Jewish Children's Books

The Whole Megillah is a helpful resource for writers of Jewish-themed content for young readers.
http://thewholemegillah.wordpress.com/about/

Sales Kits and Co-op

How your publisher sells your book to bookstores.
http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2009/07/guest-blog-week-book-sales-demystified.html

Reading Query Letters

Why an agent stops reading your query letter.
http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-stop-reading-when.html

Critique Groups

What should you look for in choosing one?
http://cpatrickschulze.com/authorsblog/2010/06/09/writers-groups-the-nuts-and-bolts/

Selling Books at Events

How to take advantage of your book-related event.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/penny-c-sansevieri/12-secrets-to-selling-mor_b_618355.html

Setting

Questions to ask about the setting of your book.
http://www.yingleyangle.com/2010/05/20-questions-to-enrich-your-setting.html

iPhone Apps for Writers

From note-takers to productivity and social media aids.
http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/2010/07/07/UltimateIPhoneAppsForWriters30ProductivityCreativityBoosts.aspx

Breakout Novels

Agent Sarah Davies gives her recipe for writing one.
http://ingridsnotes.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/a-recipe-for-writing-the-breakout-novel/

Fiction Basics

Notes from a class taught by author Jennifer Crusie.
http://www.arghink.com/2010/06/21/the-basics-of-fiction/

Multi-Book Deals

One thing to watch out for in your contract.
http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2010/06/one-possible-peril-of-multi-book-deal.html

Picture Book of the Day

Author Anastasia Suen chooses picture books to highlight.
http://picturebookday.wordpress.com/

Query Stages

Guidelines to manage the five stages of querying.
http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/The+5+Stages+Of+Querying.aspx

Editor Profiles

Harold Underdown profiles editors and their houses.
http://www.underdown.org/cig-editor-profiles.htm

Characters

Links to blogs containing tips for crafting characters.
http://the-writing-bug.blogspot.com/2010/05/best-of-blogs-crafting-characters.html

Publishers Weekly News Blog

Keep up with the latest news from the publishing industry.
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/

Blogger Book Reviewers

Anastasia Suen provides a list of bloggers who review kids' books.
http://www.asuen.com/blog/blog.central.kid.lit.shtml

Agent Move

Michelle Andelman has joined Regal Literary, representing middle-grade and young-adult authors, as well as author/illustrators of picture books and graphic novels.
http://www.regal-literary.com/About.html

School Visits - Why Bother?

Author Verla Kay tells why you should do them.
http://verlakay.blogspot.com/2010_05_22_archive.html

Line Editing

Ten steps to tighten up your prose and improve your final product.
http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/craft/line-editing/

Prologues

Why you might (or might not) need a prologue.
http://www.learntowritefiction.com/why-you-dont-need-a-prologue/

The Hero's Journey

Descriptions of the many steps of the hero's journey.
http://justusrstone.com/?p=135

Query Fails

Examples of what not to do in a query letter.
http://slushpilehell.tumblr.com/

Marketing Ideas

How to make your book live in readers' awareness and keep it that way.
http://marielamba.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/marketing-outside-of-the-box/

Twitter Hashtags

40 writer-related twitter hashtags.
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/40-twitter-hashtags-for-writers/

Readers and Self-Publishing

A Salon article on what self-publishing means to us as readers.
http://www.salon.com/books/laura_miller/2010/06/22/slush/index.html

Writing Secrets

Author Ami Hendrickson shares twenty lessons she's learned along the way.
http://museinks.blogspot.com/2010/06/20-writing-secrets-my-english-teachers.html

First Pages

What agents do and don't want to see in a first page.
http://stiryourtea.blogspot.com/2010/06/what-81-of-agents-expect-on-first-page.html

Word Frequency

See if you're overusing certain words by creating a word cloud.
http://www.wordle.net/

Lead Titles

What does it mean if your book is a lead title on a publisher's list?
http://pimpmynovel.blogspot.com/2010/06/terms-to-know-lead-title.html

Hero's Journey

What are the steps for a classic hero's journey story?
http://justusrstone.com/?p=135

Blog Comments

What's the best way to get people to post comments on your blog?
http://constantrevisions.blogspot.com/2010/06/generating-comment-traffic-through.html