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