Finding literary agents and publishing books

Some info if you are interested in writing/marketing/publishing novels:

The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How to Write It, Sell It, and Market It . . . Successfully by Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry (Nov 4, 2010)

The Nitty Gritty Guide to Finding a Literary Agent (Nitty Gritty Guides) by Sara Rosett (Apr 7, 2011) - Kindle eBook

2012 Guide to Literary Agents by Chuck Sambuchino (Sep 6, 2011)

2011 Guide To Literary Agents by Chuck Sambuchino (Aug 5, 2010)

How to Get a Literary Agent by Michael Larsen (Apr 1, 2006)


Some other sites/info:
http://www.sfwa.org/for-authors/writer-beware/agents/

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/guide-to-literary-agents

where to publish

some literary journals and links:

http://www.quarteraftereight.org/ (fiction, poetry, hybrid)
Tarpaulin sky
Kelsey street
Krupskaya
Dorothy
siglio press
futurepoem
roof
Skidrow Penthouse
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/index.htm
Mudfish,Cream City Review, Chelsea, Washington Square, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Iron Horse
Review, American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat,
Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, First Intensity, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental
Literature, LIT, and Notre Dame Review, Colorado Review (poetry), Denver Quarterly


**Audio/performance:
http://textsound.org/ (tell them I told you to send your work and you were in my class)

Lists of interesting sites/presses/projects/publications online and off:
http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/about/links/
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/links.html (a list of odd places to publish)
http://www.durationpress.com/pages/links.htm (list of links to other sites, presses, publishers)
http://www.subitopress.org/amici
http://www.subitopress.org/archives/category/small-press-project

For April 19 Last Day of Class

Terms Due: turn in a typed copy of the Terms list with examples from texts we've read for each (interpret this creatively as you can make examples apply to the particular terms)

 *Final Portfolios Due(bring a large envelope with postage if you'd like me to send your portfolio back to you) (see assignment sheet on myemich)

* Publishing Projects Due (come prepared to present/discuss/share how you made, and where you placed your "book" in the world (see assignment sheet on myemich)

Writing: final creative writing assignment; choose one of the prompts from the handout and write a poem, a story, and a hybrid piece. (handout on myemich)

Updated Schedule

April

5: Jennifer K. Dick, Fluorescence

12: Goldberg (myemich): Claim your Writing, Trust Yourself, The Samuri, Reading and Rewriting, I Don’t Want to Die

Lamott, Bird By Bird: finish book

Terms

19: *Final Portfolios Due(bring a large envelope with postage if you'd like me to send your portfolio back to you)

       * Publishing Projects Due

Last Day of Class

This Week

See syllabus for assignments.

Don't forget your blog... on the readings for Thur.

This Week 3/29

Read Fiction Packet 3 (myemich) and come prepared to present/discuss 2-3 stories

Read Lamott, Bird By Bird pgs 95-150

Fiction Portfolio Due (assignment sheet on myemich)

Blog Response on Fiction Packet 3 and/or Lamott

Writing:
Identify a specific early childhood memory. Write down everything you can remember about it. You may choose to do this from your current perspective or from the perspective you had at that age. Take the writing of this memory and turn it into a story in either 1st or 3rd person, past or present tense. Include character, place/space, situation/conflict, and some sort of ending/resolution.


Last week's writing assignment: choose a sentence from a Wreckage of Reason story and use this to begin writing your own story.