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Find Your Life Path – Heal Yourself
By Lara Honos-Webb
You can heal your life in 3 easy steps:
Find your dream
Supercharge your dream
Heal your dream
Find Your Dream
You can heal so much of your own pain, by finding what you were meant to do and doing it. What is your life path? What were you meant to do? The answer is simple:
What is your most vaunting ambition? That is what you were meant to do. Shamelessly indulge in fantasies of love and success. Allow yourself to let loose your imagination and dream big. What if you saw achievement as your generous gift to the world? What would you allow yourself to aspire to if you believed that all your desires were links to your most important service to the world? The question is never “Am I good enough?” rather the question is always “Am I generous enough to share my gifts with the world?” The eyes of gentleness see vaunting ambition as unbridled generosity. Just as deeply as you ache for making your dreams come true does the world ache for your gifts. The ache inside of you is meant to drive you toward sharing your gifts with the aching world. What if you believed that the world wants to give you so much more than your most grandiose fantasy? Believe for a moment that the universe is knocking itself out right this moment to lovingly pour itself out to you. What would you do? That is your life path.
Supercharge your dream
In order to supercharge your dream, you need to practice being open to receive help and guidance. Opening to receive takes practice. Each day for the next week, practice asking people for what you need in ways that make you uncomfortable. Promise yourself you won’t feel discouraged by the response you receive. The point is just to ask for help, not necessarily to get it. (You may find yourself getting lots of help, but that’s a side bonus!) You can ask your family to take over responsibilities for you. You can ask co-workers to help with a project. You can call up corporations and ask for corporate sponsorship of one of your pet projects. You can call up friends and ask them to do you favors. Make a commitment to ask for one outrageous favor each day for a week. Open to receive.
Heal Your Dream
What do you do when you feel discouraged, begin to doubt you can make your dream a reality?
Immediately stop asking the following questions:
Whose to blame?
What did I do to deserve this?
What’s wrong with me?
Immediately show radical self-care and start asking yourself the following questions:
Am I OK?
What do I need?
How can I comfort myself?
What if you’re just plain tired? What if you’re not in the mood for self-transformation today? Just take it easy, curl up with a trashy magazine or a sappy movie, a piece of chocolate – whatever it takes in this moment. There’s nothing wrong with you. There never was.
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If you’re looking for publishers to submit to then you’re going to be limited to small presses. Large publishing houses only accept manuscripts from literary agents.
Here are lists of some publishers and agents. You have to visit their website to see if they represent non-fiction.
http://www.everywritersresource.com/bookpublishingcompanies.html
http://www.aaronline.org
first off, congrats on finishing your novel. Its not easy to carry all the way through and not get distracted with something else. now – for a little advice.
writing the book is only about half of the publishing process. There are very few publishing houses these days that will accept unsolicited manuscripts. You can still send them but the chances of them ending up in the slush pile are high and most of the larger publishers simply refuse to accept at all. If you want to try, find books that have a similar theme to yours and see which houses published them. Go on line to the publisher’s web page and check out their submissions section. It will tell you if they accept and if they do what they want (usually a query letter, a chapter or two and a summary). Real publishers don’t charge you to publish your books (that’s the same scam as ‘book doctors’).
Chances are high however that you’re going to need to get yourself an agent. Agents have contacts in the publishing world and know who buys what and how to sell your story to the most interested buyers. Real agents also do not charge money up front – they get paid when they sell your book.
Now that you’ve got your story written you need to do your research. Check into the publishing houses, check into which agents represent your type of work, learn to write an amazing query letter. Your age shouldn’t matter – don’t even bother mention it. Your work should stand on its own without how old you are mattering. Make sure everything you do is highly professional – get an adult to help double check it if you can. Don’t get discouraged by rejection slips – they happen to everyone – just ask Stephen King! You’re going to have to convince these business people with that your story is marketable and worth their time and reputation to represent. The world of publishing is very competitive but if you persist and don’t give up, you can make it.
Last bit of advice – other than, pray hard – is to write or email your favorite authors. Some of them are too busy or egotistical to answer but you’d be surprised how many will happily respond to you. They’re an excellent source of advice and can help point you in the right direction. Good luck and God bless.
How do I find a publisher for a script of a theatrical play?
Good day.
I have begun working on a script for a stage production and I wish to know how I would go about looking for publication without an agent. Where do I find a publisher? What are the common guidelines for publishers? What can I do to ensure that my work is accepted? How does the publication process undergo and how long does it usually take?
For the information, I live in the state of West Virginia, Charleston area.
Any help is appreciated.
I don’t have all of the answers, but I did talk to a playwright friend of mine who gets his work done all over the country.
The first thing you’ll want to do is get your script officially copyrighted through The Library of Congress. It doesn’t cost much to do, but it may take a few months for it to go through.
One thing my friend told me, that made me reconsider whether I wanted to seek publishing my play is that not only does the publishing company get a percentage of your royalties (which, really isn’t that bad), they now own the rights to your play – so if you ever wanted to put on your own play, you’d have to pay them. Which, may not be all that bad, since you will be getting the majority of it back, but it is something to really think about.
I’ve found a list of places that publish plays. They each have their own websites which may tell you what they require.
Good luck, and I hope this is good enough to get you started.
Also, I was only allowed by yahoo to put up 10 links, so I’m putting spaces in some of the web addresses, so you can still have their website information.
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Play Publishing Companies
Anchorage Press Plays
PO BOX 2901
Louisville KY 40201-2901
(502)583-2288
(502)583-2281 Fax
applays @ bellsouth.net
http:// http://www.applays. com
Bakers Plays
45 W. 25th Street
New York, NY 10010
Phone: (212) 255-8085
Fax: (212) 627-7753
info@bakersplays.com
http:// http://www.bakersplays. com
Broadway Play Publishing, Inc.
56 E 81 St
New York, NY 10028-0202
(212) 772-8334
(212) 772-8358 Fax
bppi @ broadwayplaypubl.com
http:// http://www.broadwayplaypubl. com/
Children’s Theatre Plays.com
3936 Millsbrae Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45209
(513) 351-9978
kschultzmiller @ mindspring.com
http:// childrenstheatreplays. com
Classics On Stage! / On Stage!
P.O. Box 25365
Chicago, IL 60625
(773) 989-0532
classstage @ aol.com
http://www.classicsonstage.com
Dramatic Publishing
P.O. Box 129
Woodstock, IL 60098-0129
or
311 Washington St.
Woodstock, IL 60098-3308
(800) 448-7469
Fax: (800)334-5302
plays @ dramaticpublishing.com
http://dramaticpublishing.com
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
440 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
(212)683-8960
(212)213-1539 Fax
postmaster @ dramatists.com
http://www.dramatists.com
Eldridge Plays and Musicals
P.O. Box 14367
Tallahassee, FL 32317
(800) Hi-Stage
(800) 435-5179 Fax
info @ histage.com
http://www.histage.com
European-American Music Distributors, Inc.
15800 NW 48th Avenue
Miami, FL 33014
(305)521-1604
(305)521-1638 Fax
eamdc @ eamdc.com
http://www.eamdc.com
Music Theatre International
421 West 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 541-4684
(212) 397-4684 Fax
http://www.MTIShows.com
Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
P O Box 4267
Englewood, CO 80155
(800) 333-7262
(303) 779-4315
http://www.pioneerdrama.com
Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatre Library
The R&H Theatre Library
229 West 28th St.
11th floor
New York, NY 10001
(800) 400-8160
(212) 268-1245 Fax
theatre @ rnh.com
http://www.rnh.com/theatre/index.html
Samuel French, Inc.
45 West 25th Street, Dept. W
New York, NY 10036
(212) 206-8990
(212) 206-1429 Fax
samuelfrench @ earthlink.net
http://www.samuelfrench.com
Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.
560 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10022
(212) 688-9191
(212) 688-5656 Fax
http://www.tamswitmark.com
Where can I find a good science fiction publisher dealing with old fashioned scifi?
My writing style is much like the science fiction style in the 1930′ and 40’s and I am having trouble finding publishers that publish that type of science fiction. My novels are much like the early Edgar Rice Burroughs novels or even Buck Rogers. I see plenty of publishers putting out books from older authors, but where can a new author find a publisher interested in publishing that sort of story?
All were good answers. Thanks!
First, I want to say that I’m extremely impressed with just your writing style and correctness in this question. So, you’re novel must be incredible. Not sure how a 14 year old attains such writing skills, but you definitely have them.
In addition to the other good suggestions here, there is a method called “Publish on Demand”. You can Google it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=publish+on+demand&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
And here is one of the sites that will do it for you:
http://www.publishondemand.net/
I know nothing about them….it was just the first hit, so you could start to learn about it.
Also, you might consider the whole Oprah thing where she helps promote writers, but be careful because I’ve heard that she takes over the rights of the writings and many authors have been very disappointed when their book succeeded (thanks in part to her help) and they got nothing further.
Please email me at hoopdedoo@hotmail.com once you get things in place, and tell me what happened and where I can purchase your work.
Best of Luck!
Where do I find publisher submission guidelines for non-fiction? I have searched websites with little success?
I would like to submit a book idea to some publishers but I am unable to find the specific guidelines for each publisher. I am tr yin to figure out what publishers best match with my topic, but the websites I find for the major publishers are unhelpful thus far.
Thanks in advance.
How can I find a publisher who will read my book? I’m only 14?
I am in the midst of writing small novel about the poverty in africa, and one child who is caught up in it all, and their journey to escape the war there.
It’s really hard to find a publisher, as when you google it, only a publisher who publishes books written by adults for children can be found.
Publishers don’t have the time to read anything written by someone like myself, who has never written anything before.
Does anyone know anychild publishers who would listen? Thank You.
Well, publishers will tend to publish what will sell. If people want old style science fiction, chances are they will go out and buy old science fiction. That is, there isn’t much of a market for your sort of work.
This devolves into a question of why you are writing? Is it for yourself and the enjoyment of it, or is it to get published and make money? If it is the former, then don’t worry about not getting published (but, I would say, keep trying, and try to build a rep through writing short stories and getting those published in magazines). If it is the latter, however, then you have to write to your audience (well… you write to your audience no matter what, but for one your audience is you, for the other the audience is everyone else).
Not the answer you were looking for, I am sure, but hopefully one that will help.
How can i find a publisher to publish my book?
Help! I am a 14 year old boy and have been writing long novels for years. I can not find a publisher that is compatable with my latest book, which is in a genre similar to that of the Godfather by Mario Puzo. It is aimed at Teenagers and i guess could be called crime righting. Can anyone give me the name of a publisher who might be interested in that sort of thing?