Thursday, December 11, 2008

Links to Market, Agent, and Promotion Information, PUBLISHING

PUBLISHING AND MARKETS LINKS:

Information that will be useful in the planning and writing stages of a novel.
http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2008/12/author-questionnaire.html

Finding the right agent for your kind of book.
http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2008/12/identifying-right-agent-for-your-work.html

Should you submit your book during this bad time for publishers? http://rejecter.blogspot.com/2008/12/harcourt-and-submissions.html

Agent Lori Perkins gives her take on the current dire times in publishing. http://agentinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2008_11_30_archive.html#5527547087107195142

An interview with the editor of INTERGALACTIC MEDICINE SHOW, a sf and fantasy magazine.
http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-editor-edmund-shubert

Interview in two parts with Angela James, Executive Editor of Samhain Publishing, one of the most successful epublishers in the business, on what they are looking for.
Part One
http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/2008/12/nobody-does-it-better-samhain.html
Part Two
http://www.thegalaxyexpress.net/2008/12/interview-with-angela-james-executive.html

Jessica Faust talks about what editors in NY are looking for. Unfortunately, she's coy about who these editors are.
http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2008/12/publisher-updates.html

PROMOTING

Marketing expert Penny C. Sansevieri offers advice on promoting your book.
http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-book-marketing-expert-penny-c-sansevieri


AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT

The classic MONTY PYTHON parody of bad science fiction movies is now available at YouTube. If you've never seen this comedy about aliens turning Englishmen into Scots, you are in for a treat. For those of us who have, it's a comedy sketch that remains as funny now as then.

It's in three parts and runs almost 30 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCNltgrs1U&eurl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljCQeqFouVU&eurl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMCNltgrs1U&eur

2 comments:

elysabeth said...

I'm not sure why your links really don't show up as links in your postings. Perhaps if you embedded them as an html code, they might work better. It's aggravating to have to try to copy and paste sometimes because the fingers either go too far off the actual link or not far enough. If you embed the links in your posting, that would be so nice. Thanks - E :)

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Marilynn Byerly said...

Elysabeth, Blogger.com hates both my browsers so it's extremely difficult for me to use HTML.

In fact, I have to move my post to another application, apply the HTML code by hand, then translate it to HTML, open that, then move the translation back into Blogger. Sometimes, this works, sometimes, it doesn't after many minutes of work.

So, sorry about the paste links. When the time gods are kind, I'll take the extra 30 minutes or so to give you clickable links, but the time gods are rarely kind.