It’s been three weeks since I posted links! So here we go …
In random tech/social media news: Here are 10 Tips for being awesome online, a post on how to get more Twitter followers, and the best book editors on Twitter.
In all things iPad: From the New York Review of books, the iPad vs the [...]
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Tags: Betty White, E-Books, fiction, iPad, novel, Social Media, Writing
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It’s been two weeks already since I posted links! Here we go:
Agent Nathan Bransford has a post on creating a Series Bible. A Series Bible is to a book (or series of books) what a script supervisor is to a movieāthe person who makes sure a character’s hair looks the same in each scene and [...]
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Tags: E-Books, e-publishing, Editing, fiction, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing
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Agent Kirsty McLaughlan, guest blogging for Strictly Writing, gives seven tips for getting an agent.
From the Guardian via Elizabeth at Fog City Writer, is crowfunding the way of the future?
Also from the Guardian, is your reading suffering from multimedia overload?
Agent Rachelle Gardner warns writers to think hard before self-publishing while editor Alan Rinzler gives four [...]
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Tags: E-Books, Editing, Haruki Murakami, iPad, literary agents, National Book Critic Circle Award, Publishing, Social Media, Writing
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I made a deal with myself that I’m not allowed to blog until I’m caught up on my writing goals. My goals are very doable: four hours on Monday, four hours on Wednesday and two more hours before Sunday, but I’m constantly behind, and thus, no blogging. I’m cheating right now, and I may cheat [...]
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Alicia Dunams is author of the Amazon bestseller Goal Digger. She is a dynamic speaker, book packager, and business coach.
In 2007, you self-published a book titled, Goal Digger: Lessons Learned From the Rich Men I Dated. Why did you choose to self-publish?
I shopped it around to literary agents and was [...]
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Tags: Alicia Dunams, author platform, E-Books, Editing, Goal Digger, personal brand, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing
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I tested nook today! And I was disappointed. I thought I wanted one for Christmas, but now I think I’ll wait to see what goodness the Apple Tablet brings. I do think we’ll all have e-readers eventually. But I also think they have a ways to go before they’ll really be able to compete with [...]
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Tags: E-Books, e-readers, Kindle, nook
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Here are links to my favorite writing and publishing blog posts this week:
Jade Park wrote a great post about rejection.
This news is a month old already, but I still find it fascinating that a Georgia court awarded a woman $100,000 after she claimed that a childhood friend portrayed her as an “alcoholic slut” in her [...]
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Tags: Borders, E-Books, e-readers, rejection, Rick Moody, Twitter
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I’m curious why people buy the books they buy. Because someone recommended it? Because you saw it in a bookstore and it looked interesting? Because you read a review? Because you’ve read a previous book by the author and liked it? (Below I list the last ten books I bought and why I bought them [...]
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Tags: Allison Bartlett, Andy Raskin, Books, E-Books, Laleh Khadivi, Melanie Gideon, Po Bronson, Publishing, Reading, Rodes Fishburne, Writing
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A quick post-Thanksgiving roundup of links today.
My favorite this week was an inspiring post over at Market My Words about how she (Shelli) went from having no blog followers and many rejection letters to having 350+ followers and a book deal in just one year.
Nathan Bransford has a fabulous post about the top ten [...]
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Tags: book trailers, BookEnds, E-Books, Editing, literary agents, Marketing, Media Bistro, Nathan Bransford, Publishing, Rachelle Gardner, rejection letters, Writing
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Julia Scheeres is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Jesus Land, published in 2006. Today she is working on a book titled Jonestown, due out in 2011.
(Jonestown was a utopian community formed by Americans in Guyana, South America, under the leadership of a Bay Area preacher named Jim Jones. On [...]
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Tags: Author Interviews, E-Books, Jesus Land, Jim Jones, Jonestown, Julia Scheeres, Peoples Temple, Publishing, Writing, writing groups
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