SHALLA Magazine
Winter Blooms Issue & Blank Canvas Issue








contents





home







issues






podcasts






chats





THE ART OF SHORT FICTION What is it? Author Charles Blackstone tells.

continue...

 

WRITING GREAT SHORT STORIES Elizabeth Kadetsky who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and at Columbia University’s School of Journalism serves up some advice.

continue...


CRAFTING CHARACTERS THAT JUMP OFF THE PAGE Punching up your fiction? Where there's a tipster, there's a way. Discover Robert Gregory Browne's secrets to getting multiple book deals.

continue...


BIOFICTION INTRODUCED Even as she receives 5 stars on Amazon for Trine Erotic while editing/publishing Entelechy: Mind & Culture, Alice Andrews takes time to chat about the esoteric world of this mind-bending read.


continue...






features







editors





about




submissions




 

mailroom

 

 

Here's our winner of TOP PICK!

“Duotrope Digest ”

"...think of Duotrope’s Digest as a matchmaker of sorts. If you write fiction or poetry, we can help you find appropriate markets for your work."
--Shannon Wendt, Duotrope creator

continue...




 

Up Front

 

News!

 

Buy Now!

Get 10% OFF when you order directly from our printers.

Click on the CreateSpace e-store link under each magazine cover and use coupon code WEP6SWY5

 

shalla

Available at www.amazon.com
& https://www.createspace.com/3405929

 

shalla

Available at www.amazon.com
& https://www.createspace.com/3410810

 

 

shalla we love shalla

Available at www.amazon.com
& https://www.createspace.com/3410702

SHALLA Magazine: Shakespearean Follies pocket-edition

Available at www.amazon.com
& https://www.createspace.com/3417283

 

SHALLA Magazine: Mannequin Walking Issue

Available at www.amazon.com
& https://www.createspace.com/3414485

 

(The covers above are tentative. We reserve the right to add or subtract names depending on the results of the proofs from our printers or for any other reason.)

 

Here's our 2010 Online Issue

 

mystery

Box of Secrets

By BJ Bourg

 

literary

Sedrick meets a fairy, does she share his taste for toads? 

November Gray
(or the fairy who ate a toad)
By Bosley Gravel

 

genre

The Fighter

By Axel Taiari
 
chick lit

Last Supper

By Dawn Maria

 

poetry

 

 

 

Listen to my interviews with literary agents and a publisher!

And they're all looking for clients like you...

Links to our podcasts are here:  http://shalla.podomatic.com/  (Click where it says PLAY, the PLAY button is above and to the left of my picture for each one )


SHALLA CHATS with the VP and Editorial Director at Sourcebooks, Todd Stocke (Sourcebooks, Inc http://www.sourcebooks.com/ )

 


shalla

 

SHALLA CHATS with literary agent Kelly Sonnack (The Andrea Brown Literary Agency http://www.andreabrownlit.com/ )


SHALLA CHATS with literary agent Jennifer Unter (The Unter Agency http://www.theunteragency.com/ )

 

 

 

Who were nominated for the 2010 Pushcart Prize?

SHALLA Magazine will be choosing our nominees for the Pushcart Prize from our print issues. So, no nominees until 2010 for the 2011 Pushcart Prize.

Best! And good luck!

Shalla

 

Who's on SHALLA CHATS?

Know who Shalla has interviewed? Maybe you'll be next?

Turn up the volume...

Hear our musician, Moose (Mooska), with his reggae/ska, other, acoustic blues, roots, leftfield music.

Featuring: Dorchester author, Tess Mallory; Artscape author, Frederick Ramsay; Hallie Ephron; Shara Lanel; Margaret L. Carter; Gena Showalter; Judie Aitken; NY Times Best Selling author, Barry Eisler; Chick-Lit author, Sonia Singh; Brett Battles; Michele Scott; multiple Emmy Award winning TV news producer & author Mari Mancusi; Terry Spear; Andrea Wilder; Alice Andrews; Tina Gerow; Seamus Cashman; NY Times Bestselling author, Bob Mayer; Patricia M. Terrell and more!

Produced and Directed by Shalla DeGuzman
www.shalladeguzman.com




 

 

EXCLUSIVE

Advice to Writers: from an Editor/Book Publisher

In summary, three vital concepts for the process: Persist; Trust; Revise!

SHALLA CHATS with Seamus Cashman of Wolfhound Press

continue...



Meet SHALLA Magazine's Guest Editors who are reading submissions for this issue:

Literary Agents, Alana Lennie and Kelly Sonnack.




A Literary Agent Speaks

 

On the fiction side, I’m more inclined toward the cozies, novels with a current message and short stories, Michael likes historical works.

 

SHALLA CHATS with literary agent, Alana Lennie of the Lennie Literary Agency & Authors Attorney

continue...




Call-4-Submissions

Most of our company’s success in TV and film has come from the sale of adaptations of books we represent. So it all starts with a great book.

SHALLA CHATS with Kelly Skillen, manager with PMA & Film Management, Inc.


continue...





Tips from a Literary Agent

 

For fiction, I’ll look for writing credentials, such as publication credits (either magazines, literary journals or books published by mainstream publishing houses), writing prizes, or degrees in creative writing.

SHALLA CHATS with literary agent, Ellen Pepus of the ELLEN PEPUS LITERARY AGENCY

continue...



 


features

 

 

 
fiction
 



 
 

 

 

nonfiction  
   




 
 
poetry
 



   
 
 




 


IS ON

SHALLA CHATS

 

 

FOLLOW US!

SHALLA ON TWITTER



SHALLA Magazine Mannequin Walking Issue

On Sale!

Available at www.amazon.com
& https://www.createspace.com/3414485


SHALLA Magazine

has arrived

Coming Soon!

&

we're always

getting better

& better,

& better...

 

 

Everyone's a Critic!

Where our guest assistant editors choose their top 10's or top 5's or... Read what they say about each one!

 

 

 

Literary Agent

Kelly Sonnack's

TOP PICKS

 

Who will we nominate for the Pushcart next?

continue...

 

 

 

Mark Treitel 's

TOP PICKS

 

1. THE REQUIRED ACCOMPANYING COVER LETTER by Richard Fein

2. Soap by Jared Wahlgren

3. HILLS LIKE PINK ELEPHANTS by Bruce Stirling

 

continue...

 

 

New!



Winter Blooms Issue

PICKS

 

Who were nominated for the Pushcart in 2009?

continue...

 

 

 

EXCLUSIVES


Advice to Writers: from an Editor/Book Publisher

In summary, three vital concepts for the process: Persist; Trust; Revise!

SHALLA CHATS with Seamus Cashman of Wolfhound Press

continue...

 

SHALLA MINGLES with Mr. Fitness, Alex Cristo

“Writers: Get Fit!”

continue...

 

 

© Shalla DeGuzman.
All rights reserved.