This week Amazon review policies and translations are still
topics of interest at the publishing water cooler AKA Twitter.
Selfpublishing Review has written a blog post about the new Amazon review policy detailing what you can and can’t do. A must read!
Roz Morris always has interesting posts and this week she adds her thoughts to the Translation discussion. It is always good to check out
the comment stream where the discussion continues.
Porter Anderson has been looking at the Society of Authors call for fairer contracts. The Society is the UK authors collective. The Society
is joining with The American Authors Guild and momentum is growing to change
publishing contracts. Take the time to read this.
Subscription services may be making a come back if the
latest Disney deal is anything to go by.
Sean Platt and Johnny B Truant have a popular writing blog
but they are branching out into subscription too. They have been working on an
App called Story Shop. They have a Kickstarter for it. Check out what they are
offering, The App almost writes the stories for you!
This week a spotlight was put on organisations behaving
badly.
Wil Wheton called out Huffington Post for not paying authors
and then went on to expand that call to other creatives who should be paid for
their work. Exposure doesn’t pay the mortgage you know.
Agent Natalie Lakosil helped by Jen Laughran shone a light
on agents. Yes, agents have other jobs, they are just as poorly paid as
writers... but be wary of Schmagents!
It’s the last week of October and writers around the world
are holding their heads and thinking why did I say I would do NaNoWriMo.
Chuck Wendig asks the same question and adds his own particular spin to why you should/shouldn’t do it. (Usual Chuck warnings!)
Anne R Allen has a great post from Ruth Harris on the joy of writing and how to keep it going during NaNoWriMo. Ruth shares inspirational
words from other authors about how to keep the momentum going.
Here is an interesting post on when to design your bookcover... If you said before you write the book... you would be right.
In the Craft Section,
Help for Pantsers and Plotters- Stephen Pressfield
Janice Hardy has two great posts, How to tighten the MS and
How to polish the MS
Jami Gold has a great post on research.
Jody Hedlund talks about Tension- Bookmark!
Jane Friedman talks to Larry Brooks about compelling concepts Bookmark!
Critique Circle has 3 essential tips for NaNoWriMo
In the Marketing Section,
Joanna Penn lists all her marketing posts in one place. Bookmark!
Molly Greene has the website essentials
Penny Sansevieri has the essential book selling how to
Bookbub shows how to craft Author bios
Novel pitching with Chuck Sambuchino
To Finish,
The people behind the Stop Procrastinating App have put
together a tell all infographic on NaNoWriMo... How to survive it... How to
achieve it... How to do it.
For all those attempting NaNoWriMo... Good luck
Maureen
@craicer
