Random House and Shine (online journal) have linked for this list of literary magazines. Any short story writers or poets who need to investigate before sending out their work should check out this site. Very helpful.
http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/ohenry/0900/litmags.html
One listener asked how I balanced it all in the end, whether to vaccinate, whether to trust the doctors. Not unlike the question I received from Moderator at the Capital BookFest about advising black parents in light of Tuskagee. The good of the many outweighs the injury to the few, but …. each parent needs to have all the information and cooperation from their doctor before they make the decision. In legal circles it’s called assumption of the risk, but you can’t know about the risk unless doctors report it truthfully and answer your questions. Family history, individual doses, delay of vaccination until child is older or approaching the risk of school environment contagion are all pieces of information parents ought to be able to consider with their doctors.
The point that most of the other books miss is the truth about the administration of the compensation fund and how hard the government has made it for families who need help to get that help even though that was the intent of the law. And the government’s failure to make the manufacturers share in the funding of the money available to help those families. No other industry except medical is allowed complete relief from liability for their errors or purposeful evasion of the truth. Why drug manufacturers??
Okay, all you writers out there. Think ACTION. John Grisham is judging and the stories need to be chock full of plot points. No touchy feely stuff, just make him breath hard and turn those pages. Deadline is February 12 so all those eager fiction readers at the HooK office can plow through them and pick out the top stories to send on to Judge Grisham well in advance of the announcement of winners at the opening ceremony of VA BOOK in late March. But more suspense yet, winners will know (and need to keep mum) from early March. We love the HooK for doing this every year.