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- Happy 2012, and welcome to the first roundup of the year. We hope you find these links informative and interesting.
- Do you want to write, market, and promote in 2012 and still have a life? Media and publishing expert Jane Friedman tells you how to do it…
- …and how to avoid procrastinating about it.
- The Editor in the Basement answers more writer questions about contracts, flame wars, and sloppy writing.
- Author Daniel Abraham shares a private letter from genre to literature. We hope those two crazy kids can work it out…
- Don’t be afraid, we won’t bite…editor Alan Rinzler addresses fear of editors.
- And we leave you with screenwriter and producer Scott Myers wishes for you in 2012. Not just for screenwriters: for all of us.
Your Editors wish you a marvelous 2012. Write something wonderful!
No links today. We’re turning our attention toward the holidays and the end of the year. We’ll resume the weekly roundups on January 6.
Thank you very much to our wonderful clients — we love working with you, and we’re honored by your trust in us. It’s a privilege to edit your work, coach you, and cheer you on as you dig into your writing. We’re writers too, and we know the joy that comes packaged with all that hard work. We wish you a boatload of both in 2012.
Thank you to all the writers, editors and publishing professionals who share your ideas and expertise online to help writers, and to help create the writing community. We’re all in this together. Let’s take care of each other as best we can.
And thanks to all of you who visit here. We’ll look forward to seeing you in 2012.
Enjoy your holidays. Write something wonderful!
Kelley and Nicola
- Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
- Heads up, writers! Facebook moves to its Timeline system on December 22. GalleyCat is here to help with tips for editing your Timeline.
- Join the conversation at author Nathan Bransford’s blog about Amazon.com and independent bookstores, and at Your Editor Nicola’s blog about showrooming and book spaces. Be sure to follow all the links in both posts: they’ll lead you to an interesting spectrum of ideas and opinions on these changing times for booksellers.
- Author Chuck Wendig offers 25 things you should know about rejection (Your Editor Kelley’s personal favorite today: Number 25. Cue Tina Turner!)
- Part two of author Anne R. Allen’s very useful Beginning Blogging for Authors series: what not to do.
- Are you shy about promoting yourself? Book publicity expert Paula Margulies talks co-promotion.
- And we leave you with the perfect tool to stay on track with all the important aspects of the writing life:
Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!
- Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:
- Earning and keeping a reader’s trust: a three-part series from The King of Elfland’s Second Cousin. Part 1 focuses on cultural touchstones and narrative precision; Part 2 on world-building and story structure; and Part 3 on character/narrator consistency.
- Self-published author Chuck Wendig describes many good reasons not to self-publish, and and so does author Edan Lepucki. Check out the comment conversations on both posts for a variety of smart and thoughtful perspectives.
- If you do self-publish, you may be interested in Amazon.com’s new KDP Select Program…
- …but make sure to read the fine print.
- Author Anne R. Allen has a great Beginner’s Guide to Blogging for authors.
- Author Rick Daley offers a helpful FAQ on SEO.
- Creativity expert Michael Michalko with 12 things about creative thinking they don’t teach in school.
Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!
