Do you know if your library has e-books you can check out? With either this link from Sony or Overdrive, which many libraries use, it’s easy to find out. I was surprised to find out that my library has 100 e-books available for check out.

Michael Cader’s analysis of last Thursday’s New York Times piece on e-book pricing went out to paid subscribers to Publishers Lunch. One subscriber, Mike Shatzkin, blogged about Cader’s analysis and added his own explanations. Fascinating reading for any writer.

In this blog on building a fan base, J.A. Konrath talks about how being prolific and offering his books and short stories on Amazon at a low price is building his readership for his regularly priced books. He said:

“I used to be known as the guy who wrote nine unpublished novels and got over five hundred rejections before landing a book deal.

Now I’m known as the guy who pays his mortgage selling books on Kindle that NY rejected.”

Are you sending out queries? Agent Laney Katz Becker (Markson Thoma Literary Agency) posted a successful query she’d received from her now-author, Alicia Bessette, for her upmarket women’s fiction book, Simply From Scratch.

In an interview at the Pink Heart Society blog, agent Jennifer Schober from Spencerhill Associates says:

“I am still looking for new clients, published and unpublished and in all genres of women’s fiction. I also rep category and YA but no children’s. Check out our website at www.spencerhillassociates.com for more up to date info on submissions.”

Later she adds:

“I am looking for really deeply emotional women’s fiction right now with a commercial feel.”