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Warren Adler Short Story Contest

Time to submit your stories! Two new judges added!

Warren Adler's 5th Annual Short Story Contest is fast becoming the most prestigious short story contest on the internet, thanks to the extraordinary literary quality of our submissions.

Two new judges have been added to the contest. For complete details please visit the Contest Page.

The Short Review: Interview with Warren Adler

Be sure to check out The Short Review's brand new interview with Warren Adler. Then read their review of Mr. Adler's short story collection, New York Echoes.

All of Warren Adler's Books Now Available on Stanza!

All of Warren Adler's books are now available to download using the popular iPhone/iPod Touch application, Stanza. It's quite simple. Download Stanza for free in the Applications Store and then search for Warren Adler in the Fictionwise book catalogue. In a matter of minutes you will be able to download any of Warren's books to take with you on the go!

Contest News

TWO JUDGES ADDED TO THE WARREN ADLER SHORT STORY CONTEST!

Submit Your Stories: April 13 - July 13

In order to provide a fair and balanced evaluation of the many submissions the Warren Adler Short Story Contest is getting, we have added Thane Rosenberg a distinguished novelist with wide ranging expertise and Kirsten Neuhaus, whose recently founded literary agency is attracting a number of distinguished writers and promising beginners. With Warren Adler, there will now be three judges to offer their valued literary opinions to every submission. Warren Adler pioneered the concept of short story contests on the internet with his first contest five years ago. The objective of the contest was to encourage greater interest in the short story, which has declined in recent years. It has more than achieved its promise by not only promoting the concept but ferreting out and encouraging new talent. Mr. Adler has discovered that there is a vast pool of untapped writing talent out there that should be nurtured and recognized. Bios of the new judges are submitted below.

For complete details please visit the Contest Page.

Thane Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, and law professor. His novels include: The Golems of Gotham (Harper Collins 2002), Second Hand Smoke (St. Martin’s Press 1999), and the novel-in-stories, Elijah Visible (St. Martin’s Press 1996). His articles, reviews and essays appear frequently in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Jerusalem Post, and the Huffington Post, among other national publications. Thane is the John Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches courses in human rights, legal humanities, law and literature and also directs the Forum on Law, Culture & Society. He is the author of The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What’s Right (Harper Collins 2004), and his most recent book, Law Lit, from Atticus Finch to "The Practice": A Collection of Great Writing about the Law (The New Press 2007).

Kirsten Neuhaus started her own literary agency in the Spring of 2009, after a decade in the business. Over the course of her career, she has worked at Elaine Markson Agency, Sanford J Greenburger Associates, and Vigliano Associates handling domestic and foreign rights. Her list includes a wide range in both fiction and nonfiction, by award winning and bestselling writers. Before moving to New York, Kirsten lived in Miami and Buenos Aires, and is a graduate of Columbia University, where she majored in English.

BOOK BUYING ALERT!!!

Warren Adler's books are now available for your iPhone and iPod Touch through the brand new Kindle Application. Here are simple instructions on downloading E-Books directly to your handheld device:

1. Visit www.apple.com/iphone/appstore/ by tapping the App Store icon on the home screen of your iPhone or iPod touch. You can also get the application through the iTunes Store.
2. Search for "Kindle for iPhone" or find it in the alphabetical list of applications.
3. Follow the on-screen install instructions.

When your installation is complete, simply tap the Kindle for iPhone icon on your iPhone and iPod touch to start accessing or building your Kindle books library.

4. Visit the Kindle Store at www.amazon.com/kindlestore.
5. Search or browse for Warren’s books.
6. Visit the product detail page and click the "Buy now with 1-Click" button to complete your purchase. You'll have the option to choose your Kindle for iPhone application to receive the download if it's registered.
7. Log-in (if requested). The purchase will automatically be completed and sent to your Kindle for iPhone.

New Feature: E-Sheet Index by Topic

Warren Adler has authored over 90 E-Sheets, which are electronic newsletters offering timely commentary and resources about writing, publishing and technology. You can now search and browse his entire collection of E-Sheets on this website!

See E-Sheet Essays Indexed by Topic.

In Warren's Words

I Want To Be Me

I once wrote a script for a short film titled “The Year Nobody Gave.” It illustrated the tragic outcome if the money stopped coming to the particular charity that paid for the making of the film. It pointed out the terrible tragedy that would result for the recipients of the charity’s largesse. It was meant to scare the bejesus out of the good people who never gave to the charity and to encourage the regular givers to cough up more money.

I am reminded of that film by a number of recent solicitations on the phone, on the Internet and on the street corners to answer survey questions designed to discover my preferences for various products, political leanings and specific attitudes to this or that.

In other words, they want something from me. They want me to give them my personal treasure. I choose not to.

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In Warren's Words

Disposable Books

Apparently there is a rush to publish books by or about aspiring presidential candidates. Why the rush? I am baffled. Are these books, mostly written by ghostwriters, really profitable for publishers or are their costs paid for by candidates’ backers to be given out at fundraisers or used as campaign gimmicks? I guess maybe I’m too reverential about books in general and I suppose I should be taking this presidential campaign seriously. But I’m inclined to believe that in about six months the various machinations of these president wannabes will result in a giant yawn and these disposable books will be recycled into pulp to be used for more useful purposes.

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In Warren's Words

Blogging

I am an inveterate grazer of the blogosphere, right, left, center and all the passionate, cause oriented obviators filling up the internet with mangled prose. Most of them, even those I agree with, are nothing more than angry rants without subtlety or nuance that are occasionally fun to devour like junk food, especially the barely literate comments by the junkies.

For some reason, they put me in mind of Westbrook Pegler, an effusive blowhard who was syndicated by the Hearst papers in my formative years.

The man hated everything that was apparently not the prevailing view in my circles at the time. He hated Roosevelt, unions, intellectuals, poets, Jews and anything else that hinted at what was considered foreign at the time. He was, in present terms, beyond right wing. Nevertheless, he was the darling of the Hearst stable and read by millions.

In my view, he was the prototype blogger, irreverent, inaccurate, opinionated and, yes, entertaining. And he did have his following. In the end, he hardly mattered.

Multiply the Pegler rant model by millions and you have the blogosphere, an amusing anger game that can be played by anyone with the most rudimentary knowledge of typing and a compelling beef that he or she has to share with the multitudes.

If you’ve read this far, you have just absorbed an example of a blog, hopefully more literate than most..

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Portable eBook Format Support

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