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Apr 04
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Getting Out The Word

 

Are ye or do ye know a writer, agent, publisher or bookseller ? Do ye know anyone else who would be interested in these matters? Send em over, we would love to hear your/their thoughts. Post a comment and tell us how you feel. TJFGFPREHAVN »

Apr 03
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The Destroyer Cometh: The iPad is Here.

 

After all the arm wrestling, slap boxing, hair pulling and loud yelling the great arrival is upon us. The iPad is here. We should be watching the great arrival quite closely, not because using our iPad at the neighborhood Starbucks will draw a bevy of curious beauties and not because apple »

Apr 03
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The Honest Writer: Writing Your Truth

 

What are you writing about? Not what genre, not what plot, not what characters, not what era, but what truth? Writers get ideas from everywhere, from stories we hear, that one crazy guy at the coffeehouse, the one night with the unicorn, the unicycle and the drunk ex. Sometimes writers »

Apr 02
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Writers and Agents: The Tough Questions

 

Let’s shoot down the low flying pigeons shall we? I am currently seeking an agent. My query letters are swarming over “the Internets” like Mongols over the steppes. Naturally, I am frustrated, hopeful and ambivalent about the whole process. In this great search for “the one/whoever will have me,” I »

Mar 30
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Authors, Publishers and the Status Quo

 

Writers need editors, publishers, marketers, and booksellers. Few artists can create, support and distribute their art. Most of us are not eccentric geniuses who can do it all. It is true, we are not Prince. This is why the publishing/bookselling industry exists, to support and distribute our work efficiently (while making »

Mar 30
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Welcome.

 

Thanks for wandering over to Pens With Cojones. We will frequently be naive, hotheaded and shocking. However, we will always tell you what our degenerate and disgruntled hearts feel. Our greatest testis (do not google this word at work) of wisdom is this: The world roars at us, “be afraid tiny writer people, write for market, take what publisher give you, take what life »

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