- The Book Designer has a list of top 10 worst self-publishing mistakes explained.
- Jennifer Laughran, aka Literaticat, debunks agent myths for us.
- Jody Hedlund has 4 fantastic steps for organizing plot ideas. I love Jody. We are BFFs (but she doesn't know it.)
- Monkey-toes Fenske discusses the "if only"s.
- Chuck Sambuchino's Guide to Literary Agents blog has 5 screenwriting tips we can all learn from.
- Eric at Pimp my Novel reminds us that we won't be making much money with our writing....and hopes that we never have to eat tarantulas for cash. (For the record, you can be assured that I will never eat a tarantula for any amount of anything. EVER. Can you imagine? Can you imagine those hairy, unnatural, segmented legs going in your mouth and it trying to brace against your lips as you shove it in....and then OH GOD the HUGE abdomen....and OH...the.....juice.....CRIPES ALIVE I HAVE TO GO PUKE RIGHT NOW.)
- Meghan Ward was inspired by my toxic critique group post to discuss what good critiques SHOULD contain. Well worth a read-- she gives real examples, and links to moi, of course. (P.S. I will be giving an update on my toxic critique group soon.)
- The Queen of Spain (who must be thrilled with the World Cup win!) has this most excellent response to the whole mosque-at-ground-zero deal. And in case you missed it, Sarah Palin got called on making up words about it, plus being too flippant.
- Book trailer from Sean Ferrell for Numb-- highly enjoyable, and does a great job of showing what kind of writer he is.
- Backing up your blog. You needs to. (From Chuck Sambuchino)
- Elizabeth Ryann is holding an awesome contest for books she got at Romcom. (You should be aware that I have agreed that I have already won, but you may enter it still.)
- Nathan's top 10 myths about e-readers.
- And finally, SlushPile Hell held a Twitter run about bad kiddy book titles. Here are his or her top 25. You should know that none of mine made it onto the list, by some incredible oversight I am sure, but so did none of my evil nemesis' so it's all good.
9 comments:
Thanks for another great roundup! It takes a chunk out of my morning (once I start reading them, it's hard to stop!), but it's worth it. :)
Aw thanks Linda. I love that I control your Friday mornings, heh heh ...er, ah, I mean THANK YOU.
Yeah, busting those myths about agents and fame and fortune is always a good thing.
By the way, I refudiate and exfoliate your snarky comments launchified toward Mrs. Palin.
Sierra, you should also talk about the #bookstorebingo trend on Twitter! They wrote about it on the Huffington Post, it's hilars.
Trav - hee hee. Did you click on her name too?
JEM -- didn't know about it! Running to look now! I love hilars.
Thanks for the link, Sierra! I'm so pathetically behind on posting links and reading blogs!
Awww, BFF, that is so special! ;-)
Your round-ups are the best! Backing up my blog, huh? I never thought about it but may just have to do so...
The only reason my #badkiddybooks didn't make it on the list is because not enough people have read the Marquis de Sade. The lack of culture on Twitter is shocking, sometimes.
And here I thought The Illustrated Marquis de Sade was for the win.... :)
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