Saturday, July 31, 2010

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/

Friday, July 30, 2010

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

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Monday, July 26, 2010

Setting

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

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Friday, July 23, 2010

Fiction Basics

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

Thursday, July 22, 2010

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

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Picture Book of the Day

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

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Query Stages

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

Monday, July 19, 2010

Editor Profiles

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

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Characters

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

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Publishers Weekly News Blog

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

Friday, July 16, 2010

Blogger Book Reviewers

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

Thursday, July 15, 2010

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

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

School Visits - Why Bother?

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

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Line Editing

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

Monday, July 12, 2010

Prologues

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

Sunday, July 11, 2010

The Hero's Journey

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

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Query Fails

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

Friday, July 9, 2010

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/

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Twitter Hashtags

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

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

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

Monday, July 5, 2010

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

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Word Frequency

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

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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

Friday, July 2, 2010

Hero's Journey

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

Thursday, July 1, 2010

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