- 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
Thanks for the mention, sweeties! Fabulous list of links, as always!
ReplyDeleteLots of great links, as usual. Thanks for the mention--but my post isn't meant to be depressing. It's really hopeful, because all these changes mean more choices for writers.
ReplyDeleteAnd do check out the comments. Kristen Lamb's fantastic prediction of wine bars in the Barnes and Noble where we can have a nice pinot while waiting for our POD books to come out of the machine is priceless!
And in more good news, I have a book deal for my romantic comedy-thriller, Food of Love!
Great links! Thanks for putting it together :)
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to dig into these sites again! Even with out-of-town visitors, I aim to make the time--there are too many good subjects to miss :-) Thanks so much for all you do to put this list together. And thanks for the mention of Words and Such...appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteGreat links as always! I've been missing the ones about WriteOnCon. Now I can catch up on them--and several others. :D
ReplyDeleteYour Friday posts never disappoint! Thanks so much :D
ReplyDeleteWow - what a great list of links! Thanks so much for posting!
ReplyDeleteAs always, thanks for all the valuable information and links. Your site is amazing, as I see many readers have discovered. Keep up the good work.
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