9 in-person and 11 online attendees were present to see the upload of this year’s anthology to Amazon. We were delighted to welcome new NaNoWriMo participants, and very much hope they might join us at future meetings too. If you’ve not already signed up for our newsletters, please go to the SignUp page on the portlandwritersmill.org website and follow the instructions there. (You’ll get the instructions in an email from admin @ portlandwritersmill . org, so make sure you flag those emails as “not spam” when they arrive.)
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How to Upload your Book to Amazon, from Sheila’s talk, Nov 19th 2023
Sheila had a PowerPoint presentation prepared to guide us through the upload of this year’s anthology, but Zoom and PowerPoint both crashed. Fearing the computer might crash next, she proceeded to give the talk off the cuff instead. By the end of the following day, our latest anthology was on sale at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPQ2F92/. Get your copies soon, before the price goes up!
Continue reading How to Upload your Book to Amazon, from Sheila’s talk, Nov 19th 2023Millworks–Framing Life
Our 10th anthology is now available for purchase on Amazon. Just click on the links below to find it (and for FREE previews!):
State of the Anthology – Updated
We have a great collection of entries, which will make a great anthology – a cheap and personal Christmas gift, great keepsake, and a first time opportunity for some of us to be published. Thank you all for coming together to make this happen.
Continue reading State of the Anthology – UpdatedChallenges Anthology Update
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!
Buy These Anthologies!
Carl and June: Tales of Two, and The Writers’ Mill Journal are now available in print and kindle versions. Tell all your friends. Proceeds from online sales to directly to the library so… support your local authors AND support your local library! Books make great Christmas gifts!
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Writers Mill Minutes May 15th 2016
21 members attended May’s meeting and listened to an excellent discussion on all things writing, led by poet, short story writer and novelist Jim Stewart. Jim has generously agreed to a return engagement to lead a poetry workshop for us soon. We really appreciated meeting with him, and notes from his talk will be included in a separate post. Continue reading Minutes 201605
Submissions Closed – Watch this Space!
The Writers’ Mill Journal, Volume 5, will be released in time for our November meeting.
Writers’ Mill Members will have emailed their (edited) submissions BEFORE THE END OF JULY to
admin@portlandwritersmill.org
Please send any questions to this address!
Stories, poems, essays, pictures, photos, snippets, etc… to be included in one of the following journal sections – please interpret the section heading as loosely as you wish!
- Murder, Mystery and Mayhem (based on November)
- White (based on December: anything related to white – clothing, weather, peace, Christmas…)
- January’s contest was “A Year” – we’re pretty sure you can find another section in this list for your timely tale.
- Misunderstood (based on the February, It’s not what you think contest)
- Windows (based on March)
- Irresistible temptation (April)
- Switching places (May’s contest was just people, now includes places)
- Home and away (June’s contest was home, now includes travel, time, and any other homes and aways that inspire you)
- Just for kids – Enter your kid-safe pieces to this section
- Just for inspiration – Enter your inspirational pieces here if you’d prefer this to another section. But remember, entries for Joe’s Inspirational Journal should also be sent to Joe.
Please include the following information in your email:
- Title of your piece (story, photo, poem, essay, snippet, whatever…)
- Section to which it is being submitted
- Author name (this is not always clear from your email address!)
Illustrations should include the same information. If you have illustrations to go with your piece, please send them as separate files with the piece (not as part of the word document). Make life easy for us, then we’ll do a better job for you!
Word count limits? Ugh! We’d rather not impose any, but if you keep your total word-count to below 10,000 words, we might avoid ruinous print costs when we put it all together. If we end up with something that takes too many pages, we’ll look forward to your helpful cooperation in fixing it!
Happy Writing!
Journal News 2015 – Step 13 – Price
The print price of our journal is $3.75
Postage is expensive. If we get enough orders at our meeting, we can share the postage between us and buy them at $4.50 including postage. But why are they $9.95 on Amazon? Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 13 – Price
Journal News 2015 – Step 12 – Createspace
Createspace is fun, free (if you want it to be), and extremely cool. Try it! Continue reading Journal News 2015 – Step 12 – Createspace