The last WordPress for Non-techies post is up on Romance University. Blogger Carrie Spencer’s next group of lessons will be for Super Bloggers. Here’s a fun site for writers: Wordnik, the online dictionary and language resource , has “launched a new, smarter online thesaurus that shows related words in context to help writers find the [...]
If you’re a coffee drinker, you’ll be happy to know that as of July 1st Starbucks will have free WIFI at all US locations. On Chuck Sambuchino’s Guide to Literary Agents blog, McIntosh & Otis agent Rebecca Strauss posted Allie Larkin’s query for her women’s fiction book, STAY, which Ms. Strauss ended up representing and [...]
With his agent’s permission, Boyd Morrison published 3 thrillers on Kindle and sold 7500 books in 3 months, which his agent used to sell to Simon & Schuster. Ballantine Books and Harlequin Teen “plan to issue short standalone digital works intended to serve as ‘bridges’ to coming novels.” Author Mitchell Reiss, a former diplomat, says [...]
This week I’m linking to another J.A. Konrath post. His account of what he’s done to start and then revitalize his career as a great lesson for any writer. Medallion Press is changing to an e-publisher. You can read more about it in their April 1st Newsletter. Nathan Bransford talks about co-ops, and includes links [...]
Interested in running your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100? Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson shows you how. Here’s a brilliant video about the the future of publishing. Self-published or eBook writers might want to explore this new way to market print books without a middleman. Enchanced editions of eBooks are [...]
Books Inc. owners are writing the formula for success for their San Francisco stores. It feels good to read positive news about bookstores. Therese Walsh sent me a tip that agent Jenny Bent wrote a great post on STET!, the Backspace blog, on author-agent-editor fit. This was the first time I’ve been to STET! and [...]
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 [...]