Links of Interest

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: Agent Kristin Nelson begins a series on the nuts and bolts of contracts. First up, the royalty accounting periods.

http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2009/10/nuts-bolts-royalty-statements.html

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: What the FCC ruling about bloggers and reviews will mean to authors.

http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2009/10/bought-and-paid-for-yessirreee-bubba.html

PROMOTION: An author’s guide to working with publicists. (Be sure to check out the rest of this blog for new authors. It looks awesome.

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2009/10/working-with-publicist-by-rebecca-york.html


AGENTS: A handy-dandy guide to finding the right literary agents to query.

http://storyflip.blogspot.com/2009/10/hunt-is-on.html

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: The profit and loss statement. Part One. This will be hard slogging if you aren’t that into business, but it’s worth your time. Read the dang thing!

http://pimpmynovel.blogspot.com/2009/10/p-1-of-4-basics.html

Part Two: The Details

http://pimpmynovel.blogspot.com/2009/10/p-2-of-4-details.html

Part Three of Four: Exceptions to the rules mentioned.

http://pimpmynovel.blogspot.com/2009/10/p-3-of-4-exceptions.html


SHORT STORY MARKETS: Bibliophile Stalker is maintaining a spreadsheet of speculative fiction short story anthologies looking for submissions.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tHCBTtHRsyQf0XlRBKXDCYg&output=html
If this link doesn’t work, go to http://charles-tan.blogspot.com/ to find a live link.

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: Why short stories are good for publishers and some writers. More about literary than genre fiction, but some interesting ideas.

http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2009/10/12/why-book-publishers-love-short-stories/

PROMOTION: The Book Tour

http://behlerblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/the-book-tour/

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: Royalty statements. Agent Kristin Nelson talks about the Random House royalty statement.

http://pubrants.blogspot.com/2009/10/nuts-bolts-royalty-statements-look-at.html

AGENT INTERVIEW: Agent Kelly Mortimer who handles mainly Christian fiction and romance.

http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-agent-kelly-mortimer

CRAFT: Cutting down the overlong novel to publishable size.

http://behlerblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/cutting-your-babies/

AGENTS: What to do when an agent wants to represent you.

http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/10/protocol-when-agent-offers-to-rep-you.html

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: Getting permission to quote music lyrics.

http://www.murderati.com/blog/2009/10/14/music-and-lyrics-and-permissions-oh-my.html