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February 17, 2024

Welcome to Season 2 of the Listen & Be Heard Hour for Writers and Readers. The getting published aspect of writing is going to be my personal theme for the year. We appeal to our listeners for quotes about banned books, talk about writers’ responsibility to address climate change and dig up an L&BH open mic recording from 2002 at Rafael’s in Vallejo, CA.

Getting in print is a slow process, like planting an orchard. I invite you to plant your baby trees and we’ll watch the garden evolve, make good compost to spread over what’s already sprouted, and be perennial promoters of writers, including ourselves, and champions of our collective concerns. I start with some thoughts about whether or not to go to the AWP conference in February, and three email newsletters that I am currently subscribed to. I think of the weekly emails like seed catalogs. There are so many publishers and agents, and yet so few that are right for you. All the fruits and vegetables look pretty in the pictures, but by the time you consider your genre and your marketability, it’s like determining your growing zone and your season, before planting the appropriate seeds. 

• authorspublish.com
• https://querytracker.net/
• https://janefriedman.com/free-newsletters/

HOST: Martha Cinader. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER:  DJ Jeannie Hopper. EDITING: Jeremiah Cothren. MUSIC: Jay Rodriguez Sierra. Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray.

Everton Sylvester – King – from Trial Separation, Horace Andy – Money Money – from Broken Beats 2, Lucinda Williams – Compassion from Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone, Banned Book Theme by DJ Jeannie Hopper with the voice and words of Yvette Murray Tomasz Guiddo featuring Ursula Rucker – Running from Kid Recordings, Kathy Smith Littlejohn – Snakeboy, Underground Panthers from Cherokee Legends of the Supernatural, Nikki Giovanni – Always There are the Children from Legacies, the Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, Ricki Lee Jones – Sunny Afternoon from Ghostyhead, Listen & Be Heard Open Mic- Live from Rafael’s in Vallejo Ca April 18, 2002

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