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Hello fellow Writers, Runners, and Coloradans!Welcome to the MySpace portal to WRHAMMONS.COM , home of Bill's List of Literary Agents and Their Authors' Books, Bill's Boston Marathon Qualifiers Guide , and Bill's Guide to Boulder, Colorado and Beyond !And have a Facebook profile as well? Send me a friend request there today ! If you have an interest in writing, running, and/or North Central Colorado, check out the Writing , Running , or Boulder MySpace groups. Aspiring authors should be particularly interested in posting their material in the Authors Who Want to Find a Literary Agent and Get Their Book Published MySpace group, since literary agents regularly visit these forums for reasons explained below and to the left. And for those same reasons, post a comment below (feel free to talk about yourself - we all know you want to). If you're a writer...Join our group Authors Who Want to Find a Literary Agent and Get Their Book Published ! Then click here to check out Bill's List of Literary Agents and Their Authors' Books, listed by literary agent, literary agency, author's book, book's author, fiction book, and non-fiction book If you're a runner...Join our group Runners Who Want to Qualify for the Boston Marathon ! Then click here to check out Bill's Boston Marathon Qualifiers Guide, which lists USA Track and Field (or foreign equivalent) certified marathons by race name, US state or Canadian province of the start line, country outside the USA and Canada, or month of the year If you're a resident of North Central Colorado (or looking to become a resident of North Central Colorado)... Click here to check out Bill's Guide to Boulder, Colorado and Beyond (covering Avon, Basalt, Boulder, Breckenridge (or "Breck"), Broomfield, Dillon, Eagle, Erie, Firestone, Georgetown, Gunbarrel, Gypsum, Lafayette, Louisville, Minturn, Nederland (or "Ned," but only if you were at the original Woodstock), Niwot, Silverthorne, Superior, Thornton, Vail, and Westminster), which gives a town history for each of the above, lists hotels (cheap and otherwise), apartments for rent, real estate (from Vail condos to Boulder homes), real estate agents, and provides local hiking tips and local running tips, etc., from the Rocky Mountains' Front Range to the Western Slope

My Interests

We're most interested in receiving friend requests from authors interested in finding a literary agent. Not only will those on the WRHAMMONS.COM friends list receive updates to Bill's List of Literary Agents and Their Authors' Books (a list unlike any other in existence, and updates available only here on MySpace), but aspiring authors on the WRHAMMONS.COM friends list will be regularly rotated through the Top 24. This is an important benefit, because literary agents google themselves like anyone else these days, and thus visit wrhammons.com (try it for yourself: google "Gernert Company", "Theresa Park", "Kim Witherspoon", or "Melanie Jackson Agency", or "literary agent Binky Urban", "literary agent Molly Friedrich", etc.). And those who visit WRHAMMONS.COM visit this page!"How do you pick the WRHAMMONS.COM Top 24?" you ask. First, it's on a rotating basis - we're constantly changing the Top 24 for the sake of fairness and freshness (Hammons' own profile, his dog Jack's, and the Unity Party of America's profiles will never be removed - sorry). Second, we try to give an accurate cross-section of the WRHAMMONS.COM community. Third, we do our best to return the favors of those authors who have proved to be our best friends (those favors namely being the posting of detailed descriptions of the WRHAMMONS.COM profile and WRHAMMONS.COM website in blogs, discussion groups, etc. on MySpace and elsewhere, including Wikipedia.org (send us links!), the ranking of Hammons' photos, and membership in / postings in the Authors , Runners , and Boulder, Colorado MySpace groups.

I'd like to meet:

Writers from all over the world, runners from all over the world, and residents (or aspiring residents) of North Central Colorado who are looking for an apartment for rent or a new home for sale. If you're a writer and a runner who lives in North Central Colorado, send us a friend request!And feel free to send Bill a friend request if you're a friend of WRHAMMONS.COM (if you're a friend of WRHAMMONS.COM , you're a friend of W.R. Hammons!)

Books:

Here are a few examples from Bill's List of Literary Agents and Their Authors' Books :
John Abramson's Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
George Alexander's Why We Make Movies
Kevin Anderson and Brian Herbert's House Atreides (Dune: House Trilogy, Book 1)
Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman's The King of California: J. G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret...
Elizabeth Aston's Mr. Darcy's Daughters
Will Christopher Baer's Penny Dreadful
James Bamford's Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency
James Bamford's A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies
asha bandele's Daughter
asha bandele's The Prisoner's Wife
L. A. Banks 's Minion: A Vampire Huntress Legend
Russell Banks's Cloudsplitter: A Novel
Nevada Barr's High Country
Jonetta Rose Barras's Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?
Andrea Barrett's Ship Fever
Cynthia Baxter's Dead Canaries Don't Sing
John Beckman's The Winter Zoo: A Novel
Jennifer Belle's Going Down
John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain's The Berenstain Bears and the Truth (First Time Books)
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain's The Berenstain Bears Learn About Strangers (First Time Book)
Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain's The Berenstain Bears' Moving Day (First Time Books)
Elizabeth Berg's Range of Motion
Bertice Berry's Jim and Louella's Homemade Heartfix Remedy
Bertice Berry's Redemption Song
Bertrice Berry, Joan Coker's Sckraight from the Ghetto
Bill Birchard, David A. Nichol's The One-Minute Meditator: Relieving Stress and Finding Meaning in Everyday Life
Sarah Bird's The Yokota Officers Club: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-And Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Sallie Bissell's Call the Devil by His Oldest Name
Jenna Blum's Those Who Save Us
Carol Bolt's Book of Answers
Robert H. Bork's The Tempting of America
Robert Boswell's Mystery Ride
James Boylan's Planets
Robert Boynton's The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
Connie Briscoe's Big Girls Don't Cry
Connie Briscoe's P.G. County
Geraldine Brooks' Year of Wonders
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code
Elaine Meryl Brown's Lemon City
Rita Mae Brown's Cat's Eyewitness
Jimmy Buffett's A Salty Piece of Land
Cris Burks' SilkyDreamGirl
Robert Olen Butler's A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
Timothy Butler Ph.D., James Waldroop Ph.D.'s Discovering Your Career in Business
William Cane's The Art of Kissing Book of Questions and Answers: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Perfecting Your Kissing Technique
Oscar Casares's Brownsville
Ian Caldwell's The Rule of Four
Lou Cannon's President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
Kathryn Caskie's Rules of Engagement
Daniel Chacon's and the shadows took him
Susan Taylor Chehak's Smithereens
Susan Taylor Chehak's Soap Opera: The Inside Story of Procter & Gamble
Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc's Can't Stop Won't Stop
Clay McLeod Chapman's Miss Corpus
Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow's The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Catherine Clinton's Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom
Tim Cockey's Hearse of a Different Color (Hitchcock Sewell Mysteries)
Tim Cockey's The Hearse You Came in On (Hitchcock Sewell Mysteries)
Adam Cohen's The Perfect Store: Inside eBay
Jennet Conant's Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Patricia Cornwell's Trace
Francine Cournos's City of One
Tom Coyne's A Gentleman's Game
Greg Critser's Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
Danielle Crittenden's What Our Mothers Didn't Tell Us: Why Happiness Eludes the Modern Woman
John Cronin, Robert Kennedy, Al Gore (Introduction)'s The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
Laura Crum's Breakaway
Milton C. Cummings, David Wise's Democracy Under Pressure (with PoliPrep)
Michael W. Cuneo's American Exorcism: Expelling Demons in the Land of Plenty
Annette Curtis Klause's Blood and Chocolate
Rodney Dangerfield's It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker
Barbara Delinsky's A Woman's Place
Nelson DeMille's Night Fall
Sean Desmond's Adams Fall
Kathy Dobie's The Only Girl in the Car: A Memoir
Richard Dry's Leaving
Diane Duane's Wizards At War: The Eighth Book In The Young Wizards Series (Young Wizards)
Stella Pope Duarte's Let Their Spirits Dance: A Novel
Sarah Dunant's Birth of Venus
Jennifer Egan's The Invisible Circus: A Novel
Amy Einhorn's The Fourth Trimester
Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Nathan Englander's For the Relief of Unbearable Urges
María Amparo Escandón's Esperanza's Box of Saints
Barbara Esstman's Night Ride Home
Suzanne Finnamore's Otherwise Engaged: A Novel
Richard N. Firshein D.O.'s Reversing Asthma: Breathe Easier with This Revolutionary New Program
Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Karen Joy Fowler's The Jane Austen Book Club
David Francis's fiction book The Great Inland Sea
Dorothea Benton Frank's Plantation
Al Franken's The Truth With Jokes
Anne Frasier's Hush
Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain: A Novel
Samuel G. Freedman (Foreword), Timothy Harper's (Editor) non-fiction book The ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing: A Professional Guide to the Business, for Nonfiction Writers of All Experience Levels
Robert I. Friedman's Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America
Author Athol Fugard's Valley Song
Joseph Gangemi's Inamorata
James Garbarino's Lost Boys
James Garbarino, Claire Bedard's Parents Under Siege
James Garbarino, Ellen deLara's And Words Can Hurt Forever
Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban
Kaye Gibbons's Ellen Foster
Shirley Glass, Jean Coppock Staeheli's NOT "Just Friends"
Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha
Jane Goodall, Marc Bekoff's The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for The Animals We Love
Terry Goodkind's Chainfire
Carol Goodman's The Lake of Dead Languages
Doris Kearns Goodwin's No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
Sue Grafton's R is for Ricochet
Valiska Gregory's Shirley's Wonderful Baby
Monique Greenwood's Having What Matters
John Grisham's The Broker
Sarah Gristwood's Arbella: England's Lost Queen

My Blog

2007 Hammons Prizes for Poetry and Short Fiction

Apologies for this tardy blog regarding the winning entries, but I've been a bit busy of late: http://www.wrhammons.com/forums...
Posted by WRHAMMONS.COM on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:56:00 PST

The 2006 Hammons Prizes for Poetry and Short Fiction

WRHAMMONS.COM is pleased to announce the Hammons Prizes for Poetry and Short Fiction!  Here are the contest rules: Prizes of $75, $50, and $25 will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place poems...
Posted by WRHAMMONS.COM on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:52:00 PST