- 10 Ways to Prepare in Advance for Publication [Author, Jody Hedlund] Great post.
- Tantalizing Future YA Releases! [/- LA FEMME READERS -/] Fifteen mouth-watering covers.
- Exclusive Comic Con Q&A with author Veronica Roth [Novel Novice]
- A Need So Beautiful (A Need So Beautiful #1) by Suzanne Young [Reading, Writing and Waiting]
Q&A with Kelley Armstrong, bestselling fantasy writer [Jacket Copy]- Blog Tour: The Near Witch [Mundie Moms]
- Video Interview with Scott Westerfeld [Emily's Reading Room] Great interview from Scott Westerfeld fans!
- September/October starred reviews [Read Roger] Need more to read? Here are eleven starred reviews coming up in Horn Book.
- Best Graphic Novel Honors Shared at 2011 Eisner Awards [GalleyCat] Congrats to the 2011 Eisner Award winners from Comic-Con this weekend!
- W&Z [Kirsten Hubbard: YA Author + Travel Writer] Congrats to Kristin Halbrook on a Harper book deal for WILL & ZOE!
- Review of THE ELEVENTH PLAGUE and 4 ARCs 4 U [Carolina Valdez Miller] Enter by 8/3.
- Under the Stars Contest :) [Confessions of a YA Writer] Enter by 8/1 to win the new release by Rebecca Rogers.
- LEGEND by Marie Lu GIVEAWAY! [ROOTS IN MYTH] Enter by 8/5.
- Giveaway: Forever (Wolves Of Mercy Falls #3) by Maggie Stiefvater [Katie's Book Blog] Lovely book trailer of Maggie Stiefvater's FOREVER and a giveaway that ends 8/7.
- Attention All Writers [Mundie Moms] Two amazing writing contest opportunities!
- Weather Thesaurus Entry: Dew [The Bookshelf Muse] Brilliant new writers' thesaurus entry!
- Rhythm and Time, Part 4: Make Your Characters Sing [Fantasy Faction] Good post on dialogue.
- It’s an Improvement: Five Ways to Kick Your Writing up a Notch [The Other Side of the Story]
- Page Turners in Romance (YA and adult) [Seeing Creative]
- The 3 Mortal Sins of Fiction [Wordplay: Helping Writers Become Authors]
- Not Another Sex Scene Part 2 [*Lynnette Labelle* @Chatterbox Chitchat]
- What Is The Correct Way To Format Dialogue? [BubbleCow]
- VCFA Guest Post: Reading Like a Writer [Kidlit.com]
- Embracing Technology [YA Muses] Laptops, iPads, Netbooks and more.
- Writing with an IPad [YA Muses] Thinking about getting an iPad for writing? Here's a glowing review with a couple caveats.
- Busta Mood: Using the Emotional State of Your Characters to Craft Better Scenes [The Other Side of the Story] Strong emotions make for great scenes, especially if you find ways to heighten those emotions.
- How Books Work: The Hunger Games (Part 2) [The Intern] Hunger Game qualities you can apply to your manuscript to make it more addictive.
- 45 more flaws that expose your lack of storytelling experience, part 1 [Show Some Character!] Bathroom mirror descriptions, wakeup openings, & 7 more ways to show you're a rookie.
- Gearing Up For WriteOnCon 2011 – Live Events and How They Work [WriteOnCon.com]
- Picture Book Craft Intensive – Live Webinar [Writers Digest University]
- Tips for Writers—The Down and Dirty [The Editor's Blog] 60+ tips on craft, submitting, editing & more. Love this one: Write fiction others want to read.
- Crucial tips for when you don't know how to start writing your project [Time to Write]
- Don't Lose the Magic [Paranormal Point of View] Don't quit. Lovely and inspirational.
- My Tools of the Trade [YA Muses] Lots of new ones, and some live ones.
- HOW I GOT MY AGENT -or- ESCAPING THE TRAP OF NOT SUBMITTING [Literary Rambles]
- There Is No Such Thing As Writers' Block by Joseph Selby [* Roni Loren - Fiction Groupie *]
- Was Giving Up Ever an Option? [QueryTracker.net]
- Stop Sabotaging Your Writing! [WOW! Women On Writing Blog] We sabotage ourselves by allowing rejection/fear of rejection make us question our abilities.
- Should Books Have a Rating System? [Jami Gold, Paranormal Author] Weigh in. Where do you stand?
- Kurt Vonnegut & Sarah Ockler Books Removed from Missouri High School Library [GalleyCat] Horrible!
- YA Lit, and Why Everyone Should Read It [kt literary] Great post!
- Toys R Us to carry Amazon's Kindle [Jacket Copy]
- The 40th Annual SCBWI Summer Conference ...There's an App for That! [Alice Pope's SCBWI Children's Market Blog]
- Vanishing shelf space and self-promotion. (part 3) [Laura Pauling]
- What Will Publishing Look Like in 2021? [Anne R. Allen's Blog] A depressing crystal ball POV on current and future publishing.
- Sue Fondrie Has Written the Worst Sentence of 2011 [GalleyCat] A sentence worse than "It was a dark and stormy night." Read it here:
- The Importance of Punctuation [Words and Such] Think the comma's not important? Check this sign out and smile.
- 1(900) HLP-D-CRZY [YA Muses] Pep talks, ego strokes, & support for neurotic authors: 1(900)HLP-D-CRZY.
- The United States of Writers – Which State is King of the Union? [PWxyz] Fun and surprising.
- 4 Writing Crutches that Insult the Reader’s Intelligence [Kristen Lamb's Blog] Are you treating your readers like they're stupid?
- 10 Things to Do After Finishing the First Draft [.W.I.P. It] Finished the 1st draft? Here's the next 10 steps.
- Verbs, verbs, verbs [Buffy's write zone] Twenty tips from Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski--and most of them involve verbs.
- Why You Should Kick Your Story Aside and Write a Different One [Wordplay: Helping Writers Become Authors] Is it time to put away your ms and write a new one?
- Want a tip for fine-tuning your writing craft? [Cambria Dillon] Fine-tune your writing by checking out Margie Lawson's deep editing analysis series.
- International Sh*tty First Draft Week—Day 1 [The Intern] Starred reviews don't come easily. Here's a 1st draft piece from Nova Ren Suma.
- International Sh*tty First Draft Week—Day 3 [The Intern] Making the most of every scene.
- International Sh*tty First Draft Week—Day 4 [The Intern] And a 1st draft contest 7/29/11.
- How to Build a Platform From Scratch [Guide to Literary Agents] Define your target audience and engage.
- What I Have Learned In The Last 2 Years: 100th Podcast Celebration [The Creative Penn] Do you podcast? Excellent post.
- Turn It Off [Writer Unboxed] Unplug until you get your pages written.
- What’s the Magic Number? How Often Should Writers Blog? [Kristen Lamb's Blog]
- Promotional Tools for Writers on Google+ [GalleyCat] Easty tools to make the most of your Google writer listing.
- 5 Reasons Why Your Online Marketing Doesn’t Work [Writer Unboxed] Online marketing not working for you? Here's why.
- Are You Writing? [A Newbie's Guide to Publishing] Every minute you spend here is a minute you aren't writing: an epic fail on your part. Excellent point
- Elevator Pitch Critiques [Rachelle Gardner] Don't miss these!
- O Itchy Trigger Finger [QueryTracker.net] Querying before your ms is finished = lost opportunities.
- HOW TO SURVIVE BEING ON SUBMISSION [Grab a Pen] Out on submission? With one word, @TaherehMafi tells us how to survive this stressful time.
- Getting Short Story Credits is Getting Easier (Sort Of) [Writer Unboxed] Looking for writing credits? Short story submissions are getting easier.
- Jane Friedman of Writer's Digest does a wonderful list of best tweets of the previous week.
- Alice Pope does a Wednesday Tweet Roundup for the SCBWI Children's Market Blog.
- Northern Colorado Writers do This Week in the Writing World every Friday.
- Jennifer Roland does a Writing Roundup on Fridays.
- Ricki Schultz does an "In the Blogosphere" post on Fridays where she lists posts she's enjoyed during the week.
- Elizabeth Craig posts a weekly list of all her helpful Twitter posts.
- And don't forget to check Nathan Bransford's blog later this morning for his weekly recap of publishing news and information.
- Saturday Link Party [Forever Young] Jessica rounds up fun and interesting links.
- Stina Linddenblatt does a Cool Links Friday. This week, she caught a lot I wish we had on ours. I know what I'm doing for the next few minutes!
- DuoLit does a weekly list of links with some emphasis on self-publishing and marketing.
- YA Highway's Friday Road Trip hits the high points of the publishing industry, writing craft, submissions process, and other fun stuff.
- Cynthia Leitich Smith at Cynsations does a Cynsational author and book news review.
Happy reading and joyous writing,
Martina, Marissa and Clara