Comments on: Alert! Beginner! http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/ Author Sun, 20 May 2012 21:08:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Gore Wehner http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1075 Gore Wehner Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:24:37 +0000 http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1075 No problem, Steve. What I have learned as far as novels go is that on the cover sheet of your novel, if you are without agent representation, place your real name along with your contact information in the upper left hand corner (or wherever the submission guidelines asks you to place it). Then, below where you type your title (around the middle of the page), write "by (your pseudonym)." If you have agent representation, simply use your pseudonym. You won't need your contact information, because you will have your agent's contact information on the cover sheet instead. As far as magazines go, again, use your real name with the contact information at the upper left hand corner of the first page of your story (no cover sheets necessary for a magazine submission). Then, a third of the way down type your title and "by (your pseudonym)." No problem, Steve.

What I have learned as far as novels go is that on the cover sheet of your novel, if you are without agent representation, place your real name along with your contact information in the upper left hand corner (or wherever the submission guidelines asks you to place it). Then, below where you type your title (around the middle of the page), write “by (your pseudonym).”

If you have agent representation, simply use your pseudonym. You won’t need your contact information, because you will have your agent’s contact information on the cover sheet instead.

As far as magazines go, again, use your real name with the contact information at the upper left hand corner of the first page of your story (no cover sheets necessary for a magazine submission). Then, a third of the way down type your title and “by (your pseudonym).”

]]> By: Steve http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1073 Steve Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:18:11 +0000 http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1073 Dave, Every story I have submitted has dealt with the pen-name issue during the submission process and/or after the story has been accepted. Just follow the guidelines to the letter and you will be able to address the pseudonym issue at a later date. (Kim, I’m sorry if I intruded on your territory.) Dave,
Every story I have submitted has dealt with the pen-name issue during the submission process and/or after the story has been accepted. Just follow the guidelines to the letter and you will be able to address the pseudonym issue at a later date.
(Kim, I’m sorry if I intruded on your territory.)

]]> By: Dave http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1068 Dave Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:15:13 +0000 http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1068 Hi Kim, I was wondering, because you wanted us to ask some questions about the writing process, how does an author write under a pseudonym, or pen name? Does he or she submit under one name, but request it be published under another name? The only reason to worry about this I suppose, is if you want to get paid. Having a check in a name you could cash is helpful. Hi Kim,
I was wondering, because you wanted us to ask some questions about the writing process, how does an author write under a pseudonym, or pen name? Does he or she submit under one name, but request it be published under another name? The only reason to worry about this I suppose, is if you want to get paid. Having a check in a name you could cash is helpful.

]]> By: Gore Wehner http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1008 Gore Wehner Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:47:35 +0000 http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1008 Thanks for your response, Steve. (And yes, he is a friend of mine! I recommend his blog.) Hi Dave (another friend of mine!). Never "write down" to your perceived audience. No matter how heightened and metaphoric your work, you will find an audience for it. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "accepted" writer. Certainly it has nothing to do with being an advanced writer. Unless, of course, you're relating that with mass market publishing. And in that case, you're equating being published with being a successful writer, which isn't always the case. My best advice is to follow your gut. If you feel you've written to the best of your abilities and the problem now lies in the reader, and not in what you have written, it's time to seek different counsel. Seek out authors who write in your scope. Find out who their editors and agents are. Submit your work to them. Some of them may attend writer's conferences, and sometimes for a fee you can receive a ten-page critique from them. Search for these opportunities. Same goes for literary journal contests. Sometimes the participants receive critiques (again, for a nominal fee). But if you aren't getting what you want from the people reading your work, it's time to search for people who are more like-minded. Hope this helps! Thanks for your response, Steve. (And yes, he is a friend of mine! I recommend his blog.)

Hi Dave (another friend of mine!). Never “write down” to your perceived audience. No matter how heightened and metaphoric your work, you will find an audience for it. I’m not quite sure what you mean by “accepted” writer. Certainly it has nothing to do with being an advanced writer. Unless, of course, you’re relating that with mass market publishing. And in that case, you’re equating being published with being a successful writer, which isn’t always the case. My best advice is to follow your gut. If you feel you’ve written to the best of your abilities and the problem now lies in the reader, and not in what you have written, it’s time to seek different counsel. Seek out authors who write in your scope. Find out who their editors and agents are. Submit your work to them. Some of them may attend writer’s conferences, and sometimes for a fee you can receive a ten-page critique from them. Search for these opportunities. Same goes for literary journal contests. Sometimes the participants receive critiques (again, for a nominal fee). But if you aren’t getting what you want from the people reading your work, it’s time to search for people who are more like-minded. Hope this helps!

]]> By: Dave http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1000 Dave Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:22:02 +0000 http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-1000 Hi Kim, I'm not a beginning writer, but I have a hard time finding people who write (and read) at the same level as me. So do I have to lower my vocabulary, cut back on the ideas and references and put more emphasis on word count (i.e less quantity means more quality)? I'm not an advanced writer because I don't have the experience of being acknowledged as an 'accepted' writer. So, basically, am I in literary limbo? I can't be in Hell, because the doorway over the entrance to Hell (In Dante's Inferno) read "Abandon All Hope, All Ye Who Enter)and I still have hope that I can be a good writer. Sinvce I still have hope, do I just need to find new readers? Hi Kim,
I’m not a beginning writer, but I have a hard time finding people who write (and read) at the same level as me. So do I have to lower my vocabulary, cut back on the ideas and references and put more emphasis on word count (i.e less quantity means more quality)? I’m not an advanced writer because I don’t have the experience of being acknowledged as an ‘accepted’ writer.
So, basically, am I in literary limbo? I can’t be in Hell, because the doorway over the entrance to Hell (In Dante’s Inferno) read “Abandon All Hope, All Ye Who Enter)and I still have hope that I can be a good writer. Sinvce I still have hope, do I just need to find new readers?

]]> By: Steve http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-991 Steve Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:55:47 +0000 http://blog.klgore.com/2010/08/21/alert-beginner/#comment-991 In reference to #3, I think you need to make it clear that your statement is far more encompassing than it sounds. I reference you to a wonderful bog I read the other day. Look at Tuesday, April 20, 2010 on http://writingsbysay.blogspot.com/ I think you will find that people know more than they know they know -- and need to be encouraged to look beyond the obvious. (LOVE the blog. Thank you for writing it.) In reference to #3, I think you need to make it clear that your statement is far more encompassing than it sounds. I reference you to a wonderful bog I read the other day. Look at Tuesday, April 20, 2010 on http://writingsbysay.blogspot.com/

I think you will find that people know more than they know they know — and need to be encouraged to look beyond the obvious.

(LOVE the blog. Thank you for writing it.)

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