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13 June 2002
Filed under:Current Affairs (World) at12:07 pm

Salon reveals Penguin Putnam is running online courses on how to write featuring, among other things, the chance to have 7,500 words from your book read and commented on by an editor. Initially, this was to be an in-house editor but after a blizzard of submissions Penguin has altered the terms to “a professional editor” under Penguin’s supervision.

Of course the advice in the course itself may well be worth the money, but as for paying to get your manuscript noticed, as Geoff Kloske, an editor at Simon & Schuster told Salon, “I find U.S.P.S. is the best way to submit your work to an editor, and last I heard a stamp was 34 cents.”ga sex albany singlesphotos sexy amatureall pornstarsporn alicia machado videorape teens charged with 2002 3vintage 1930s pornameture vudeos sexpregnancy pregnant acclaimed and sex Map

Filed under:Gadgets,Mobile phone and PDA at12:07 pm

This company has designed a keyboard that you project onto any surface and type on.

It doesn’t seem to me likely to work as well in real life as it does in the pictures on the site but it is nothing if not intriguing. Apparently, it will be available via Siemens for use with its forthcoming Pocket LOOX PocketPC device.