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Here’s What’s New To celebrate the13th birthday of ForeWord Reviews, the staff has moved to a new location. The new address is 425 Boardman Ave., Ste. B, Traverse City, MI…

Here’s What’s New – foreign book rights information site, 10 great events coming up for authors and writers, and industry changes to report
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – links to 10 magazines’ editorial calendars.
Opportunities for Authors – discount on “The Fine Print of Self-Publishing,” new publishers, an editorial evaluation service and links to helpful conferences.
Book Promotion Opportunities – 10 mags that use book reviews and 10 that use book excerpts.
Opportunities for Artists and Photographers – 7 paying opportunities
Going, Going, Gone – 3 websites for writers and a magazine
Resources – 3 job sites for writers, artists and photographers

Here’s What’s New – An extension from the CPSC concerning lead in books, a new book review site, new publishers, a failed Canadian book distributor and more…
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – Here are a dozen opportunities for writers—several of them for pay!!
Opportunities for Authors –5 publishers seeking manuscripts—3 of them brand new!
Book Promotion Opportunities – Over a dozen book review sites for our authors.
Opportunities for Screenplay Writers – Look what Scriptapalooza is offering!!!!
Going, Going, Gone – 10 more mags/writers sites have closed.
Resources for Authors – Self-Publishing.com, Alltop, American Booksellers Association and a 9-day long WordFest for readers and writers in California.
Bonus Item – Writers Conferences Galore, a guide to writer’s conferences and an editorial focusing on the future of bookstores.

Here’s What’s New –Dozens of bookselling and magazine stats
Opportunities for Freelance Writers –Article ideas and trends to jump start your career
Opportunities for Authors – What 10 publishers want NOW
Book Promotion Opportunities – Sell your ebooks, Books With a Mission, book festivals and more.
Opportunities for Artists – Three job sites for artists
Going, Going, Gone – 4 magazines and a publisher are gone
Resources for Authors and Writers – Track your articles/share your articles
Bonus Item – Interview with Mike Samson, co-founder of crowdSPRING, a marketplace for creative services. Attention: Freelance Writers and Artists

Here’s What’s New – Over a dozen changes to report within the industry
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – Over 20 paying markets for fiction and nonfiction, plus two regional magazine directories
Opportunities for Authors – Thousands of publishers for both fiction and nonfiction
Book Promotion Opportunities – 6 lists of top book promotion ideas
Opportunities for Screenplay Writers – 3 listings
Opportunities for Artists – 6 job sites for artists and photographers and 2 paying job listings
Going, Going, Gone – 8 of them
Resources for Writers and Authors – 3 interesting/useful resources

Message From the Editor – What did you get out of (or miss) in the Market Update this year?
Here’s What’s New – The return of a popular So. Cal. writers’ conferences and changes at Writing Raw, Author Mania, All Book Review and others.
Opportunities for Freelance Writers—20 markets for fiction/nonfiction. 13 of them high-paying.
Opportunities for Authors – 10 publishers seeking your manuscript.
Book Promotion Opportunities – 6 of them.
Opportunities for Artists and Photographers – 4 job boards and two significant websites
Opportunities for Scriptwriters – a GREAT opportunity and a competition.
Resources – Single Copy, LitSay, Essential Writers and AllTop
Going, Going, Gone – 127 Magazines folded so far this year.
Bonus Item – An overview of 2011 Writer’s Market

Here’s What’s New – a dozen items, including two debuts: the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style and the 2011 Writer’s Market.
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 4 writers’ job boards, a directory of job boards for writers and 20 paying markets for fiction and nonfiction.
Opportunities for Authors – 7 publishers who pay advances.
Book Promotion Opportunities – message board directory, free ebook listings and interview opportunities for published authors.
Opportunities for Photographers – 5 of them.
Going, Going, Gone – 7 magazines have folded.
Resources for Writers and Authors – upgrade for popular writers’ website, recommended newsletters and writers’ conference directories.

Here’s What’s New – PublishAmerica tries to start fresh with new imprint, new book review
editor at LA Times, McMillan has new science imprint and MORE…
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 6 paying nonfiction markets and 11 fiction markets
Opportunities for Authors – a large publisher directory for first-time novelists, a publisher
seeking mss and tips for attracting a publisher
Book Promotion Opportunities – resources and advice
Opportunities for Scriptwriters — 8 opportunities
Resources for Authors – 3 links with amazing resources for authors
Going, Going, Gone – 7 print mags close
Bonus Items – Interview with 4 publishers: Steve Carlson, Upper Access, Inc.; Scott Schmidt,
Salvo Press; Connie Shaw, Sentient Publications and Skip Whitson, Director at Sun
Books

Here’s What’s New – 5 changes to report
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 9 mags and 3 huge job directories
Opportunities for Authors – 4 publishers plus an editor’s TIP
Book Promotion Opportunities – an opp. for romance writers and 4 for all authors
Opportunities for Screenplay Writers – Scriptalooza competition opp.
Going, Going, Gone – 10 more print magazines are gone
Resources for SPAWN members – Yahoo digital style guide and an organization for self-published authors.
Bonus Items—Interviews with Kim Dower, Book Publicist and Media Trainer;
and RD Armstrong of Lummox Press (publisher of poetry).

Here’s What’s New – Changes at Smashwords, Wattpad, Hay House, HARO, Crime Bake, WriteLink, Publisher’s Weekly, Midwest Booksellers Association and Book Inside.
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 10 writing opportunities including for travel mags.
Opportunities for Authors – Book of the Year Awards, more contests and submission opps.
Book Promotion Opportunities – 8 book festivals in September, tradeshows, outlets for your ebooks and more.
Opportunities for Screenwriters – Competition, get your script analyzed.
Going, Going, Gone – 4 mags out of business
Resources for Authors/Writers – A site with several directories featuring thousands of resources, a playwright conference in progress, 10 Commandments of Screenwriting and more.
Bonus Item – Interview with Irene Watson of Reader Views and the new FirstChapterPlus.com.