Writers and Editors
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Writers and Editors (Pat McNees's blog)BEA: Why Small Publishing Will Save the WorldMay 29, 2010
Literary agent Janet Reid reports from Book Expo about the coming artistic revolution, in BEA: Why Small Publishing Will Save the World. She doesn't know what will do the trick--maybe an enhanced e-book--but it won't come from traditional book publishing, which is not set up to invent (more…)
Book Publishing: After the blockbuster, the nicheMay 28, 2010
Book Publishing 3.0, a video of Richard Eoin Nash's provocative half-hour talk on the future of book publishing. Nash's start-up, Cursor, is "a portfolio of niche social publishing communities, one of which will be called (more…)
How to Choose an Online Bookstore Selling E-BooksMay 28, 2010
Geoffrey A. Fowler's piece, The Chapter and Verse on E-Bookstores, in the Wall Street Journal (5-7-10), will confirm any suspicions you may have had that competitors fighting to capture the e-book (and e-book reader/gadget) market are making it tough for (more…)
Your elevator speechMay 19, 2010
Marcia Yudkin suggests this template for your elevator speech: "I specialize in helping ___ (who?) who have ___ (what problem?) get ___ (what result?)" (from (Marcia's Mantras, a nanozine) This echoes a theme in Roar! Get Heard in the Sales and Marketing Jungle: A Business Fable (more…)
Ten reasons why it's better to be a docent than a writerMay 17, 2010
Kathryn Lance writes: After 35 years of freelance writing, in which I produced hundreds of articles and more than fifty books, I have hung up my keyboard in favor of work as a volunteer docent at a local nature park. Now that I am "KL, Tohono Chul Docent," rather than "Kathryn Lance, Writer," I find my new identity offers many advantages over the old one (more…)
PowerPoint backlashMay 1, 2010
In the war on clarity, some feel the U.S. military is spending too much time on a program some believe "stifles discussion, critical thinking and thoughtful decision-making," creating the illusion of understanding and control, writes Elisabeth Bumiller in We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint (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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