Publishing opportunities…
Tar River Poetry – Poetry – September 30 (submission fee)
Disco Kitchen – Prose & Poetry – General – October 31 (submission fee)
Hushmarrow Press – Prose – The things we bury – November 15
Odd Lobster Press – Prose & Poetry – November 23
Leveraging print sales…
Author and publisher Mark Leslie Lefebvre will be releasing A Book In Hand in November 2026, a guide to help authors optimize their print sales. Early access and all of the details are available via Mark’s just-launched Kickstarter.
A local book festival…
Booktoberfest is coming to Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, home of Oktoberfest. On October 3rd Gaukel Block will host in downtown Kitchener, and on Oct 10 the festival will be in uptown Waterloo at Old Goat books. Meet local authors, get a jump on the holidays, or pick up some new reads for yourself!
A resource to ramp up the stress…
I’ve recently picked up Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi’s The Emotion Amplifier Thesaurus (Second Ed), one of the only titles from their collection I didn’t already have. While The Emotion Thesaurus focuses on character expression, this volume is to help you write character stress. And what character doesn’t need more stress?
Quote of the week…
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” – Carl Sagan
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