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B2B Newsletter - June 5, 2005
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Basics2Bylines: A WNY Writers' Network
Hello Fellow Writers!
Congratulations to:
Deborah Dickinson, whose poem, "Prime Time," was published in the March/April 2005 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.
Joan Sarow, whose tribute to her Dad was published in the June issue of the After 50 news.
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Poetry Page... Did someone mention a Poetry Page? B2B now has one on-line! Have you seen it yet? If not, check it out at http://www.basics2bylines.org/B2BPoetryPage.html. Young writer, Brian Rathman, has contributed a poem about what being a teenager is like today.
If you'd like to contribute a poem, just follow the guidelines listed on the Poetry Page.
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Basics2Bylines Writers' Groups News
Thanks to Cliff Fazzolari for speaking to our writer's group at the Lancaster Library in May. And, thanks to Bob Dembik and James Matte, for adding to the conversation that followed, expanding on the merits of "traditional" publishing versus self-publishing with a Paid-On-Demand publisher. To read more on this subject, check out what James Matte has to say at www.Basics2Bylines.org.
Congratulations to our two winners of the writers' reference books, "The Writer's Handbook 2005" and the "Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents 2005," donated by the Writer Magazine. Bob Skurzewski and Gerry Wierzbicki-Roach were thrilled to take them home!
Make sure you take the time to check out the display case at the Lancaster Library. We're featuring the recent published clips of some of our fellow writers! Maybe you'll spot one of your clips there...
Basics2Bylines Writers' Groups are held monthly at two locations for your convenience - the Lancaster Library at 5466 Broadway, Lancaster, NY and Barnes & Noble on Niagara Falls Blvd. in Amherst, NY. Please feel free to attend either one, or both. For more details visit our website: http://basics2bylines.org/B2BWritersGroups.html.
Thanks to Barnes & Noble, on Niagara Falls Blvd. in Amherst, for offering a 20% discount for the June meeting on "Writer's Market 2005" for members of the B2B Writers' Group. If you are a member of Barnes & Noble, you can also add your 10% discount to that for a full 30% off. Please let the cashier know at the time of purchase that you're a B2B Writers' Group Member.
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Upcoming Event:
Love to write but hate to starve? Peter Bowerman, author of The Well-Fed Writer, the award-winning "standard" on lucrative commercial freelancing (writing for business entities at hourly rates of $50-125+), will be at Barnes & Noble in Amherst, on Tuesday June 14th at 7:00 p.m.
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Writer's Tip:
Terri Skurzewski has come across this useful tidbit of info from Mel Boring (yes, that's really his name), Webeditor at the Institute for Children's Literature. When asked if the actual page count of a manuscript is a good gauge of how many pages the published book will be, Mel Boring answered:
"Yes, and a very useable and time-saving gauge! The 'standard' double-spaced manuscript page with 1-inch margins and a 12 Times New Roman or Courier font is about 200 words; and one of those manuscript pages translates into very close to one page of the finished book. Of course illustrations/ pictures will take up some space, but still, one page of manuscript equals one page of book is a standard editor rule of thumb, as long as there are about 200 words per page of manuscript."
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If you have literary news, please, share it with us, so we can share it with others! Send me an email at EdieSuarez@Basics2Bylines.org and let me know what's up in your literary world.
From basics to bylines we want to help YOU get published!
Best wishes to all,
Basics2Bylines - A WNY Writers' Network
Edie Suarez
Writers' Group Coordinator
B2B Newsletter/Website Creator
Lynne Wallace-Lee
Writers' Group Coordinator
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