Archive for August, 2009

The Five: The Law of Unintended Consequences

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

What do you get when you mix power-hungry scientists, high-powered government officials and innocent children? Find out in Thomas Roberts’ new riveting novel, The Five.
Set in the year 2020, The Five is a compelling, prophetic sci-fi novel where scientists use electrodes to feed educational data into babies’ brains as a means of controlling their development. [...]

Say It All!

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- Anais Nin

Discovering New Mysteries Contest

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Discovering New Mysteries is now accepting submissions of
original plays, screenplays, teleplays, and short stories
for both adult and youth audiences. A panel of professional readers will
blindly review the submissions and narrow the field to the
final mysteries, who-dunnits, cops-n-robbers, courtroom
dramas, thrillers, suspense or adventures.
Deadline: August 30, 2009
Entry Fee: NONE
Prizes: Nearly $20,000 in cash prizes for winners + [...]

Your Publicity Photo

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Whether you write magazine articles, essays, or how-to books, you need a good publicity photo.

As a professional writer, you need a publicity photo for:

Your web site
Promotional materials
Your press kit
Your book cover
To accompany press releases

In our excitement to create our book covers or websites, we tend to grab the first photo we [...]