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Animals, Plants & Nature Week Most of you nature photographers will have seen long-exposed waterscapes resulting in the peculiar soft aspect of water. If you haven't, or if you're not a nature photographer, here are a few examples: In this article I will be sharing some ideas and tips which hopefully will get you interested in this kind of photography first of all; and if that marvellous personal paradigm shift takes place within you, give you the basics in achieving the sought-after results. Who am I to dare do this ? Well this is quite important: I'm nothing fancy, just a nature photography-loving guy with a cheap entry-level DSLR an

Publishing Week Welcome to Publishing Week hosted by CRLiterature (https://www.deviantart.com/crliterature) and projecteducate (https://www.deviantart.com/projecteducate)! What can I expect from this week? This week we'll be delving into the depths of literature publishing. ~wooooplz (https://www.deviantart.com/wooooplz) Oooooh, spooky and scary stuff, right? Not really. Okay. Well, maybe a little, but we'll help make it less so! We'll tackle everything from general resources to what it's like to be on the publisher's side of things. Here is a handy dandy schedule (:new: NOW WITH LINKS): March16March22Publishing Week 16thMonday Intro by HugQueen (https://www.deviantart.com/hugqueen) 10 Reasons to ALWAYS Read Submission Guidelines by SadisticIceCream (https://www.deviantart.com/sadisticicecream) 17thTuesday Publishing for the N

Publishing Week Introduction So this week, we're focusing largely on publishing literature - which makes sense. When you think "published [blank]" the first words that come to mind to fill that blank are probably "poet" or "novelist" or "hack". Right? But, little-known fact - There are as many routes for publishing visual art as for literature. Seriously, though: Whether you're a writer or not, there's a niche for you in publishing. This article will outline some of the most common venues to answer that ever-present question, "Where can my work go once I'm done with it?" If publishing visual art sounds like something you would like to do, I

Publishing Week Jon Stone and I have co-run Sidekick Books since 2009. We specialise in collaborative poetry books and pamphlets on a range of weird and wonderful themes. Poetry has for a long time had the problem of a dwindling readership that sells to itself, and we believe the only way forward is to look outside pure poetry and head off the beaten track. We love genre-bending, perversion, invention and introducing poetry and new audiences to one another. Which has the potential to go like this: But more often goes like this: People often ask us how or why we began the press. Sidekick actually began as a parasitic offshoot of our hand-ma

Publishing Week I'm so glad you're here. Because, as a poet and chapbook author, I get this question a lot. AND, since chapbooks are an important part of poetry publishing -- both in terms of what we consume as readers and what propels us forward as career poets -- any poet with publishing aspirations should know about them! The Short Version: A chapbook, sometimes referred to as a pamphlet, is like a mini collection of poetry. Usually between fifteen to thirty pages (though some folks say anything under 50 pages is a chapbook), these are like little samplers of a poet's work. Usually the chapbooks are pretty cheap, between $6 and $12, whic

Publishing Week Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhh, the sweet sweet smell of Rejection, every new writer's favorite cologne! Rejection It happens all the time. And it's like But it's going to keep happening. So you have to get used to it. And keep sending out your work. And finding little victories. Victory #1 You were not rejected! Success! But that isn't going to happen. Let's be real. You're publication credits will be far outnumbered by your rejection credits. The average person publishes 1 book a year factoid actually just a statistical error. Average person publishes 0 books per year. Seanan McGuire who publishes 5 books a year is an outlier and sho

Publishing Week So you want to publish your book? In this day and age, usually the next question is: should you go Traditional or Indie? It's a hard question to answer but I think it's something that only each individual can decide for themselves. I decided to go Indie after several tries over ten years of submitting my manuscript to publishers, getting feedback, re-writing the book and then submitting again. Over and over the feedback was that because my work wasn't mainstream science fiction that the publishers weren't prepared to take the risk. I came to a point where I realised that I needed to decide if I wanted to keep trying to get

Publishing Week A query is kind of what it sounds like -- you're ASKING an agent or publisher if they're interested in seeing your book. But a query is more than hey what's up I'm awesome my book is awesome look at it plz!  You have to write a professional letter that will entice the person who will read it into writing back with a HECK YES SHOW ME YOUR BOOK! (Okay, they probably won't say it like that. But you get the gist.) The first line in your query should be: Dear Ms./Mr. AgentLastName OR Dear Ms/Mr. EditorLastName This might sound obvious, but you never EVER want to address a query with Dear Sirs/Madams or To Whom it May Concern. You