Of interest to writers

Agent extraordinaire Colleen Lindsay has been publishing a series of posts with tons of useful information for writers or anyone interested in becoming one. Check them out if you want to get down in the details of how book publicity and marketing really works.

Be sure to read the discussions going on in the comments section as well. There’s so much here that writers can learn from. Thanks, Colleen!

And also check out Joshua Palmatier’s Query Project, in which more than a dozen writers share successful query letters and commentary.

It’s so important for writers and publishing folks to share this kind of information. We need to know how to best work with each other, how to behave professionally, how to help each other get books to readers. We need to be honest with each other about how to break into the business, how the money works, the importance of playing nicely, and the changes that may be coming our way.

If you have links to share that you think are useful to writers, please post them in the comments and I’ll do a round-up post at some point down the road.

The days of information = power = all of us wandering around in various stages of ignorance need to be over, brothers and sisters. We need to help each other. We’ll all do better that way.

6 thoughts on “Of interest to writers”

  1. Oh, cool! Do you mind if I post the url for your round-up over at the NaNoWriMo site next month when it reopens for the ’08 event? Assuming it’s done by then, od course.

    –P.

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  2. Please be my guest! But let’s hope some people chime in with contributions, or it will be a very short list (grin).

    It would be a great kindness if you would remind me about this a few days in advance of NaNoWriMo if I haven’t already done the round up by then. My brain is so full of stuff right now, it’s easy for me to let things slip.

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  3. The Writer’s Toolbox
    Tips, talk and techniques for students and teachers of writing brought to you by the GEIST foundation & GEIST magazine.

    The Writer’s Union of Canada: Getting Published
    A comprehensive overview of the business of publishing in Canada. Information on finding a publisher, manuscript submission, guidelines for submitting to literary magazines and journals, the author and literary agent relationship, contracts, cautions, publishing terms, copyright, etc.

    The 26th Story – publishing on the edge
    HarperStudio is committed to partnering with authors to publish books in a way that is effective, creative, and sustainable. We believe books are a vital part of our culture. We believe traditional publishing models are broken and are experimenting with new ones. We believe in embracing technology. We believe the future is now.

    The First Book
    There’s a lot of first-time novelists published every year — over ten thousand, according to some estimates, and that’s in the United States alone. The First Book was created to give exposure to a few of these novels, as well as give readers insight on the journey these authors took to publication. A new interview should appear each Monday.

    Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent
    The Essentials: * How to Find a Literary Agent * Your Rights as an Author * The Basic Query Letter * How (And Whether) to List Your Publishing Credits * How to Respond to a Request for a Partial * How to Format Your Manuscript …

    The Rejecter
    He doesn’t hate you. He just hates your query letter.

    Miss Snark, the literary agent
    Where Miss Snark vented her wrath on the hapless world of writers and crushed them to sand beneath her T.Rexual heels of stiletto snark. The blog is dark–no further updates after 5/20/2007.

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  6. There they are! Thanks very much for these resources, and sorry for the delay. Screenplay stuff has come up and everything else has receded into the background…

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