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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.
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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.
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.
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