The Australian government is proposing some radical changes
to their copyright laws and the writers have come out to protest. There have
been open letters from Booker prize winners and other luminaries in the media
over the last week. The Canadian Copyright centre has some warnings for Australia not to go down that twisted path based from bitter experience.
Victoria Strauss from Writer Beware has some warnings about the way spammers
are targeting authors. I got one this week which I promptly ignored. (Legit
publishers don’t contact randomly through Twitter offering to publish.) However
Victoria is noticing how many spammers are using writing contests.
Dave Gaughran has been taking Amazon to task over the
scammers that have taken over some bestseller categories. This week Amazon finally decided to do something about it. But it relies on you the
author/reader too.
Amy from The Book Designer has an article on the new marketing tricks being offered to authors on Amazon beginning this month. This
is like lifting the lid on your quiet runabout car and finding a sports car
engine... but to use it might cost you the price of the sports car.
Joanna Penn has another great podcast this week on audiobooks and what she is doing. She is such a great resource. If you have been
thinking about audio book narration you should check this out.
Dean Wesley Smith is a creative powerhouse. He runs popular
courses on writing as well as his maintaining his busy writing career, monthly
magazine, popular blog etc etc. This month he is putting some of his popular writing courses on YouTube... because.
Penny Sansevieri has put together a list of top resources for indie publishers- This is one of those bookmark lists to keep coming back
to and Derek Murphy has his list of 10 things Indies are doing wrong and what they are doing right.
In the Craft Section,
When is a story not about plot -Jami Gold- Bookmark
The pre proofing checklist- Wiseink- Bookmark
The 5 biggest writing mistakes- James Scott Bell- Bookmark
When you are writing major character deaths- Ava Jae-
Bookmark
In the Marketing Section,
Why your author blog may be stuck- Kristen Lamb
10 tips for guest posts- Anne R Allen- Bookmark (I wish my guest post
spammers would read this!)
The basics of book promotion- Janice Hardy- Bookmark
Website of the Week
I have featured Writers helping Writers before because of
the fabulous work on the writing thesauri that Angela Ackerman and Becca
Puglisi put together. They have two new books on Setting coming out that you
might like to check out. For Marketing they usually do some cool pay it forward
marketing thing which as a side effect gets their book noticed. They are
looking for people to spread the word. However with just this wee taster I can see that these writing craft books will be snapped up!
To Finish,
Today I mucked around with resurrecting quince jam which had
turned to toffee, while I was doing this I listened to this podcast on creativity and the art of asking and motherhood etc etc. This interview with
Amanda Palmer was really interesting and a good way of getting your brain
thinking while the toffee turns to syrup.
Maureen
@craicer
Pic from Flickr/ Creative Commons- Julie
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