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Common Mechanical Pitfalls

by Vicki Hinze

When asked, a group of editors from top publishing houses, responded that the following are the most often seen mechanical errors in works submitted by authors.

By removing these errors from our works, we greatly enhance our potential for publication—and strengthen our writing skills.

Author Intrusion, Filtering, Passive Voice. Use the active voice in writing. Avoid weak verbs: "to be" and its variants: was, are, is. This puts the reader on-scene, makes what’s happening, happen now. Author intrusion reminds the reader she’s reading, hence you lose immediacy, empathy between reader/character. Show, don’t tell applies.

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Creating a Character for a Horror Story

By Sarah Todd

Lauren gasped when she rounded the corner into the alley. The object of her revulsion looked up. He was surprised by her sudden appearance. His long hair fell in loose curls past his shoulders. The hair of his bearded chin dripped red with blood. He raised an outstretched hand in front of his face. His other hand let go of the man he had been supporting. The body fell to the pavement. Her attention darted to the apparent victim and Lauren saw that a stream of blood flowed from the man’s neck. It traced a path between the cracks in the dirty pavement. Lauren looked back to the… well, the vampire. She knew it sounded crazy, but that’s what the guy seemed to be aiming for. Their eyes locked for a few brief moments. His outstretched fingers shook with a nervous energy that she did not mistake for fear.

Anne Rice places her vampires in everyday situations, and she gives each character very human emotions – so human that you might want to look at your neighbour a bit more carefully when you close the book! This article is written to give you some ideas for creating realistic characters to populate your horror story.

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Who is Mark?

Mark Treitel as a writer had his original television pilot, “The Sperm Donor”, was hand picked by NBC’s Network Entertainment President to air on Bravo in 2005. The pilot starred Maggie Wheeler (“Friends”, “Everybody Loves Raymond”) and David DeLuise (“Third Rock From The Sun”, “Jesse”), was directed by Amanda Bearse (“Married with Children”) and co-written by Shoe Schuster.

In addition, Mark and Shoe were featured for eight episodes on the behind-the-scenes making of a sitcom pilot, produced by Sean Hayes. (“Will & Grace”) on Bravo’s “Situation: Comedy.” Recently, Mike Epps (“The Honeymooners”, “All About The Benjamins”) became attached to one of Mark’s comedy scripts.

Mark has been part of the Warner Bros. Comedy Writers Workshop, had an original sitcom performed at the HBO Comedy Workspace, his writing group was featured in June 2005 issue of “Written By” and has written with Jeff Marx, acclaimed co-creator of Broadway’s “Avenue Q.” In his spare time, he is an attorney, in multi-billion dollar litigation cases. He is also a member of the US Patent Bar. He is an ardent supporter of the WGA writers strike.

Mark lives with his wife Mindy and his beautiful newborn daughter, Dana Mollie, in Los Angeles, California.

Mark is proud of the fact that he has more google hits than Sean Hayes -- over 350,000 as of now.

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SHALLA PODCASTS

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On SHALLA Magazine this Issue

Listen
to poetry by Bill
Brocato, Byron
D. Howell, Kenneth
Pobo; and short stories by Shalla
DeGuzman, Blake
Butler, Elizabeth
Kadetsky, etc.

Listen to us in the Internet Archive

Listen to these at:

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The Fish in My Bed

by Shalla DeGuzman

Now in the MadHatters Review

The Boy Who Dug Worms at Mussel Flats

by Tom Sheehan

Listen to these at:

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The Iron Mask (1929) Starring Douglas Fairbanks

The Iron Mask, rich in breathtaking swordfights, carefree merriment, and suspense, is one of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.'s masterpieces. The story of the four musketeers, gentle Athos, jolly Porthos, brave Aramis, and fearless, outgoing D'Artagnan, goes on in this tale of twin heirs and the unscrupulous Count de Rochefort who switches them to obtain his own ends.

The movie begins as the Queen gives birth to a crown Prince of France. Everybody rejoices over the heir, and nobody suspects that there are actually two! Cardinal Richelieu (played by the aging Nigel de Brulier) tells no one of the birth of the second child and sends the twin away to the Spanish border, but Count de Rochefort (Ulrich Haupt) entangles himself in this plan and eventually switches the twins so that he may make himself the most powerful man in France.Fairbanks, who aged remarkably well over the course of his life and is as dashing and handsome as ever in this film, plays an energetic and athletic D'Artagnan who serves his King to the point of death. Marguerite de la Motte returns as Constance, D'Artagnan's lover who is tragically murdered by the criminal Milady de Winter. The movie is excellent and portrays Fairbanks's skill at fencing most accurately. One of his best!

The Black Pirate (1926) Starring Douglas Fairbanks

Coming to SHALLA Magazine!

The Black Pirate (1926) Starring Douglas Fairbanks

But you can see it here... these movies are no longer under copyright, so watch and enjoy!

Although color entered the realm of silent film around 1923, over 95% of the silent films in color are lost. This is a rare treat (even though we only see browns, reds and blues and even though the water is sometimes red, sometimes blue) and along with the original score re-recorded and 19 minutes of outtakes following the 90 minute feature, it is somewhat of an event. The content is the usual formulaic action film, a real swashbuckler in the Errol Flynn sense of the word.

On SHALLA Magazine this Issue: Nosferatu (1922)

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On SHALLA Magazine this Issue


Special Presentation

Nosferatu (1922)









Here's a German Expressionist film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Starring Max Schreck as Count Orlok (Count Dracula)

Its original German title is Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens ("Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror"). Shot in 1921 and released in 1922, the film is in essence an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (eg, "vampire" became "Nosferatu", and Count Dracula became Count Orlok).

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SHALLA Magazine: Blank Canvas Issue, Halloween Edition

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On SHALLA Magazine this Issue

Blank Canvas Issue, Halloween Edition

At SHALLA Magazine, everyday is Halloween!

Listen to spooky stories by Dr. Margaret L. Carter, Edgar Allan Poe, vintage radio's the Haunted Tales of the Supernatural, Paul G's SHALLA Magazine jingle, songs and music by Levi Kreis, Moose (Mooska), Music from Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com),
and more!

Coming Soon!

Listen to poetry by Bill Brocato, Byron D. Howell, Kenneth Pobo; and
short stories by Shalla DeGuzman, Blake Butler, Elizabeth Kadetsky, etc.

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to us in the Internet Archive

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Featuring:
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Hallie Ephron; Shara Lanel;

Margaret L. Carter;

Gena Showalter; Judie Aitken;

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Chick-Lit author, Sonia Singh;

Brett Battles; Michele Scott; multiple Emmy Award
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Terry Spear; Andrea Wilder; Tina Gerow; Seamus Cashman;

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A Smart Author's Toolkit

2008 Edition is here!

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SHALLA CHATS with author Bob Mayer

First of all, who ’s Bob?

NY Times Bestselling author Bob Mayer has thirty-three books published under his own name and the pen name Robert Doherty. Bob graduated from West Point and served in the military as a Special Forces A-Team leader and a teacher at the JFK Special Warfare Center & School, experiences he drew on to write Who Dares Wins: Special Operations Tactics for Success. He also teaches novel writing for colleges, workshops and conferences based on his Novel Writer’s Toolkit, published by Writer’s Digest. He has over two million books in print including his latest novel, Don’t Look Down, co-authored with Jennifer Crusie.

He lives on a barrier island off the coast of South Carolina. For more information see http://www.bobmayer.org/ or http://www.crusiemayer.com/ for the infamous He Wrote/She Wrote blog.

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1. Podsafe Book Content
a. Aesop’s Fables: http://www.aesopfables.com/ (full text of all fables)
b. Bilbliomania: http://www.bibliomania.com/ (2,000 Classic Texts, including fiction, drama, poetry, and short stories).
c. Bookshare.org: http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html (includes mystery, romance, sci-fi, children’s books, teen books, and a lot more)
d. Classic Authors: http://www.classicauthors.net/ (online versions of well-known books by classic authors)
e. Digitized Juvenile Literature Collection: http://diglib.lib.fsu.edu/ebind/docs/ (a couple hundred children’s titles)
f. FreeBooks.org: http://www.free-books.org/ (browseable by category, includes a lot of literature and children’s books)
g. Google Book Search: http://books.google.com/ (a good place to start to see if a book is available copyright-free online—can do an advanced search to limit to “full view books.”, includes some children’s classics)
h. International Children’s Digital Library: http://www.icdlbooks.org/books/index.html (many languages included)
i. Literature for Children: http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/ (searchable, or browseable by author and title)
j. Memoware: http://www.memoware.com/ (a number of literature categories, including a Children category)
k. Online Books Page: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ (huge index of online books; you can browse by subject—includes a number of “children’s literature” titles)
l. Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page (largest collection of online books—includes a large amount of classic literature and children’s titles)
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Shalla DeGuzman's experimental fiction,

"AlmostHome," will appear in the December issue

of Poetic Diversity.

Poeticdiversity is a quarterly literary

publication

For Poetic Diversity Submission Guidelines

Shalla is on LitBits

(bite-size literary fiction)

"Going Bontoc"

by

Shalla DeGuzman

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"The Fish In My Bed"

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Shalla DeGuzman

Shalla LIVE! On MadHatters Review Issue 6

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And, ever dated someone from online?

E-Crush

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now on Word Riot: good writing, no remorse

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NOVEMBER: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1.

The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It's all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.

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SHALLA NEWS: Shalla is in Poetic Diversity, Check out SHALLA Magazine, Writers Contests, more

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Shalla DeGuzman's experimental fiction,

"AlmostHome," will appear in the December issue

of Poetic Diversity.

Poeticdiversity is a quarterly literary

publication

For Poetic Diversity Submission Guidelines

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Hello, Shalla here, sometimes I get emails that sure, I'll post on here :)

Hey Shalla!

Have you read the critically acclaimed new novel, "The Perfectly True Tales of a Perfect Size 12" (Penguin Group USA) yet? It's a great summer read that'll make you laugh! Yours sincerely,

Margo Hart *******************

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WRITING COMPETITION
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Mount Arrowsmith Novel Writing Contest, theme open. Grand prize $1000 Cdn. Entry fee: $20. Deadline: August 15, 2007.
Info: www.albernivalley.biz/arrowsmith07.html.


Whisper Poetry annual (schools and open) poetry competition; up to 32 lines. Entry fee: ₤5.00 per poem for the open competition and ₤1.00 for scholars. Deadline: September 30, 2007. Info: http://www.whisperpoetry.com/


Bards and Sages 4th annual speculative fiction writing contest. This year's contest will benefit the nonprofit Donorschoose.org. The theme of the 2007 contest is Legendary Horrors. Submissions should focus on traditional monster archetypes found in legend, myth, and folklore. Aliens, serial killers, and angst-ridden quasi-vampires need not apply. Awards: $150—$10 plus publication in a future Bards and Sages anthology. Entry fee: $5.
Deadline: October 1, 2007. Info: www.bardsandsages.com/2007contest.htm

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SHALLA CHATS with Robert Gregory Browne

“Crafting Characters that Jump Off the Page”

by Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who ’s Robert?

Robert Gregory Browne began his career by selling a two-part mystery story, "Nothing but the Cold Wind," to EasyRiders magazine. Shortly thereafter, he won the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and found himself in the Hollywood fast lane.

His first screenplay, Low Tide, was picked up for production by Showtime only to be shelved after two years of “development hell.” On staff with Fox Kids/Saban, he wrote the hit animated TV show Diabolik and Spider-man Unlimited, then turned his back on the business to return to writing fiction. The result is the February release of Kiss Her Goodbye, the first of a two-book deal with St. Martin's Press. Robert recently signed another two-book deal with SMP.

New York Times bestseller Gayle Lynds (The Last Spymaster) calls Kiss Her Goodbye, "A first-rate novel that will glue you to your chair until you finish the last satisfying word." And Tess Gerritsen ( The Mephisto Club) declares it "A smashing good read."Shalla: Hello Robert. Congratulations on the success of Kiss Her Goodbye--looks like a winner--and you winning prestigious Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting, what a great accomplishment.

Robert: Thanks, Shalla. It's been awhile since I won the Nicholl, but it certainly changed my life. For about a month after I won, my phone rang off the hook – agents and producers asking to read my script. After years of dreaming about it, I had finally arrived. It was an amazing experience.
Shalla: Please tell us about your two-part mystery story, "Nothing but the Cold Wind," that was published in EasyRiders magazine. How long have you been writing short fiction before it got published?

Robert: That story was actually one of the first short stories I'd ever completed. I'd had a few false starts and was mostly concentrating on music at the time – my second love – but suddenly had this idea for a “biker” mystery pop into my head and I figured, what the hell, I'll see if I can sell it to EasyRiders.

I sent them a draft and they turned it down. Then, a couple of years later, I decided to trim it and send it to them again. This time they went for it. Published it as a two-parter.

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Check out SHALLA Magazine Top Picks!

Everyone's a Critic!

Where our guest assistant editors choose their top 10's or top 5's or... Read what they say about each one!


Shoe Schuster's
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1. Fake Fire and Rescue by Blake Butler
2. Homecoming by Bill Brocato
3. Sri Lanka by Byron D. Howell

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HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!

What types of books is Literary Agent Dr. Uwe Stender looking to represent?

SHALLA CHATS with with Literary Agent Dr. Uwe Stender

“Negotiating with Publishers”

by Shalla de Guzman

Check out The ShallaDeGuzman Writers Group

Like to read our latest SHALLA Q&A’s?

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"Get Booked on Oprah" with, top media coach, Susan Harrow

Learn how to get a 6 figure book advance! Message #'s 1328-1363

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SHALLA Magazine: Who Will Be Nominated for the Pushcart Prize?

SHALLA Magazine: Who Will Be Nominated for the Pushcart Prize?

SHALLA Magazine's Guest Editors are reading submissions.

Who will be in their top picks?

Find out this Winter '07,

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Literary Agents reads submissions for SHALLA Magazine.

Can your work really make it to these top lit agents' desks?
Sure! Preliminary reading will be done by our acquiring editors, if it passes that, our Guest Assistant Editors will read it. The top 12 will be read by our special Guest Editor.



News! Meet SHALLA Magazine's Guest Editors

Top Literary Agent Kelly D. Sonnack from the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency is reading submissions.

Literary Agent, Alana Lennie, of theLennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney is reading submissions.

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Coming mid Spring! SHALLA CHATS with literary agents

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Dr. Uwe Stender



“Negotiating with Publishers”



by Shalla DeGuzman



First off, who’s Uwe?

TriadaUS Literary Agency was incorporated in April 2004.Our Founder, Dr. Uwe Stender, has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Pittsburgh. He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the Universitaet Goettingen, Germany. He taught at both Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh and has been widely published in scholarly journals and books. Uwe was a guest speaker at several major conferences including the SCWC in San Diego, the “Crimebake” (Mystery Writers of America New England Chapter), CAPA-U in Hartford, Connecticut and the Novels in Progress Workshop in Louisville.
TriadaUS has established strong relationships with all the major publishing houses. We also have strong Hollywood contacts and are working very closely with Principal Entertainment for TV and Motion Picture rights.

Our best known clients are former CNN anchor Daryn Kagan, bestselling author and relationship expert Dr. Joel Block, Today show and ivillage contributor and nutrition expert Amy Hendel, legendary NBA referee Bob Delaney, and popular Romance author Jennifer Horsman.

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Caren Johnson


“An Insider’s View on Agenting and Publishing”


by Shalla DeGuzman



First off, who’s Caren?

Caren Johnson recently began her own literary agency, Caren Johnson Literary Agency. She began her agenting career four and a half years ago when she started an internship at Peter Rubie Literary Agency. She stayed at the agency for three years, the first year as an intern and two years as an agent. She then left to join Nadia Cornier at Firebrand Literary where she stayed for a year. She recently made the switch to agenting on her own so she could work more closely with her authors in building their careers. She would like well organized, well crafted stories in the areas of romance (particularly romantic comedy in the vein of Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Jenny Cruisie and Kelley St. John; and historical in the vein of Susan Carroll, Diana Gabaldon, and Lauren Willig—high concept only please!), Teen fiction (in the vein of Caridad Ferrer/ Adios to My Old Life, Scott Westerfeld/ Uglies Trilogy) and commercial fiction (in the vein of Christopher Moore/A Dirty Job, Carl Hiaassen/ Nature Girl). For the moment she’s full up with wonderful paranormal romance (Caridad Pineiro, Lee Roland) and romantic suspense (Caridad Pineiro, Dianna Love Snell) authors so if an author submits in this genre, she will be more critical than she normally is.

SHALLA CHATS with Literary Agent Kelly Sonnack



“Actively Building A List”



by Shalla DeGuzman



First off, who’s Kelly?

Kelly Sonnack is an agent with the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency, known for establishing and guiding the careers of many fiction and nonfiction authors, including Amy Tan, Janell Cannon, Lisa See, Diane Mott Davidson, Kevin Starr, Mike Davis, and many others.

The Los Angeles Times dubbed the Dijkstra Agency "the most powerful literary agency on the West Coast" and, in its 20+ years, it has developed a reputation for discovering new talent and representing quality work with great commercial potential.
Kelly began her career with the publishing giant Elsevier, under the Academic Press Imprint where she quickly worked her way up to Acquisitions Editor. At the Dijkstra Agency, she manages the submission cycle and also assists with foreign rights and PR. She is actively building her list and is especially interested in all areas of children's literature (YA, MG, picture books, graphic novels) and international women's fiction.

only at: www.shalladeguzman.com

Also, check out some upcoming shalla chats with literary agents and editors at SHALLA Magazine

SUMMER'S EARLY: SHALLA CHATS with Publisher Dave Smitherman is here!

SHALLA CHATS with David Smitherman

“Writing and Publishing Books”

by Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who’s Dave?

Dave is the publisher of Palari Publishing, a traditional, royalty-based publishing company that has produced fiction and nonfiction titles since 1998. Dave started as an editor for other publishers and soon formed Palari Books to produce interesting titles by deserving authors, especially first-time writers.

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It's also featured at SHALLA CHATS

SHALLA Magazine submissions will be read by Literary Agent

News!

Literary Agent, Alana Lennie of theLennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney will be reading submissions at SHALLA Magazine.

Submit your short stories, poems, essays, screenplays, one-act plays today!

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SHALLA Q&A with Literary Agent, Dr. Uwe Stender of TriadaUS Literary Agency

You’re invited!

Join us for our free online Q&A with Literary Agent,

Dr. Uwe Stender of TriadaUS Literary
Agency.

TriadaUS Literary Agency was incorporated in April 2004.

Our Founder,
Dr. Uwe Stender, has a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Pittsburgh.
He also studied at the University of California, Berkeley and
the Universitaet Goettingen, Germany. He taught at both Carnegie Mellon University
and the University of Pittsburgh and has been widely published in scholarly
journals and books. Uwe was a guest speaker at several major conferences including
the SCWC in San Diego, the “Crimebake” (Mystery Writers of America
New England Chapter), CAPA-U in Hartford, Connecticut and the Novels in Progress
Workshop in Louisville.

TriadaUS has established strong relationships with all the major publishing
houses. We also have strong Hollywood contacts and are working very closely
with Principal Entertainment for TV and Motion Picture rights.

Our best known clients are former CNN
anchor Daryn Kagan, bestselling author
and relationship expert Dr. Joel Block, Today show and ivillage contributor
and nutrition expert Amy Hendel, legendary NBA referee Bob
Delaney, and
popular Romance author Jennifer Horsman.

Q&A
with Dr. Uwe Stender on:

Thursday,
May 10, 2007

11
am to 12pm pst (or
2pm-3pm est)

Registration is FREE at

The ShallaDeGuzman Writers Group

JOIN US!

Shalla DeGuzman

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CALL-4-SUBMISSIONS: SHALLA Magazine

SHALLA Magazine
features high quality fiction (experimental, literary, genre, multicultural, etc), poetry, essays, excerpts from screenplays, one act-plays, etc.

Our submissions system is open to all forms of writing that have been previously published.

That’s right, we only like reprints. Please tell us where and when it has been published before. By submitting to SHALLA Magazine, you are guaranteeing that all rights to the work have already reverted back to you.

• Please include a cover letter with the following information: Full name (as you wish to be credited in the magazine), contact information, and a brief bio citing previous publications.

• Please title your email: SUBMISSIONS: “put the title of work” –“word count”

• You can address your submission to: Shalla

General Guidelines

Fiction/Non-Fiction
Including (but not limited to) short fiction, flash fiction (100-500 words), short-short (500-1,000 words), short story (1,000-10,000 words) commentary, essays, and experimental works• Maximum length: 10,000 words • Manuscripts should be in block form o This means: no paragraph indents, single-spaced with double-spacing between paragraphs • Acceptable file formats: .doc, .rtf, .txt o We will only accept submissions copied into the body of an email message, for works under 1,000 words • Preferred file format: .rtf

Poetry
Including (but not limited to) free verse, haiku, lyric, concrete, narrative, and experimental works• Maximum length: 1 single-spaced pages • Acceptable file formats: .doc, .rtf, .txt o Please send as a .rtf file. • Preferred file format: .rtf
Please, no simultaneous submissions

Please email your submissions to shalla_editor@yahoo.com

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SUMMER'S EARLY: SHALLA CHATS with Editor and former Book Publisher, Seamus Cashman is here!

SHALLA CHATS with Seamus Cashman

“Advice to Writers: from an Editor/former Book Publisher”

by Shalla DeGuzman

First of all, who’s Seamus?

Seamus Cashman was born in Conna, Co Cork in 1943. His latest poetry collection, That Morning Will Come is due from Salmon Publishing in June 2007. Previous collections are Carnival (Monarchline, Dublin, 1987); and Clowns & Acrobats (Wolfhound Press, Dublin, 2000). He has edited, with Bridie Quinn, The Wolfhound Book of Irish Poems for Young People, (Wolfhound Press, 1975; still in print today).

In 2004 the O’Brien Press published his award winning Something Beginning with P: New Poems from Irish Poets, for young readers. He also edited and translated, with Sean Gaffney, Proverbs & Sayings of Ireland (Wolfhound Press, 1974; still in print today). He established Wolfhound Press in 1974 and it became a leading literary and cultural publishing house, and he was publisher there until 2001.

He now writes, gives poetry and creative writing workshops, and advises writers and publishers. He lives in Portmarnock, Co Dublin.

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Join Us! Q&A with Publisher, David Smitherman

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Online Seminar: May 3, 2007

11 am PST to 12pm PST

"Get Your Book Published"

with David Smitherman, publisher for Palari Publishing

Dave is the publisher of Palari Publishing, a traditional, royalty-based publishing company that has produced fiction and nonfiction titles since 1998. Dave started as an editor for other publishers and soon formed Palari Books to produce interesting titles by deserving authors, especially first-time writers.

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Shalla DeGuzman

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