by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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Happy Independence Day to my American blog readers! I’ll be taking the next couple of weeks off for a blogging break (aside from posting Twitterific on Sundays). See you back on July 18.
- How to Identify a Book’s Sales Problem: Follow These Steps: @DaveChesson
- Book Marketing: Should a Debut Indie Author Pay a Marketer? @annerallen
- Know your audience: @Virgilante
- Self-publishing News: A Groundbreaking Shortlisting: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- Surveying Self-Publishing: Facts about Indie Author Income in 2022: @OrnaRoss @IndieAuthorALLI
- Spotify Rewrites Audiobook Sales Rules, Buys AI Narration Tool: @Howard_Lovy @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- German Book Trade’s Peace Prize: Ukraine’s Serhiy Zhadan: @Porter_Anderson @serhiy_zhadan @pubperspectives
- Translator Veronika ter Harmsel Havlíková Wins Dutch Letterenfonds Prize: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- ‘Our Visions for the Future’: PageBreak Opens Early-Bird Registration: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Germany’s 2022 ContentShift Shortlists Five Companies: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- What Comes First, the Title or the Story? @BeemWeeks @StoryEmpire
- Top 6 Creative Writing Exercises To Sharpen Your Writing Skills: by Nicholas Rubright
- Remembering and Keeping Track of Ideas: @Sandra_Cox @TheIWSG
- How Visual Thinking Improves Writing: @wendi322 @WriteNowCoach
- How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel: @stevealmondjoy @lithub
- How to Use Art to Inspire Your Writing: @BirdsOAFpress @NinaAmir
- Five Books Featuring Uploaded Minds and Memories: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- 5 SFF Books About Technology and Grief: @DanteMedema @tordotcom
- Find books set in your hometown with this neat tool: @prepartynap @lithub
- 7 Books That Will Change the Way You Think About the Road Trip Story: by Keely Shinners @ElectricLit
- Never Tell Someone They “Should” Read A Book: @helpfulsnowman @LitReactor
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Susan Walter’s Good as Dead: @MargotKinberg
- 5 Non-Fiction Titles That Are So Vibrant They Read Like Fiction: @ellemarr_
- 6 Utterly Suspenseful Tales Written by and Starring Women: by Chelsea Ciccone @BookTrib
- The Fine Art of Incredible Plot Twists: @elizabday @CrimeReads
- Writing a Novel About a Half-Remembered Place, with the Help of Google Street View: By Soon Wiley @lithub
- 3 Things Learned from Debut to Sophomore Novel: @sbaileybooks @WomenWriters
- “Eat, Then Write!” Notes From Over a Decade of Restaurant Criticism: @MHuneven @lithub
- Social Psychology and the Novel: @ElizabethHuergo @WriterUnboxed
- Tips for Keeping Organized: @aprildavila
- You Can’t Do It All: @theladygreer @WriterUnboxed
- Use the neuroscience of writing to help yourself: @pubcoach
- Magic Systems Made Stronger with Science: @DanKoboldt
- Swords in Fantasy: @cyallowitz
- Romancing SFF: When Making the Connection Makes the Book: @Bibimarlowe @sfwa
- 7 Tips to Using Swords in Fantasy: @cyallowitz
- Creeping Shadows: Why ‘Nosferatu’ Still Holds Up 100 Years Later: @BrianDKeiper @BDisgusting
- How to Introduce Teen Writers to Age-Appropriate Horror Writing: @MilesOl82108029 @HorrorTree https://t.co/Vxlt2RbiDP
- Should My Mystery Start With the Murder? by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- Scammers and Grifters as Elements in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Why the Mystery Novel Is a Perfect Literary Form: @DavidGordonX @CrimeReads
- Lifelong Friends as Elements in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Lust, Football and Fiction: @jamesscottbell @killzoneauthors
- Best Places to Find Readers for the Books You Write: @AneMulligan @EdieMelson
- Author Avanti Centrae Leaks Top-Secret Marketing Plans: @burke_writer @killzoneauthors
- DIY Resources to Design a Lead Magnet Cover: @khogrefeparnell @EdieMelson
- Fictionable Launches: New Literary Magazine, With International Intent: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Germany’Bookwire Now Offers Artificial Narration for Audiobooks: @Porter_Anderson @bookwire @pubperspectives
- Oslo’s Tragedy Reinforces WEXFO’s Importance: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA Opens Registration for Its 33rd Congress: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @IntPublishers
- May’s China Bestsellers: Emotion and Promotion: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA’s Africa Publishing Innovation Fund Pivots to Accessibility in Fourth Year: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers @pubperspectives
- São Paulo’s Professional Days: Language Challenges: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IPA’s Bodour Al Qasimi Speaks to Publishers in São Paulo: @Porter_Anderson @Bodour @IntPublishers @pubperspectives
- IPA Criticizes the UAE’s Anti-LGBTQ Pressure on Amazon: @Porter_Anderson @IntPublishers @pubperspectives
- Writing a Great One-Line Pitch for Your 2022 Query Letter: @AuthorSAT
- Aimlessly Acquiring an Agent: @theljsharks @DIYMFA
- The Slow Query: @aprildavila
- What’s Your Character Hiding? @beccapuglisi @onestop4writers
- Fear Thesaurus Entry: Agoraphobia: @beccapuglisi @onestop4writers
- The Deepest Wounds: Lies, Deception & Betrayal: @KristenLambTX
- One Quick Reason Readers Cheer For Unlikable Characters: @LisaHallWilson @onestop4writers
- Using Crisis to Reveal Character: @SeptCFawkes @onestop4writers
- Writing an Un-Put-Downable Character: History: @acw_author @EdieMelson
- Page One: “Leaving Las Vegas” (1995): @GoIntoTheStory
- Great Scene: “Broadcast News”: @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Les Misérables” (2012): @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Liar Liar” (1997): @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “License to Drive” (1988): @GoIntoTheStory
- Two Psychopaths in Fiction: @EliWilde1 @MandSMagazine
- Script Analysis: “Spencer” — Part 1: Scene-By-Scene Breakdown: @GoIntoTheStory
- Page One: “Life Is Beautiful” (1997): @GoIntoTheStory
- Four Things Star Wars Can Teach a Writer: @Penshido @HorrorTree
- 5 Storytelling Skills Every Writer Should Master: @themaltesetiger @thenovelsmithy
- Writing Finishing Touches: @Lindasclare
- Simplify the Narrative: @j_a_elster @WomenWriters
- What is a Trope? @_Lionwalker @thenovelry
- 7 Ways to Improve Your Writing Craft: by Dario Villirilli @LiveWriteThrive
- How Do I Keep Clever Quips From Hurting the Story? by Chris Winkle @MythCreatives
- Macro-Level Jump Cut Scene: @SueColetta1 @killzoneauthors
- Writing in the Language of Horse People: @dancinghorse @tordotcom
- The Final Hook: by Marilynn Byerly
- Sinking into the Scene: @brendaAchapman
- How To Write Great Descriptions: @StephMorrill @GoTeenWriters
Thanks for including Sandra’s first IWSG post! Have a great Fourth of July.
Great post! And the same to you, Alex. :)
Thanks for the links, as always, Elizabeth. That Epub/Mobi artice is especially interesting to me. Authors need to keep up with changes like that, but it doesn’t always register on the radar. Have a great holiday and blog break!
Getting rid of mobi will certainly make life simpler! Happy 4th, Margot!
Another fine roundup of links, Elizabeth. Thank you for including me on this one! Much appreciation.
Thanks, Beem!