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Free Online Writing Workshop
Welcome to our free online writing workshop. Beginning next week, we’ll be presenting one lesson here each Wednesday—a total of 10 lessons. Each lesson includes at least one exercise designed to reinforce the topic of that lesson and to help … Continue reading
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Call for Submissions
Submissions are now open for an as-yet untitled character-based Sleeping Cat Books anthology to be published in the fall of 2012. This anthology will be a black and white paperback edition and an ebook edition of short fiction. We will … Continue reading
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New online short story workshop!
Sleeping Cat Books is proud to announce that we’ve just opened the doors of a new workshop! This online self-paced course will walk you through the creation of a short story (up to 5,000 words) in 10 lessons, with personalized email feedback … Continue reading
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Open call for submissions
Submissions are now open for the Sleeping Cat Books anthology to be published in the spring of 2012. This anthology will be a black and white paperback, and may include essays, short fiction, poetry, B&W photography, or B&W graphic images. … Continue reading
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Breaking Through the Block
In 2008 I participated in National Novel Writing Month and “won” by writing 50,000 words in the 30 days of November. The trouble was, my story wasn’t finished. I continued to work on it beyond NaNoWriMo, but stalled out around October … Continue reading
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Audiobook Month
June is Audiobook Month. The Audio Publishers Association (APA) will be doing lots of promotion this month of audiobooks through social media like Facebook,Twitter, and YouTube with the help of famous authors like Deepak Chopra, Judy Blume, and Sue Grafton. Many … Continue reading
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Manuscript Formatting
Occasionally I receive a manuscript for copy editing that looks like a print book, or at least like it’s trying to be a print book. In these cases, I carefully explain to the author that such formatting (adding a table … Continue reading