by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Damage Control for Authors: @dkparsonswriter @SelfPubForm
- Writing a Cover Letter for a Job in the Publishing Industry: @CatapultStory
- Estate Planning For Authors: @MichaelLaRonn @thecreativepenn
- What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success: @alexa_writer @lithub
- Self-publishing News: Spotify Launches Audiobooks. Join in through Findaway Voices: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- How Creatives Can Get Along With Business Types: @helpfulsnowman
- How to Make a Boxset and Other Ways to Repurpose Your Books: by Kelsey Worsham @WrittenWordM
- US National Book Awards 2022 Longlist: Fiction: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- At Frankfurter Buchmesse: A ‘Spotlight on Africa’: @Porter_Anderson @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- The German Book Prize Announces Its 2022 Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- UAE: Sharjah Book Authority’s New Awards Honor Rights Professionals: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- The UK’s £62,000 Baillie Gifford Prize Names Its 2022 Longlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize: 2022 Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Horror: 10 Authors You Should Be Reading Right Now: @richardgthomas3 @LitReactor
- 9 Novels That Don’t Fear the Reaper: @cocolarolo @electriclit
- 7 YA Novels That Bring Color to Dark Academia: @NzingaAku @ElectricLit
- Cozy to Cold-Blooded: Celebrity Sleuths: @avonlea79 @DIYMFA
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Betty Rowlands’ Murder at Hawthorn Cottage: @MargotKinberg
- How Do You Become a Writer? | @jaredklegar @CatapultStory
- An Alternative to Traditional Time Management: @Daria_White15 @DIYMFA
- What I Wish I Knew As a Younger Writer: @saribotton
- Featured Writer on Wellness: Sara Hosey: @HoseySara
@colleen_m_story - Mini Vacations for Writers: @dlfinnauthor @StoryEmpire
- A Writer’s Discomfort in Bookshops: @joanhaigbooks
- How we share is a craft: @DanBlank @WeGrowMedia
- Is your social media time interfering with writing? @pubcoach
- A Runner’s Advice to Writers: @ChadRAllen
- How Horticulture Has Influenced My Writing: by @maureenhartman @WomenWriters
- Rest and Revive Your Creativity: @CindyDevoted
- How to Write About Your Ex: @ElizabethTeets @CatapultStory
- The Right Lighting for Your Writing Life: @AmbreDLeffler @DIYMFA
- How Writing a Novel Is Like Gardening: @Janice_Hardy
- CBT for writers: @pubcoach
- Whose Lives Can We Plunder? Or: How to Base a Character on Yourself: by Jincy Willett @lithub
- Truth in Blurbing: @TerryShames
- Inside Your Historical Characters’ Heads: by Abigail Cutter @DIYMFA
- Historical Fiction Writing Tips: by Ellie Midwood @WomenWriters
- From travel journalism to inner journeys: @munderamedia on writing his first memoir: @Roz_Morris
- Writing An Authentic Memoir, Interview with Writer and Ghostwriter Kelly Madrone: @GoodStoryCo
- The Freedom to Write Less Likeable Characters in Crime Fiction: @sonya_lalli @CrimeReads
- The Slow Leak: Dripping Out Those Clues: @nlholmesbooks @FloridaWriters1
- Planting Clues in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- The Curious Case of the Cozy: @AliceMCastle @MandSMagazine
- The History of the Florida Everglades Is a History of Crime and Mystery: by T.L. Finlay @CrimeReads
- Four Mistakes That Will Doom Your Mystery. They Did Mine: by PJ Parrish @killzoneauthors
- Accommodating Sight Abilities on Your Social Channels: by Jacky Bethea @penguinrandom
- Creating an Online Presence: @susan_writes @FloridaWriters1
- Banned Books Week: PEN Calls Out a ‘Movement to Censor’: @Porter_Anderson @PENamerica @pubperspectives
- Spotify Opens Its US Audiobooks Service: 300,000 Titles: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Annual StatShot Report 2021: US Revenues Up 12.3 Percent: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- BookNet Canada’s Report: English-Language Publishing in 2021: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Germany’s Ebook Market January to June: ‘Slight Growth’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- In Southeast Asia: Spotify to Host Exclusive Series of Wattpad Podcasts: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- French Publishers Cheer a Court’s Order to Block a Book Piracy Site: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Pre-Election Policy Statement: Italy’s Publishers Join Their Sister Creative Industries: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Audiobooks: Ghana’s AkooBooks Is Relaunching With Beat: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- An Exercise in Character Development: @joannaslan
- Fear Thesaurus Entry: Losing Autonomy: @beccapuglisi @onestop4writers
- Give Your Readers a Deeper Connection with the Characters You Write Through the Q Factor: @AneMulligan @EdieMelson
- How to Let Readers into Your Characters’ Inner Life: @FoxPrintEd
- Page One: “The Proposal” (2009): @GoIntoTheStory
- Five Stories With Well-Written Families: by Oren Ashkenazi @mythcreants
- Page One: “Purple Rain” (1984): @GoIntoTheStory
- Use a Character’s Career to Support Your Story’s Theme: @onestop4writers @beccapuglisi
- Ten Reasons Characters Might Stop Communicating: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- Character Agency in Fiction: by Louise Dean @thenovelry
- How to Use Somebody Wanted But So Then: @themaltesetiger
- What’s at Stake in Your Novel? by Dana Isaacson @CareerAuthors
- Telepathy and Writing: @SueColetta1 @killzoneauthors
- When Characters Try to Run the Show: @HowellWave @StoryEmpire
- The Power of Generational Storytelling: @VaughnRoycroft @WriterUnboxed
- Is Your Story Too Complicated? Here Are 9 Signs: @KMWeiland
- Writers, Are You Using Your Beta Readers Wrong? @MorganHzlwood
- Asking a Non-Reader: Working Out Manuscript Problems with an Outsider’s Perspective: by Rebecca A. Corio
- How to Write a Book Using Microsoft Word: @DaveChesson
- How to Write a Book Using Google Docs: @DaveChesson
As always, Elizabeth, this is a great bunch of links – so many good ones! I’m glad to see, too, that Amazon’s big news is here. That’s going to make a difference to a lot of writers. I’m not sure what prompted it, but it’ll be interesting to see what happens.
Big news indeed and something that a lot of writers have been following!
Always enjoy the links, Elizabeth. Thanks for including Story Empire/
Great posts from Story Empire!
Another great curated list. Thanks, Elizabeth.
Thanks for coming by, Staci!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for continuing to share Story Empire posts!
My pleasure! Have a great week, Jan!
Wonderful list, Elizabeth — always helpful. Thank you!
Thanks, Gwen!
Excellent links, Elizebeth. Thanks for sharing the Story Empire ones.
Great links and resources. Thanks for sharing, Elizabeth 💕🙂
Thank you for another great list of useful blogs, and including me on it :)
You’ve got another well-crafted list, Elizabeth. Thank you for sharing these sites.
Thanks for coming by!