I've ordered from this awesome printer based in the U.K., Moo.com- weird name, cool stuff.
They allow you to customize EVERY card in your stack of business cards, so if you are an illustrator, you can order a stack of cards where each one has a different image you've created on the front, like a mini portfolio you can carry with you at all times. Pull out your stack of cards showing different artwork on each piece, and let that art editor pick the card they want.
And they just did a little feature on their blog about cards for writers! How cool is that? I LOVE these!
Oh, and I wanted to share this hysterical site- Tweet in Klingon, for you die hard Star Trek fans.
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Monday, September 7, 2009
Elana Roth, Literary Agent
I promised information on Elana Roth, and here are the links to get you started until I can write a post about hearing her speak at SCBWI Western WA events this week.
Profile on agent query: http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=1027
Her own blog: http://elanaroth.com/
Caren Johnson Literary Agency blog: http://www.johnsonliterary.com/blog
Insider info from one of her local clients, David Patneaude on the SCBWI Western WA blog: http://chinookupdate.blogspot.com/2009/08/getting-to-know-elana-roth-and-david.html
Q&A on Joelle Anthony's blog March 26, 2008: http://joelleanthony.com/uncategorized/qa-with-elana-roth/
Interview on Alice's CWIM blog January 26, 2009: http://cwim.blogspot.com/2009/01/agent-interview-elana-roth.html#links
Follow her on Twitter.com: http://twitter.com/elanaroth
And if you are really nosy with time on your hands:
Check out her pottery: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7348580
Her photostream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elanaroth/
Profile on agent query: http://agentquery.com/agent.aspx?agentid=1027
Her own blog: http://elanaroth.com/
Caren Johnson Literary Agency blog: http://www.johnsonliterary.com/blog
Insider info from one of her local clients, David Patneaude on the SCBWI Western WA blog: http://chinookupdate.blogspot.com/2009/08/getting-to-know-elana-roth-and-david.html
Q&A on Joelle Anthony's blog March 26, 2008: http://joelleanthony.com/uncategorized/qa-with-elana-roth/
Interview on Alice's CWIM blog January 26, 2009: http://cwim.blogspot.com/2009/01/agent-interview-elana-roth.html#links
Follow her on Twitter.com: http://twitter.com/elanaroth
And if you are really nosy with time on your hands:
Check out her pottery: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7348580
Her photostream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elanaroth/
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Fall Programming Is Set- Time to Renew or Join SCBWI Western Washington
Fall is on it's way, and with it, a whole new year of SCBWI Western Washington offerings View speakers and opportunities to have your work viewed by publishing pros here.
We'll kick-off fall with chances to meet with and learn from Elana Roth, agent with Caren Johnson Literary Agency in limited space paid sessions in addition the usual presentation. I'll post more links from the web about her in a later post.
One of the other extra opportunities is from Gergory K. Pincus, screenwriter (Little Big League and movies for ABC, NBC, the Disney Channel among other credits), poet, guy who has a middle grade novel, The 14 Fabulous Fibs of Gregory K. under contract with Arthur A. Levine, and man who loves social media.
His own site: http://www.thehappyaccident.net/
His blog: http://gottabook.blogspot.com/
He's a contributor on: http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com/
His profile on IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0683912/ if you want to see more film/TV credits
Should you search for him on the web, do not confuse him with endocrinologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus, the now deceased scientist to created the Pill.
We'll kick-off fall with chances to meet with and learn from Elana Roth, agent with Caren Johnson Literary Agency in limited space paid sessions in addition the usual presentation. I'll post more links from the web about her in a later post.
One of the other extra opportunities is from Gergory K. Pincus, screenwriter (Little Big League and movies for ABC, NBC, the Disney Channel among other credits), poet, guy who has a middle grade novel, The 14 Fabulous Fibs of Gregory K. under contract with Arthur A. Levine, and man who loves social media.
His own site: http://www.thehappyaccident.net/
His blog: http://gottabook.blogspot.com/
He's a contributor on: http://guyslitwire.blogspot.com/
His profile on IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0683912/ if you want to see more film/TV credits
Should you search for him on the web, do not confuse him with endocrinologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus, the now deceased scientist to created the Pill.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Social networks- how well do you really want to know me?
I am sure that I am not the first person to ponder the concept of a Facebook "friend", and come to the conclusion that they are really "acquaintances". I've seen Facebook and MySpace pages with hundreds, even thousands, of "friends" and let's be honest-
No one has hundreds of real friends.
We have piles of acquaintances.
Don't get me wrong- I enjoy my acquaintances. I just don't like the usage of the term "friend" on social networks. I think of "Friends" as the traditional form of friend- people who I try to get together with on some regular basis, albeit infrequently. People I want to spend time with in person. People who get put on the calendar, even if it is only once a year. They are Friends with a capital "F". My point is, my Friends don't need Facebook to find out what is happening in my personal life. If you are close enough to me to wonder about what's up in my personal life, please e-mail me or let's chat in one of our occasional face to face social moments--you already know that I am not a phone person.
Maybe it is different for other people, but beyond my Friends, most people who send me Facebook requests are acquaintances, or "friends" (little "f"). I know that to them, I am an acquaintance, someone they know, a friend of a friend. Sadly, I know less about them and I have seen less of them in the last year than the people who work at the local Target, PCC Natural Market and restaurants.
Come to think of it, if I am going to keep up with MyFaceAcquaintanceBook, THOSE are also the people I should connect with. I have no problem adding far-flung friend/acquaintances to my broader network, but in this era of expanding to a global life, and knowing people in cyberspace, I particularly feel the need to reach out locally, too. I eat predominantly local organic food (although I do slum at fast food drive-ins and such when the schedule is tight), I buy books from small local retailers, only resorting to the large ones when I can't find something (but hey, at least Amazon is a local business for me), and my spouse works in a local bank where clients are known by names, not numbers, and they can see bank employees face to face just by walking into their local branch (no caveats here, it's true!).
Why not friend locally, too? You know, like that old Sesame Street song: "Who are the the people in your neighborhood?" The nice lady at The French Bakery who always puts something extra in the pastry box. The smiling octogenarian in the fast food lane who hands me my bag of naughtiness and waves. The postal carrier with the slicked-back 1950's greaser do and the cool leather cuffs with metal spikes. These are the peeps I should get to know better--they already know more about me than my Friends -like I use those 40%-off and monthly 10%-off coupons religiously, I usually order the Baja combo with extra tortillas, and that I prefer Kleenex brand tissues. If you are one of the people in my new "friending" experiment, welcome!
So, I will add people to my lists, Friends and friends alike, but keep in mind that I feel terrible sending out uninteresting info about myself. I'm just not conceited enough to think that someone cares if I tweet that I am in line to have my tires rotated or debating over the advantages of velcro over duct tape, so I won't do personal stuff very often.
I WILL, however, tell people what is going on in my professional life, and some of that may include all sorts of strange tangential personal things, like learning all about jazz, or carpet sharks, or the name of the angel responsible for teaching mankind about root-cutting. Friend or friend, you'll get to know me better. I'll usually save this sort of detail for my blogs, but you will hear me tweet or post on Facebook the next time I have news to say, like "Sold yet another book to giant New York publishing house. Yawn. hope it does as well as my last best-seller."
Well, I am a fiction writer, after all...
No one has hundreds of real friends.
We have piles of acquaintances.
Don't get me wrong- I enjoy my acquaintances. I just don't like the usage of the term "friend" on social networks. I think of "Friends" as the traditional form of friend- people who I try to get together with on some regular basis, albeit infrequently. People I want to spend time with in person. People who get put on the calendar, even if it is only once a year. They are Friends with a capital "F". My point is, my Friends don't need Facebook to find out what is happening in my personal life. If you are close enough to me to wonder about what's up in my personal life, please e-mail me or let's chat in one of our occasional face to face social moments--you already know that I am not a phone person.
Maybe it is different for other people, but beyond my Friends, most people who send me Facebook requests are acquaintances, or "friends" (little "f"). I know that to them, I am an acquaintance, someone they know, a friend of a friend. Sadly, I know less about them and I have seen less of them in the last year than the people who work at the local Target, PCC Natural Market and restaurants.
Come to think of it, if I am going to keep up with MyFaceAcquaintanceBook, THOSE are also the people I should connect with. I have no problem adding far-flung friend/acquaintances to my broader network, but in this era of expanding to a global life, and knowing people in cyberspace, I particularly feel the need to reach out locally, too. I eat predominantly local organic food (although I do slum at fast food drive-ins and such when the schedule is tight), I buy books from small local retailers, only resorting to the large ones when I can't find something (but hey, at least Amazon is a local business for me), and my spouse works in a local bank where clients are known by names, not numbers, and they can see bank employees face to face just by walking into their local branch (no caveats here, it's true!).
Why not friend locally, too? You know, like that old Sesame Street song: "Who are the the people in your neighborhood?" The nice lady at The French Bakery who always puts something extra in the pastry box. The smiling octogenarian in the fast food lane who hands me my bag of naughtiness and waves. The postal carrier with the slicked-back 1950's greaser do and the cool leather cuffs with metal spikes. These are the peeps I should get to know better--they already know more about me than my Friends -like I use those 40%-off and monthly 10%-off coupons religiously, I usually order the Baja combo with extra tortillas, and that I prefer Kleenex brand tissues. If you are one of the people in my new "friending" experiment, welcome!
So, I will add people to my lists, Friends and friends alike, but keep in mind that I feel terrible sending out uninteresting info about myself. I'm just not conceited enough to think that someone cares if I tweet that I am in line to have my tires rotated or debating over the advantages of velcro over duct tape, so I won't do personal stuff very often.
I WILL, however, tell people what is going on in my professional life, and some of that may include all sorts of strange tangential personal things, like learning all about jazz, or carpet sharks, or the name of the angel responsible for teaching mankind about root-cutting. Friend or friend, you'll get to know me better. I'll usually save this sort of detail for my blogs, but you will hear me tweet or post on Facebook the next time I have news to say, like "Sold yet another book to giant New York publishing house. Yawn. hope it does as well as my last best-seller."
Well, I am a fiction writer, after all...
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