THIS WEEK IN WRITING
- Trick your inner editor with hashtags. This is the greatest writing trick I've seen in months. (via Weronika Janczuk)
- Cristin Terrill has a nice analogy relating performance and writing.
- How to kill your book in 7 easy steps, from Yvonne Eve Walus.
- Agent Michael Sterns breaks down the #kidlitchat topic this week: What makes a story middle grade vs YA?
- Several lovely guest posts at Betsy Lerner's blog this week, including a lament for the bookless, envy and schadenfreude for a successful friend, and "What's the sexiest thing about you as a writer?"
THIS WEEK IN READING
- SEVEN. HARRY. POTTER. TRAILERS. the anticipation. it is killing me.
- YALSA announces the 2010 Teens' Top Ten list - nice mix of contemporary, dystopian and paranormal!
- Unusual bookstore sections, at Buzzfeed.
THIS WEEK IN GETTING PUBLISHED
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- Yay! You're on sub! .... what do you do now? Beyond the Margins has the answer.
- Yay! You're on sub! .... what is your agent doing now? Ingred Sundberg has the answer.
- What author Erin Jade Lange learned while on sub. (I'm pretty much dying to read her book, Butter.)
- Erin's agent Jennifer Laughran presents: The Big Ol' [Awesome] Genre Glossary. (I added the awesome, in part for the line "smoking-hot werewolf sex.")
- Seven Stories publishes book simultaneously as adult and YA.
- Agent Natalie Fischer weighs in on exclusive requests.
- Things for authors to consider when hiring a web designer, from author Beth Revis.
- "Say Cheeeese!" When she's not writing about dying girls, author Gayle Forman is pretty funny.
- Agent Rachelle Gardner on treating your writing like a business.
- Overview of a "trends in children's publishing" panel that mostly became an e-book discussion, from agent Mary Kole.
- Why no one shares your blog posts, by Marian Schembari.
- Check out the viral marketing behind Andrea Cremer's Nightshade.
- The Gatekeeper addresses what to do when an agent doesn't like your revisions.
- Meanwhile Janet Reid has a bone to pick with the Gatekeeper's advice. (Colleen Lindsay agrees with the shark.)
THIS WEEK IN OTHER STUFF
- Forever YA has a guest post about the greatest YA heroines to never appear in a book. (Angela Chase FTW!)
- Give a kid a treat: School in New Mexico needs donations for their Read-O-Ween event.
- The UK's M6 is built in part with pulped romance novels.
- The rise of author school visits, at the Guardian.
- Barnes and Noble divides up the teen section, making it larger overall, but separating paranormal romance, adventure and fantasy.
- Dare to live the life you want. Inspirational posts from Shannon Whitney Messenger, Libba Bray, and our own Amanda Hannah.
THIS WEEK IN CONTESTS
- Win a signed copy of Beautiful Darkness from author Samantha Mabry!
THIS WEEK IN THE RANDOM
via Michelle Louis
Have a great weekend!
WHY AM I SO HYPNOTIZED BY THAT ELEPHANT
ReplyDeleteoh, rock star! thanks for the link love. :D
ReplyDeleteas always, we appreciate the shout out, and OMG that playground video made me snort my coffee.
ReplyDeleteso thanks for that.
That genre glossary is pretty badass.
ReplyDeleteVerrrry interesting links! Wish I'd read that one about what to do on sub a few weeks ago. So maddening!
ReplyDeleteAnd oh how do I love me some Betsy Lerner!
ReplyDeleteWow, how did I miss so many amazing posts this week. Off to follow the links!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you so much for linking my post. I feel horribly inadequate having it in the same sentence with Libba Brays masterpiece, but thank you. :)
Have a great weekend!
That elephant is mesmerizing. It took me way longer than it should have to look away.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, off to click some of those links!
Brilliant page of links, thanks for taking the time to put it together. Love the layout and feel of it.
ReplyDeleteHad to watch the playground video twice before I caught everything that happened.
oh, the face slide in the playground. LOL! I am so wrong for finding that hilarious!
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading, everyone! And Jill, I know. She's freaking amazing.
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