Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful:

• Calling all freelancers! Do you write articles, profiles or news? Reporter and editor Michelle V. Rafter has advice on how to make editors fall in love with your work (hat tip to Alexis Grant).
• Witer Janice Hardy with ideas about writing a character whose gender is different from yours (hat tip to Charles Tan).
• Agent Kristin at Pub Rants has a few quick and easy answers about good ideas, film rights, self-publishing and more — and then this follow-up post on Hollywood because, well, the writers always want to know about Hollywood…
• Million-selling author Alisa Valdes describes her experience with a big publisher and her decision to experiment with self-publishing.
• Writer Susan Breen with excellent guidance on point of view.
• And we leave you with a long and thoughtful post from Kassia Krozser at Booksquare about the future of booksellers and bookstores.

Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Posted by: Kelley