Deevotions: Lent

I am building a superblog for Gospelfiction.com. Stay tuned for its relaunch. A part of this relaunch is my new blog-Deevotions. From now until Easter it will feature my own Lent Devotions. Please stop by and use it as a spiritual tool. If you would like to contribute to the 2007 Lent Devotion please leave a comment or email me off loop.

Dee

CWMG: Fillers Pay Big

When a writer asks me how do you get paid writing gigs. The first thing I tell them is that you need to build a relationship with every magazine you love. The best way to do that is to introduce yourself to the editors who handle snippets or fillers.

What are fillers? letters, jokes, tips, anecdotes, prayers, news briefs, statistics and recipes. If you think about when you blog those are fillers you can sale or give to a nonpaying periodical( like your local Christian newspaper, your church newsletter or the local papers.) I've been paid anywhere from $10-$100 for fillers.

Where can I get filler work?

If you take a deeper look at Sally E. Stuart's 2Christian Writers' Market Guide 2007: The Essential Reference Tool for the Christian Writer (Christian Writers' Market Guide), you will find the filler section around page 267. Here she provides a listing of which magazines take fillers. She even breaks it down into what type of fillers each periodical tape.

Let me give you a tip that isn't in her market guide.

Publicists need writers to provide fillers for their clients. They don't have the time to review every book and CD that their clients produce. So they will pay you to read and provide a review. The trick is to make sure they use your byline and pay you for the review. Because sometimes they may submit your review to a major magazine. You can also find Christian publicists in the Christian Writer's Market Guide.


Anecdotes

Christian Writer's Market Guide

How to use the 2007

Christian Writer's Market Guide
by Sally Stuart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Sally E. Stuart is the author of thirty-four books and has sold more than one thousand articles and columns. Her long-term involvement with the Christian Writers' Market Guide as well as her marketing columns for the Christian Communicator, Oregon Christian Writers, and The Advanced Christian Writer, make her a sought-after speaker and a leading authority on Christian markets and the business of writing. Stuart is the mother of three and grandmother of eight.

ABOUT THE BOOK

For more than twenty years, the Christian Writers’ Market Guide has offered indispensable help to Christian writers. This year, for the first time, this valuable resource comes with a CD-ROM of the full text, so you can search with ease for topics, publishers, and other specific names.

The 2007 edition also includes up-to-date listings of more than 1,200 markets for books, articles, stories, poetry, and greeting cards, including information on forty new book publishers, eighty-three new periodicals, and thirty-four new literary agents. Perfect for writers in every phase, this is the resource to get noticed–and get published.

It contains listings for: 695 periodicals, 228 poetry markets, 355 book publishers, 133 online publications, 29 print-on-demand publishers, 1185 markets for the written word, 321 photography markets, 31 e-book publishers, 122 foriegn markets, 112 literary agents,and 59 newspapers.

It also gives you comprehensive lists of contests, writers groups and conferences, search engines, pay rates and submission guidelines, editorial services and websites.

Christian Writers’ Market Guide is a "must have' for any serious Christian writer that is looking to get published!

The book link is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1400071259

Sally's website is: http://www.stuartmarket.com/

Tomorrow we will take a deeper look at this book, and see how you can find yourself a writing opportunity before easter.

More dates for Tyler Perry's "What's Done in The Dark"

Charleston, SC	Charleston Conv. Center	Feb. 13. 2007
Columbia, SC	Township Auditorium	Feb. 15. 2007
Syracuse, NY	Landmark Theatre	Feb. 20. 2007
Hartford, CT	The Bushnell-Mortensen Hall	Feb. 23. 2007
Nashville, TN	TPAC-Andrew Jackson Hall	Mar. 01. 2007
Milwaukee, WI	Milwaukee Theatre	Mar. 09. 2007
Minneapolis, MN	Orpheum Theatre	Mar. 16. 2007
Dallas, TX	Music Hall At Fair Park	Mar. 22. 2007
Houston, TX	Jones Hall	Apr. 05. 2007
Orlando, FL	Orange County Convention Center	Apr. 13. 2007
Miami, FL	James L. Knight Center	Apr. 17. 2007
Richmond, VA	Landmark Theatre	Apr. 24. 2007
Hampton, VA	Hampton Coliseum	Apr. 28. 2007

Dee's 2007 Lent Devotion Info

Ok. It's the Second Monday of the month, so of course, I'm talking at The Master's Artist this morning. We are discussing my plans for this year's Lent and giving you details about my upcoming Lent Devotion, which will be featured here. If you would like to participate in the 2007 Lent Devotion for Artist, contact me or leave me a comment. Now go over to TMA to read about Lent, Candy and the dead people in the Golden Corral buffet line here.

Quick question: will you be participating in Lent this year?

Dee

Happy Belated Birthday to Me

Thanks to all of you who wore red last Friday in my honor. I really appreciated it. I have a lot to post, but little time. Stop by The MAster's Artist blog on Monday, as I talk about Lent and a fast for writers. Pray for Selah. She has X-Rays this afternoon. Keep writing.

As a birthday gift to meu, leave me an excerpt of your WIPs. Email them or trackback them..

Dee

Drake's Debut

I often here horror stories about great writers who don't get the media attention they deserve. But in the past few months Portland phenom, Monika Drake's name has been drizzling down to Atlanta. She has finally published her novel, Clown Girl: A Novel(hold your mouse over this title to see something cool.) And from what I've read so far she deserves all the praise. But I wonder...are most authors willing to put the time in like she has done, willing to work their own community before they want to go national? Maybe it's me. I don't feel like enough ATLaliens know about my writing. I haven't done any readings this year. I think I need to plug into town, host a spring reader series. Just thinking....Here's an excerpt. Note Clown Girl isn't Christian Fiction, so don't clown with me in the comments about it. Kay?

Chapter 1.

The Clown Falls Down; or, Sniffles Stumbles

An excerpt from the novel by MONICA DRAKE

Balloon Tying for Christ was the cheapest balloon manual I could find. The day I bought it, it was hidden on the lowest rung of a dusty spinner rack down at Callan's Novelties, snuggled alongside shopworn how-to guides: Travel Europe by Clown Circuit!, Rubber Vomit Skits for Beginners, and Latex: The Beauty of Cuts, Bruises, Scars, and Contusions.

Want to tie the Virgin Mary? Start with a light blue balloon. For Jesus, use Easter green. There are tips on tying a crucifix, a lamb, even a Sacred Heart in two sizes, big or small. Ooo la la! These tricks are simple but smart. The grand finale is the pietÀ, Mary with a grown Jesus sprawled across her lap in a four-balloon extravaganza like a tangled link of sausages, or a Japanese bondage trick. The pietÀ or bondage, sacred and profane; in balloon art the two are that close together, one thin twist.