Portland Event of the Week: 4/24

Stumptown Comics Fest!! I will be going to the Comics Fest this Saturday, and I wanted to let everyone else know about it: It’s Saturday and Sunday at the Lloyd Center Doubletree, and it’s only $6. Here’s the “About”: The Stumptown Comics Fest was started almost on a whim in 2004 by a small group of Portland-area [...]

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Writing Contest for PSU

Sixth Annual Ooligan Editors’ Choice Fiction Contest Sponsored by Portland State University’s Publishing Program and Ooligan Press The Advanced Book Editing class wants your stories! Submit your original short story on the theme MAKING MONSTERS. The Ooligan Press Editors will carefully select and professionally edit the five entries that best exemplify originality, reader appeal, and [...]

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Friday Font 4/23

This is a picture font …. how awesome is that?!?

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Calling First Time Writers

Hey Writers who Read this Blog! My book marketing teacher mentioned a publishing company called PUSH. I went on the site, and now I’m really intrigued. When I called self-publishing vanity publishing, someone commented that big publishers NEVER publish first time authors. But PUSH only publishes first time authors! Perhaps that’s exactly what we need: [...]

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Best Author Put Downs

My friend James has the best shirt – I’ve actually tried to steal it twice (I “borrowed” it once after my own shirt got a coffee stain, but he came to my house and stole it back!) and it lists a bunch of Shakespearean insults. But when I ran across this article the other day, [...]

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Amazon Suing North Carolina – AWESOME

I worked in a library for two years, in college, and so I always find the discussions about secure information and privacy very interesting. Personally, the only reason I wouldn’t want someone to have my reading/book buying history is because I’d have to be embarrassed about how many romance and kids books I read. But [...]

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Scary, Creepy Music + Book Cover = Good Trailer

Just watched this book trailer. I’ve been avoiding romance trailers, not because I don’t read romance (I do!), but because I don’t need to hear sappy music and see half naked men. This romance book trailer has neither – but it does have creepy music (especially when you’re home all alone, and it’s dark, and [...]

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Write to Publish – BE THERE

Hey All, I assume most of the people reading this blog are interested in things literary. Why else would you be reading this? All I talk about is books! So let’s talk about books. And publishing. And graphic novels. And acquisitions. And agents. And young adult writing. And…..everything else? I can’t talk about everything and [...]

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