The Penguin Press discussion

We should all get to know the people in his lovely penguin press!!

I'm Ebony and I really like cats and my favorite authors are Rick Riordan, Cassandra Clare, and the apostle Paul.

I am Pam Handa and the author of 2 books recently published by Trafford in the USA- entitled Of Kismet and Karma-a cross-cultural journey, and an anthology of poems entitled-Wings of the Heart. I am of Indian origin but have lived in Ghana for most of my life. I love music and dancing, reading and writing poetry. My books are based on my personal experiences of the last 4 decades.You can google my name to know more and go to youtube to view my promo videos.
My facebook links are
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pam-Han...
HANDA-NEE-KOCHHAR/121487404694554
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/...
952.Pam-Handa-Nee-Kochhar

Archie is a pen name. I live and work in North West England. The misery of a one parent working class family, living in deprivation, is real to me. Every so often I let some into my writing - after all I grew up and lived it. I like classical history, philosophy, politics and football and I write to convey ideas.

I've read lots of SF / Fantasy, and was around when 'The New SF' was in vogue. The genre then needed Harlan Ellison to shake things up and give if that buzz of difference. Philip K Dick is still worth rereading.

As I now have a Goodreads author ID under my real name Terence Park, new works will appear under that byline, including:
alien refugee in UK sink estate, mythic-heroic fantasy with chivalric overtones, Gourmet to the Stars, a History of Burnley Grammar School, Ice Made and other stories, plus some detective-noir.

Impressions of Penguin
Buying from the Penguin imprint was a step in the dark. At the time - the 60's - its covers were in tune with English middle class sensibilities; stuffy product, uninspiring presentation. The covers (symbolic and a product of a then fad for pop-art) were primitive in the extreme. I bought despite the rather then because of them. When I bought my first one I had to convince myself it was actually worth buying. My earliest acquisition was The Day of the Triffids. I catalogue details of paperbacks and currently have 246 Penguin with a further 40 or so of associated imprints (Peregrine, Pelican, Puffin, Peacock).

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Hi, I'm Selena and I am slowly embarking on my literary career. I would one day love to be published but that's probably a ways off. Penguins are my favourite animal.

Hi,my name is Jessica Wilson. I am a children's book author. I have written two fantasy middle grade novels and one contemporary fictional novel. As of yet, I am not published. I am still working on landing an agent. I love to read all the great authors who inspire me like Brandon Mull, Rick Riordan, J.K. Rowling, and Joseph Delaney. My favorite's can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/goodreadsco...
I can also be found on SCBWI website or on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jessic...
I also blog: http://writersobsession.wordpress.com/
I have worked on my manuscripts with a few great editors from Viking Press, Writers Digest, and HarperCollins. They have given great advice and I hope to have a home for my manuscripts soon.

Selena wrote: "Hi, I'm Selena and I am slowly embarking on my literary career. I would one day love to be published but that's probably a ways off. Penguins are my favourite animal." I am KNagarajan I am also equally interested in publishing one book through Penguin. How to go about?

Finish the damn manuscript! :P That's my biggest problem. I flitter from one thing to another after losing momentum and the ability to write what's in my head.

"Finish the damn manuscript!"

Stick to that and it'll get done.

There's plenty of hurdles and time waster pasttimes. You're the one who wants the outcome, so you'll know which to work on and what to hold in check.

My name is Amy. My pen name is Grace Sutherlin. I live in the suburbs of Atlanta, GA. I am obsessed with the memoir genre and am currently shopping for a literary agent and publisher. I have a completed memoir manuscript about navigating life when you have a balance disorder. I am a former middle school Language Arts and Social Studies teacher. I review memoirs on my blog site realliferecollections.blogspot.com. If you would like to follow me and have a gmail account or wish to open one, that would be especially helpful as agents and editors like to see a new writer with a large number of blog followers. I'm looking forward to meeting and interacting with you.

What do New York agents, editors and publishers look for in new writers? Let’s say I sing Bruce Springsteen’s, Born in the U.S.A. Then he sings it. We’re both telling the same “story.” But what a difference. This is the most important lesson I know in the art of writing: it ain’t what you do; it’s the way that you do it.
Which brings us to:
Former Village Voice columnist, Contributing Editor for Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmo, author of six books published by major New York houses -- one a Book-of-the-Month – and now a columnist for the New York Daily News, I’ve written “Writing to Get Published,” a digital textbook I give my classes. If you’d like to see Lesson One, it’s free—just ask: billmanville@gmail.com

After reaching middle age I had a story to tell, so I sat down and wrote it. Then a funny thing happened. The characters had more to say. One novel has become five with the sixth to be released soon.

Try my stories with recurring characters. They are delivered from Prairie Winds Golf Course high atop the Mississippi river bluffs just east of St. Louis.

Two have been adapted to the screen and hopefully the first will be shot sometime soon!

What do New York agents, editors and publishers look for in new writers? Let’s say I sing Bruce Springsteen’s, Born in the U.S.A. Then he sings it. We’re both telling the same “story.” But what a difference. This is the most important lesson I know in the art of writing: it ain’t what you do; it’s the way that you do it.
Which brings us to:
Former Village Voice columnist, Contributing Editor for Helen Gurley Brown at Cosmo, author of six books published by major New York houses -- one a Book-of-the-Month – and now a columnist for the New York Daily News, I’ve written “Writing to Get Published,” a digital textbook I give my classes. If you’d like to see Lesson One, it’s free—just ask: billmanville@gmail.com

I'm Kathleen Flinn. I'm probably best known for my first book, THE SHARPER YOUR KNIFE, THE LESS YOU CRY, a New York Times bestselling memoir about my experiences at the famed Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in Paris.

My latest book, BURNT TOAST MAKES YOU SING GOOD is my third title for Viking/Penguin. It hits shelves officially on the 18th August. It's a multi-generational memoir (with recipes) about my immigrant family, the trials of my happy go lucky parents raised during the Great Depression and our poor, yet rich life on a Midwestern farm. Plus, there's some bigamy and bootlegging thrown in, just to keep things interesting.

You can learn more about me at my web site, http://cookfearless.com.

I look forward to hearing from you. Oh, and I call into book clubs all the time. So if you're reading one of my books, give me a shout!

I'm Terence Park and eventually I'll write a novel. Since 2012 I've been trialling different takes on SF, Fantasy and places in between. I've read upwards of 2,000 books in genre but my style is direct and takes its cue from noir (being a fan of Roger Zelazny!) Most of my output is in the form of novel sketches - approx the first ¼ of a novel. These are anything between 10k and 20k words.
As an example: in Lucky, the main character is a humanoid refugee - Lucky because she's lucky to still exist. She treads a fine line between protecting herself and becoming a victim. Being exposed as a real alien would assuredly be a bad thing in the sink estate where she lives. Besides, discovery would mean publicity, which would undoubtedly be picked up by the aliens monitoring Earth; if she's noticed, the risk could be very high for us at a species level, as in technological terms we're just a side-show. But her presence spells danger.
In Joe and the Xenophids, humanity, having made it to the stars, encounter xenocidal aliens. These are the xenophids. We failed to find a way to communicate with them. They traced us back to Earth.
Both Lucky and Joe are included in my collection of unfinished tales:
Lucky and other stories: http://www.lulu.com/content/9139356
Lucky also forms a stand-alone novella in: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00IMNXWK2

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Uhh yeah. I write SF (edited 04/01/16)

Hi I'm Charlene and I'm happy to be here with you all. I read and I write, many reviews because they help me digest, force me to consider differently what I've read. And I write, of course but more on that later. For now, just happy to be here and hoping to meet you!

Hi, I'm Ken Michaels and I currently live in Florida but I'm originally from Detroit. I've recently finished writing a book entitled, The Gay Detective, which is a noir thriller.

Nick Scott premiers his TV talk show, The Gay Detective, and receives rave reviews but his success is short lived when his first guest is found murdered. Nick, also a detective with the Chicago Police Department is teamed with Norm Malone, a straight, older detective and this Odd Couple begin their hunt for this serial killer tagged The Grim Reaper.

I've gone through a number of drafts, edits, had a cover designed, and it is now being prepared for the first pass of pages. I am self-publishing and it will come out in June.

I've written children's books, screenplays,, acted, and had my own theatre in California. I've also been a therapist for many years.

I have a black pug, named Nathan, and I enjoy dancing.

Hi - Just to let you know that the books 'Corpalism' and 'Daydream Believers' will be FREE from Amazon for Kindle/PC download from Tuesday 9th June to Saturday 13th June 2015, all I ask is that you kindly leave a review.

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To help you decide if these are your kind of books I've attached a brief description of each

Corpalism -
The first part is based in an economically dystopian future, a fast-paced thriller that moves in a believable way between fact and fiction, the second part plunges the unsuspecting reader into the distressed mind of Stephanie White a political activist from the new Independent party and victim of the latest terror atrocity locked in a coma fighting a trivial persona her mother has imposed upon her through years of brainwashing, whilst the third has several characters, including Stephanie and Donald from the previous volumes, in a pub arguing various topics from various points of view; the reader being left to decide which is valid. Part four brings all the threads together and the final part is set 20 years in the past.

Daydream Believers-
Revolutionary pensioners who are fed up with unchecked immigration and hell bent on removing corrupt politicians, sexually predatory murderous fat ladies, Machiavellian political intriguers, a mad-eyed Preacher trying to reach the souls of a disinterested public, a chivalric knight, men at work, an avenging 'hand of god', a celebrity 'golden' couple sleeping with everyone but their partner, jackpot winners and a homicidal diarist all combine to create an entertaining story of modern-day Britain.

If you know anyone else who might be interested please feel free to let them know.

Cheers

Arun

Realistic golf fiction delivered from a Midwestern golf setting high atop the Mississippi river bluffs east of St. Louis. My latest, Shari's Shot, was so successful during the Kindle Select giveaway program it prompted another freebie promotion on Opur's Blade. Experience the tablet download on Monday and Tuesday, June 15-16, 2015.



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James Ross

Hi. My name is Alisha. My short story collection has just been published and I look forward to sharing it with you.

A Smattering of Darkness : Shorter and shorter twisted tales.A Smattering of Darkness

A collection of short stories of varying lengths encapsulating the grey shades of the human psyche. A riveting and deep journey into the minds of a terminally ill man, a battered wife, a mysterious teacher amongst other flawed but ever so human protagonists. Surprise endings, cheeky resolutions and thought provoking finales are characteristic of this anthology. Ranging from one line to full length, each story leaves a lingering impact that resonates long after the page is turned.