New deadlines:
End of third Sunday in September (midnight tonight!):
- All submissions must be received at anthology @ portlandwritersmill.org
- If you want space for an image in your entry, a placeholder image (even if it’s not the final image) together with the name of the submission it goes with, must be received by anthology @ portlandwritersmill.org
- Sheila will upload a “first draft” to the website for authors and members to read at the beginning of the following week (watch this space!)
By the end of the first Sunday in October (next contest deadline)
- Title will have been chosen (watch this space!)
- Final images will have been received – send them to anthology @ porlandwritersmill.org
- First draft edits will be complete.
- Judy, Catherin, Jean and Sheila would love to welcome additional editors. Email admin @ portlandwritersmill.org to volunteer.
- Sheila will incorporate editors’ changes and upload the “author draft” to the website for authors and members at the beginning of the following week.
By the end of the third Sunday in October (next meeting day)
- Authors will have proofread their own and adjacent entries and sent all edits to Sheila
- Authors will have sent any requests to Sheila for small changes to their entries (small changes only!)
- Final images will have been received and included
- Sheila will incorporate all these changes and upload the “final draft” to the website at the beginning of the following week.
By the end of the first Sunday in November (next contest deadline)
- Members will have reported any typos in the final draft and Sheila will have fixed them
- Sheila will have calculated the final “author plus postage” price per copy
- Members will have decided how many print copies they will want and will start sending checks in payment.
- Email admin @ portlandwritersmill.org to find out where to send such checks and how to make them out
At November’s meeting
- Sheila will demo how to upload a book to Amazon, for kindle and print copies.
- Sheila will demo Amazon’s cover creator and also how to upload a real cover, created elsewhere.
- Sheila will make the order for copies as soon as Amazon approves the uploads.
At December’s meeting
- With any luck, everyone will have been able to pick up their entries
- We’ll celebrate a job well done and tell all our friends to buy our book!
Well this is proving to be much harder this time around, as regards picking (and sticking with) one favorite title. After reading through the titles again I find myself liking the title Joe likes, “Finding Our Way.” It’s hopeful and inclusive and suggests we are all getting through this together while separate. I think this is my new favorite. Though I still like the quirky, “Waiting for the Locusts.” “Journey Through Chaos” is good, but I would want it to be Journeys, plural, as that implies inclusion of the whole group.