Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Links of Interest

AGENT INTERVIEW: Lucienne Diver of the Knight Agency.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/880000288/post/1030051503.html

WHY AN EDITOR SAYS NO: Editor at Del Rey counts the number of reasons she said no to a book. All these books are from agents, not slushpile.

http://www.suvudu.com/2010/01/what-i-learned-this-week-why-i-say-no.html

BUSINESS OF PUBLISHING: Agent Jessica Faust explains sell through.

http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2010/01/discussion-of-sell-through.html

MARKETS: Questions about selling a mystery to a small market. Pros and cons.

http://bookendslitagency.blogspot.com/2010/01/questions-on-mysteries.html

MEMOIRS: Tips on how to write one.

http://www.alanrinzler.com/blog/2010/01/10/writing-a-memoir-7-tips-for-defeating-your-inner-critic/

CHARACTERIZATION: How you can use multiple modifiers to re-examine your character.

http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2010/01/multiple-modifiers-portal-to-deeper.html

TAXES: Writers and taxes

http://www.genreality.net/tax-time

AGENT INTERVIEW: Ginger Clark talks about what's hot right now in sf and fantasy as well various things people should know when querying an agent.

http://writebrigade.blogspot.com/2010/01/interview-with-literary-agent-ginger.html

PROMOTION: Working with a publicist. (January 12th blog)

http://www.chipmacgregor.com/

CRAFT: Shortening a work using characters. A really excellent article well worth the read.

http://bloodredpencil.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-characters-and-scenes-to-trim-fat.html

CRAFT: Where does a story begin?

http://helpineedapublisher.blogspot.com/2010/01/where-does-story-begin.html


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