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Pub/Lit Roundup (2)

Here are my top 20 finds of the last month:

Literary Agents and Publishing

Are you on submission? Then exercise discretion on your blog – Literaticat

The 99 cent Kindle novel Perceived value and consumer choices by Nathan Bransford

Bloomsbury predict 2011 e-book sales will be ‘off the scale’ - London Book Fair article

The agency model for selling ebooks – unfair and illegal? Guardian article

A breakdown of marketing activities for a debut self-pub book launch by Joanna Penn

Self-publishing is hard work – Interview with Derek Haines

An interview with literary scout Louise Allen-Jones by Gemma Noon

The publishing pieMargaret Atwood talk, and here being interviewed afterwards - The author as a dead moose

How to write a query letter by Bubble Cow

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Craft/Writing

Checklist of 17 questions for your novel by Emma Darwin

The Training-Wheels Novel (some novels are just a warm up) by Nichole Bernier

You totally want to be a writer – Somewhat profane pep talk by Chuck Wendig

100 things about writing a novel - by Alexander Chee

We cannot create a fiction from a fiction - emotional structure in writing by Peter Dunne

Seven questions you should ask a writer by Richard Dansky

Inspiration vs. Determination by K.M. Weiland

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Writing Competitions

How to win a short story competition – Sarah Dobbs and Sarah Hilary

The BBC National Short Story Award

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Cool Stuff

How ink is made by Peter Welfare

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Literature

National Book Critics award – Female author wins, Male loser gets the publicity. - MOBYLIVES article

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Discussion

7 comments for “Pub/Lit Roundup (2)”

  1. Nice list, Claire, thanks! That Egan/Franzen story makes me want to punch somebody.

    Posted by Valerie O'Riordan | March 19, 2011, 5:30 pm
  2. Great list Claire, thanks for including me! and very weird seeing Jimmy Saville – it’s been a long time :)

    Posted by Joanna | March 20, 2011, 1:00 am
  3. Thanks for the link round-up, Claire! There’s enough here to keep me going for the morning. :)

    Posted by Jennifer K Oliver | March 20, 2011, 1:10 pm
  4. Claire, thanks for linking to my essay. Great blog, too.

    Posted by Alexander Chee | March 20, 2011, 11:02 pm
  5. Great list, Claire – special thanks for Alexander Chee’s, which is wonderful – and many thanks for the link to my own.

    Posted by Emma Darwin | March 21, 2011, 8:10 pm
  6. Thanks for the link!

    Posted by Richard Dansky | March 27, 2011, 7:28 pm

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