We're Scattered Today

Over at Spinetingler, editor, Jack Getze, let off a little steam and passed along some advice on how to piss off the publication you're submitting to. http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2010/06/15/the-craft-of-writing-how-to-piss-a-publication-off/ The upside for the rest of us is that there might be a contest in the works.

By now most of you in the crime fiction world have heard about Little, Brown's new imprint, Mulholland Books. This statement in their press release really had me scratching my head though. "The goal of Little, Brown's Mulholland Books is simple: to publish books you can't stop reading." Well, duh!?! Isn't that the goal of every book that's published?

Brian Lindenmuth passed along a pair of links about writing that I found interesting. While they're mostly about writing non-fiction, the rules can also apply to shorts. http://www.scientificblogging.com/truth_universally_acknowledged/manifesto_simple_scribe_rules_prose

http://www.scientificblogging.com/truth_universally_acknowledged/manifesto_simple_scribe_rules_prose_part_ii

Jim Jackson, who blogs at Writers Who Kill, sent me a link to his latest post about the reasons he writes short stories http://writerswhokill.blogspot.com/2010/06/why-write-short-stories.html

Naomi Johnson has announced the winners of The Watery Grave Invitational.

1. Nigel Bird
2. Joe Hartlaub
3 Chad Eagleton

You can find the entire list here http://drowningmachine.blogspot.com/2010/06/watery-grave-winners.html The stories will be posted later this week for your reading pleasure.

And Paul Brazill sent me a link to a post by a guest blogger on his blog. Ian Ayis writes about getting started in writing. http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/2010/06/guest-blogger-ian-ayris-if-shakespeare.html