-3354
• January 2007: Teen Writing Symposium, Tampa, FL
• March 2007: Write Deep Heal Deep Tampa, FL
• April 11-12, 2007: 2-Workshop Series, Asian-American Writers Workshop, New York
• April 2007: Write to Create, Write to Heal, Evansville IN
• April 2007: Writing With Poetic Presence, Tucson, AZ
ON SALE IN BOOKSTORES AND AT www.kobocapublishing.com:
Reggie & Ryssa and the Summer Camp of Faery, by Bo Savino
Writes of Life: Using Your Experiences in Everything You Write, by Robert Yehling
Shades of Green: Selected Poetry and Essays, by Robert Yehling
Cracker Wisdom, by Terra Pressler
The EX Factor, Anthology
Broken Wings: Genesis, by A.J. Rand
Christmas Gift Packs Now Available!
Want to buy your family, friends or fellow writing group members holiday gifts they can use every day for their writing and reading pleasure? We have three Christmas gift packs just for you!
PACKAGE A: Three books by Robert Yehling: Writes of Life: Using Personal Experiences, Shades of Green, and Coyotes in Broad Daylight. This autographed and personally inscribed gift set is available for $32.95, including shipping (regular combined price: $38) and includes a free commemorative bookmark. It is available on www.kobocapublishing.com, or by emailing us here.
PACKAGE B: A male author trilogy for readers of both genders: Unbuttoned: Who Says Men Can’t Change? by Kenneth Fink; Missiles, Moonlight and Moana by Stephen Gladish, and Coyotes in Broad Daylight by Robert Yehling. Also autographed and inscribed, this collection is available for $39.95, including shipping (regular combined price $46). It is available by emailing us here.
PACKAGE C: The Word Journeys Poetry Series: The Love Hunter and other Poems by Meg Files; Pieces of Gathered Light by John Martin; and Coyotes in Broad Daylight by Robert Yehling. This collection is available for $33.95, including shipping (regular combined price $38). It is available on www.kobocapublishing.com.
All Christmas Gift Packs will ship beginning December 5. Order now, as packs are limited.
The New WordJourneys.com Launching November 15
Our most ambitious re-launch of wordjourneys.com will take place November 15, in time for the holiday season. Look for our new features:
• Expanded new books section
• New e-books, writing tools and merchandise in our NEW online store
• Expanded editing, marketing, publicity and book proposal consultation services
• Literazine, our new online magazine
• Blogs, online courses and services in our online store
• Workshop information, with schedules, exercises and handout downloads
Also, wordjourneys.com will now serve as a portal to our publishing partners, Koboca Publishing and Creative Juices Publishing.
Check us out!
Coming Soon: Coyotes in Broad Daylight
Bob Yehling’s Coyotes in Broad Daylight will be released by Koboca Publishing in December 2006. More than 50 all-new poems, song-poems and essays are featured in this collection, which explores the faces, masks and covers of our society and our daily lives. He will conduct readings and signings throughout theph winter and spring. Look for sample poems in The Poet’s Corner in the Literazine on www.wordjourneys.com. To order signed and inscribed copies in advance, go to www.kobocapublishing.com.
In Our Premier Issue of Literazine (on wordjourneys.com November 15):
• Stories Stories Everywhere! The New World of Book Selling (and Buying)
• Interview with former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins
• Featured Book: The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight, by Marc Wiengarten
• 10 Primary Structures of Narrative Non-Fiction
• Christmas Shopping List: 12 Mini Book Reviews
• The Poet’s Corner
• Tips and Inspirational Quotes
Self-Publishing Your Book or e-Book? Here’s Your Solution
During the past two years, several collaborative publishing houses have produced hundreds of titles with little or no support provided to the authors. Now, a new era of print-on-demand publishing features a company run by veteran writers and editors, for writers – at substantially lower prices than competitors.
Creative Juices brings together several self-publishing imprints for fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as series of business, how-to, young adult and adult titles. Here’s what we do:
• Compose, produce and print your book
• Provide optional top-level editing services
• Assign ISBN number and obtain Copyright
• List in the Ingrams distributor catalog
• Send advance notices to key online and print book reviewers
• Publicize your book on the Creative Juices website — visited by bookstore owners, librarians and individuals
• Provide reduced cost for books that enables you to maximize sales profits
• Offer you lowest available pricing for bookmarks, postcards and other promotional tools
For more details on publishing programs, go to www.creativejuicespublishing.com.
New services: Book proposals, book publicity and author publicity
We’ve upgraded our book proposal, book publicity and author publicity programs to provide you top-level service that aligns with the requirements of literary agents, editors and publishers alike.
Our book proposal and manuscript consultation service gets you published! Our last six clients in 2006 have either signed with top-list literary agents or picked up publishing contracts from large and medium-sized publishers. You’re next! Email us now for more information.
Our newest author publicity programs include question-and-answer interviews for print and web, development of electronic press kits and author websites, tip sheets for niche marketing and promotion in your home region, and tie-ins to book publicity nationwide. We’ve talked directly with more than two dozen agents, editors and publishers in developing these services, specifically crafted to sell books in the 21st century.
http://www.wordjourneys.com or email.
Grist for the Pen
• Our stories are our greatest source material for books, essays, poems, plays, travelogues, inspirational writing and anything else we want to put to paper. They are the chronicles of our lives, more authentic than photographs and certainly more authentic than the opinions of others. We have lived them; we have survived them. The experiences reside in our cells, our marrow, our blood. We feel everything; that feeling breathes life into our narratives and characters. We write with greater passion when the moments, or subjects, touch us as deeply as our own stories.
— From Writes of Life, by Robert Yehling. To order: www.kobocapublishing.com
• Write a 500- to 1,000-word piece—fiction, non-fiction or journaling—in which everything lies in the present moment. Use action verbs; move your subjects around. Give us the feeling that you are conducting an orchestra and we’re in the middle of the music. Make us feel present in every moment of your writing.
— From The Write Time Calendar Book, by Dr. Terra Pressler and Robert Yehling, to be published in April 2007.
They Said It
“We agreed…that we would just play what we wanted to play, make music for ourselves, and trust our own judgment. We made a promise to write music that was in our hearts. I think we’ve kept that promise, and that feeling comes through in our music.”
– Justin Hayward, The Moody Blues
“Writing is the willingness to see.”
— Natalie Goldberg
Links of the Month
http://www.stonethread.com
http://www.kobocapublishing.com
http://www.creativejuicespublishing.com
http://www.826valencia.org
http://www.writingitreal.com
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