Another alumni from The Publishing Spot school of hard knocks has graduated to a 10,000 word cover story in the world's best adventure magazine.
John Coyne noticed that our friend Tony D'Souza has been covering a nightmarish murder trial for Outside magazine, telling the story of an American tourist sentenced to 30 years in Nicaraguan prison for a murder he says he didn't commit. Check out the Death in Paradise podcast for more.
Need some inspiration to read and think about a book? Author Richard Powers sums up the power of a good book review. It's such a nice quote that I had to include the whole thing: "The reviewer becomes yet another character in the contested collisions that narrative unfolds. I know a good review – whether I’ve read the book under review or not – when I finish the review thinking about the world differently than when I began it." (Thanks, Sarah Weinman)
Broke? Unpublished? No problem! Smith Magazine links to three great writing contests for stories about dad's, rejections, and social networking failures. Start writing today...
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