by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- How to Avoid Bad Author Collaborations: @kikimojo
- I’m an Editor. Here are 10 Things I Really Need Writers to Know: @MegDowell
- How Much to Charge When Pricing a Self-Published Book to Sell on Amazon: @Wogahn
- Writing as Collaboration: @CEMcKenzie1 @WriterUnboxed
- How To Take Your Author Career To The Next Level: @pbackwriter @thecreativepenn
- The Editing Podcast: Do you need a specialist editor? @LouiseHarnby
- How to Co-Write a Novel and Remain Friends: @GretaBoris @WomenWriters
- Panama International Book Fair will be virtual this year. Last year it attracted over 100,000 visitors: @thenewpubstd
- National Book Awards Makes the Move to Digital: November 18: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Secrets to Successful Virtual Author Events: @DebColameta @CareerAuthors
- Frankfurter Buchmesse Outlines Digital Programming Details: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Planning Your First Virtual Book Event: @MT_Cassidy @FloridaWriters1
- Liber20 in Barcelona Announces October Hybrid Program for Spain: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Beijing International Book Fair Moves Online for a ‘Smart BIBF’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Frankfurter Buchmesse: Four German Houses Sign on Together: @Porter_Anderson @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- Access Copyright Foundation Announces Marian Hebb Research Grants: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards Name 35th Shortlist in Photo and Film Books: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- ‘Books From Spain’ Launches To Support Frankfurt’s 2022 Guest of Honor: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- How to Start Writing a Book: 4 Simple Steps to Get You Started: @ReedsyHQ
- Five Things Every Aspiring Author Should Know: @PhilAthans
- Confinement as an Element in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Examples of How Crime Fiction Writers Have Worked Diversity into Their Novels: @MargotKinberg
- 5 Signs Your Reading Partner Is A Dud: @lisabubert @LitReactor
- 7 Crime Novels Where Vengeance is Completely Justified: @TRRaganAuthor @CrimeReads
- Exploring Similarities between Parents and Children in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- 9 Thrillers Featuring Writers As Characters: @EmilyLiebert @CrimeReads
- 8 Thrillers with Twisted Physicians You’ll Be Glad Are Fictitious: @HankPRyan @BookTrib
- Noir Fiction: When the Real Is Too Raw: @LairdBarron @CrimeReads
- How – and Why – to Create a Daily Writing Habit: by Tom Meitner @ProWritingAid
- Ten Questions To Ask To Find Extra Time To Write: @10minnovelist
- Writing Habits or Daily Rituals. You Can Call Them as You Want — Just Write: @Peter_Rey_
- How To Actually Write Every Day: by Robert Wood @standoutbooks
- Developing a Writing Practice: Engrained: @manzanitafire @JaneFriedman
- Five Tips for Writing Every Day: @ThisHammer @DIYMFA
- Solutions for the Time-Crunched From 10 Minute Novelists: @10minnovelist
- 14 Tips to Help Manage Time To Write: @EdieMelson @SouthrnWritrMag
- Tips for Writing During Tough Times: @WomenWriters @AineGreaney
- How to Coach Others When You’re Still an “Aspiring” Creative: @losapala
- How to improve your home office: @pubcoach
- Make All the Writing Plans You Want: @MegDowell
- Writing Small in Viral Times: @BJoycePatterson @DIYMFA
- 5 Important Reasons Why Writers Need Hobbies: @colleen_m_story
- 10 Reasons Writing Suddenly Feels a Lot Harder Than Usual: @MegDowell
- Telling The Story Without Knowing The Answers: by Claudia Hagadus Long @WomenWriters
- In Praise of Creative Play: @dorothywinsor @wvancamp
- A Writer’s Guide to Patience, Practice, and Persistence: @RuthHarrisBooks
- Ghostwriter Emerges With Her Own Haunting Fiction: @Roz_Morris @Howard_Lovy @IndieAuthorALLI
- Beat the Author Blues: How to Manage Writer’s Doubt: by Clayton Noblit @WrittenWordM
- 10 Ways to Be an Environmentally-Friendly Writer: @ChrysFey @TheIWSG
- Getting Comfortable With Failure: @jaelmchenry
- How You Know You’ve Found Your Calling: @MegDowell
- The Beginning Writer’s Guide To Finishing A Novel: What If You Don’t Want To Finish? @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters
- What is your highest and best use? @NathanBransford
- “How I Stopped Wasting Time on Twitter and Facebook”: @ThDigitalReader
- Break the Lego House and Start Over (Or: Writing With Kids at Home): @jcbaggott @WriterUnboxed
- Protect your writing from interruptions: @pubcoach
- How to Change Your Work Situation to Fit Your Writing Dreams: @colleen_m_story
- What Your Inner Critic Doesn’t Want You To Know: @emma_darwin
- 5 Ways to Put the Fun Back into Writing: @jlturchin
- Deadline Writing Tips in Quarantine: @LynnHBlackburn @EdieMelson
- In the absence of travel, what is a travel writer to do? @boozecolumnist @GuernicaMag
- Map Building for Fantasy Writers: by Toni Šušnjar @mythicscribes
- How to Name Characters in Fantasy: @DanKoboldt
- 8 tips to write a successful memoir: @amabaie
- How to Transform Memories into Memoir: @kathleenpooler @LiveWriteThrive
- Top 7 Memoir-Writing Lessons: @martabeaman @WomenWriters
- Writing a Fairy Tale: Creating the Magic Behind the Story: by Nataša Xerri @IngramSpark
- The Problem with Avoiding Genre Formula: by Marilynn Byerly
- How To Get Into Sports Writing: @sweatscience
- Crime Writing: Obstruction Of Justice: @LeeLofland
- 5 Tips to Writing Financial Thrillers: by Lawrence Light @CareerAuthors
- Mentors as an element in crime fiction: @MargotKinberg
- “What I’ve Learned Writing Middle Grade Nonfiction”: by Tim Grove @JaneFriedman
- Why You Should be Telling Stories in Non-Fiction: @Word_Nerd_Girl @SelfPubForm
- Writing a Non-Fiction Query Letter (+ Sample Query Letter) : @ReedsyHQ
- Reader Question: How to handle a character who changes names? @GoIntoTheStory
- How Your Screenplay Characters Perceive Their Truth: @CreativeScreen
- Screenwriting: Dramatic Tension – Don’t Let Them Go: @_PatrickOD @CreativeScreen
- Script Analysis: “Midsommar” — Scene-By-Scene Breakdown: @GoIntoTheStory
- Creating Income from Short Fiction: @MarkLeslie @StonehamPress @IndieAuthorALLI
- Submitting short stories: thoughts from an agent: @Janet_Reid
- How to Connect with Readers Virtually: @1106Design
- It’s Up to Authors to Sell Books: @PeggySueWells @EdieMelson
- Author Essentials: Marketing Plan: @ph_solomon @StoryEmpire
- How to Create Your Book’s Marketing Plan: @lqtang @ReedsyHQ @writingcookbook
- Business Musings: Book Promotion 2020: @KristineRusch
- How to Promote Your Book on LinkedIn: @mike54martin
- A Guide to Using Social Media for Book Promotions: @mike54martin
- Eight Tips To Help You Get Attention On Twitter: @10minnovelist
- How to Prep for a Major Website Refresh: @ThDigitalReader
- “Why I Don’t Recommend WooCommerce for Your eStore”: @ThDigitalReader
- AAP’s StatShot for May: A Downturn That May Be Even Sharper: @Porter_Anderson @AmericanPublish @pubperspectives
- Court Lifts Gag Order on Mary Trump as S&S Releases Book: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- National Book Foundation’s Lisa Lucas To Head Knopf’s Pantheon and Schocken: @Porter_Anderson @likaluca @nationalbook @pubperspectives
- Self-publishing News: Netgalley Adds Audio: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- Your Book’s Front Matter – Before the Story Begins: @KarenCV
- US Book Market: NPD Sees Unit Sales Up 2.8 Percent in Q2: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Wattpad Says It’s Resetting Passwords Following Reported Data Breach: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- US Book Market: NPD Sees a 31-Percent Jump in Ebook Sales in April: @Porter_Anderson @npdbooks @pubperspectives
- Places to Publish and Promote Your eBook: @mike54martin
- UK Book Industry: Publishers Call for Aid, Reporting 2019’s Success: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Political Books: PEN America’s Suzanne Nossel ‘Dares To Speak’: @Porter_Anderson @PENamerica @pubperspectives
- Rights Roundup: Critical Thinking in a Long, Hot Summer: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Coronavirus Impact: Nielsen Book India on Readers in the Pandemic: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA, PEN America Blast Vietnam’s ‘Crackdown on Independent Media’: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers @PENamerica @AmazonPub
- Coronavirus Impact: A New Survey by Italian Publishers Sees ‘Abandonment of Reading’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Trump Book Breaks S&S Record; PRH India Signs Sourcebooks, Fitzcarraldo: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- China’s Book Retail Market: Down 9.29 Percent in First Half of 2020: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- In Europe, Pandemic Relief for Publishing; New Funds for Authors: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA Announces ‘Extreme Concern’ About Book Censorship in Hong Kong: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers @KristennEinars1 @pubperspectives
- Coronavirus Impact: Russian Book Market Struggling Despite Reopenings: by Eugene Gerden @pubperspectives
- Spain’s Book Market: 40 Percent More Online Buying During Lockdown: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- European Book Markets: An Early Assessment of the Damage: @Porter_Anderson @FEP_EU @pubperspectives
- Editorial Planeta México in Exclusive Deal With Subscription Service Scribd: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Coronavirus Worklife: Iran’s Blue Circle Literary Rights Agency: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Bland is bland (query critique): @NathanBransford
- How to Find a Literary Agent: @mike54martin
- How to Write a Stellar Query Letter: @mike54martin
- How to Format a Manuscript: @WritersTable @ProWritingAid
- Don’t Socially Distance Your Sentences with Two Spaces, Says Microsoft Word: by Jeanette the Writer @DIYMFA
- Breaking Writing Rules Right: “Never Open with Introspection”: @SeptCFawkes
- Opening Well: @davidfarland
- How to Start a Novel: 8 Steps to the Perfect Opening Scene: @ReedsyHQ
- Save the Cat! Explained: Beginning: @SeptCFawkes @savethecat
- First Page Critique: A Hike That Might Be A Journey? by PJ Parrish @killzoneauthors
- 4 Great Ways for an Author to Hook a Reader: @SarahSallyHamer @EdieMelson
- Where should your novel begin? @Roz_Morris
- How Character Flaws Shape Story: @wstorr @thecreativepenn
- Writing Shy Characters Without Slowing Down the Story: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- Character Building: How Much Planning Should I Do? @AngelaAckerman
- Resources for Character Development: from The Writers’ Helpers
- Story Grid Scene Analysis: The Giver of Stars: @abigailkperry @DIYMFA
- Editor Roundtable: The Great Gatsby: by Leslie Watts @StoryGrid
- How to Add Depth to Your Writing: @AJHumpage
- How to Foreshadow in Your Writing: by Doug Lewars @TheRyanLanz
- Childhood Revisitations as a Writer: @andrewwille
- The Magic Paragraph for Writers: @AneMulligan @EdieMelson
- Tips for Writing Good Prose: @IndieAuthorALLI
- “What Running a Bookshop Taught Me About Writing”: @NatalieMJenner @WomenWriters
- Building a Bold Narrator’s Voice: 5 Methods: @nownovel
- 4 Reasons To Listen To Your Own Book: @KMAllan_writer
- Effective Body Language in Writing: @ecellenb
- Seven Reasons It’s Definitely Okay to Neglect Storytelling Rules: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- Changing Literary Styles: @JoanHallWrites
- Put Action Beats to Work in Your Novel: @MADaboutWords @FloridaWriters1
- 10 Simple Tips For Getting A Full Read: @Bang2write
- How Can I Keep an Angry Character Likable? by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- 11 Exercises to Enhance Your Visual Thinking: @KMWeiland
- Ten authors share their best writing advice: @HannahMMcKinnon @cbcbooks
- A Handy Checklist to Strengthen the Narrative Drive in Your Scenes: @Janice_Hardy
- Deception as a Storytelling Device: Introducing the Unreliable Narrator: @KristenLambTX
- How Does Our Character’s POV Affect Our Story? @JamiGold
- We Need To Talk About First Person Plural: @ElectricLit
- The Incredible Shrunken Manuscript: @FictionNotes @ProWritingAid
- Editing Your Novel Q&A: @KMWeiland
- Proofreading Find and Replace Checklist: @victoria_grif7
- Questions To Ask When Critiquing Books: @10minnovelist
- 7 Traits of a Successful Writing Critique Group: @riverbendsagas @EdieMelson
- Tips on Writing a Series: by by Laurie Schnebly Campbell
- The Four Principles of Series Writing: @HillaryHomzie
- How to Edit Setting: @tishmartin1416 @A3writers
- The Dangers of Detail Derailment: @jamesscottbell @killzoneauthors
- What’s the Best Writing Software? @shaelinbishop @ReedsyHQ
- “4 Ways I Use My Phone in my Writing”: @SueBEdwards
- Canva v Book Brush: @ThDigitalReader
- The Best Software to Plot or Outline Your Book: @DaveChesson
- If You Write In MS Word, You Need To Know About These 6 Features: by Robert Wood @standoutbooks
The Top Writing Links From Last Week Are On Twitterific: Share on X
There’s Chrys’ post at the IWSG site – thanks!
Great post from Chrys!
So many great links! I’m going to start with the romance one! Thanks again for compiling! :)
Thanks for coming by, Jemi!
Great to have you back, Elizabeth! I hope you enjoyed your break. Thanks, as ever, for the links. The one that caught my eye was the one about noir fiction. It’s I question I think about myself sometimes – how gritty should a story be…
I do like reading and watching noir…have a feeling I’ve written cozy too long to write it, myself! You’re right–the grittiness is a fine line.
There are too many good links here for posts I want to read. It’s great knowing how much useful info is out there to help us. Thanks for putting it all together for us.
Thanks so much for coming by! Hope you’ll find something helpful. :)