More links this week. A few from agents should interest all writers. First up, Jessica Faust at the Bookends blog talks about Fixing a Stalled Career.
Kristin Nelson at Pub Rants has many great blogs on the writing business, but I restrained myself and linked to only two. One on e-book percentages. Another is An Argument For The Midlist.
Bravo! to NY Times bestselling writer Lynn Viehl. Lynn posted the link to her royalty statement for Twilight Fall, and shared “some thoughts on how the book performed in the eleven months since the initial release.”
No Bravo for this announcement about the closing of approximately 200 Waldenbooks stores. According to CEO Ron Marshall, Borders Group is “right-sizing.”
Another “non-Bravo” link is a blog about the omission of women writers on the Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book List. All the more important to have a group like RWA-WF.
That leads me to a Romance University blog by our group’s founder, Therese Walsh, on Romance University. She answers the question: Is it Romance or Romantic Women’s Fiction?
For WF writers looking for agents, there is hope! At AgentQuery, 328 agents list Women’s Fiction as one of their genres of interest. QueryTracker lists 295.
Harlequin launched Carina Press, a digital-only pub. You can read more here. This is lifted from their submission guidelines: “We expect to publish a majority of romance and erotic romance but are also very interested in women’s fiction, science fiction, fantasy, futuristic, mystery, thrillers, horror, and niches. If you have something new and fresh we would be happy to read your story!”
I’m ending with a link to the video of a 2007 interview of Wise Woman Barbara Samuel at the Women’s Fiction Festival. Enjoy!
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