Short Links

Well, I've written a first sentence for this blog post four times and still can't figure out what to say. So, we'll go straight for the links and maybe my brain will kick in.

From Paul Brazill we have a link to Caffeine Nights Publishing. This is a small publishing house that only publishes two to five books a year. There's no advance, only royalties from sales. While they're not able to break into the brick and mortar book stores they are set up for online sales through several markets. They opened on November 1 for submissions of crime fiction novels and state that they're only accepting 5 new authors this year. If you're interested you can find more information at http://www.cnpublishing.co.uk

Twitter fiction seems to be all the rage of late and now there's a forum board dedicated this new form of shorts. You'll find discussions about writing, markets and assorted other topics dealing with TwitterFic here http://twitfic.com/

I spend a great deal of time over at Charles Tan's Bibliophile blog, mostly because he's a great source for links to all things writing and sci-fi. He also reviews both online and print zines and books, and posts interviews with authors and editors. He also writes a column for BSC that's always interesting. He's one very busy man! Anyhoo, this morning he has a great interview with Jeremiah Tolbert, a short story writer and editor of the online zine "Escape Pod". Lots of good stuff in this post. http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-jeremiah-tolbert.html

Over at Murderati, Allison Brennan posted about short stories and the difficulties she has writing them. There's also a lovely discussion in the comments of this post. I think for most novelists it's hard to switch from a big panoramic view of a story to that narrow focus of one single event. http://www.murderati.com/blog/2009/11/8/short-stories.html

And for our Western writers I stumbled across "Western Writers" over at Live Journal. There's lots of history related posts and links to other sites that are of interest to both readers and writers of Western fiction. http://community.livejournal.com/western_writers/