This conference, like WriteonCon, is free, online and
chock full of great content. Indie ReCon is for writers who are thinking about
or doing their OWN publishing. Three days of other writers giving their time and
expertise to help empower others.
Even if you are not ready to step into the
Indie world there are topics covered that are of use to the traditional
author.
Bob Mayer kicked IndieRecon off with his
keynote on the Future of Digital Publishing.
Jessie Harrell looks at the Pro’s and Con’s of going Indie...and she lays it out honestly.
Marketing plans made easy with Shelli
Johannes. Shelli is a great blogger, source of inspiration and advice.
Denise Grover Swank looks at Business plans...and spells out what you need to focus on...because if you go Indie You
Are A Business... (Kris and Dean have been saying this for years!!!)
Alicia Kat Dilman takes a look at 10 ways to make your cover stand out.
These are just 5 presentations from 17 on
the first day...Check out Indie ReCon and scroll down the left sidebar...give
yourself heaps of time!!
Writer Beware has a warning post to Christian Writers about an outfit targeting them who solicits the author
first...then ties them up into contracts with little gems like this...
It's an exclusive life-of-copyright world
rights grant term with no provision whatever for rights reversion other than
the publisher's discretion in discontinuing publication if sales fall below 50
copies in a year. In other words, the publisher can hold onto your rights for
as long as it chooses, and you have no recourse for getting them back.
Check
out Writer Beware for other hidden contract bombs that Blessed Hope Publishing
hope you don’t see.
Around
the Publishing Blogosphere discussion over the Future of Foyles workshops held
this week in London where the massive Foyles Bookstore invited the public to
tell them what they wanted in a future bookstore over two days of workshops. Ideas
abound as Porter Anderson covers what came out of it. Lots of Independent
Bookstores are taking a look at the ideas for their own selves.
In
Breaking News Huffington Post reports that 3 Independent Bookstores are taking Amazon and the Big 6 to court in a class action over DRM on eBooks.
The
bookstores are doing this on behalf of all independent Bricks and Mortar
bookstores.
Anne R Allen has 5 blogging rules that Authors can ignore and 5 they can’t. As usual great content from Anne.
Joanna Penn has a great guest blog from a children’s writer who podcasts
and uses animation software in her marketing. The free animation software is
the next great thing to play with...
WanaCon an international online writing conference is coming up if you want to check it out. (The brainchild of the WANA team and Kristen Lamb.)
A Film Character Has Become An Editor At A Big Name Publishing House...Check out this breaking news from The Onion.
In
Craft,
Give your stories depth by having a ghost plot running through them...A nice little
post on how to set this up...when you read it you will get an AHA moment.
In
the same theme...Set up more payoffs in your story. This is the bit where the readers
think ...OH You Clever Writer....
The Script Lab has got the scene questionnaire...and it is a good focus for writers
as well as scriptwriters.
To finish,
I leave you with Chucks Exhortation to just follow his simple writing plan...which is being retweeted all over the place.
On FB I'm asking what Children's writers would put in their Writers Bug Out Bag...in response to this from Writers Digest.... Feel free to leave a comment.
If you had to leave the house in a hurry, what would you have in your writing bag?
maureen
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