Writers and Editors
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Writers and Editors (Pat McNees's blog)Great online sources for imagesSeptember 25, 2009
So many people ask "Where can I find photos (or reprints) of X" that the website page Telling Your Life Story contains a list of Sources for images. I'm posting the links below as well (more…)
September 22, 2009
Failure to curate is at the heart of current problems in newspaper and book publishing, Mike Shatzkin seems to be saying, in his thought-provoking blog on Aggregation and curation: two concepts that explain a lot about digital change. (more…)
What's wrong with that sentence?September 21, 2009
Sometimes examples of media inattention to copyediting cry out for public comment. Take the lead sentence in this ABC News story: "Police in Washington state captured a schizophrenic killer who had escaped during an outing from the mental hospital where he had been committed to a state fair." (more…)
Book Publishing TodaySeptember 17, 2009
In a terrific albeit not cheerful essay about book publishing today, former Random House exec Daniel Menaker, in Redactor Agonistes, talks about insecurity and unhappiness in the book biz, but also explains why and how it has changed so much, and (more…)
Save this historically important Michigan LibrarySeptember 16, 2009
The Federation of Genealogical Societies asks that you help try to one of the most important state libraries in the country. On the budget-chopping block: The cohesive Library of Michigan collection, with over 180 years of Michigan history, literature and culture records, which reflects the lives of not only those who remained to raise their families within (more…)
The old days, in book publishingSeptember 12, 2009
"We proudly carried manuscripts everywhere.... Decades later, I discovered that my right arm was a half-inch longer than my left," writes Joni Evans in a Preoccupations story for the New York Times.
"But it was our office archaeology that I remember the most. There was a primitive chaos to it all — the hybrid scent of tobacco and mimeograph ink, (more…) Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant ApostropheSeptember 5, 2009
In his classic column about abuse of the apostrophe, Keith Waterhouse wrote, "The AAAA has two simple goals. Its first is to round up and confiscate superfluous apostrophes from, for example, fruit and vegetable stalls where potato's, tomatoe's and apple's are openly on sale. Its second is to redistribute as many as possible of these impounded apostrophes, restoring missing apostrophes where they have been lost, (more…)
Where is Sarah Wernick's "So, You Want to Be a Writer" website?September 1, 2009
For years writers, editors, and publishers have referred writers with questions about how to get a book published to the wonderfully helpful website of the late, great Sarah Wernick. Her old links don't work but SARAH'S WEBSITE STILL LIVES! You can find it on two pages of my Writers and Editors website:
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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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