Your chair is your energy. According to this NY Times article by Olivia Judson, sitting in a desk is bad for your health, your weight, and your focus. Here’s another article by Lloyd Alter showing examples of stand-up desks. Michael Hyatt made very interesting predictions in his post on Six e-Book Trends to Watch in [...]

Jessica Faust talks about labels, chick lit and women’s fiction on Gabriela Lessa’s blog. If you ever read (or start to read) a book filled with clichés and bad writing, and you can’t understand why it’s on the bestseller lists, then this article titled “Why we love bad writing” is for you. A new Canadian [...]

Enjoy a wise and fun marketing lesson from dear ole Santa, by way of author Laura Pauling’s blog. If you have a pile of To Be Read books that you never get around to reading, you aren’t alone. According to this New Yorker article by Meredith Blake, there’s a reason for your reluctance. Global e-book [...]

I have lots of links today, partly thanks to Jane Friedman (who shares links from Twitter) and Kristen Lamb’s blog on Social Media, which she publishes every Wednesday. Brenda Hiatt has updated her Show Me the Money! page. Mark Shatzkin posted a chart on royalties. As a bonus, there’s a debate about royalties in the [...]

Eighteen authors have banded together to form a collective at www.AWritersWork.com where they are selling e-book formats of previously released titles as well as new work. The list of authors includes Barbara Freethy, Holly Jacobs, Lori Handeland, Ken Casper, Patricia Rice, and more. How smart to keep the royalties for themselves, minus the costs of [...]

Is your agent entitled to a commission on your option book — even if you’ve fired the agent? Find the answer here. Nathan Bransford talks about dialogue tags. Best-selling writer David Morrell explains why he decided to go digital with out-of-print books and one new one. Morrell goes into deeper detail on J.A. Konrath’s blog. [...]

Most of you have heard this by now, but Dorchester is switching from mass market to e-book and print on demand. Dorchester President John Prebich said: “These are like pioneer times in publishing. We felt like we needed to take some chances and make a bold move.” Since the initial announcement, there’s been some confusion [...]

Digital publishing is dominating the news this summer, and I’m starting with a long but brilliant post by Randy Ingermanson on The Future of Publishing. Well worth your time reading. According to Reuters, “The slow rise of electronic books is paving the way for more safe-bet fiction blockbusters and serial-type books, at least in the [...]

I found out about two fun sites for writers. The Guide to Grammar and Writing and the WordCounter. For the latter, I loaded in a first chapter and it told me which words were used most and how many times. In an interview at Novelists Inc., Random House Senior Editor Shauna Summers says she works [...]