Book manuscript thoughts
The batch of book contests I entered late last year is starting to return results, and of course I am not the lucky winner. So I've started to think again about better ways to organize a book of...
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hmm - that's a bit distressing! I'm so naive. I actually thought they read the manuscripts. I too have had the results come in and did not make even the honorable mentioned runner up 3rd finalists'...
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Maryann,I really have no personal experience in this area. I'm a long way from having a book except that I might try putting together a chapbook myself, for friends and family. However, I attended a...
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Yes, Maryann--you're talking about the rule of three. A quick decision can be made as to whether you want to put in the time to read a whole book by reading the first poem, the last poem, & the...
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Aha! Mike. So this is a well-known rule with a name, huh? Better we should know now! That changes the problem: How to identify the slam-dunks, and how to choose the title poem. Indeed how to HAVE a...
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Well, the fact that it didn't win, or even runner-up, should be read as proof that I was wrong to think my first & last poems slamdunks. Another name, of course, is a must-read poem. Yet another...
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