Setting

Questions to ask that will enrich your setting.
http://www.yingleyangle.com/2010/05/20-questions-to-enrich-your-setting.html

Point of View

Here's a detailed explanation which uses the Hansel and Gretal story as examples.

http://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/point-of-view-first-person-third-person-or-objective/

Search Engine Optimization

How to help Google and other search engines find your site.
http://www.amarketingexpert.com/how-to-help-google-find-your-site-2/

The F-Bomb

Should you use swear words in your young-adult novel?
http://killzoneauthors.blogspot.com/2010/11/great-f-bomb-debate.html

Earning Out Your Advance

What does this mean and is your career doomed if you don't earn out.
http://letthewordsflow.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/show-me-the-money/

Rhythm

How great rhythm leads to great read alouds.

http://www.bethanyroberts.com/RhythmandtheReadaloud.htm

taxes

Links to resources for writers about taxes.
http://www.publetariat.com/business-end/7-links-help-every-writer-taxes

Introducing Your MC

Some dos and don'ts to introduce your protagonist.

http://annerallen.blogspot.com/2010/09/12-dos-and-donts-for-introducing-your.html

Early Readers

Author Grace Ling tells why they're not an "easy readers."

http://forum.teachingbooks.net/?p=4743

Agency Agreements

What to expect when you sign with an agent.
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2011/02/agency-agreements.html

Plotting

Using a plot board to lay out your story.

http://childrenspublishing.blogspot.com/2011/01/writers-plot-board-getting-organized.html

Distributing ARCs

How to distribute electronic ARCs (advanced reader copy) of your upcoming title.

http://www.netgalley.com/

Pacing

What not to do if you want to keep your novel moving along.

http://writerunboxed.com/2010/08/24/telegraphing-and-other-pace-killers/

Blog Comments

Read the post and the other people's comments before you respond.

http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2011/01/how-to-write-good-blog-comment.html

Sagging Middles

Maybe your story is too simple.

http://literarylab.blogspot.com/2010/06/keep-your-middle-from-sagging.html

Picture Book Checklist

Items to consider as you revise.

http://cornelldeville.blogspot.com/2010/06/picture-book-checklist.html

Titles

Choose a title that will make kids want to pick up your book.

http://shannonkodonnell.blogspot.com/2010/07/title-tips.html

Onomatopoeia

Here's a great list of sound words with (sometimes tongue-in-cheek) descriptions.

http://www.soundsafaritheater.com/onomatopoeia.html

Tag Lines

How to create a good tag line and where to use it.

http://www.bookbuzzr.com/blog/book-marketing/book-marketing-mistake-number-1-no-tag-line-for-book-or-author/

Rule of Twenty

You need to reach the twentieth idea before you get to original ones.

http://upstartcrowliterary.com/blog/?p=1527

School Visits

Hints from author and school librarian Toni Buzzeo

http://cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com/2006/09/author-librarian-interview-toni-buzzeo_13.html

Chapter Endings

How to end your chapters so your book will be a pageturner.

http://howtoplanwriteanddevelopabook.blogspot.com/2010/10/creating-page-turner-tricks-to-great.html

Query No-nos

Twenty things not to do in your query.
http://publishinglane.blogspot.com/2011/01/intern-tips-query-edition.html

Is Your Novel Really Finished?

See if it can pass these ten tests.

http://childrenspublishing.blogspot.com/2010/08/conference-round-up-deborah-halverson.html

What Not to Do at Conference

Avoid these ten mistakes.
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2011/01/10-ways-to-be-awkward-at-writers.html

Kill Your Characters

If you have characters who aren't pulling their weight, kill them off.

http://mysterywritingismurder.blogspot.com/2010/08/make-your-characters-earn-their-keep.html

Creating Book Trailers

A simple overview, including what software you need, of how to create a trailer.

http://www.thecreativepenn.com/2011/01/07/how-to-create-a-book-trailer/

Prologues

Seven reasons not to have a prologue and two reasons to have one.

http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/7-deadly-sins-of-prologues-great-novel-beginnings-part-2/