This week I have been picking the threads up of my writing
life... pulling out the project that was put on hold. When you take a month
away sometimes it’s hard to dive back in. This is a good time to edit.
When I read Chuck’s Kubler Ross Stages of Grief of Editing I had to laugh. (Warning it’s Chuck!) My editing thinking is usually
harsher. ‘Good grief how did I come to write this mess....’ I have to stop
myself from deleting it all and curling up into a snotty whimpering ball in the
corner.
I must have been sending out unconscious signals on editing because some great
posts on dealing with criticism fell into my Twitter feed.
Stephen Pressfield has a great post on pushing forward into
a project -The 1 way I screw myself up.
Jami Gold also has a great post on criticism and how to deal with it. (even when it’s your own.)
Last Night The Booker Prize went to Marlon James from
Nigeria. So this begins his author celebrity life where his every utterance will be
scrutinised. Quartz magazine has an article on why turning authors into celebrities is bad for the reader.
Future Book has been compiling manifestos lately from people
in the publishing world about how they see the future and what changes they
would make. Porter takes a look at some of the ideas- from how to treat publishing interns
to instantaneous transfer from writer to reader.
Many people in the publishing world are wondering how to get
their books into the Asian market. Christine Sun has a very informative and detailed look at Fiberead, a translation service with a difference.
The Author Earnings team has published a new report on what
sales look like in the rest of the eBook market outside of Amazon. Kris Rusch takes a look at what it means and offers some advice for Indie Publishers going
forward. Kris also has a great post on front list... and how the Traditional Publishers
are finally understanding what a backlist means in sales for the front list. If
you didn’t understand that sentence go and read the Kris Rusch’s very good
article.
In the Craft Section,
The writing world is heading into NaNoWriMo (National Novel
Writing Month.) The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November.
That means that there are plenty of writing tips around NaNo in October.
Teddi Deppner has all the tools you might want to try out while NaNo-ing
Jami Gold also has a list of writing resources for NaNo.
How to find Book Ideas – Now Novel
Plotting mini arcs- Janice Hardy- (Bookmark)
In the Marketing Section,
Media Kits – Janice Hardy
Manuscript to eBook cleaning guide – Joel Friedlander
(Bookmark)
Marketing books on Social Media- Anne R Allen
A 12 month strategic plan for marketing your book before release- C S Lakin (Bookmark)
Website of the Week
Joe Konrath has long been the go to website of Indie/Self
publishers. Here is today’s guest post by Andrea Pearson with the Master Class
on how to plan for success in the long term.
To Finish,
After all the editing and publishing, authors are after
readers. Angela Ackerman has a great article on finding readers... What are the themes of your book... are there groups out there you
can market to? You might find them in very unexpected places.
Maureen
@craicer
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