Readers Digest sold for 1.6 billion

Reader's Digest has been bought by Ripplewood Holdings, owner of World Almanac and Weekly Reader, for $1.6 billion.

Ripplewood Holdings is taking over the magazine's 50 editions, printed in 21 languages, boasting around 80 million readers worldwide.

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Fiction Writing Award for Moms

To all you [writing] moms out there, the Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine is accepting submissions for their short fiction writing contest until December 1st, 2006. You may submit work of any genre with a word limit of 1,200.

The stories submitted will be judged by MWLM Editors, and the grand prize winner will receive $100. Send your submission to editor@momwriterslitmag.com. No attachments, please. :)

Writing Quote: Do What Works

There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence: an overwhelming determination to succeed.

- Sophy Burnham, author of A Book of Angels

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program

Young writers, you can join NaNoWriMo too! How? By pitching the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program to your teachers or librarian. You can do this in Nine Easy Steps.

Just make sure you tell your parents about it, okay?

Good luck!

HarperCollins, FanLib launch online writing contest

Be an e-book author!

HarperCollins and social media company FanLib have teamed up to launch an online writing contest that gives writers a chance to publish their work as an e-book.

More juicy details here.