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Giveaway: Save The Cat! by Blake Snyder

December 7, 2020Contests, LiteraryAdapt, Adult, advise, Authors, プレゼント, แจก, Blake Snyder, Cadeau, Career, Поддавки, 공짜, 贈品, Film, Formula, Giveaway, Hierdie 1994 het Die, Improve, Industry, Jessica Brody, Magbigay ng kaaway, Manuscript, Middle Grade, Novel, Prozradí, Publishing, Save The Cat!, Save The Cat! Writes A Novel, Screenplay, Sorteo, Tabhair, Teach, Werbegeschenk, Writers, Young Adult, الهبهpdpabst

As writer’s, we are always looking for ways to improve our writing. We will accept advise from authors, editors, or anyone in the publishing industry. One book that has gotten great acclaim for teaching writers is Save The Cat! by Blake Snyder. While this is geared toward screenplay writers, it has helped the careers of many novel writers. Which led to it being adapted into Save The Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody.

So, for holiday cheer, I’m giving away both! One for a writer interested in the screeplay version and one to an author interested in the novel version. Constest ends December 21, 2021 at 12:00am.

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As always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

Remote Internship: Penguin Random House

August 5, 2020Internship, LiteraryAcquisition, Adult, Application, Apply, Authors, インターンシップ, ฝึกงาน, Backend Duties, Behind-The-Scenes, books, Candidates, Career, Children's, College, Contracts, Creative Industry, Deadline, Drafting, Стаж, Стажировки, Стажування, Editing, Editorial, Estágio, Evaluate, Fall 2020, Flexible, Galuega faataitai, Genre, Gyakorlat, Industry, Intéirneacht, Interests, Intern, Interniaeth, Internskap, 인턴쉽, Οικοτροφείο, Knowledge, Literary, Magang, Manuscripts, Marketing, Media, Meetings, New York, No Experience, Opportunity, Organized, Package, Paid, pasantía, Penguin Random House, Praktik, Praktikum, Publishing, Reader, Reading, Recommendations, Records, Remote, Reports, research, Resume, Slush, Social media, Stage, Stagiu, Staj, Stáž, Stories, Student, Submissions, Tập, Title Information, Trends, Underrepresented Groups, کارآموزی, Virtual, Writers, 实习, 實習。pdpabst

Penguin Random House is offering their first paid remote internship! It will be available for their adult or children’s editorial department. Editors decides whether or not to pursue stories for acquisition and works with authors to turn their manuscript into a finished book. They negotiate contracts, edit the books for content, structure and on a line-by-line basis, and collaborate with internal departments on how to package, market, and publicize the book.

Specific responsibilities may include:

Reading, evaluating, and responding to slush, agented submissions, and contracted works
Writing reports and copy
Updating title information sheets
Attending virtual meetings with department
Researching consumer interests and identifying trends via social media and other outlets
Competitive title research

Fall interns work 14 hours per week and are paid $20hr. Intern schedules will be flexible to account for candidates who may be located in a variety of time zones. To be eligible, you can be a rising college senior, a graduate; and/or any candidate available for full-time employment within 6 months to 1 year. (You need not be enrolled in college or have a degree to apply to the internship program.) No experience is required! The Fall 2020 Remote Internship Program is intended to provide opportunities for racially/ethnically underrepresented groups in the publishing industry.

The internship program runs from September 28, 2020 – November 20, 2020 and the application deadline is August 16, 2020. To apply, submit your resume using their online application process. Cover letters are encouraged and they suggest that you indicate if you have a preference for working with adult or children’s books, or if you are particularly interested in any genre(s).

As always, good luck!

P.D Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction

Think of changing agents? I have a friend currently considering this, so when I read the below blog post (scroll for link), I felt this was something very relevant to share. Sometimes it’s necessary to move your writing career forward to change an agent, but can be scary because no one wants to be in the query trenches again.

I’ve heard some writer’s gasp when they hear an author wants to switch their agent because they don’t understand the reasons. One popular reason is because an agent that signed an author on their adult fantasy doesn’t want to represent the writer’s new manuscript that’s a middle grade historical fiction, or doesn’t represent middle grade at all. I’ve read several articles over the years regarding why writer’s would consider making a change. This past weekend, I read another great blog post on this subject by Dahlia Adler and thought I’d share. I’ve followed her for several years (on Twitter and her blog) and definitely recommend subscribing to her newsletter.

So, for anyone considering changing their agent, or curious to know why someone would change an agent, here is her very informative article with things to consider when doing new research:

via Mid-Career Querying and Other Stuff We Don’t Talk About

Summer Internship: Inkwell Management

May 15, 2019Internship, LiteraryAdministrative, Agency, agent, Authors, Career, Contracts, Editors, Experience, Foreign Rights, Guidance, Industry, InkWell Management, Interns, Learning, Librarians, Literary, Manuscripts, New York, Opportunity, Publishing, Publishing Trends, Query, Social media, Submissions, Summer, Tasks, Understanding, Unpaid, Writerspdpabst

InkWell Management is looking for a summer intern! This position helps read and evaluate queries and manuscripts and helps with general administrative tasks which are designed to better understand the workings of a literary agency. InkWell states that this experience includes: learning about the submission process to editors, discussions of the latest developments in industry trends, gaining an understanding of different royalty reports, and guidance on furthering a career in publishing. Interns will also learn about foreign rights, contracts, publicity and the use of social media in publishing.

The location for this internship is New York and is unpaid. If interested, email cover letter and resume in the body of the email (no attachments) to: hiring@inkwellmanagement.com. Type in subject line: Summer 2019 Internship. InkWell requests no phone calls regarding this opportunity.

As always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

Creative Capital Art & Literature Direct Funding and Career Development Contest

February 23, 2018Contests, LiteraryAnimation, Architecture, Art, Artists, Authors, books, Budget, Career, Creative Capital, Dance, Design, Development, Disciplines, Fiction, Film, Funded, Funding, Games, Guidelines, Investing, Letter of Inquiry, Literature, Manuscripts, Media, Monetary Prize, Money, Multimedia, Music Theater, Non-Fiction, Opportunity, Painting, Performing, Photography, Poetry, Project, Rules, Sculpture, Stories, Sustainable Practices, Video, Vision, Visual, Work, Works On Paper, Writerspdpabst

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Creative Capital is helping artists working in all creative disciplines realize their vision and build sustainable practices. Creative Capital provides each funded project with up to $50,000 in direct funding and career development services valued at $45,000, for a total commitment of up to $95,000 per project.

Um, need I repeat that? Up to $95,000!

This month (February 2018), they are accepting submissions in 34 disciplines. These include works in film, literature, performing arts, visual arts, and a number of other media. Here are some of the works they’ll consider:

Animation
Architecture
Dance
Design
Music-Theater
Documentary Film
Narrative Film
Games
Photography
Video Art
Painting
Poetry
Sculpture
Multimedia
Works On Paper
And much, much more!

For a complete list of projects and guidelines, go here. But hurry, the deadline to send Letters of Inquiry and budget is February 28, 2018. And as always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

Encouragement for the Day!

February 9, 2017Literary, UncategorizedAdult Fiction, Agents, Authors, Beta readers, books, Career, Chances, Contracts, Critique Partners, Day Job, Don't Give Up, Editing, Editors, Encouragement, Failures, Feedback, Inspiration, Keep Going, Manuscripts, Middle Grade Fiction, Non-Fiction, Publishing, Stories, Success, Try, Working, Writers, Young-adult fictionpdpabst

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The difficulties of writing a novel can be tedious and more difficult than some people think. Writers don’t just pound out perfection in one sitting the first attempt. It can take days, weeks, months, or even years to get the first draft done, depending on other work obligations. Most writers have a day job not involving their writing career and have to squeeze writing in any free moment they can.

After the first draft is finished, comes the editing, and editing, and editing. A writer then sends manuscript to critique partners (CPs) or beta’s to help find plot holes, voice problems, or anything else they spot helpful. Hopefully, the writer has already caught most grammar and punctuation errors, but if not, CPs and beta’s can help with that too. And behold…more edits, and edits, and edits! If a writer is lucky, they’ll have funds to hire a professional editor to help with their manuscript, but this can get very expensive.

When a writer thinks the project is at it’s best, they send off to literary agents. Sometimes these turn into requests for more revisions, so there is more editing involved. Now, I’m not going to get into the difficulties of landing an agent, or how long it can take to get a publishers to agree to publish EVEN if you have an agent. But, let me say, it can take years of writing new manuscripts and rejection after rejection before getting an agent or a publisher. And even after getting an agent or publishing contract, guess what? There are MORE edits! The process is loooooong! Writer’s know what I’m talking about.

What happens sometimes is a writer can get discouraged after so many rejections. Sometimes they want to give up. But, giving up is the only certain way to make sure a writer doesn’t succeed. The key is to surround themselves with like-minded people. The writing community is very supportive with each other. When they fell discouraged, they should reach out! But no matter what they do, DON’T GIVE UP! Let me repeat that…

DON’T GIVE UP!!!!!!!

Keep writing words to weave into fabulous stories. People want to read them. And they shall, if writer’s keep trying!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

Operation Awesome: Scouting New Blogger

December 22, 2016LiteraryBloggers, Career, Fiction, Group Blogging, Help, Job, Marketing, Non-Fiction, Operation Awesome, Pass or Pages, Reynolds Tribe, Schedule, Social media, Writers, Writing, Writing Creditpdpabst

THEY WANT YOU!

Operation Awesome is looking for a new team member to commit to blogging every Thursday in 2017. The schedule will be flexible around contests and other date-sensitive posts, but this blogger will still be expected to blog approximately four times a month. They state they also need help running their Pass Or Pages contest, so they’re hoping the new blogger will like to help with the contest as well!

If you’re not familiar with their site, head over there now. Requirements and guidelines to apply are here. They will accept applications until Friday, January 6th, 2017. Questions may be asked directly on their blog post (not mine), or on Twitter @OpAwesome6 or @reynoldstribe.

As always, goodluck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

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