Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful. And this week there has been a lot!
• Novelist and screenwriter Derek Haas looks at what novelists should know about screenwriting and vice versa.
• Agent Rachelle Gardner has two posts on what fiction editors look for. Part 1 deals with character, Part 2 with structure, pacing and writing.
• Ten reasons why editors say no to your book.
• Great advice from editor Lynn Price on surviving the editing process.
• At The Rumpus, Latoya Jordan asks “Is writing therapy?” What do you think? Check out the comment conversation and add your perspective.
• Dear writers: please do not ever write this kind of query…
• …or respond this way to a review (scroll down the comment conversation to see the NSFW extent of this writer’s meltdown). These things might make you laugh (I guarantee they made agents and editors laugh), but they are also career-killers.
• And as a follow-on, here’s a fascinating conversation about bad reviews at Beyond The Margins.
• Author Nathan Bransford does the math on self-publishing…
• …Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware shows you how to keep your expectations in line when you self-publish…
• …and here’s Lynn Price again with the differences between vanity publishing, self-publishing, and indie publishing.

Thanks to the interwebs for so many great conversations this week! Enjoy your weekend. Write something wonderful!

Posted by: Kelley