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Wish you could study writing Ray Bradbury, Penelope Lively or Clive Cussler? SocialTimes introduced us to YouTube EDU, a massive collection of free educational videos from Harvard, Yale, MIT, University of California and other great universities.

Here’s more from SocialTimes: ” YouTube’s education channel, offers videos of courses at top schools around the globe in categories ranging from arts and humanities to education, business and law, mathematics, science, medicine, languages and more.”

We’ve rounded up five useful courses for all the writers, readers and publishing folks in the audience.

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

This fall Clive Cussler, Sandra Brown, Kathy Reichs, Mark Bowden and Andrew Peterson will embark on Operation Thriller, a USO/Armed Forces Entertainment tour.

Operation Thriller sends authors to military bases around the world to entertain our troops–follow this link to read about last year’s tour. At the moment, the exact locations and tour dates cannot be revealed for security reasons. 2011 marks the 70-year anniversary of the USO organization.

Here’s more from the release: “OPERATION THRILLER, will fly to the Middle East, where they will sign autographs, pose for photos with the troops and talk about their books, movies, television series and writing. This trip marks the tour’s second installment, the first one kicked off in November 2010 and was comprised of Steve Berry, David Morrell, Doug Preston, James Rollins and Andy Harp.”

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

CLIVE CUSSLER SOCIETY ADVENTURE WRITERS COMPETITION http://cusslersociety.com/writers_competition.html

NO ENTRY FEE
Full-length submittals must be original and cannot include characters from another authors’ work – i.e. fan-fiction is not allowed. The length of the manuscript shall not exceed 130K words or less than 50K words. Contest limited to 25 entries.

Competition Rules:

Manuscripts will be accepted beginning October 1, 2011. The competition deadline is January 1, 2012 with a maximum of 25 entries/manuscripts. The competition will be closed with the receipt of the  25th manuscript.

Eligibility:

(a) Participants must be 18 years of age by October 1, 2011.

(b) The Adventure Writers’ Competition is open only to unpublished writers.*

An “unpublished writer” is defined as: an author whose fictional work has not appeared in book, magazine, or periodical format via a Fortune 500 recognized publishing firm. Self-published/Vanity Press authors are eligible as long as their work has not appeared in any of the formats listed above.

(c) Clive Cussler Collectors Society’ Officers, Panel Judges, and their families/relatives are not eligible for the contest.

Rules & Submittal Requirements:

(a) Full-length submittals must be original and cannot include characters from another authors’ work – i.e. fan-fiction is not allowed.

(b) The length of the manuscript shall not exceed 130K words or less than 50K words.

(c) Format: 12 pt.- Times New Roman font, paginated and double-spaced with one-inch margins, and numbered pages.

(d) Writers may only submit one manuscript.

(e) Submitted manuscripts must be of the action-adventure genre. The story must have action and conflict, and the reader must identify with the character(s) in order to draw them into the plot. Fantasy and Science Fiction entries will not be accepted.

(f) The deadline of the competition is January 1, 2012.

(g) Attendance to the Clive Cussler Collector’s Society Convention is not required to claim the Grand Prize.

(h) A minimum of 10 entries/manuscripts will need to be submitted by the deadline for this competition to take place, with a maximum of 25 entries/manuscripts.

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REMINDER:  Two Networking Dinners in NYC on July 19th and 20th.  Still a few spaces open.

September 30th – October 2 – Writer’s Retreat – Princeton Hyatt Regency.  Don’t miss the opportunity to spend the weekend with Editors, Connie Hsu and Heather Alexander.

If you are going to the Annual SCBWI Conference in Los Angles in August and would like to get-together, please let me know.  I will try to put something together.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy