November’s Shop Talk will focus on getting published.
* How to find the right market for your story
* Proper submission format
* Contract clauses to avoid
* Surefire ways to annoy an editor
Come learn the tips and tricks of getting published.
Come help us rejoice in an ill-omened birthday as Twilight Tales turns 13!
Here’s a chance to talk with your favorite authors, as we celebrate our anniversary with a cocktail party and silent auction.
The event and appetizers are free and open to everyone.
Authors and other industry professionals will receive 2 complimentary drinks, courtesy of the Red Lion Pub.
Bring your checkbooks to take part in the silent auction that will feature books, movies, gift certificates — even a BBQ grill.
(Email she@TwilightTales.com if you’d like to donate an item for the auction.)
I hope you’ll all come out tomorrow night (Monday, Nov. 13th) when Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens come to town to read from MY LOLITA COMPLEX AND OTHER TALES OF SEX AND VIOLENCE.
Come hear some great readings and get your own personalized copy of LOLITA, which just received a wonderful write-up in the Chicago Tribune books section, today.
CRIME WATCH
New, old stars shine in latest offerings
By Dick Adler
Published November 12, 2006
New in paperback: Since 1993, Twilight Tales has sponsored the reading of some lively stories on Monday nights, now at the Red Lion Pub on North Lincoln Avenue across from the Biograph Theater. Twilight Tales also publishes books, with Midwestern authors getting extra attention, and its latest, “My Lolita Complex, and Other Tales of Sex and Violence” ($12.95), is a collection of nine inventive suspense stories by Iowa colleagues Max Allan Collins, who writes everything from the excellent Nathan Heller historical mysteries to the graphic novel that became “Road to Perdition,” and Matthew V. Clemens, who has collaborated with Collins as co-plotter and forensics researcher on several “CSI” novels and many short stories.
You can see the whole article at the Chicago Tribune website or in today’s paper in the book section.
Reviewer Rod Lott says:
This is a saucy, satisfying collection of crime shorts a little more lurid, more dangerous and – perhaps most importantly – more fun than the usual fare. If you like your mysteries slightly skewed and unafraid to dip their toes in the wild side of the pool, it’s time you get a COMPLEX.
