This GRR originally published on July 2, 2010.On Monday, I have a wonderful guest post for you from Julie Dao.
- Via Colleen Lindsay, Christopher Keelty asks, is self-publishing simply selling your failures?
- Author KD James has some vociferous thoughts on the whole agent pay discussion last week.
- A book full of broken conventions is still a dynamite book....but I wonder would it have been EVEN BETTER had it not broken the conventions? Via one of my favorite sites, The Kill Zone.
- Janet Reid points out that you shouldn't query when you're dead. I found this to be a good reminder, because I often worry that I will expire before seeing myself in print and wonder what would happen then. I think I thought Mr. Sierra would submit for me, but that assumes Mr. Sierra would be able to handle using email enough to even find an agent. (He is rather a Luddite in such matters).
- Kristen Nelson tells us what trends she's seeing in queries...and she's not delighted. Very interesting and please take note.
- For cripes sake, don't effing do this in queries. From Slushpile Hell. This made me laugh very hard.
- The Bluestocking Blog lists the major players of the writer blogosphere. Strangely and hugely erroneously, I am not on it.
- Heather McCorkle tells us what an agent does for a client.
- Kidlit on self publishing -- excellent reaction to the nearly seminal Salon article on likening self-publishing to a public slushpile that went round.
- Solid post on the importance of the first lines from L.J. Boldyrev.
- Tahereh has a list of 8 words that uh, you probably don't to use in your novels.
- In case you missed it, a shameless link back to my Got Plot poster.
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