Welcome to EllenBooks!

It's time for the annual ellenbooks.com update! It's been awhile and I apologize to the innkeepers and restauranteurs who might be watching for our visits to them to be noted here.

Updated for now:
Travel -> Ontario -> Port Stanley. Many thanks to Vicci and Jon for another great stay at the Telegraph House!

Meanwhile, I've been blogging at aLearning Blog. When my career took a turn in late 2004, I realized I've developed a unique professional expertise. The blog has evolved into a book proposal (yes, I'm back to nonfiction after several years).

Another Story Rejected?

Opening envelope after envelope to see one rejection slip after another? When I was Fiction Editor for the Mid-American Review, I shoved lots of form rejections into envelopes. By then I'd had a whole history of getting rejection slips myself and never thought I'd find myself torturing fellow writers this way.

Why did I do it? Read "What Editors Want" to learn the eight things editors want from your submissions.

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"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sightseeing.'"

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