In Publishing News this week,
The social media platform Tiktok has changed the face of bookselling with the viral recommendations of Booktok influencers. This was accidental. However this week TikTok is starting a bookclub… with its biggest influencers. (I sense monetization in the works.)
Censorship in schools seems to be gathering momentum. It seems every week another school district is doubling down on books in school libraries. Bookriot has been looking at ways that the publishing industry is fighting back.
Recently Dall-E, an AI image generating system, was in the news for making the first magazine cover for Cosmopolitan. Other media companies are looking at this creative use of AI. However, Techcrunch is sounding a warning over the indiscriminate use of copyrighted materials that the AI is learning on/scraping. What about the poor freelancer who has their image used by the AI?
Joann Penn was interviewed over on Author Media by Thomas Umstattd on diversifying income streams. You can listen to the podcast or read the transcript. I was interested to find out that Joanna has more than 50 income streams. Joanna has recently published a long-form guide on using Scrivener writing software for fiction and nonfiction. If you want to learn tricks and tips of this powerhouse software check it out.
Kris Rusch has an interesting post on Kate Bush and the power of holding onto your copyright. Who knew that RUTH would be a number one hit 36 years later?
Kelsey Allagood has an article on Writer Unboxed on diagnosing writer’s block and then what you can do about it.
Becca Puglisi has written a great article on the Revision Roadmap as a guest post over on Anne R Allen’s blog. There are some great tips here to mull over.
In The Craft Section,
Indicating time passing in stories- Jami Gold Bookmark
Writing the dreaded synopsis- Michelle Barker- Bookmark
Why first person POV is not deep POV- Lisa Hall Wilson- Bookmark
7 tips to help you write- Writing and Wellness
4 clever tricks to transform scenes into high stakes- Zena Dell Lowe- Bookmark
In The Marketing Section,
What makes a book cover work- IngramSpark- Bookmark
Get better book launch results- Sandra Beckwith- Bookmark
5 success strategies on marketing -Penny Sansevieri- Bookmark
Selling books with email- Roland Denzel- Bookmark
Reach readers- podcast transcript from Joanna Penn and Becky Robinson- Bookmark
To Finish,
Recently the Writing and Wellness blog had an article on how to recognise if you have gone from amateur writer to pro writer. It’s a state of mind. As I was reading it I was wondering if the 3 open manuscripts I’m revising at the same time was too much.
(Yes. I can hear you shouting at me.)
Lisa Betz has an interesting article on being intentional with growing your writing craft.
I’m being intentional, as I revise… honestly.
Maureen
@craicer
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