First of all, I’m sad that Bloglines is going out of business, and I need to transfer my feeds FAST because I just got notice, and they’re closing at the end of the month. I know all you cool cats probably use Google Reader, but then I don’t think that Google Reader existed when I […]
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October 1st, 2010 | Tags: IDEO, Lit Crawl, Litquake, parenting, Reading, Stephen Elliott, Steven Johnson, The Adderall Diaries, Writing, Yiyun Li | Category: Books, Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Reading, Videos, Writing | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) There’s been a lot of talk about slow blogging lately, including a great post from Anne Allen on why quality if more important than quantity, another from Sierra on why she’s switching from five days a week to three days a week, and yet another by Roni, who’s also switching from five days a week […] September 3rd, 2010 | Tags: dialogue, ebooks, Laura Fraser, Matthew Zapruder, Michael Hyatt, poetry, Publishing, Slate, slow blogging, Social Media, The Daily Beast, Writing | Category: E-Books, Link Love, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 11 comments - (Comments are closed) We’ve talked about branding and how important it is to present yourself professionally online through your website, blog, Tweets, and Facebook page. But what about in person? How do you present yourself to the world? Are you the kookie artist with the wild hair and the scrappy jeans? The clean-cut professional who wears twin sets […] August 30th, 2010 | Tags: author platform, Marketing, personal branding, Publishing, Writing | Category: Marketing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) I keep not wanting to write the “why I’m not blogging” post, but here goes. I am CRAZY tired lately! My 10-month-old is going through some kind of growth spurt or teething or revenge-on-Mommy for not letting her have unlimited Cheerios and is getting up two to three times a night. Last night she was […] August 2nd, 2010 | Tags: blogging, iPad, iPhone, parenting, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Links! The Wall Street Journal has a great article about vanity press going digital. Meg Waite Clayton has a great series of posts on how writers get started. Start with Part I and read all six! After the New Yorker released its 20 Under 40 list (I’m honored to know three of them—Daniel Alarcón, Yiyun […] June 11th, 2010 | Tags: Editing, luck, New Yorker, Publishing, revision, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 13 comments - (Comments are closed) When I was a kid, I ate a lot of peanut butter, always creamy smooth Jif. I didn’t like Skippy or any other brand. Only Jif. When I moved to Paris, this small American grocery store run by a Lebanese couple near my apartment was the only place I could find peanut butter, but it […] June 8th, 2010 | Tags: author platform, personal brand, Publishing, social medial, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 20 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 […] May 31st, 2010 | Tags: Betty White, E-Books, fiction, iPad, novel, Social Media, Writing | Category: Craft of Writing, Editing, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Kristen Tracy describes herself as a “poet who also writes young adult and middle-grade novels,” but that’s an understatement. Her first two teen novels, Lost It and Crimes of the Sarahs, were published by Simon & Schuster, and she has three more forthcoming from Disney-Hyperion, including A Field Guide For Heartbreakers, due out June […] May 19th, 2010 | Tags: Editing, fiction, Kristen Tracy, Publishing, Social Media, Writing, YA | Category: Author Interviews, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) 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 movie—the person who makes sure a character’s hair looks the same in each scene […] May 8th, 2010 | Tags: E-Books, e-publishing, Editing, fiction, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | Category: Editing, Link Love, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) I once bought a book in a Mendocino art gallery called How To Be Totally Unhappy in a Peaceful World. It was a VERY funny book, and, of course, the real message was, “Do the opposite of what I tell you here in order to be totally HAPPY in a peaceful world.” Ditto here. 1. […] April 28th, 2010 | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 35 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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