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Video Review: Barbara Stout
By: Becky Fine-Firesheets To begin with, this scene is kind of hilarious: a bleak, randomly shadowed, off-white background with a tiny chess set in the corner. Barbara Stout’s outfit is also kind of...
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Agent Query Now or Head to Author Salon? Authors-In-Progress Decide.
Nearly All Writers Send The Agent Query Too Early! What to do? So much conflicting advice you want to scream. Fiction writers aspiring to the novel should take a first and second look at Author Salon....
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Michael Neff Contributes to Author Salon, The Project Development Site
Michael Neff, the director of WebdelSol.Com, Writers Helping Others, and Algonkian Writer Conferences joins the staff of Author Salon that includes former Random House senior editor Caitlin Alexander,...
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Interviews and Reviews of Algonkian Writer Conferences
Algonkian Writer Conferences In the context of teaching novel writers the most successful methods for becoming published, Algonkian Writer Conferences emphasize the art of dramatic structure and...
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What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s The Great...
A note on the LA Times piece concerning the latest Gatsby film. I couldn’t disagree more with the following commentary, though it is well said nonetheless: “The film’s aesthetic has annoyed many...
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Author Salon Novel Writing Program Review
Author Salon Emerging Author Interviews A Talk With Sela Gaglia About Her Writing Life and Novel TITLE: HALF THE SKY GENRE: Upmarket COMPS: THE YELLOW BIRDS by Kevin Powers meets WAR BRIDES by Helen...
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eSCENE Fall 2013 best of the LITERARY JOURNALS Poetry Rebecca Foust, “Refrain” from Mudlark: http://mudlark.webdelsol.com/flashes/foust.html Stanley Plumly, “Archaic Torso of the Sun God Apollo as a...
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Michael Neff of Algonkian Writer Conferences Talks Storyboarding
STORYBOARD CONSIDERATIONS FOR PRODUCING EFFECTIVE SCENES by Michael Neff For utilization in Algonkian workshops and Author Salon modules If you’re working on a commercial fiction or narrative...
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New York Pitch Conference Reviews – Dialogue With an Author
INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR KIM BOYKIN – A REVIEW OF THE NEW YORK PITCH CONFERENCE ( by Algonkian Writer Conferences ) AWC: What is the backstory of Kim Boykin? You’re working with the South Carolina writers...
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Author Salon Solves The Quiet Novel
Below are a series of articles written by Michael Neff, contributing editor to Author Salon and all dedicated to solving the quiet novel. A SMART DOSE OF ANTAGONISTIC FORCE AT AUTHOR SALON What chances...
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