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Nooteboom Trailers B.V. is a leading international company offering their customers innovative and complete solutions for abnormal transport. Nooteboom designs and builds trailers of the highest quality with a payload of 20 to 200 tonnes. The product range includes semi-trailers, low-loaders, drawbar trailer and semi low-loaders. Every Nooteboom trailer has an excellent price-quality ratio thanks to the low total cost of ownership. Quality, reliability and the greatest ease of use are also paramount.
By continually investing in the best solutions for their customers Nooteboom is characterised by pioneering innovations in special transport. Because it is deeply ingrained in the DNA of Nooteboom to continually surprise their customers with ground-breaking innovations. As they did in 2015 with the introduction of the new MANOOVR semi low-loader, for which Nooteboom received several prestigious awards such as the ESTA Award and the RAI SV Innovation Award.
Correction to notice regarding use of Nooteboom patent by Faymonville
Recently it has been reported incorrectly in several publications that owing to their patent until 2025 Nooteboom is the sole party allowed to produce and market the combination of a deep excavator trough with pendle axles. After the ruling of the European Patent Office in 2015 which granted the patent to Nooteboom, Nooteboom has entered into a constructive dialogue with the company Faymonville regarding the use of this patent by Faymonville. For both parties this led to a satisfactory solution which gives Faymonville the right to produce and market trailers that feature the combination of a deep excavator trough with pendle axles. For this Faymonville has paid Nooteboom an appropriate remuneration. Read more
Nooteboom at GISEXPO, Piacenza
The sixth edition of GIS, the only Italian trade show for the Lifting, handling and Heavy Transportation operators, will take place at the exhibition center of PiacenzaExpo from 5th to 7th October 2017. The event, dedicated to the users of cranes, mobile cranes, aerial work platforms, telehandlers, overhead travelling cranes, port and industrial handling equipment and heavy transport companies, is being organized with the support of the major industry associations like: ANNA (Italian Association of Mobile Crane Hiring and Heavy Transportation), ESTA…. Read more
Transannaberg Wiesiollek – "We choose the most modern equipment"
The A4 is the motorway that meanders through the flat landscape of southern Poland. Situated on the route from Wroclaw to Katowice – on the only mountain in the entire region – is the basilica of St. Anna, visited by more than 400,000 pilgrims every year. Joachim Wiesiollek started his transport company in 1987, together with his wife Mariola, from a small office near the basilica. The name 'Transannaberg' refers to the original company location. Transannaberg grew and moved later to Strzelce Opolskie. Read more
New & Used trailers
Are you looking for a low-loader, semi low-loader, teletrailer, drawbar trailer, modular trailer or heavy transport tractor? Take a look here at which new and used trailers are available right now. Read more
The manufacturing industry is alive and well
The manufacturing industry is alive and well! Due to the international orientation, drive to innovate and distinctive qualities, Dutch products are popular all over the world. This goes for the offshore industry as well as the production of vehicles. Nooteboom is the only trailer manufacturer that has been in the top 100 of best performing manufacturing companies in the Netherlands for many years. Read more
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View our latest news in the news archive...View the news archive
Manoovr with excavator troughInnovation
New Manoovr semi lowloader with excavator trough
In the Spotlight
In 2005 Nooteboom brought the revolutionary EURO-PX low-loader on the market. For the first time a wide and deep wheel well was combined with pendle axles in the axle assembly. The EURO-PX low-loader with patented Pendel-X technology proves to be an important addition for low-loader transport.Read more
MANOOVR MPL SEMI LOW-LOADER with hydraulic steering and pendle axles
Loads with ever-increasing dimensions and weights, an infrastructure that is getting more congested all the time and different legislation in the various European countries mean that the international specialists in abnormal transport are faced with a challenge that is greater than ever.Read more
The Nooteboom SUPER WING CARRIER is specially designed to transport extremely long windmill rotor blades by road in a handy and efficient way. In order to generate more power the windmills are getting bigger and bigger. And the rotor blades are getting bigger and longer too, measuring up to 70m in length.Read more
SEMI LOW-LOADERS with hydraulic steering
Over the years Nooteboom has made a convincing case internationally for their SMART programme of 3-axle and 4-axle semi low-loaders with self-tracking axles. To offer the transport operator extra advantages, Nooteboom now also offers hydraulic steering on all semi low-loaders in the SMART programme, under the name MCOS semi low-loaders.Read more


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December 10th, 2008, 09:45 AM #1Google Adsense
I have noticed a great reduction of clicks and revenue on my adsense account this month. I would have thought that with Christmas my revenue would really jump this month. Is anyone else seeing this and could there be an internal problem at adsense? Any help would be appreciated.
December 10th, 2008, 09:51 AM #2
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Are your pageviews at the same level? If your overall traffic levels are down, you'll get fewer clicks and therefore make less.
This is probably the wrong forum for the thread.
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I am seeing the same. More pageviews and less money.[b]Logan Thompson[/b]
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Do you have the same readers coming back and not much new traffic? You may want to try using new placements for your adsense ads or try a couple new page layouts just in case the reader base has become blind to ads on your site in their current placements.Adam Riemer Marketing, LLC. Online Marketing Blog and Affiliate Management Company
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December 10th, 2008, 12:48 PM #6Lots of ZEROS
I am not getting any clicks when I compare stats to the soft months.
It seems strange in that this is the prime time for online shopping
December 10th, 2008, 03:57 PM #7
This happens to me from time to time when Google servers up some crappy image ad. I'll notice my CTR drop way off and all of my pages seem to be loading the same terrible image ad. Image ads usually do well on my site but they tend to be less selective when it comes to relevancy. I keep all my ads in common includes, so I'll just switch the affected ad out with a text only or a different network for a day or two.
As of late, I have not noticed a reduced click through rate. Good luck...
December 10th, 2008, 06:20 PM #8
I'm down by about 30% this month -- earnings. I haven't paid much attention to numbers of views and clicks.Affiliate Marketing - The hardest easy money I ever made.
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Seems like earnings, clicks and impressions are up about 25 % from November. The last several months (Aug-Nov) were about equal.
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Telford, PA (PressExposure) May 27, 2009 -- Are you searching the Internet for cheap catalog printing? Well if you are, then you are indeed in luck. This guide has been specifically made for people like you who do not want to spend too much money in printing.
You will be happy to know that there are several simple things that you can do yourself to make your catalog printing more affordable. This comprises our "C.H.E.A.P." guide to printing catalogs.
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In fact, if you have large enough initial order for catalogs the price per piece of catalog can be reduced to 25-30%. That is a large amount of savings that you certainly should take advantage of.
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I was on my alt named Jiff and I trolled arun saying his game sucked but I've never even played it and I was already banned on k0mrade for 2 days. I assume it was arun who did it, he deleted the posts and perma banned my alt Jiff and banned k0mrade for another month, both reason: adios CS. I don't see why I should get banned on k0mrade for a month when I did it on the account Jiff and k0mrade is already banned. Seems like overkill? I'm only disputing the k0mrade one month ban. It wasn't even that much of a troll anyways it was blatantly obvious I was trolling all I said was "that game sucks whoever made it must be retarded or something" and then another post saying "oh arun made it yea he's retarded". Is it just me that thinks shit is backwards when people take offense to this but people think the huge thread of Boston Marathon bombing joking, insulting, and fucked up pictures is hilarious? I don't understand.
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by the way sorry for trolling you arun it wasn't meant to be taken seriously
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also, I'd like to know what I got the 2 day ban on k0mrade for. I was arguing Leshyrus and I got banned. Not sure why? I try to follow the rules the best I can, and I haven't been breaking rules so why am I getting banned for arguing and a little bit of trolling?
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Cs will take any punishment they get, and you're not allowed to disrespect staff members.
nevermind i accept my ban.
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I am very glad that you answered my little letter. I was very surprised your answer, because I made up my mind to use the Internet for searching a friend for a long time. I would like to find a man who would understand me and share my sights on life. I want to tell you a little about me. I am a Russian light girl, I am 29 years old. I was born on the 7 feb, 1977. I am a Christian, I believe in Jesus and in the fate which the God prepared for every human. I live and work in city Cheboksary. I am fond of our wonderful city. There are a lot of beautiful streets and squares and other remarkable places in my city. My city was founded long time ago. The monuments of antiquity harmonize with modern architecture. In 2002 I was graduated from the Cheboksary State University. My profession is programs. But Unfortunately after university I couldn't find a job on my specialty and I had to become a salesman consultant in a shop of computers. Thanks to studying at the university I know English. But please excuse me for my mistakes. I want to muster English and I hope that you will help me in it. I have never been married and don't have children. But like every women I dream about a man who will love me. I would like to have my own house, my family. I want to see a man near me who will be support for me, which one I will trust till the end. I would like to learn more about you. What are you doing in free time?
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John Harvey Kellogg invented the corned flake and he was also nuts! He was obsessed with the human bowel and stood against any act of sex. The company was grounded on practises in the Seventh Day Adventist and the Christian denomination. Cereal flaking was discovered by accident while cooking some wheat for a type of granola. The wheat had gone stale so Harvey and his brother forced the wheat through rollers. A thin flake emerged and they kept experimenting and developing the flaking process.
Corn flakes were the first cereal introduced on the market in 1906 and then Rice Kris pies in 1928 and Frosted Flakes in 1952. The CEO is James M. Jeness. The revenue for Kellogg's is $10.9 billion in 2006. Kellogg's is the world's leading producer of breakfast cereal. It is an American multinational producer of breakfast and snack foods. The headquarters are located in Battle Creek, Michigan. Corn Pops took 14 years to develop! It first came out in 1950 and is one of the top 15 best selling cereals. Kellogg's decided to drop swimmer Michael Phelps from his endorsement deal because he was caught smoking dope!
Kellogg's was the first company to use television advertising as it's dominate feature for advertising. Corn flakes were created and sold in 1895 as a product called "granose." Corn flakes were the only cereal to be eaten aboard the Apollo 11, the first lunar landing. Special K in the UK has 31% more sugar than Special K in the U.S. In 2009, Kellogg's urged consumers not to eat it Austin and Keebler brand peanut butter crackers because of ongoing investigations regarding salmonella. The company has approximately 26,000 employees. There was also a recall on Special K bars and cookies in 2009.
Tony the Tiger won a contest in 1953 to become the sole spokesperson for Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes. Other contestants were Katy the Kangaroo, Elmo the Elephant and Newt the Gnu. There is a company called "Under the Hood," that is taking Kellogg's products and characters and melds them into hip hop clothing. You can get hoodies, tees, jackets and jeans. The company has decided to market their line in English and Spanish. The company estimates that Hispanics spend around $720 million a year on ready to eat cereals. Kellogg's is big on recycling and their cereal boxes are made from recycled paper! Froot Loops come in a 100% recycled box!


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Euro NCAP's life-saving work in focus
Saving lives
Prior to Euro NCAP, car makers had to meet only basic legislative crash test requirements for new cars. They conducted their own crash tests but they were not standardised – and the results were not published. Euro NCAP's programme introduced like-for-like tests have been conducted by independent experts; it's revealed potential safety dangers in top-selling family cars, and lead to major carmakers rethinking their design.
It's pushed huge improvements; safety technologies that were either not used at all or were optional – such as driver and passenger airbags, side curtain airbags, seatbelt reminders and electronic stability control – are now standard on most cars sold in Europe. According to Thatcham Research, which conducts UK tests for Euro NCAP, you're now twice as likely to walk away from a car crash than you would have been 20 years ago.
Technology that works
Back in 1997, Euro NCAP performed its first ever crash test on the Rover 100; at the time one of Britain's most popular cars. Subjected to a 40mph frontal offset crash in the Thatcham Research Crash Lab, it received only one star and was withdrawn from sale shortly afterwards.
Almost two decades later, the comparatively-priced current-generation Honda Jazz illustrates just how far safety has come on since. The Jazz holds a five-star rating and is recognised by Thatcham Research as a strong performer.
Changing buying decisions
Euro NCAP hasn't just focused on running its tests though and both consumers and fleets are regularly urged to only buy Five Star-rated cars with collision avoidance technology like Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) and Lane Assist systems. It has also called on manufacturers to make AEB standard fitment, to prevent thousands of accidents.
Thatcham Research, which conducts Euro NCAP tests in the UK, has estimated that if AEB became standard on every new car sold in the UK, it would save 2,700 pedestrian and cyclist deaths and serious injuries every year. Or 54,000 fewer over 20 years.
Setting new standards
Since 1997, Euro NCAP tests have become ever more demanding. Not only now can cars achieve a five-star maximum rating compared to the original four stars, but tests also offer child and pedestrian protection ratings, incorporate whiplash and ESC testing and also reward advanced technologies, to name but a few updates.
Euro NCAP is introducing new tests in 2018, covering: Lane Assist systems to control steering if there are potential risks; tests to reduce crashes at junctions; Pedestrian AEB that works at night time and new AEB cyclist detection tests to encourage manufacturers to further enhance these important technologies.
Euro NCAP's work in numbers:
9 out of 10 – cars sold on the European market holding a Euro NCAP rating
182,000 – deaths and serious injuries in road crashes that have been prevented on UK roads since Euro NCAP's testing was introduced
2,700 – deaths and serious injuries in the UK could be saved every year if AEB that can sense both pedestrians and cyclists became standard on every new car


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The Narrative of Terrorism in #Charleston
A domestic terrorist murdered 9 African Americans who were worshipping at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17th, 2015. The racially motivated murders have been another cold reminder of racism's constant presence in the United States and the destructive and traumatic results for black bodies.
I began following the news of the attack on Twitter, where as usual, most of the early information and reactions were being shared. As someone who has been closely following the uproar over the recent police killings of African Americans, this terrorist attack felt like a dramatic escalation of the dehumanization of black life that so many have tried to bring attention to over the past year.
From the moment I began to see the hashtag #CharlestonShooting being used, along with people's stunned reactions, I felt it needed to be labeled an act terrorism.
There were several reasons I closely followed the events on Twitter. Of course I wanted to interact with others and share my own feelings about it. Twitter was also a comforting space in many ways, as others shared how this news was affecting them. I could tell early on that this latest attack felt very personal to many, especially African Americans, because we live with the constant awareness that racist violence against us can happen at any moment. These two tweets by @jmddrake were especially powerful for me.
But as an archivist and someone interested in documenting how African Americans build community and share experiences about these types of events in digital spaces, I was also interested in seeing how quickly reactions would grow, what would be said, and if that would affect when and how major media outlets picked up the story. I was particularly interested to see if the narrative of terrorism would take hold in relation to this racist act of violence.
As far as I could tell that evening there was no coverage on the 3 major networks (CNN, FOX, MSNBC) for over two hours after some of the first reports showed up on Twitter of an attack and possibly several casualties. I wasn't the only one who noticed the blatant disinterest by the networks. It's pretty much standard now for people of color to have to legitimize their own trauma on social media before major news networks give their stories any significant airtime.
In an attempt to capture some of the reactions and answer some of these questions, Ed Summers and I started collecting tweets tagged with #Charleston and #CharlestonShooting. We're both interested in archiving social media and the potential for it to add a rich new layer to the work we do as archivists. After some very early analysis we wanted to share just some of what we are finding in the tweets. There are some important issues to consider for archivists as we continue to think about building collections and documenting historical events in this space.
As of 12PM ET on June 19th we had collected 2,075,608 tweets mentioning #CharlestonShooting since 9PM ET on June 17th. Here is a graph of tweets per hour so you get a sense of just how rapidly folks were sharing information about this event. Just nineteen minutes after the police responded to calls reporting the shooting we see the first #CharlestonShooting tweet:
The first tweet mentioning the word "terror" in conjunction with #CharlestonShooting came 9 minutes later from Wisconsin:
But note that the context for the tweet doesn't really reflect the dialogue that emerged later. The first tweet mentioning terror that was retweeted came 11 minutes later from Florida:
To give you an idea of how the media eventually picked up on this theme of terrorism here is a list of some of the most retweeted tweets mentioning terror that were sent in the first three hours after the shooting.
Ed wrote a program to search through the tweets in chronological order to find the first one that pointed to a Web page that mentioned the word "terror" in it. It found this tweet from 10:43PM ET (just over an hour after the police were called in) which points at a Reuters story on Yahoo News byHarriet McLeod, a journalist based in Charleston, South Carolina:
But it's important to remember that this analysis depends on the state of the Web page as it appeared at 3PM ET on June 19th, which is when our program was run, and was 28 hours after the tweet was sent.
Internet Archive has a snapshot of the same URL at 3:17AM ET on June 18th that has no mention of "terror" in it. In fact the content of the article is entirely different, with different headlines:
Gunman at large after killing nine at black South Carolina church.
White suspect arrested in killing of nine at black U.S. church.
Compare the first three paragraphs of the Internet Archive snapshot:
with the first three paragraphs just over a day later:
This highlights just how fluid the Web is as a medium, and how important Web archives are for understanding the context of what transpires in social media spaces like Twitter. Usually archivists make the case for Web archives by drawing attention to rampant (and very real) problems with link rot. But as researchers such as Zittrain and Van de Sompel are noting, reference rot is also a huge and important issue. In this case what appears to be syndicated content from Reuters at Yahoo News, at a single URL, has radically changed in a very short period of time.
So exploring how this narrative of domestic terrorism emerged in social media and on the Web turns out to be kind of tricky. This use case represents a challenge for the archival community to build robust, high fidelity and (most importantly) timely Web archives for study. We're hopeful small experiments like this Medium post will help inform the work we are planning to do on a tool that allows archivists and scholars to tune into social media events (like I did that night) and collect selected Web content. If we don't do it who will?


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Beautifully maintained Center Hall Colonial in desirable Woodhaven. This large home features granite and stainless steel in the kitchen, first-floor laundry, wood burning fireplace in family room, hardwood floors in the living and dining rooms, two full and one half baths, master bedroom with hardwood floors and skylights, and a finished basement. Enjoy the oversized deck overlooking the in-ground pool. Set-up in place for generator. Outstanding Niskayuna schools.
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- Year Built: 1985
- Status: Sold on 3/19/2015
- Parking Type Description: Attached 2 cars
- Lot Size: 100 x 162
- School District: Niskayuna
- Property ID: 103663414
- Beds: 5
- Total Rooms: 9
- New Construction: No
- Estimated Annual Taxes: $9,000
- Style: Colonial
- Baths: 3 (Full: 2 3/4: 0 1/2: 1 Other: 0)
- Fireplaces: 1
- Total Square Footage: 2,354 ($116.78 per sq. foot)
- County: Schenectady
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Amenities Built In Cabinets, Cathedral Ceiling, Ceramic Tile, Crown Molding, Fireplace Insert, Skylight, Sliding Glass Door, Wood Floors
Appliances Dishwasher, Disposal, Microwave, Range W Oven, Refrigerator
Attic Pull Down
Basement Finished Area, Full
Condition Excellent
Cooling Type Central Air
Exterior Vinyl
Exterior Features Deck, Pool In Ground, Shed
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Heat Fuel Natural Gas
Heat System Hot Air
Interior Features Cable Hook Up, Garage Door Opener, Gran Solid Surf Counters, Paddle Fan
Living Rm Fireplace Type Fire Place Wood
Lot Description Landscaped, Level
Master Bedroom Second Floor
Other Lot - 100 X 162, Model - Ctr Hall, Possession - Closing, Tax Id Section - 23.17, Tax Identification Block - 1, Tax Identification Lot - 22
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Tramadol is usually a non-opioid compound that's action affecting the opioid receptors by the body processes plus the uptake of serotonin and norepinephrine. According to the Drug Enforcement Agency's (DEA) drug diversion website, prescription drugs is abused primarily 'by narcotics addicts, chronic pain patients and medical professionals.' Your Intrepid Pharmacist remains to be digesting the past three words of their quote. A study for the outcomes of making tramamdol a controlled substance appeared inside Annals of Pharmacotherapy in June 2010. The study compared Poison Control reports over seven a lot of tramadol exposure between states of Ohio and West Virginia, the spot that the drug isn't scheduled like a controlled substance, as well as the states of Arkansas and Kentucky where it was gone after controlled substance status. The study found a reduction in tramadol exposures inside the states the location where the drug was now controlled (4% in Kentucky as well as a whopping 31% in Arkansas, even though the comparator states saw a continued annual increase of 14% inside variety of tramadol related poison control cases.
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1. REFERENCE BOOKS FOR WRITERS written by Sisters in Crime Members (2017 update now in process, below)
2. Unpublished Blog 9-5-16: My memories of Phyllis Schlafley & the ERA
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To view the 2016 list, go to http://sistersincrime.org/?page=119
This is the official list of reference books for writers
written by members of Sisters in Crime International. Rev. 1-1-17.
Police Procedure & Investigation: A (Howdunit) Guide for Writers
AUTHOR: Lee Lofland
PUBLISHER: Writer's Digest Books, 2007
FORMAT 1: trade paper, 384 pp, indexed
FORMAT 2: Kindle ebook
HONORS: finalist for Macavity Award
URL: www.leelofland.com
Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately about Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure
AUTHOR: Leslie Budewitz
PUBLISHER: Linden Publishing, 2011
FORMAT: trade paper, 220 pp, indexed
HONORS: Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book; finalist for Anthony Award; finalist for Macavity Award; finalist for National Indie Excellence Award
URL: www.lawandfiction.com
Breaking & Entering: The Road to Success, 3rd edition
EDITOR: L. C. Hayden (Anthology: 27 authors)
PUBLISHER: Sisters in Crime, 2010
FORMAT 1: trade paper, 140 pp
URL: www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/breaking-and-entering/8558738
FORMAT 2: electronic/pdf
URL: lulu.com/content/e-book/breaking-and-entering/8582166
Shameless Promotion for Brazen Hussies, 3rd edition
EDITOR: Roberta Isleib (Anthology: 26 authors)
PUBLISHER: Sisters in Crime, 2011
FORMAT 1: trade paper, 154 pp
URL: www.lulu.com/product/paperback/shameless-promotion-for-brazen-hussies/14847372
URL: lulu.com/product/ebook/shameless-promotion-for-brazen-hussies/14848330
Don't Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D. O. A.
AUTHOR: Chris Roerden
PUBLISHER: Bella Rosa Books, 2006
FORMAT: trade paper, 304 pp, indexed, annotated
HONORS: Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book; finalist for Anthony Award; finalist for Macavity Award; Writer's Digest Book Club selection
URL: www.writersinfo.info; www.bellarosabooks.com
Don't Sabotage Your Submission: Insider Information from a Career Book Editor to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D. O. A.
(expanded all-genre version of Don't Murder Your Mystery)
PUBLISHER: Bella Rosa Books, 2008
FORMAT: trade paper, 312 pp, indexed, annotated
HONORS: Benjamin Franklin Award for Literary Criticism; finalist for ForeWord Review Writing Book of the Year; Royal Palm Award for Best Educational / Instructional Book; Royal Palm Award for Book of the Year
Sara Paretsky: Writing in an Age of Silence
AUTHOR: Sara Paretsky
PUBLISHER: Verso, 2007
FORMAT 1: hard cover, 192 pp, annotated
FORMAT 2: trade paper
reprint, 138 pp 2009
FORMAT 3: Kindle ebook
URL: www.saraparetsky.com
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment
AUTHOR: Nancy Pickard (with Lynn Lott)
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books, 2003
FORMAT: trade paper, 237 pp
URL: nancypickard.com
Writer to Writer
AUTHOR: Lynette Hall Hampton
PUBLISHER: Alabaster Book Publisher, 2004
FORMAT: trade paper, 192 pp
URL: lynettehallhampton.net
Writes of Passage: Adventures on the Writer's Journey
EDITOR: Hank Phillippi Ryan (Anthology: 59 authors)
PUBLISHER: Sisters in Crime / Henery Press
FORMAT 1: hard cover
FORMAT 2: trade paper, 173 pp
FORMAT 3: ebook
HONORS: Agatha Award, Anthony Award, Macavity Award
Everything Guide to Writing a Novel: From Completing the First Draft to Landing a Book Contract
AUTHOR: Joyce Lavene and Jim Lavene
PUBLISHER: Adams Media, 2004
FORMAT: 9x8 paper, 320 pp, indexed
URL: joyceandjimlavene.com
Everything Guide to Writing Your First Novel: All the Tools You Need to Write and Sell Your First Novel
AUTHOR: Hallie Ephron
PUBLISHER: Adams Media, 2010
FORMAT: trade paper, 304 pp, indexed
URL: www.hallieephron.com
Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'em Dead with Style
PUBLISHER: Writer's Digest Books, 2005
FORMAT: trade paper, 256 pp, indexed
HONORS: finalist for Edgar Award for Critical/Biographical
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries: The Art and Adventure of Sleuthing Through the Past
AUTHOR: Kathy Lynn Emerson
PUBLISHER: Perseverance Press, 2008
FORMAT: trade paper, 224 pp, indexed
HONORS: Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book
URL: kathylynnemerson.com
Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Renaissance England
PUBLISHER: Writer's Digest Books, 2006; revised, expanded, 2010
FORMAT 1: hard cover, 272 pp, indexed
FORMAT 2: Kindle ebook
URL: kathylynnemerson.com
Writing the Cozy Mystery
AUTHOR: Nancy J. Cohen
PUBLISHER: Orange Grove Press, 2014
FORMAT 1: trade paper, 48 pp
URL: nancyjcohen.com
(Note: after identifying corrections and additions to this list, send the information to Chris Roerden, email@example.com)
2. Unpublished Blog 9-5-16: My memories of Phyllis Schlafley & the ERA: Sunday, Sept. 5, 2016:
The death today of Phyllis Schlafly, occurring so close to the anticipated election of our first woman president, fills me with ever greater hope for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Athough Schlafley's most significant lifetime achievement was to successfully oppose adding to the US Constitution a mere 24 words, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex," her opposition did more than anything else could have to bring millions of new supporters to the cause of women's rights. During the two years that I served as Wisconsin State president of the National Organization for Women, our statewide membership grew from several hundred to over 3,000.
So it felt like a small world indeed to sit in the visitor's gallery the morning of October 6, 1978, for the Senate's historic vote to extend the deadline for ratification of the ERA, and discover that Phyllis Schlafly occupied the seat directly in front of the seat to my right — close enough to reach forward to tweak the single loose curl peeking from the otherwise perfect hairstyle of this famed enemy of women's rights. Giving into that urge was--fortunately or unfortunately--not possible.
That morning 38 years ago next month, Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin (who founded Earth Day in 1970 along with my friend, nature publisher Nancy Field) had escorted me, together with Judy Goldsmith, NOW's Executive VP (to become NOW President 4 years later) and Susan Luecke (another activist), from his Washington, DC, office to the Senate hearing room via the connecting underground. Before the present subway system was installed, we climbed onto the shuttle train of small open cars, similar to the Disneyland ride through "It's a Small World."
Sen. Nelson guided his three constituents as far as the door to what was then (maybe still?) referred to as the "Senate Wives Gallery." There, we three received firm instructions to sit silently, because any sort of demonstration was prohibited. "Demonstration" included applauding, although how we were to stifle laughing was never explained. We were also not allowed to take photos or write, take notes, or knit--the latter undoubtedly a favorite pasttime of actual wives of Senators in the past. Today,of course, all tpes of electronic devices are prohibited as well.
Along with each visitor I was handed a small card printed in tiny letters listing the names and states of all the Senators. The only method of keeping track of who voted for or against the extension was by using a fingernail to make surreptitious indentations on the card. I envisioned past generations of Senators' wives aching to reach into their bulging handbags for idle knitting needles.
Extending the deadline for ratification passed that historic day, but due to Schlafly's continuing organizing efforts the ERA failed to gain the needed three states. We worked so hard to get 3 more states to sign on to 35 that had already ratified the amendment to reach the 38 required to equal 3/4ths of all the states.
Throughout the mid-seventies and early eighties, wherever I was invited to speak — forums, radio, TV, local chapters of the League of Women Voters, BPW, AAUW and many NOW chapters, as well as at the NOW state conferences of Michigan and South Carolina — I was often confronted by members of the Eagle Forum, a national organization Schlafly founded in 1972 that continues today. (I also had the privilege of delivering the opening welcome to Gloria Steinem at the Illinois NOW state conference, held in the neighboring lake country of Wisconsin because of the national boycott of unratified states, which included Illinois.)
But I learned much from all those anti-ERA confrontations and challenges. In March 1978, opposition from Schlafly's Eagle Forum empowered me to reserve the large City Hall Council Chambers in Brookfield, the suburb of Milwaukee where I lived at the time, and invite the head of Wisconsin's Eagle Forum to debate me on the ERA. She accepted, along with two other officers of Schlafly's group. For our side I'd gotten Judy Goldsmith, my predecessor as Wisconsin NOW State Coordinator, and Virginia Finn, a prominent Milwaukee Catholic and strong ERA advocate.
[photo of pro-ERA debators, March 1978]
For moderater I invited Bunny Raasch of WITI-TV, Milwaukee's first female news anchor.
[photo of Chris introducing Bunny Raasch, March 1978]
Incidentally, in 1972-73 before women were hired by the networks as more than secretaries, I took part in picketing a major TV affiliate in Syracuse, NY, that refused to hire women as on-air broadcasters. The same for Sears in Syracuse, part of a nationwide NOW effort to get Sears to promote women to the higher-paying sales items, such as appliances.
Our public ERA Debate was so popular and heartwarming, drawing an overflow audience of all ages that perched on window sills and tables and stood in the aisles, that I organized a second debate for the same City Hall location later the same year, in October 1978, this time on a woman's right to choose legal abortion. (As for my own illegal abortion in 1969, that's another story entirely, willingly shared when requested.)
[photo: Chris with Betty Friedan and Gene Boyer, founders of NOW; 1981]
Shortly after the start of that second public debate, an opponent snuck out, I later learned, went to a nearby church, and returned with a group of pro-birth advocates, who rushed to fill the few remaining spaces in the audience. Every time a point was made, supporters for the respective side shouted approval. Despite the infusion of latecomers, shouts from our side came from the voices of the majority present.
That same year the Milwaukee's Young Lawyer's Association invited me to debate State Senator Monroe Swan, an outspoken ERA opponent, on live TV. The highlight moment occurred in response to Swan's repeated denial of Congressional testimony. So I took the phone-book–sized Congressional Record from my lap, said "Here's where it was said," and dropped it loudly on the table between us. The studio audience roared.
I recall that after some other televised event, as the audience of pro and anti-ERA advocates filed from the studio to the lobby, a young white male wearing an ERA t-shirt, began asking around for a ride home. One Eagle Forum member called out that she'd give him a ride: she'd tie him to her car and let him run.
My other vivid memory of the lack of humanity demonstrated by members of the Eagle Forum took place one of the many times I led a group of ERA proponents to support our efforts in Illinois. Over the course of 10 years of volunteer work in the 70s and 80s, I had spent much time in Chicago registering voters, sometimes working alongside Molly Yard, especially in preparation for the initial candidacy of Carol Moseley-Braun, the first and to date only female US Senator from Illinois, the only female African-American Senator, and the first woman to defeat an incumbent US Senator in an election [source: Wikipedia]. At least twice I demonstrated in the Illinois state capital, Springfield, once with Sonja Johnson.
[photo: national pro-ERA march on Springfield, IL]
Early one morning in Springfield, our large, multi-state delegation, climbed several flights of marble stairs to the topmost visitors gallery to wait for the opening of the Illinois State Legislature. Having spent the night at the homes of Illinois NOW members, we were among the earliest arrivals. We waited in an orderly line on the winding staircase, each wide step packed by several of us crowded together. When the hour struck and the doors opened, a horde of bodies suddenly raced past us to grab the best seats in the gallery. Their ambush slammed dozens of us aside and knocked most of us into each other and the adjacent wall.
In the late 70s, I was twice elected from the Great Lakes Region to the National Nominating Committee. Ellie Smeal sent me to do field organizing in South Carolina and Indiana, and in 1978 Judy Goldsmith appointed me Coordinator of the Ratified Great Lakes States to work for Illinois' ratification, one of the three additional states still needed for ratification. To fill Judy's vacancy on the National NOW Board when she stepped up to its presidency, my name was proposed, though I knew nothing of this until later. Apparently I'd won the majority of votes but missed the needed plurality by one. After many tries at revoting, the state reps proposed breaking their deadlock by drawing straws. I lost when my state rep drew the short straw.
"321 NOW" was our popular ERA chant, and I had set up Wisconsin NOW's official postal box as 321 in Elm Grove, a small enough Wisconsin community near my home in neighboring Brookfield to have an assortment of box numbers available to choose from. And for many years in the 70s and 80s, my car sported the license plate ERA NOW.
[photo: "321 NOW" license plate, 1978-86]
We never did get three more states to ratify the ERA. The night before the final vote, despite firm assurances by many specific legislators across the country that they were with us, Schlafly and her ERA opponents nevertheless persuaded enough of the legislators to betray their word at the last moment. First proposed in 1923 by Alice Paul, the ERA has been reintroduced in every session of Congress since 1982. A bill is currently alive to remove the ratification deadline ex post facto and make the ERA part of the Constitution as soon as the required three more states ratify.
Maybe times have changed? Maybe there are enough supporters in only three states among the 15 unratified: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and — surely Virginia. What do you think? Join me in getting re-involved. www.equalrightsamendment.org
Chris Roerden has been a book editor for 50+ years, is the mother of 2 feminist sons and grandma of 3 grandsons, and has been a community volunteer since 1964. She has ghostwritten 5 nonfiction books and authored 6, including On To The Second Decade: NOW 10th Conference Anniversary (the 1977 commemorative and accompanying poster) and two national award-winners for writers, Don't Murder Your Mystery and Don't Sabotage Your Submission. In addition she developed 2 feminist games, notably Oops'n'Options written as a NOW fundraiser, reviewed in Ms magazine, and purchased by a number of women's support centers in at least 3 countries and by the US military for officer training at Rickenbacker AFB. The military had been motivated to acquire the game because of the high cost of having to settle so many sexual harassment suits. The Air Force officer and NOW member who led Rickenbacker's officer training said the officers "really got into the game" because, with its 128 playing cards each describing a situation faced by a woman or a girl, these highly competitive men had to do a great deal of hard, strategic thinking to win.
Voice Lessons
©2014 by Chris Roerden
Here are my suggestions for developing your writer's voice. Entirely optional, of course, as is any comment from any editor—unless a contract hangs on your compliance. (But that's a separate decision-making process I hope comes your way.)
The longer you're in this crazy business called publishing, the more you'll run into the phenomenon of Conflicting Editorial Advice. Don't let contradictory feedback from others get to you. Editors mean well; our opinions are the result of long experience in observing what appears to work best.
Writing is an art, not a science. Ultimately, you are The Decider—of what makes the most sense to you after you try each suggestion, and of how to get the results you discover are most effective in the context of your own story.
1. Begin by finishing the draft manuscript you'll use for practicing voice. Go ahead and use clichés, repetitions, misspellings, and whatever else comes quickly to mind so you simply get it all down and keep moving ahead. Finishing a first draft, and being able to write "The End," is excellent practice in itself.
2. Then put the whole thing in a desk drawer for a week or more while you write something else, thereby making the ms seem fresher when you become ready to revise it—like cleansing your palate during wine tasting.
3. One way of revising is to start on p 1 and work through to the end, cleaning up whatever you spot as you go. Another method is to focus on only one major element at a time, such as plot, then continuing to return to the start again and again to track only one character at a time all the way through. Whenever you get sick of reading your ms one more time, you might start at the final scene and work forward. Or give the whole thing another rest in the desk drawer for another week.
4. After repeated revising, inevitably you'll decide to pack off your ms to an agent or editor. (Note that however many times you've revised it, whenever we receive a ms it's still a "first draft.") So stop right there. Remind yourself of your intention to use this ms to practice voice. So wherever you may have stopped in your process—in the middle of a revision cycle, after it or before—begin practicing voice with a scene you like.
5. Examine one sentence or paragraph at a time, trying various ways of rephrasing it so the words and images become more concise and precise.
6. For example, experiment with rearranging your compound and complex sentences and paragraphs, and transposing subordinate and dependent clauses, so you discover how your strongest images, words, or effects make their greatest impact at the more powerful endings:
His eyes seemed to penetrate her soul as he looked at her. (Bleh, weak.)
As he looked at her, his eyes seemed to penetrate her soul. (Better.)
He looked into her eyes, seeming to penetrate her soul. (Even better.)
7. Replace nearly every occurrence of "just" with only, merely, simply…or nothing at all. Limit "just" to time concepts, such as: "He just arrived." Place modifiers directly before the words they actually modify. Compare: "I only want to read good books" vs. "I want to read only good books."
8. Get rid of all or most adverbs, and replace verbs with more specific, energetic choices.
9. Change walking, standing up, and sitting down to action beats (my Don't books Clue #17) to advance the plot or reveal a speaker's character, attitude, or reactions.
10. Kill clichés, repetition, redundancy, wordiness, finally, and suddenly. (See my Clues #14, 20, 21, 24, and reread either of my two Don't books to learn what else to scrub—and why.)
11. Next, search for specific habits that an editor might have pointed out to you or that you suspect need revisiting, such as the word "as." Type those two letters into your search feature, click "whole word," and skip past "as" when used in a comparison. Instead, look for issues of "false simultaneity"—two actions that are made to appear as if they occur at the same moment or for the same duration, but in reality do or could not. (Besides, "as" is a greatly overused construction that's usually weak.) Let's say you wrote: "As she walked along the beach she heard a voice." Experiment with different phrasings, and choose what's most effective in the context of the particular scene:
She walked along the beach. She heard a voice." (Yuk, too choppy.)
She walked along the beach and a voice shouted to her. (Better.)
She walked along the beach. "Stop right there," shouted a voice. (Even better.)
Practice is doing something often enough to implant a habit. Because "everyone writes," every writer (including moi) is burdened by one or more old, ineffective habits that could be replaced—and, for more successful commercial publication, should be. Getting rid of old habits, especially replacing them with new, more effective skills, requires practice. (Not too different from practicing ballroom dancing or shooting hoops.) By searching during revision only for precisely the "right" word and for the single most effective phrasing, you'll achieve stronger, more effective writing habits. You'll enable the best characteristics of your own unique voice to shine through.
By continually practicing rewriting you will continually develop your voice. Most authors agree that rewriting is where the real "art" of the writer takes place. Without continuing to rework your writing, Truman Capote might say about it (as he famously said of the work of beat poet Jack Kerouac), "That's not writing, that's typing."
Because each revision you make is what you deliberately choose to make over all other alternatives, you could end up with the same phrasing you wrote initially. But if you don't repeatedly practice making those revisions you'll never know whether what you ultimately submit is really the best you can do—or, equally as valuable, what ineffective writing you might have previously accepted as "good enough." I don't suggest you strive to become a perfectionist, but what Antoine de Saint Exupéry said is nevertheless true: that "perfection is achieved not when there's nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Voice is not found in what you add. Your own unique voice has always existed; it's merely smothered by poor ineffective habits. Which we all begin with. Eventually your voice will develop by continuing to practice revising. In the process of experimenting as I describe above, you will also sharpen your sense of hearing.
How does the ability to hear voice develop? Through the most basic, essential practice of all: by a lifetime of reading. Read widely. Read in your genre, read out of it. Read what's good, read what's trash. Read your favorite authors again and again to see how they create the effects that make them your favorites. And read your own writing aloud, in a closed room and into a tape recorder, taking notes while playing back your words. The only way to build your own sense of what voice "sounds like" is by reading as much as possible from the earliest age possible, until you instinctively recoil from awkward phrasing, odd rhythms, and repetitions—developing instead a taste for the sound of a unique, fresh, original voice.
The most common words offered with rejected manuscripts—when agents and editors take the time to write any comment on the 95+ percent of the manuscripts they reject—are: "We are looking for a fresh, new voice." Few authors have well-developed fresh, new voices; most get there intentionally, through practice revising the unique voices each of us does start with.
Visit Chris Roerden's website, www.writersinfo.info, to download free all of Part I of
Don't Sabotage Your Submission (Benjamin Franklin Award for Literary Criticism) and its genre-specific edition Don't Murder Your Mystery (Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction Book).
Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship
Membership in Mystery Writers of America is not require.
A personal note about what follows:
If you ever intend to submit your writing for publication or to a competition of any kind, you may find the 26 Questions & Answers below enlightening. If you've no patience for reading all the Q&As, at least scroll down to what's printed in purple, because that information is relevant to ALL writers.
For 3 years I served as national chair of the committee that handled the competition described below; for an additional 4 years I served as a judge on this committee; plus I frequently judge other writing competitions. And as an editor for more than 50 years, I've received thousands of submissions of all kinds.
From time to time, I and others who receive submissions exchange our reactions and frequent dismay over the many items of common knowledge that hopeful writers do not know or fail to find out. Frankly, such exchanges are one way of venting our own frustrations, since so much of that information is relatively easy to find by belonging to writers' organizations and participating in various list serves.
What's represented below reflects an all-too-common lack of awareness and resourcefulness that affects many otherwise talented writers. I would really like to eliminate as much of that lack as possible so talent will not have such a difficult time getting the attention it deserves. One of many ways to develop as a writer is to enter all the free no-fee competitions you can.
First, here's what the Helen McCloy/MWA competition offers:
Each year, two mystery writers receive up to $500 each to use toward the tuition and registration fees for a course, workshop, or program that involves actual writing and feedback.
What follows are some of the previous FAQs, but for each year's official application form, latest FAQs, and complete instructions, please visit Mystery Writers of America:
about the annual Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship to help applicants better understand their role in the process
1. Q. "Did you receive my scholarship application? I mailed it 2 months ago."
A. Yes, we did receive it, and the same week we emailed a confirmation to the email address written on your application form. Now I can see why you wouldn't have received your confirmation. The email address we sent it to, compared with the address on the inquiry you just emailed to us, is off by one letter. I recall that two people in my office, in addition to me, had struggled to decipher the hand-printed edress on your application form.
Contact information for submissions of any kind must be unambiguous, which is why the scholarship application says: "PLEASE TYPE OR CLEARLY PRINT ALL INFORMATION." Hand-printed edresses are more challenging to decipher than anything else. A wrong guess doesn't always trigger an undelivered notice, so we won't necessarily know when a confirmation fails to reach its destination.
(1) Go to MWA's home page, http://mysterywriters.org.
(2) In the menu bar click About MWA.
(3) Click the link for the Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship.
(4) Once you're on the scholarship page click: "download application here."
(5) If that final link doesn't work for you, let us know and we'll see that you receive the form. However, if you can download it yourself from the MWA website you're more likely to receive it sooner.
2. Q. "Hello, anybody there? I emailed you two days ago and need your reply right away!"
A. Sorry we couldn't get to your email before this. The mailbox that receives scholarship mail (see mysterywriters.org) is checked every day in January and February, but more likely every week in March and April, and every few weeks the rest of the year. From May through September in particular there's no specific schedule, because that's when the one member of the scholarship committee who checks the mailbox year-round is most likely on her or his own book tour or attending one of the many national mystery conventions.
You see, only published authors in the mystery field comprise the scholarship committee, and all are volunteers. Also, during those months, the need by scholarship applicants for information is rarely urgent, and can almost always be found by reading these FAQs as well as the instructions and application form at http://mysterywriters.org
However, should a recent scholarship recipient need a reply that's not immediately forthcoming by emailing us, contact info is posted on http://mysterywriters.org.
3. Q. "My submission was returned by the post office as address unknown. I'd mailed it to the address in Minnesota shown on the application form."
A. If you mailed your materials to, for example, a Minnesota address or a North Carolina address, you used a former year's application form. Our mailing address changes every year or so depending on which MWA author chairs that year's scholarship program.
4. Q. "When does the next scholarship open for applications?"
A. For each scholarship year, the application form is posted on MWA's official website, http://mysterywriters.org several months in advance of the submission deadline, which is always the last date in February.
5. Q. "How firm is the deadline of February 28?"
A. The deadline and all other requirements are the same for all applicants. Submissions are eligible if they are postmarked the last day in February. But it's risky to wait until close to the deadline, especially if you don't already have in hand all the materials asked for.
You won't want to jeopardize your eligibility by missing the February 28 deadline or by submitting an incomplete set of required materials. Start early, and set your own deadlines.
6. Q. "I'm mailing this to your P. O. Box because this is my second attempt to get an answer to my question about the scholarship. I realize you must be very busy at this time of year with so many applications arriving, but if you could reply to my question as soon as possible I'd really appreciate it."
A. Sorry that your original email went unanswered. I just checked our spam folder, and I see that an email from a similar name as yours had been diverted to spam. For any email sent from or to individuals who won't recognize your name, always place words in the subject line that are unmistakably relevant. In the case of email sent about the scholarship, please put the words "MWA scholarship," "McCloy scholarship," or even "scholarship" in the subject line—not "I have a question" or "Greetings."
Also, write your question in the body of the email. We don't open attachments from senders we don't recognize, and you'll find that agents and editors won't do so either—not until a relationship is established and an attachment has been requested of you.
7. Q. "Can I submit writing samples from a manuscript that I submitted to two agents and a publisher, none of whom I've heard back from yet?"
A. There's no prohibition in the scholarship program about submitting work that's still out at agents or publishers.
8. Q. "Do you have to be a writing major to apply?"
A. Students need not have a declared creative writing major or minor to be eligible for a scholarship.
9. Q. "The application form asks for the name of the writing course I'm going to take. I won't know that until I get to college. Can I put down that it will be a course in writing at the college I'm planning to attend?"
A. No. The application form requires that you select a specific educational institution and a specific writing program, course, class, seminar, or workshop, including the specific dates involved. The official description we ask for is the description or listing from the course catalog, community education bulletin, or whatever printed description is provided by the educational institution.
Eligible applications also include the name, mailing address, and telephone number of the course provider to whom the scholarship check and a copy of the award letter should be sent. Applications that lack specific information are declared ineligible and are not included among those made available to all the judges.
10. Q. "Do the writing classes I want to enroll in have to be in mystery writing?"
A. No. Although your writing sample and essay must demonstrate your mystery writing interests and abilities, you will most likely be able to apply the skills you learn from a generic writing class to your mystery writing. If, for example, your scholarship submission is a mystery screenplay, a screenwriting course is most likely to advance your ability to write more effective mystery screenplays.
However, any writing you work on to fulfill class assignments during the scholarship period must be in the mystery field.
11. Q. "I've graduated from high school but I'm not planning to attend college, at least not right away. Would a non-college writing course be eligible as a scholarship choice?
A. The educational institution need not be a college or other post-secondary school; it can be a community-based arts organization, weekend mystery writing workshop or series of workshops, a summer writing session at the local community college, a playwriting seminar offered at your local community theater, or a writer's retreat that incorporates learning.
Programs advancing a talented mystery writer's abilities are the kinds of programs that the scholarship is intended to support.
12. Q. "Are there any costs involved in applying for a scholarship?"
A. There are no application fees whatsoever. The only out-of-pocket costs to you are for printing or photocopying five copies of your writing sample and essay, and the postage for shipping everything to the correct address. All this can form a rather bulky package so plan ahead. Don't pay for unnecessary overnight shipping, because it's the postmark that must not be later than February 28.
13. Q. "Will you let me know that everything arrives okay and on time? Should I include a self-addressed stamped envelope?"
A. Not necessary to enclose a SASE because we use email to confirm the arrival of every package. Be certain the email address on your application is legible, and use the checklist on your application form to verify that everything required is actually part of your submission. Send everything together, not in a series of separate parts, and use one sturdy envelope or box.
One year, a submission arrived in an envelope that had gotten torn in transit; fortunately, nothing had fallen out. Several other years other submissions had been placed loosely in much larger envelopes that the pages "sloshed" around inside and arrived wrinkled and bent; and although wrinkling did not affect their eligibility, that's probably not how those authors intended their work to appear. Judges (as well as agents and editors) are frequently surprised by the condition in which authors submit their work for evaluation!
Pages ship best if contained by one or two "manuscript-sized" rubber bands or a tightly wrapped plastic bag or envelope within an outer shipping container.
14. Q. Is there anything I should know about your preferred formatting of my submission?
A. Glad you asked, because here is what one of our judges wrote about one year's submissions: "The formatting on two of them was so bad, I cringed at trying to stay with the story, not to mention the writing. About the only positive I saw was a lack of misspelled words. It's shocking that people would enter a scholarship competitiion with such poorly formatted entries."
The Internet and several books for writers offer numerous articles and lists of do's & don't's for formatting and other mechanics, including the size of margins, the wording on a title page, the wording and page numbering that goes into the header for every subsequent page, and much more. As for the font, stick to one of the two classics: Times New Roman 12 point (which is preferred by most agents, editors, and contest judges because Times lets them speed-read), and Courier 12 point (which is preferred by most hands-on manuscript editors because Courier lets them read slowly, see each word and punctuation mark, and insert edits precisely where they belong).
Be sure each copy of your submission—ANY submission—is readable, and that every numbered page is there, since each copy goes to a different judge. Don't use an old, worn-out ink cartridge, and don't assume that your printer didn't misfeed the paper though it kept on printing.
Incidentally, the most frequently misused punctuation marks are the comma and the quotation marks for dialogue. If you read a great many mysteries and other works of fiction published in the USA, you'll catch on to the conventions for representing dialogue. The most reliable resource in book publishing for the use of commas and other punctuation is the Chicago Manual of Style. You can find the latest edition in your local library; also check the Internet.
15. Q. The writing course I want to take costs $200 but the cost of my travel and accommodations is much higher. If I were to become a recipient of the scholarship, could I use any part of the $500 toward those expenses?
A. Travel and accommodations are not eligible expenses. The scholarship may be used to offset only tuition and registration fees for the writing programs themselves. Applications must specify the name and address of the specific writing workshop, class, seminar, or other program to which scholarship funds would be applied, and must include a hard copy of the educational provider's supporting documentation—such as the official registration brochure (printed), or a series of printed screen captures that show costs, dates, location, and other details expected to be provided by established writing programs.
16. Q. Who judges my writing?
A. First, the chair of the scholarship committee reviews all submissions for completeness and compliance with the requirements stated on the Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship Application form. This review determines the eligibility of both the candidate and the selected educational program. Then the writing samples, synopses (for novels), and essays written by the eligible candidates are forwarded to the committee's additional four judges. All five members of the scholarship committee are authors published in the mystery field whose publishers meet the standards of Mystery Writers of America.
The composition of the five-member committee is as diverse as possible, including men and women from different parts of the country who write in different subgenres for different audiences (adult and young adult, for example), and who are knowledgeable about the various forms of the mystery: fiction and nonfiction, as well as novel, short story, and script.
17. Q. "Your application form requires that the three chapters from a novel also include a synopsis. How long should the synopsis be?"
A. There is no word or page limit to the synopsis of a novel for the purpose of fulfilling the scholarship's application requirements. We're not looking for a detailed synopsis, only an idea of how you plan to carry out the story's general plot and themes, since the judges are seeing only the beginning of a complete work. One or two pages should be sufficient, and although these could be single-spaced, I'm sure you realize that it's easier on the eyes of our judges if your synopsis is at least 1.5 lines.
If you were sending a synopsis to a literary agent or editor, you'd of course want to follow the guidelines of each individual recipient, which are usually posted on their individual web sites.
18. Q. "Should the fiction writing samples be in the style of a traditional mystery, or can they cross genres, such as a paranormal mystery?"
A. There are no requirements about a mystery's subgenre. Your writing sample may be that of a thriller, whodunit, police procedural, private eye, true crime, romantic suspense, psychological, paranormal, literary, traditional, or any other kind of mystery. Some stories are hard to classify. Write the best story you can, and if your writing is good that will show through, and we probably won't care about how to pigeonhole your work.
19. Q. "As an aspiring mystery writer, I would like to know if the Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship may be applied to fees for attending Bouchercon and Malice Domestic."
A. No. The sholarship is applicable only to writing programs in which the recipient's participation furthers the development of his or her mystery writing, not its marketing. Bouchercon, Malice Domestic, and several other national mystery conventions are designed for mystery fans to see and hear published mystery writers discuss their books, and for published mystery writers to gain greater exposure for their writing among readers of mysteries.
These annual conventions are also excellent ways for writers, both published and not-yet-published, to network with others and learn of writing resources and avenues for marketing. But a "fan" convention is not a writing program. In fact, some readers' conventions have specifically asked panelists who also teach writing to not propose panels on writing topics. You will learn many things by attending one or more of these mystery conventions, but they are not eligible as writing programs for the purposes of the Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship.
20. Q. "I'm writing a mystery that takes place in a foreign country. Could the scholarship be used for a course in that country's language? You see, I don't speak the language, yet much of the source material I've found has not been translated into English."
A. The scholarship funds are for writing programs only, so a language course, even though it could help you with your writing, would not be an appropriate use of scholarship funds. Sorry.
21. Q. "I'm a teacher of writing and I'm curious to know the kinds of disqualifiers you see in the scholarship submissions you receive."
A. Here's what a former chair of the scholarship committee wrote in 2006, and I have to agree that many of the same problems disqualify entries in recent competitions, too:
Potential applicants are urged to read the application instructions carefully; these are posted on the Mystery Writers of America website, http://mysterywriters.org. Some applications are disqualified nearly every year for one or more of the following reasons:
(1) Writing samples submitted were not mystery related;
(2) Incomplete applications were missing such items as the mystery writing sample, or the essay, or the synopsis, or the printed descriptios of the specific writing program for which the scholarship was to be usede;
(3) The program for which the scholarship was to be used was not related or applicable to the writing of mystery fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting, or mystery playwriting.
22. Q. "If some of my short stories are longer than average should I still send three, or can I send only one or two?"
A. We do not have a length requirement for short stories submitted with the scholarship application. In general, short stories tend to run between 4,000 to 6,000 words. For applicants writing in that form, because the application requirements specify three short stories, that's what is required, no matter their length.
23, Q. "I'm a high school senior whose teachers say that I write very well. Can I apply for the scholarship you offer?"
A. You can and may apply; however, by waiting another year or two your choice of writing program will become clearer and your writing experience will develop. Because the scholarship program is intended for serious aspiring mystery writers, most applicants tend to be college students and adult learners. Entries are judged on the effectiveness of many elements, from character and plot to the techniques and conventions of mystery writing—and everything in between.
24. Q. "Dear Mystery writers company, I would like to know if the contest is open for high [sic] students who are inexperienced with mystery writing? I write stories from my own knowledge indepndently [sic]. Do I need to be enrolled in any special class to enter? All I have ever taken throughout school were regular english [sic] courses. Thanks foryour feedback."
A. About your being inexperienced in mystery writing, realize that your entry will be judged not only on your writing ability but also on your mystery writing ability. Published writers agree that the most effective way to learn to write in the mystery genre is to read mysteries. Read once to find out "whodunit" and why; then read the most compelling of those mysteries a second time to analyze how each author achieves his or her effect. Reading is key to writing—as well as to entering contests focused on particular genres.
You do not need to be currently enrolled in any special class to be eligible to enter, and high school electives taken in the past are also not eligible for scholarship funding. Applicants must plan to take a specific writing class, writing workshop, or writing seminar outside the home. If you are still in high school, you should be signing up to take a course at—for example—an educational institution such as a university or college, community-based arts organization, weekend mystery writing workshop, summer writing workshop at the local community college, or playwriting seminar offered at your local community theater. Some programs that incorporate learning, such as a writer's retreat, often have their own eligibility requirements.
25. Q. "It states on the application which type of program to which the scholarship would be applied. I do not understand what exactally that means. Can you please clear that up for me, Thank you very much for your time."
A. The question on the application form that asks for the "type of course/workshop/seminar to which the scholarship would be applied" is followed by three choices, each with a box that you can check for the answer that comes closest to your individual plan of study. These choices are:
[ ] College/University-Level Writing Class
[ ] Writing Workshop/Seminar/Program
[ ] Other (please explain) ________________________
Following these three categories, the application also asks for the title of the class/workshop/program, dates, and other specifics.
26. Q. "The info on the website says that this award can be used to offset fees for writing programs and such. What if I will not be participating in writing workshops and seminars but just need money for school? Can I still apply?"
A. Please read, very carefully, both the application form and the instructions posted for the Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship Program on http://mysterywriters.org, especially the stated purpose of the scholarship. Also, please reread the above "Frequently Asked Questions" for guidance.


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Glendale's Mayor Jerry Weiers was supposed to highlight the city's
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Fan turnout at NAU has grown over the past few
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This year, the Cardinals were unhappy with the Skydome facilities for their athletic training and equipment operations, as well as the locker-room facilities. Team officials felt they were insufficient for an NFL franchise with a training-camp roster of 90 players.
Bidwill said a move to Glendale would allow more accessibility to the team than Flagstaff, which is a two to two-and-half hour drive from the Valley. The club would practice at University of Phoenix Stadium rather than outdoors, a must given the 100-plus-degree temperatures in August in the Valley. Weiers told the Arizona Republic that the Cards would use giant balloon tents like those used by ASU for its Glendale camp. When the team held a mini-camp practice there last June, about 15,000 fans showed up, opening the Cardinals' eyes to the possibilities in Glendale.
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Is your home attractive, welcoming, even exciting from a design standpoint and/or from the personal touches you've added which make it truly your own, but the idea of relaxation almost never occurs to you? When you come home after a long, stressful day, do you find it difficult to unwind but can't quite put your finger on the reasons why?
These ideas for soothing color palettes (hint: most are soft, neutral colors found in nature), feng shui decorating tips that help you conserve energy and also rejuvenate, and patterns and designs on walls, floors, and in furnishings that imitate nature – actually called fractals and used in modern ER designs to calm people – can bring peace to your porch, balance to your bedroom, a lull to your living room, bliss to your bath, and calm to your kitchen.
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First, according to experts, among the priorities in aligning your home with all things restorative is color. Though one may covet bold, jewel tones such as deep or bright reds, blues, greens, purples, yellows, etc., designers say for a peaceful environment choosing a single accent wall in a room is best if you are inclined to use these colors. Or, choose one room in which you don't normally spend a lot of time (the dining room, for example, if generally reserved for guests and parties) and go all out with jewel-toned walls and bold artwork, objects, furnishings, an area rug, etc. But for peace and balance in the home, the neutral, warm, often muted colors found in nature are easy on the eyes and spirit and also provide for continuity so that when one enters from the outside, there's no assault on the senses.
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Next, abundant natural light can be mood altering in its effect on the brain and body. Letting as much as possible into the home through skylights, large windows, and opening small warrens of rooms to one another (time to release that stress by knocking through a few walls!) can improve one's sense of well-being. If this kind of renovation is not in the budget, try jettisoning heavy window treatments and thick, cumbersome blinds and curtains in favor of translucent Japanese screens that can be completely folded or pulled aside during the day (depending on your location and décor), or perhaps plantation shutters with slats that can open wide for maximum light. Again if combining rooms is not in the cards, decluttering to create clean, open spaces can make the difference between feeling tense, inundated, closed in, and overwhelmed to living in a space that breathes deeply – as should you.
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In progressive emergency rooms at some of the nation's leading metropolitan hospitals, patients can wait up to 8 hours just to be seen. Organic design – typically manifested in shapes that replicate nature in the form of grasses, reeds, willows, flowers, trees, and leaves often painted on walls, etched in glasswork, on ceilings, and/or seen in fabric–falls under the guise of "positive distractions," according to D.C.-based interior design principal Barbara Huelat of Huelat Parimucha Healing Design. It all results in an environment of calm, respite, hope, and healing and can do the same in the home.
Commissioned to redesign Washington Hospital Center's outmoded 1980s ER One – Washington's largest trauma center – in 2007 and 2010, Huelat's "evidence-based design," where stress, anxiety, and even pain are mitigated by the inclusion of skylights, organic design, items such as soothing tropical fish tanks (who doesn't relax by the sea!), and interactive murals, has resulted in a documented reduction in stress in typically frenetic terrain. Fractal design, or what the architecture and design industry calls "nature's geometry," is the way snowflakes look or how the veins in a leaf actually resemble the tree itself (in short, it's repeated). Seen in ER One floor patterns, walkways, and furnishings, fractal design brings the idea of nature and its many patterns inside. "You can even see fractal design on shorelines, for example," Huelat said. "And there are no abrupt turns in nature–it's all gradual curves as opposed to abrupt, jarring lines and colors–much easier on the psyche."
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Feng Shui, a system of "geomancy," is said to use the laws of heaven and earth to improve life's harmony and balance by allowing for positive qi (pronounced "chee"). This is done, in simple terms, through furniture placement, where art, mirrors, and openings are placed in a room and you in relation to them. Among feng shui's many benefits is its resulting relaxation, rejuvenation, and the encouragement of good fortune to boot. Consulting a professional practitioner is one way to incorporate feng shui principles into your home. There are also many books written on the subject. Donald Trump is said to have become a follower after losing some Asian clients, reportedly due to negative feng shui. Nowadays engineers, architects, interior designers, and those in the real estate profession are becoming certified in feng shui principles to bring peace and positive energy into their clients' residences.
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