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If you are looking for a place to sell your manuscript, check out this listing on StoryLink.

Flying Pen Press is currently open to non fiction and to science fiction. We are trying to fill our catalog of science fiction novels for the World Science Fiction conventions, which will beheld in Denver in 2008. After January 2008, we will once again be open to all types of fiction.

For more information and a copy of our submission guidelines, please visit www.FlyingPenPress.com.

Full info here.

The first page for your manuscript is the first impression that readers will get of your book. And if they aren’t impressed at the first, they probably will never look at your story, article or book again. This means that your first page has to impress. It has to be compelling. It cannot be crap.

Your first page of your manuscript should set the stage for the action that is going to happen in the story. And it should make your reader feel drawn in and compelled to continue reading. If you haven’t done this one the first page, then all hope might be lost. You have to make your reader want to turn the page.

Each November thousands of people join NaNoWriMo. If you are not familiar with NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, it is a monthly long challenge where participants try to write a complete novel in the span of one month.

If you are trying to get out your book then this is a great motivator. You will benefit from the support of other people that are working towards a similar goal as yourself. When you finish that book, don’t forget to have someone proofread it before you send it out hoping to be the next Nicholas Sparks!

For more info on NaNoWriMo, visit their website.