Blog Entries - October 2007

Ways to kick start your writing sessions

scififan

Hey all — a few tips, for blog writing in particular, but I thought they'd be applicable to writing of all kinds — here you go!

Blogging can bring your business exposure, credibility, and whole lot more revenue - so it's in your best interest to deliver a steady stream of powerful writing. But for a lot of us, that's a tall order. If you're finding your creative juices running a little dry, this list of quick and easy tips is sure to get them flowing again. < [...]

Robert Pinsky to recieve Ibbetson Street Press Award

DougHolder

(Somerville, Mass.) Somerville's Ibbetson Street Press will be awarding former U.S. poet/laureate Robert Pinsky the Ibbetson Street Press Lifetime Achievement Award at the Somerville News Writers Festival, Nov. 11, 2007 7PM at the Dilboy VFW Hall ( 371 Summer St.) Davis Square, Somerville. The award, like the festival, is in its fifth year. It is awarded to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the poetry and or the small or alt [...]

SHALLA CHATS on YouTube.com

ahadadabooks

New Releases!

Who's on SHALLA CHATS?

Know who Shalla has interviewed?

Maybe you'll be next?

Turn up the volume...

watch the video

Hear our musician, Moose (Mooska), with his reggae/ska, other, acoustic blues, roots, leftfield music.

Featuring: Dorchester author, Tess Mallory;

Artscape author, Fred [...]

Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock

DougHolder

BLOOD SOAKED DRESSES BY GLORIA MINDOCK

Published by Ibbetson Street Press

Now available for ordering ar http://www.lulu.com/content/1172519

This poetry book is about the atrocities committed in El Salvador during the civil war from 1980-1992. It is based on my talks with El Salvadoran refugees [...]

The Virtual Book Tour

rkelly

Cheryl Kaye Tardif, the author of The River, Divine Intervention and the Amazon bestseller Whale Song in this blog post, writes about the virtual book tour.

Lots of cool ideas there:

Virtual book tours (also known as virtual author tours, guest blogging, blog tours, or VBTs are a simple concept. The author "tours" various blogs and sites that pertain to a theme in the book or to writing in general. This way, you can potentially reach thousands of avid readers each tour d [...]

Quote Abuse

stevenl

Oh man, just found this blog after trolling through some of the other posts. It's totally my thing! The "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks-making fun of bad punctuation since 2005. Check it out here.

From an associated press article on the blog:

The blog wasn't noticed much at first. But about six months ago, things started picking up. "You know how it happens _ one person links to you, then others do. Also, everyone has camera phones no [...]

Die Hyphen Die!

dsendecki

Hey smallpressers — throught you would find the following post (from my personal blog) of interest — if not, move along, nothing to see here!

Of primary interest to me, as of late, is the use of the hyphen-particularly as it relates to foreign words (especially Japanese)-as we work through Yoko Danno's translation of the Kojiki. I prefer to use them only where it is established convention to do so or where omission would result in ambiguity or confusion. My mantra: when [...]