Scribes’ Tribe Scribblings

On one of the Publishers Weekly blogs, Alison Morris comments on a new law in Indiana that will require any businesses that sell “sexually explicit material” to register with the state government.
Read about it here: Could Nudity Harm Indiana’s Minors, Booksellers?
Good heavens, are they serious??
Here is an update from ABFFE (American Booksellers Foundation […]

I have it on good authority (my agent) that more and more publishers are reviewing mss on e-readers.
What might this mean? For one thing, the ability to submit more mss via email instead of all those weighty hard copies getting sent back and forth and maybe or maybe not getting recycled when they are […]

This is service both for authors and for readers. Readers can find out who is touring/doing readings and booksignings in their area. Authors can sign up to have their tour information listed.
BookTour

The Writers’ Society of Jefferson County is hosting a Dusty Richard’s workshop on May 10th at the Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Festus, MO.
Dusty has agreed to do 15 critiques on a first come, first served basis. This is included into the price of the workshop. The critiques will be based on the first ten […]

Raver WON in the paranormal category of this contest a few years back . . .
Fool For Love Contest 2008
Sponsor: Virginia Romance Writers
Fee: $25
Deadline for e-submission and postmark of paper entries: April 1, 2008
Eligibility: unpublished authors of novel-length romantic fiction and those who have not published or contracted within five years of […]

We all know as writers that one of the best ways to improve our writing is by reading. Every once and a while I think it’s fun to ask the question, “What’s everybody reading?”
Okay, because I’m the instigator, I’ll go first.
WITNESS by Whittaker Chambers
Best remembered as the witness against Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers […]

This is one of the most comprehensive sites for writers I’ve come across. It is a subscription service, however, running $4 a month, but for the information it contains I think it’s worth it. It keeps one current on agents, markets, and contests as well as being designed to fill the writer’s […]

Illustrates the value of perserverence intelligently applied. Congratulations.

I am very very VERY excited to announce that long-time Scribes’ Tribe member, Joy Wooderson, has had her essay, “Bougainvillea and Barbed Wire: A Former Citizen Looks at the New South Africa” accepted for spring 2008 publication in The Truth About the Fact: International Journal of Creative Non-Fiction.
Joy’s email to us said she […]

Does the weather affect your writing? It’s pouring down here, thunder and lightening, too. Makes me more interested in curling up in bed and reading a good book instead of sitting at my desk and writing a good book.
Tempting as it is, I have to work the day job, so going back to […]