This week the Seattle Weekly took a close look at the world
of Bezos. Is Amazon publishing over?
Hugh Howey is trying to understand digital disruption. Could
the author become obsolete?
Script Mag has a post on author’s estates if the worst happens…
BUT REALLY…
November is all about NaNoWriMo. (National Novel Writing Month) This is
where the writer commits to writing a 50,000-word novel in a month. Just to let
you know 50,000 words is on the light side for a novel unless it’s a children’s
one. Agent Janet Reid has the genre word count lists... so you might want to
rethink your 50,000-word picture book.
If you are diving into NaNoWriMo there are always lots of
cool deals around for writers...
Scrivener (MS software) always has a free download trial and
there are various writing craft book deals around.
Last week I urged you to pick up Joanna Penn, David
Gaughran, Sean Platt and Johnny B Truent’s book bundle for 99c. Each day Joanna,
Dave, Sean and Johnny are writing great articles and linking to their 99c deal,
which is available for the rest of this week!
Kevin J Anderson has chosen 12 books to go into a mega NaNoWriMo bundle for the month of November. You pay $15 or more and you get all
12 including the writer craft books from Kris Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Chuck
Wendig... whom regular readers will recognize as often being referenced in this
blog. (Christmas came early...Yeah!)
Live Write Thrive has a list of inspiring books that aspiring writers should read. Have you read them all? (4...)
Helen Sedwick recently got the chance to hear someone from
Author Solutions speak - Welcome to the Hotel California...
Author Solutions has some dodgy clauses in their
contracts... and they are the behind the scenes company for many SP options
being run by the big 4...(this is a Writer Beware situation.)
Murderby4 is a group blog of Thriller writers. They have a
nice post about helping budding authors without killing their spirits.
Long time readers of this blog will know that I am a fan of group
blogs... Romance University has a great post on how to set one up.
James Scott Bell has a post on Killzone about writing what you love and earning money from it.
BooksellersNZ have an interview with Julia Marshall of Gecko Press. (She’s looking for junior novels at the moment...)
In the Craft Section,
Creativity on demand... The BICHOK solution.
Chuck Wendig on NaNoWriMo writing tips...
Stephen Pressfield on the most important minutes of the day
How do we describe characters –Jami Gold
In the Marketing Section,
Storyboarding a book for marketing – Bob Mayer
How to help your books sell themselves – Sean Platt (Don’t
forget the 99c bargain)
How to kick start your sales – Dave Gaughran (Don’t forget
the 99c bargain)
Marketing - how to use your early readers
To Finish,
Last week I hinted that Joanna Penn was coming to Auckland.
IT’S TRUE and she wants a meet up with any Kiwi Authors who would like to meet
her. 16/18th December.
Go here and fill out a form for her... so she can figure out
how best to cater for everyone!
Sadly I won’t be there... but you guys can party with Joanna
on my behalf!
maureen
Pic from Flicr/creativecommons Eastlake Times
