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Archive for May 2008

Help… There’s a Mad Woman in my Tardis!

Posted by: allanmayer on: May 28, 2008

2007 was an annus horribilis…
Things just seemed to go wrong. I actually put a blog on my MySpace page entitled ‘Victor Meldrew Week,’ because of the number of times in one week I said the words ‘I don’t believe it!’
People I cared for died. I was in a car accident which wrote off my car [...]

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I referred previously to Johnboy and his unwitting stumble into vanity publishing. I won’t be dealing with that subject here- just Google ‘Vanity Press’ and you will find endless websites and blogs with a message which can be summed up in three words: don’t do it!
What I’m more interested in here [...]

Has anyone out there seen Frontlist ?

Posted by: allanmayer on: May 22, 2008

After a chance encounter in the Apocalyptic wastelands of Golganooza, I went to the highly recommended ‘Frontlist.’
Now this is kosher- it even got a mention in the ‘Writers’ and artists’ yearbook.
You upload your synopsis and sample chapters. These are reviewed by others who have sent in their work.
In return, you have to review the contributions [...]