Industry News: 8/05/10
Though this isn’t technically industry news, it’s about promo, which is important to all of us. I’m awed at Therese Walsh’s “Big, Fat 49-Author Contest for My Debut, Take 2.” A brilliant idea. Great...
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Most of you have heard this by now, but Dorchester is switching from mass market to e-book and print on demand. Dorchester President John Prebich said: “These are like pioneer times in publishing. We...
View ArticleIndustry News: 8/26/10
The last WordPress for Non-techies post is up on Romance University. Blogger Carrie Spencer’s next group of lessons will be for Super Bloggers. Here’s a fun site for writers: Wordnik, the online...
View ArticleIndustry News: 10/21/10
I have lots of links today, partly thanks to Jane Friedman (who shares links from Twitter) and Kristen Lamb’s blog on Social Media, which she publishes every Wednesday. Brenda Hiatt has updated her...
View ArticleIndustry News: 12/13/10
J.E. Fishman explains the 12 common misconceptions about book publishing. One misconception is that authors are rich. Who would’ve thought? Robert J. Sawyer wrote a great post about dialogue in 1996...
View ArticleIndustry News: 12/22/10
Enjoy a wise and fun marketing lesson from dear ole Santa, by way of author Laura Pauling’s blog. If you have a pile of To Be Read books that you never get around to reading, you aren’t alone....
View ArticleIndustry News: 1/16/11
Your chair is your energy. According to this NY Times article by Olivia Judson, sitting in a desk is bad for your health, your weight, and your focus. Here’s another article by Lloyd Alter showing...
View ArticleIndustry News: 4/6/11
If you’re querying agents and editors, you’ll enjoy this two-minute video in which agent Kristin Nelson gives two down-and-dirty query tips. Amazon is venturing into book publishing, with Houghton...
View ArticleIndustry News: 5/1/11
Brenda Novak’s Annual Cure for Diabetes 2011 starts on May 1st and runs through May 31st. There are fabulous items for writers, readers and pretty much everyone. Last year her auction “set a new annual...
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In the bad news/good news department, Writer’s Digest contributing editor Jane Friedman won’t add new content to There Are No Rules, the writing blog she launched in 2008 on WD’s website. (The blog’s...
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