WEALTH OF IDEAS

Thanks to TaniaWrites for the announcement posted on her blog. Gore rino ndoda kumbeodzawo kuita zvemakwikwi izvi. So here are the details of an upcoming Flash Fiction contest deadline: The Dublin Review of Books has announced its second Flash Fiction Contest. They say: "The prize will bring recognition to distinguished flash fiction writing from within Ireland and around the world." Winner receives €1,000. Second and third place will each receive €100. The top three stories will appear in The Dublin Review of Books . Final judging will be made by authors James Ryan, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne and an editor from the drb. G UIDELINES : • Submit up to 3 flash fiction stories of no more than 500 words apiece. Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are not accepted. Copyright will remain with winning authors. The drb reserves the rights to use winning entries up to one year after publication. • Manuscripts must include a cover letter containing...

Book publishing has a new tool, the blog book tour, which is defined by The New York Times as a tour "in which an author pops up on a series of blogs, usually over days or weeks, variously writing guest posts, answering questions from the host or sitting for a podcast, a video interview or a live chat. The blogs’ readers may comment and leave more questions." These appearances in different blogs have links to the author's book or books, giving readers access to online stores like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders and others. In the last quarter of 2008, I followed one author's blog book tour. Tania Hershman , author of The White Road , toured more than ten blogs in different countries for eleven weeks. I came to know about her tour through one of the host blogs, Thoughts from Botswana , where the blogger, Lauri Kabuitsile, interviewed her. The Botswana trip, which Hershman did without leaving Israel, was her tenth blog stop. All the entries which featured interview...