Penguin Group (USA), via its Book Country subsidiary, now offers a menu of services for writers planning to self-publish. For fees ranging from about $99 to about $549, plus a share of sales revenue, Book Country will convert files, create covers, and handle other tasks. Read more at  http://goo.gl/jWVun and at http://on.wsj.com/sKqzGn Danielle Poiesz, Book [...]

** This event has been sold out! ** The RWA-WF Board is thrilled to announce that on Tuesday, June 28th, RWA-WF will hold the First Annual RWA-Women’s Fiction Day. Our line up begins at 1 pm with a two-hour presentation by the fantastic Michael Hauge. Michael is considered a genius with story structure. A highly [...]

** This event has sold out! ** The RWA-WF Board is thrilled to announce that on Tuesday, June 28th, RWA-WF will hold the First Annual RWA-Women’s Fiction Day. Our line up begins at 1 pm with a two-hour presentation by the fantastic Michael Hauge. Michael is considered a genius with story structure. A highly sought [...]

Though this isn’t technically industry news, it’s about promo, which is important to all of us. I’m awed at Therese Walsh’s “Big, Fat 49-Author Contest for My Debut, Take 2.” A brilliant idea. Great article in USA Today about the romance genre and the RWA National conference. Romance University has an excellent series of posts [...]

The publishing industry took a turkey break last week, but I did find a few gems. The Writer’s Digest Community has a Women’s Fiction group. One of their Author Spotlights is on our RWA-WF President and founder, Therese Walsh. On their Discussion Forum, they have a Literary Agent list. Something for the published writers and [...]

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 [...]