Gatekeepers...the ones who you have to placate or bribe to get into the hallowed ground...They are tasked with only letting through the gates those that are worthy...
This week on the publishing blogosphere
Rachelle Gardner has a post about gatekeeping on your mind. If you have
discovered that as you increase screen time reading and interacting with social
media there is a corresponding downward spiral in new and exciting ideas coming
out of your brain you may be struggling with the same issue.
Chuck Wendig has decided to name February 6th
the anti pirate day and started the ball rolling with his thoughts about
pirates; Why I hope you don’t pirate my book. Many authors joined him and
posted their open letters to book
pirates.
Jody Hedlund has written about when your
family doesn’t appreciate what you do and how hard it is to get them on
board...they are gatekeepers of your writing time and energy, and what to do about it.
Electricliterature has an interesting post on those writers
who have nipped round the back to the side door. Author Entrepreneur...The Hybrid Author. They have some very interesting stats on this new Hybrid model.
John Scalzi (head of SFA) has a post
detailing the sales numbers of his latest book... print, audio and epublishing
and talks candidly about what is working for him. The fact that he is able to
to talk numbers for his trad book is astounding...and The State Of a Genre Novel makes for interesting reading.
If you didn’t get a chance to look at Dean
Wesley Smiths post on crunching numbers in a Hybrid world a few weeks ago (it
was no 5 in his series) Read this post, No 4 and then No 5. In fact go read the
whole series. If you wanted a no nonsense set of guidelines to follow this year
to be a successful writer...it’s all in these posts.
Last year I gifted myself Steven Pressfields,
War of Art and a nice gift it was too.
Editor Shawn Coyne has written a thought provoking post on Steven’s blog about where the midlist writer is now in the big
six, five...world...Nowhere. Ouch what is a midlister to do...
Apple have decided to highlight self published books...This is an interesting article detailing the latest moves in
the Gatekeepers of online publishing.
In craft,
K M Weiland on sure fire awesome setting creation and structuring scenes.
Victoria Strauss is guesting over at
Children’s Publishing and she has a nice post on letting your characters into your head.
Plot Conflicts and Desires...or how to get
the best out of your plot.
In Marketing,
QR codes...which are apparently big in
NZ...
Iain Broome has collected seven articles on Authors using Goodreads effectively.
To finish,
How to deal with crushing feedback on your creative work...it may not be what you think it is...or you maybe in this
situation.
maureen
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