by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Business Musings: Facing 2021: Year in Review Part 1: and Part 2: @KristineRusch
- The Top Eight Publishing Trends For 2022: @claytonnoblit @WrittenWordM
- Self-publishing News 2021: Subscription’s Breakthrough Year and a Time of New Technology: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- Self-publishing News: Are Piracy Sites the Reason Amazon is Removing Authors’ Works Without Warning? @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- Review Your 2021 and Plan 2022: Annual Planning for Indie Authors: @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
- Lean Publishing for Beginner Authors: @dkparsonswriter @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
- Setting Short-Term Goals for Your Writing Career: @richardgthomas3 @LitReactor
- Did This Year Go Like You Hoped It Would? If Not, Here Are 6 Helpful Questions: @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters
- Making Mini-Plans and Mini-Goals for the Year:
- Double Down on your Writing Goals, a Worry-Free Approach: @KMazeauthor
- 25 Ways to Spice Up Your Writing: @CareerAuthors
- Getting Ideas from Guilty Pleasures: @LeslieBudewitz
- Fiction to look out for in 2022: @ahmpreston @GuardianBooks
- The Ultimate Best Books of 2021 List: @knownemily @lithub
- 81 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2021: @lithub
- Best Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2021: @QueenOfRats @tordotcom
- The Best International Crime Novels of 2021: @mollsotov89 @CrimeReads
- The 30 Most Anticipated SFF Books of 2022: @cxorlando @tordotcom
- Ideas for Self-Help Books for Fictional Sleuths: @MargotKinberg
- Seven Thrilling Murder Mysteries With SFF Flair: by Elisa Shoenberger @tordotcom
- 13 Frightening Books: @shaylaleeraquel
- 9 YA Survival Thrillers To Get Your Heart Pounding: @RektokRoss @CrimeReads
- A Strong Ally of Productivity: The Timesheet: @be_writ
- Making Time to Write: by Brenda Wilson @KiingoCreative
- More Holiday Gifts For The Writer In Your Life: @KMAllan_writer
- The Millions 2021 Gift Guide for Readers and Writers: by Hannah Gersen @The_Millions
- A Gift Guide for the Writer in Your Life: @theladygreer @WriterUnboxed
- Make eBooks Into Decent Gifts: @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor
- Gifts for writers! (2021’s tongue-in-cheek gift guide): @NathanBransford
- 2021 Reflections: How Our Writing and Podcasting Has Changed in a Year: @writingcookbook
- Business Musings: Calendars (A 2022 Anticipatory Process Blog): @KristineRusch
- The Best Crime and Mystery TV Shows of 2021: @oldrutigliano @CrimeReads
- The 10 Biggest Literary Stories of 2021: @lithub
- Wrangle deadlines in style with these literary 2022 calendars for writers: @TheWriterMag
- “How My Father Impacted My Writing”: by Dorit Sasson @WomenWriters
- 3 Benefits of Self-Automation: @MichaelHyatt
- Repurposing One Idea to Create More Content: by Pam Hillman @SKRViLL
- Which Are Better Writers? Introverts versus Extroverts: @MorganHzlwood
- 6 Ways Tabletop Gaming Can Help Improve Your Writing: by Whitney Carter @TheRyanLanz
- The Curse of Shiny Object Syndrome: @GoIntoTheStory
- 13 Reasons Living with a Writer Can Be Scary: @EdieMelson
- How you can use learned HOPEFULNESS for your writing: @pubcoach
- Special Delivery: 9 Horror Scenes of Labor and Birth: @AnnieNeugebauer
- How to write horror that lingers: @sippenator101 @TheWriterMag
- Road Trips as Elements in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Paperwork and Red Tape as Elements in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- How to Have Sex in Crime Fiction: @AmitaMurray @CrimeReads
- The Expanded Ultimate Story Checklist: Does the hero have a moment of humanity early on? @CockeyedCaravan
- Is My Screenplay Big Enough to Be a Movie? @GoIntoTheStory
- AskALLi’s Best Marketing Tips for Indie Authors from 2021: @IndieAuthorALLI
- Book Launch Tips for 2022: @writingcookbook @KristinaAuthor
- Author Peter Hotez’s Vaccine ‘Cormevax’: @Porter_Anderson @PeterHotez @pubperspectives
- Richard Charkin in London: A 2022 Publishing Resolution: @rcharkin @pubperspectives
- The Things I’ve Heard: Confessions of an Audiobook Narrator: @Alaetar @annerallen
- World Reading Habits in 2021:
- AAP’s United States November StatShot: 8.3 Percent Up, Year Over Year: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Rights Edition: Foreign Rights Sold to 12 Percent of Italy’s New Books: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Russian High Court Closes 2021 Michalski Prize Winner, Memorial International: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Ukraine-Based ‘Kiss Library’ Under Permanent Injunction in Book Piracy Case: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Year-End Assessment of Book Sales in Russia : ‘Seriously Difficult’: by Eugene Gerden @pubperspectives
- English PEN Announces Its Year-End Translation Grant Recipients: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- In London, Costa Book Awards Names Its Category Winners: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA and European Publishers Back AAP’s Maryland Copyright Lawsuit: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- In London, Book Aid International Reports 2021 Operations in 24 Countries: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- New Delhi World Book Fair Announces Postponement: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Germany Reports 3.2 Percent Book Sales Growth in 2021: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Barcelona’s Swank Llibreria Finestres: A Cultural Enterprise: @oliviasnaije @pubperspectives
- French Publishers Issue Hachette-Editis Commentary: ‘Such a Concentration’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Gold House Issues a New Asian and Pacific Islander Reading List: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The What, Why, and How of Foil Characters: by Karissa Chmil @KingdomPenMag
- Your Antagonist DOESN’T Have To Be A Villain. Here’s Why: @Bang2write
- Avoiding Cartoonish Villains in Fiction: @WorldOfVindor
- Character Karma: @mythcreants
- Creating Characters Using Collaborative Storytelling: by Kris Hill @DIYMFA
- Page One: “The Wrestler” (2008): @GoIntoTheStory
- Script To Screen: “The Fisher King”: @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Twelve Angry Men” (1957): @GoIntoTheStory
- On The Horrifying, Hilarious Violence of a Punch & Judy Puppet Show: @CatrionaMcP @CrimeReads
- How Useful Are Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing? by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- Fictional Pillars For Writers: @Writers_Write
- Structure Isn’t the Holy Grail You’re Looking For: @LisaEllisonsPen @JaneFriedman
- 5 Types of Lines We Use to Craft Stories (and How to Use Them to Reveal Character): @SeptCFawkes
- How To Write An Action Scene In 3 Steps: @ChrisLukeDean
- How to Research Your Book: @theauthorslib @thecreativepenn
- Guide to Story Researching: @writingandsuch
- Editing 101: @AnyOtherLizzy @thenovelry
- Tips for Self-Editing a Manuscript: by Emily Nemchick @TheRyanLanz
- Deciding What Setting to Use: by Jan Drexler @SKRViLL
- What makes a great setting in a novel: @NathanBransford
- How Has The Character Of James Bond Evolved? by Michael Lee Simpson @CreativeScreen #TopTweets2021
- Screenwriting: 7 Tips for Emerging Creative Entrepreneurs: @CreativeScreen #TopTweets2021
- “The 36 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2021”: @knownemily @lithub
- Exploring Female Character Archetypes – The Wild Woman: @Writing_Nomad @CreativeScreen #TopTweets2021
- Famous novels, if they were Hallmark Christmas Movies: @jessiegaynor @lithub
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Another great list, Elizabeth, thank you! Have a wonderful day.
Hope you do, too, Gwen!
Really big list to start out the new year!
Definitely is! It has some remainders from December on there, I think. :)
As always, Elizabeth, there’s a real treasure trove here! There were a couple links that especially got my attention this time. One is the post about reflecting on the year (how did your year go?) and thinking about some questions. I’m a believer in reflection, as I think it can help us plan better next time. The other was the piece about working with beta readers. That ‘beta stage’ can be tricky, and I think it’s important to work with people who understand what being a beta reader means; ‘course, it’s also important to be professional, polite, etc., too. It all takes good communication skills.
Two very important topics, for sure! Thanks so much to you for stopping by, Margot.
Ukraine in a piracy case? They have all sorts of problems right now, don’t they?
Ukraine is a hotspot, for sure!