[donaldscrankshaw] Donald: Festival of Faith and Writing Report

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Festival of Faith and Writing Report
http://www.donaldscrankshaw.com/posts/1209867147.shtml


   I've been meaning to write up a report on this for a little while, but
   I've just now gotten to it. As I said [1]earlier, two weeks ago I went
   to a Christian writing conference. Aside from attending a number of
   talks by writers, editors, and publishers, I talked to several
   publishers and convinced two to take a look at my book proposal. I
   haven't heard anything back yet, but I'd be surprised if I had. I
   won't go into all the advice I heard about writing and
   publishing--some of it was good, some of it was okay, and much of it
   was contradictory. Writers are always telling you how to write, yet no
   two seem to write the same way. I met Dave Long of [2]Faith*in*Fiction
   there (and convinced him to look at my proposal, and talked to an old
   high school friend.
   It was fun, but what I think may be useful to you is to talk about
   some of the publishers who are looking for submissions. If you have a
   story or book you want to get published, then these aren't bad places
   to start:
     * [3]Creative Byline - This isn't a publisher so much as an
       intermediary between publishers and writers. For a modest fee
       ($19), you can submit manuscripts, get feedback from first
       readers, and submit it to editors who are interested in your type
       of work. Now, I don't know how well this works, and they are
       fairly new, but what caught my eye was that among the publishers
       who signed on are Tor and Forge, who publish science fiction and
       fantasy. As they aren't very expensive (about what it would cost
       to send a manuscript via snail mail), they may be worth taking a
       chance on.
     * [4]theotherjournal.com - a Christian online quarterly for the
       discussion of faith and culture.
     * [5]Coach's Midnight Journal - A yearly journal of Christina genre
       fiction, including horror, crime, mystery, and paranormal.
     * [6]Coach's Midnight Journal - A yearly journal of Christina genre
       fiction, including horror, crime, mystery, and paranormal.">Relief
       - A quarterly journal of Christian literary fiction. Coach's
       Midnight Journal grew out of it. Cause great genre fiction needs
       to go somewhere.

   There are some others, but those are the ones for the fiction I write.
   I may put up something for some of the others later.

References

   1. http://www.donaldscrankshaw.com/posts/1206843307.shtml
   2. http://faithinfiction.blogspot.com/
   3. http://www.creativebyline.com/
   4. http://theotherjournal.com/
   5. http://www.themidnightdiner.com/
   6. file://localhost/var/www/powerblogs/donaldscrankshaw/posts/<a%20href=