Writer’s Digest Your Story Competition #72

writers digest logoWriter’s Digest is now accepting entries in the 72nd installment of “Your Story.” Write the opening sentence (just one sentence), of twenty-five words or fewer, to a story based on the photo on their contest page. Judging criteria are inventiveness, creativity and — where appropriate — humor. One entry per person.

Prizes: Winners will be published in a future issue of Writer’s Digest and on the Your Story winners page at WritersDigest.com.

Entry fee: FREE

Deadline: Submissions need to be submitted or e-mailed by February 22, 2016.

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3rd Annual Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story Contest

Imagine Little Tokyo Short Story ContestLittle Tokyo Historical Society (LTHS) seeks fictional short stories for its third annual “Imagine Little Tokyo” writing contest. The story must be original, fictional, written in either Japanese or English by the submitting author and never been published (even online). The setting of the story should be in Little Tokyo – either past, present or future. Submitted manuscript should be 2,500 words or less for English or 5,000 ji or less for Japanese.

Prizes: Each category winner will be awarded $500 in cash with their short story being published in The Rafu Shimpo and Discover Nikkei website. A public award ceremony and dramatic readings of the winning stories are also being planned for spring 2016.

Entry fee: FREE

Deadline: Submissions need to be e-mailed by January 31, 2016, 12 midnight PST.

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Self-Publishers May Want to Try For Library of Congress Cataloging

Library of CongressYou’re a self-published author, and someone has suggested you get yourself an LCCN. You’ve never heard of an LCCN and are wondering if maybe you need to find out more. Well, this is your stop. We’re talking LCCNs today.

First off, what are they? LCCN stands for Library of Congress Control Number. It’s a unique identifier issued by the Library of Congress (LOC) to books that get included in their collection. Some people desire this number because librarians across the nation and the world tend to catalog their books using the LCCN number. There is only one LCCN per book, whereas each edition of a book requires a new ISBN (eBook, paperback, hardback, special editions), and will likely have multiple ISBNs.

If it sounds appealing, how do you get one? Continue reading “Self-Publishers May Want to Try For Library of Congress Cataloging”