Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Links of Interest

PUBLISHING NEWS: Amazon has announced it will reprint books that deserve a second chance. First up is a self-published novel by a teenager.

http://email.publishersweekly.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/jBF7P0EkOKm0OYZ0Dxnv0EZ&rid=

CRAFT: Writing the scene so it does more than one thing.

http://www.genreality.net/scene-x2

CRAFT: Writing the Bad Girl Heroine.

http://www.genreality.net/bad-girl-heroines

CRAFT: How to write a great first draft.

http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-write-great-first-draft.html

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: How Bookscan numbers can make or break your career.

http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2009/05/14/author-alert-what-you-don’t-know-about-bookscan-can-hurt-you/

PUBLISHING NEWS: For the first time, print-on-demand and short run published books were printed than traditional big runs. POD has recently doubled the number of books published while traditional runs dropped by over three percent.

http://in.sys-con.com/node/969162

MARKETS: Jessica Faust of Bookends defines women’s fiction.

http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2009/05/womens-fiction.html

MARKETS: Agent Kristin Nelson is in NY talking to fiction editors, and she’s asking them what they are buying. First up, St. Martin’s.

http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2009/05/submit-now-or-later.html

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