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

• Daniel Menaker, author and former Executive Editor-in-Chief of Random House, takes a long and thoughtful look at what’s really happening in publishing these days. Chock full of details about the internal workings of publishers.
• Over at Slate.com, Dahlia Lithwick is writing a chick-lit novel in real time, with input from readers. Read her introduction to the project, and then check out the novel-in-progress.
• Writer Michael Stelzner’s list of Top 10 Blogs for Writers.
• If you’re a short story writer, you’ll find a lot to love at Story and The Short Review.
• E-book sales tripled in the past year and are still growing.
• Barnes & Noble, on the other hand, appears to be bullying writers into helping them sell books.
• The Guardian reports on writer Maura McHugh’s catching the British Fantasy Society with its boxers down on the subject of women horror writers.
• Research maven Lisa Gold has the latest on the Google Books settlement with a wealth of background links.

If you have a link of interest to writers that you’d like to see in a roundup, please email us or leave a comment.

Have a great weekend. Write something wonderful!

Posted by: Kelley