Looking through my email, I found an interesting reference that might be useful: The Manuscript Wishlist . I found it in, hmm, have to go find the name of the email message where I got it. Be right back with that! Aha! Here it is: I got it from the Writer's Digest listserv. Brian A. Klems, online editor, announced a twitter event set for Tuesday, July 21st, with an agent ready for pitches and someone else chatting. The Manuscript Wishlist was the hashtag (?). I have a twitter account, and I've been known to retwit, but I don't really know how to tweet, etc. So my apologies to all who follow me on twitter, especially if you expect to hear from me that way. I prefer straight email or maybe facebook. Other than that, telephones work best for me. What a Luddite I am!
Friday, July 17, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
another literary agency
Just a quick look at another literary agency that might be a possibility for my work: that is the Irene Goodman Literary Agency . I like her idea of the Power Summit to help an author's career progress. Irene is interested in middle grade and YA and historical fiction, all of which interest me. She is also interested in "Francophilia"--hmm. Maybe something there.
Others in her agency are Beth and Barbara who have interests I don't share, but Rachel looks for young adult and new adult, also mysteries and thrillers--and "well-written narrative nonfiction."
Others in her agency are Beth and Barbara who have interests I don't share, but Rachel looks for young adult and new adult, also mysteries and thrillers--and "well-written narrative nonfiction."
Saturday, June 13, 2015
Recipe for Welsh Cakes
I'm taking this recipe from a book published by the The Vancouver Welsh Society . The book is called Cambrian Cooks, printed and bound by Rasmussen Company, Winnipeg, in 2009. The original recipe is found on page 52, and is by Katie Hughes Perrin Christopher, titled "Auntie Katie's Welsh Cakes." I made them for the first time a couple of nights ago, to distribute to the children in the elementary school where I volunteer--a "happy summer" gift before the end of the school term. I typed out the recipe and included it in the baggie, along with a juice box.
The recipe goes like this: Sift together 3 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 cup white sugar, and add a dash of salt. Then cut in 1/2 lb butter (about a cup) and add 1/2 cup currants. In a cup, mix 1 tbsp whole milk and one egg. Then add that to the rest of the ingredients.
Then, for the children who might be helping Mom or Dad with this recipe, I advised that they have "CLEAN, DRY, WARM hands" to knead the dough for about 10 minutes. Set the dough on a floured board and roll it to 1/4 inch (about 1/2 centimetre) thickness. Cut the dough into small rounds using a cookie cutter or the rim of a small glass. Cook the cakes on a greased griddle or electric fry pan, turning once, to a golden brown colour.
The recipe says it makes 32 cakes, but I guess mine were smaller because I got about 45 cakes. My husband said they were the best Welsh Cakes he'd ever had. :) After all, I had to give a couple to him to test them. Right? Of course right.
The recipe goes like this: Sift together 3 cups all-purpose flour, 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg, 1 tsp baking powder, 1/4 cup white sugar, and add a dash of salt. Then cut in 1/2 lb butter (about a cup) and add 1/2 cup currants. In a cup, mix 1 tbsp whole milk and one egg. Then add that to the rest of the ingredients.
Then, for the children who might be helping Mom or Dad with this recipe, I advised that they have "CLEAN, DRY, WARM hands" to knead the dough for about 10 minutes. Set the dough on a floured board and roll it to 1/4 inch (about 1/2 centimetre) thickness. Cut the dough into small rounds using a cookie cutter or the rim of a small glass. Cook the cakes on a greased griddle or electric fry pan, turning once, to a golden brown colour.
The recipe says it makes 32 cakes, but I guess mine were smaller because I got about 45 cakes. My husband said they were the best Welsh Cakes he'd ever had. :) After all, I had to give a couple to him to test them. Right? Of course right.
marketing
Some day, I hope, I'll have to look at how to market my book(s). Ever the optimist, that's me. So when I do that, I'll take a closer look at the services offered by Raab Associates . At an SCBWI conference several years ago, I bought An Author's Guide to Children's Book Promotion by Susan Salzman Raab (published January 2004, by Raab Associates, NY.) But I'm sure there have been many changes in the past eleven years. Still, I find the information in that book helpful and encouraging, and sometimes a bit daunting. Nevertheless, I am sure this contact would be very helpful in marketing my book(s)--whenever they may be ready for that step. As I said, I'm ever the optimist.
Friday, May 29, 2015
an agency with help with query letters
This agency has an interesting blog that I follow, and some very good help with writing query letters. It is Nelson Literary Agency . Worth spending time in this site, checking out the blogs and their comments.
another literary agent
This time I'm actually a day EARLIER than my planned post because I expect to be too busy tomorrow to do much in the way of looking up agents' websites. So, today I looked at The Red Sofa Literary Agency . I looked up "submissions" on that site, and printed out the information. I got twelve pages that I'll have to go through carefully so as to decide if there is an agent there who might be interested in my work. Meanwhile, I must go back and get some of that writing work ready for submission. But first, one more agency website to look up for my next post.
Monday, May 25, 2015
May 2015 continued
The second agency I looked at today is Stonesong. I recognize one of their authors as someone I think used to be a colleague of mine when I was teaching at Vancouver Community College. Michael Buckley.
That link seemed to work, so I don't know what the problem was with the other agency's link I tried to use in the previous blog post. I tried it again just now and it still says I don't have access to that browser. Hmm.
Computers will always be a mystery to me, even though I've been using them on a daily basis since I bought my first "TRS 80" in 1984. For that one, I had to write my own program in a language called "Basic" before I could do anything with it at all. It had to be connected to a tape recorder and a TV set, too. Dinosaur days.
That link seemed to work, so I don't know what the problem was with the other agency's link I tried to use in the previous blog post. I tried it again just now and it still says I don't have access to that browser. Hmm.
Computers will always be a mystery to me, even though I've been using them on a daily basis since I bought my first "TRS 80" in 1984. For that one, I had to write my own program in a language called "Basic" before I could do anything with it at all. It had to be connected to a tape recorder and a TV set, too. Dinosaur days.
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