Don’t hire people who don’t hack. There: don’t tell me I never gave you nothing.

This is one of my more recent completed short stories. I posted it to WeBook.com as part of a small informal writer’s group that has sadly since disbanded.
It’s a Christmas themed love story – enjoy!

Jerry and Me
Read it here on JeffBarr.com

This is a list of all the different sites, tools, and resources I use, as well as publishers of note. I’ll also post this to ReadNerd.com – my social network geared toward writers of Horror, Sci-Fi, YA, Fantasy, Slipstream.

• QueryTracker.net – Keep track of agents and the queries you’ve sent them
• Manuscript formatting – the William Shunn Manuscript Format Guide – this is the format I most often see requested, whether by pubs, agents or magazines.
• YouWriteOn.com – another writing community/social networking site. You can upload stories (short stories or chapters of a book) – one good thing is it assigns a random person to review your upload, so unlike WeBook, where you might not get any reviews for a long while, you’re guaranteed at least one off the bat. Thereafter, you can do reading/review assignments to gain more reviews for your work. There’s some tie in with publishers, but I don’t know the site well enough to comment on it. YouWriteOn.com seems pretty geared towards UK writers, though anyone can join. If you do sign up, get the newsletter, its actually pretty informative.

More after the hop.

I am not a Koan!