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