Opinions • Thoughts

Ideas & Excuses

“People do not seem to realize that
their opinion of the world is also
a confession of character.“
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • To the Sad Dancer and the Dancing Dead: Sidney Keyes

    Sidney Keyes is considered one of the great poets of WWII. Keyes was something of a prodigy writing more than 110 poems in his short lifetime {...}

  • Writing Query Letters

    Query Letters for book-length manuscripts and/or agent representation The last in our ‘How to Get Published’ series. This time the focus is on getting representation and writing a great query letter. As always special thanks go out to David Hicks [...]

  • Useful Websites to Help Get Published

    A list of useful websites of literary magazines, small presses, and book publishers. One of the things I’ve always been frustrated/confused/ignorant of has been the nuts and bolts of the submission process. Where to submit and when and how. Below [...]

  • Steps To Get Published

    Part two of the useful information needed to get yourself published. Okay, so you’ve found the right publisher(s) and now you want to submit your masterpiece  – what do you do? Below you will find three simple steps to follow [...]

  • Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

    Outside Iran and Persian speaking countries, Khayyám has had an impact on literature and societies through the translation of his works and popularization by other scholars [...]