Writers and Editors
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Writers and Editors (Pat McNees's blog)Books for Editors and ProofreadersMay 31, 2009
By popular demand, here's my list of books for those of you who are good at spotting typos and spelling errors and wonder if there's a career for you in freelance editing or proofing. Check out your skills first, and then develop them more fully. You can do a lot with these books, after (more…)
Mystery writer Michael Connelly on newspaper novelsMay 29, 2009
In Michael Connelly's latest thriller, The Scarecrow, Connelly's hero Jack McEvoy is forced to take a buyout. What other novels about reporters and reporting does Connelly like? (more…)
"$35,000 is the new $75,000," quotes Harper presidentMay 27, 2009
"...Crains notes that last week's auction for the story of Capt. Richard Phillips, the man who saved his crew from pirates and was rescued from his kidnappers by the Navy, "drew top bids of around $500,000--half the seven-figure advance it had been expected to fetch." There has been no deal for the Britney Spears' (more…)
Twitter, Unhub, and SreeTipsMay 21, 2009
Nothing like social networking to suck away time. Sree Sreenivasan's page on Twitter (he's one of the few people I follow) led me to UnHub Offers a Simple Way to Showcase the Online You as (more…)
Entering the room called "Remember"May 16, 2009
A funny thing is happening to the men and women who take my Life Stories and Legacy Writing course at the Writer's Center in Bethesda--especially those who keep writing and reading their stories aloud to each other in sessions I hold for the "graduates." (more…)
When blogs are better than traditional mediaMay 13, 2009
Here, on Baseline Scenario, is "a good example of how a blog can be light years better than any traditional media," wrote Anita Bartholomew in a recent e-mail. "James Kwak wrote a post in which he responded to New Yorker economist/writer James Surowiecki's (more…)
Video as a powerful device for storytellingMay 12, 2009
Take a look at Media Storm,a powerful site for online multimedia narrative journalism. Animated video is also effective for both telling a story and getting a message across, as you can see in Annie Leonard's The Story of Stuff, (more…)
Questions we should all ask MomMay 11, 2009
"When did you realize you were no longer a child?" is the last of ten Questions We Should All Ask Mom, from Lisa Belkin's NY Times blog. For more ideas on how to trigger (more…)
Check out Roy Blount's Alphabet Juice (and other first chapters of books)May 4, 2009
"I do hope you realize that every time you use disinterested to mean uninterested, an angel dies," writes Roy Blount Jr., "and every time you write very unique, or 'We will hire whomever is more qualified,' thousands of literate people lose yet another little smidgen of hope. (more…)
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Websites, organizations, and other resourcesA GREAT READ
A+ blogs
Blog roll, too Books for book clubs
Best reads and most "discussable" Great search links
Fact-finding, fact-checking, and news and info resources Memoirs (a reading list)
Recommended reading BOOK AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
Acquiring, swapping, or selling books
New and used books, Amazon.com and elsewhere Communicating and marketing online (Web 2.0)
Blogs, social media, podcasts, ezines, survey tools and online games Job banks, publishing marketplaces
And finding freelance gigs Marketing, publicity, promotion
Blogs, video promotion, intelligent radio programs Publishing (and e-publishing)
See also Self-Publishing Self-publishing and print on demand (POD)
Indie publishing, digital publishing, POD, how-to articles So, You Want to Write a Book!
Includes original text by Sarah Wernick WRITERS AND CREATORS
Awards, grants, fellowships
Plus contests and other sources of funding Corporate and technical communications
Copywriting, speechwriting, marketing, training, and the like Fiction writing
Literary and commercial (including genre) Mastering art and craft
Writing, reporting, multimedia, equipment, software Media pros and other allied professionals
Translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers Specialty and niche writing
Groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, Webwriting, and wine (etc.) ETHICS, RIGHTS, AND OTHER ISSUES
Copyright, work for hire, and other rights issues
Google Books Settlement (Pro and Con) Ethics, libel, freedom of the press
Plus media watchdogs, FOIA EDITORS AND EDITING
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