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Fairy Tales for Writers (Perfect Paperback)

by Lawrence Schimel (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Fairy Tales for Writers holds up a magic mirror to the joys and struggles of the creative process and the writing life, reflecting them through the lens of the powerful archetypes of these formative stories. In these pages the reader will find: the new writer who encounters a wolf along the path to publication; that member of a writing workshop who always needs to be the fairest of them all; a writer who give sup her voice for love; and even that shy, anonymous author who slips away before the end of the reading, but is nonetheless tracked down at last by an editor who wishes to publish her work. Because sometimes there is a happy ending, even in publishing. Everyone who has ever felt lost in the deep, dark forest of the publishing world will find resonance in these cautionary tales.

About the Author
Lawrence Schimel (New York, 1971) is an author and anthologist, who's published over 80 books in numerous genres. His poems have been published in a diverse range of periodicals,such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Saturday Evening Post, Physics Today, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, and the Lyric, among others, and have been widely anthologized in The Random House Treasury of Light Verse, Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Book of Dreams, Chicken Soup for the Horse-Lover's Soul 2, The Pagan's Muse, Lives: Poetry About Famous Americans, and The Practice of Peace, among others. His writings have been translated into Basque, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, and Spanish. He lives in New York City and Madrid, Spain.

Product Details

  • Perfect Paperback: 32 pages
  • Publisher: A Midsummer Night's Press (June 1, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0979420806
  • ISBN-13: 978-0979420801
  • Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.2 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,421,661 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars "Sometimes there is a happy ending, even in publishing.", June 10, 2007
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"Fairy Tales For Writers" is a virtually unique entry into the Midwest Book Review's monthly book review column 'The Writing/Publishing Shelf' which is usually devoted to 'how to' books and manuals for aspiring writers and novice publishers. This small, slender, imaginative, hilarious, and all-to-true 30-page collection of poetry by Lawrence Schimel wonderfully and artfully reflects the almost archetypal hopes, ambitions, frustrations, passions, and processes of writing for publication. Here in a kind of poetic folklore format are 'the new writer who encounters a wolf along the path to publication'; the writing workshop member who must always be 'the fairest of them all'; the writer who for the sake of love gives up her own special voice; the shy, anonymous author who slips away before the end of the reading only to be remorselessly tracked down by the editor wanting to publisher her work. Everyone who has ever put pen to paper, and the tried to submit that paper to a publisher, will recognize the poetically expressed truths in Lawrence Schimel's superb little book, "Fairy Tales For Writers". As the last line on the last page of this marvelous little gem has it: "Sometimes there is a happy ending, even in publishing."
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Writer's Dream Comes True, January 31, 2009
This small collection of Fairy Tales for Writers by Lawrence Schimel is a delightful and encouraging read for the fledgling or struggling writer. Using various real writer's life scenarios, Schimel weaves the tales of Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and others. Each story relates the scary evil a writer may confront as she pens her way through the dark and lonely forest of the writing life. I found this book an entertaining and encouraging read. Not only do I recommend it -- but I also think it would make and ideal gift for a writing friend or family member who is just finding their way in the writing world or perhaps just graduating from a writing program.
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4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful!, November 12, 2007
what a terrific idea -- this pocket-sized volume, bite-sized really, is just chock full of delightful verse about the joys and pains of writing as a vocation.
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