Jeff Barr - Horror/SciFi/Fantasy Pulp Fiction Writer, Coder, Hacker, Musician » Writing

Free money for Business people:

Jeff — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:01:30 +0000

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

READNERD.COM

Jeff — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:02:50 +0000

ReadNerd.com - a social community for writers of horror, science fiuction, fantasy and YA

I’m starting up a social networking site geared towards writers of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and YA stuff that fits those categories. Check it out.

Jerry and Me – A Horrifying Love Story

Jeff — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:54:43 +0000

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

Writer Resources

Jeff — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:41:07 +0000

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.

WeBook.com – probably my favorite social network for writers at the moment. It has a lot of really good writers (and some not so good), and a great system for reaching out to lit agents. It’s called AgentInABox – now, I don’t actually have any queries out to agents right now, but as soon as I finish editing my zombiepocalypse novel, I’m going to throw some agent queries out there. Mainly just for practice at synop/queries. I’ve heard varying reports as to the actual usefulness of AgentInABox, but I’ll let you know how I make out.
More Soon!

The User Controls The OS, Not The Other Way Around

Jeff — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:57:29 +0000

I am not a Koan!