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.