by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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Escape the Plot Forest: An online event all about plotting, storytelling, and creating a great experience for your readers. Every year, about 3,000 writers from all over the world come together for four days of great interviews and presentations – and you can watch the whole summit live, for free. I’m going to be speaking at the summit about all the ingredients of a cozy mystery on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Check out the event here (please note this is an affiliate link).
- Business Musings: Searching For A Sense of Urgency: @KristineRusch
- Caveat Scriptor: When Creators Become the Customers: @FoxPrintEd
- How to Get Published in Modern Love, McSweeney’s or Anywhere Else You Want: @GuerillaMemoir @JaneFriedman
- Self-publishing News: Enter SelfPubCon’s First Line Competition: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- The UK’s £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize Releases Its 2022 Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Germany’s Börsenverein Lists Events for Frankfurter Buchmesse: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Future Guest of Honor Italy at Frankfurt: 147 Exhibitors: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- At Sharjah’s Publishers Conference: Dohle and Al Qasimi Speak: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- At Frankfurter Buchmesse: Aldus Up’s 2022 Programming: @Porter_Anderson @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- Frankfurter Buchmesse Introduces Its International Translation Center: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Write What You’re Passionate About: @MaeClair1 @StoryEmpire
- Getting Lost—and Found—in Personal Narrative: @JMcJohnson @brevitymag
- 9 Novels Told From the Perspective of Animal Protagonists: by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri @ElectricLit
- The best books for enjoying the delicious coziness of murder: @Shepherd_books
- Messy Women in Crime Fiction: A Reading List: @meredithambrock @CrimeReads
- Five SFF Stories Featuring Spies, Secrets, and Intrigue: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: R.W.R. McDonald’s Nancy Business: @MargotKinberg
- 10 Quietly Effective Suspense Novels: by B. R. Myers @CrimeReads
- Seven Very Short Sci-Fi Stories That Can Be Read in Seven Minutes or Less: @LookingForLorna @tordotcom
- Featured Writer on Wellness: Brandie June: @brandiejune @colleen_m_story
- I Write Wherever My Mind Can Be Free: @1demerith @CatapultStory
- Writing As My Healing Tool: @KyomiOconnor @DIYMFA
- Use Your Library to Save Your Library: @helpfulsnowman
- We Don’t Talk About Creative Burnout – This Is Why We Should: @Robert_Rose @CMIContent
- Enrich Your Fiction by Interviewing Real People in the Real World: @KelleyLindberg1 @RMFWriters
- Why We Shouldn’t View Other Writers as Competition: @BethVogt @EdieMelson
- The power of ‘if’: how imagining the future helps writers: @BecEvans @beprolifiko
- Featured Productivity Tool: Break the Rules: @TheDEBMethod
- How to Defeat “Writer Overwhelm” Once and for All: @ChadRAllen
- Your Writer’s Journey Needs a Road Map: @MiraReisberg
- Kristen Arnett and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Sharing a Writing Space: @Kristen_Arnett @KaylaKumari @CatapultStory
- Inspirational Indie Author Interview. Jessica Bell: From Music to Writing to Cover Design to Publishing, ‘Multipreneur’ Does it All: @Howard_Lovy @IamJessicaBell
- The Advantages of Acting Vs. Reacting In Your Writing Career: @colleen_m_story
- How to Focus: Practice Deep Work: @WriteNowCoach
- 5 Tips to Help You Write a Memoir about Hard Things: @LiveWriteThrive
- Mychal Denzel Smith on How to Have an Opinion in Memoir: @mychalsmith @lithub
- Emotional Pacing: Lessons in Writing a Trauma Memoir: by Aggie Stewart @brevitymag
- Portrayals of the Police in Crime Fiction Through the Years: @MargotKinberg
- A Deep Dive Into the History of Bibliomysteries: @medwardsbooks @CrimeReads
- Safety Lessons Courtesy of Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- Parking Lot Crime: Writing About Burglaries and Robberies: @piperbayard
- England’s Lake District: All the Calm and Placid Water Hides an Awful Lot of Murder: @chinarhyming @CrimeReads
- Opening Lines for Picture Books: @RobinCurrie6 @A3writers
- How Do You Publish a Children’s Book? @M_Richmond21 @write_practice
- Algorithm Marketing for Authors: @dkparsonswriter @SelfPubForm
- Marketing Fundamentals to Know If You’re Self-Publishing a Book: by Rose Atkinson-Carter @youfirstwriter
- How to Grow Your Audience Using Online Workshops: by Patricia Durgin @A3writers
- A New Venue for Publishers’ Backlist: The ‘Yonder’ App: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Reflections on 20 years in publishing: @NathanBransford
- Ahead of Frankfurt Audio: Storytel Makes Its Third-Quarter Report: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Frankfurt: Looking at Comics and Graphic Novels’ Gains in the Market: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Rights Roundup: On to Frankfurt’s Fairgrounds: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska Speaks During Frankfurt: @Porter_Anderson @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- Audiobooks: Bonnier’s BookBeat Opens in Spain and Italy: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- TikTok and Frankfurter Buchmesse Open a Collaboration: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- The Journey of a Self-Published Author Calls for a Long-Term Mindset: @createastorylov @lornafaith
- What Are The Reasons to Self-Publish? @dkparsonswriter @MelissaAddey
- How To Give Your Characters Conflict: @KMAllan_writer
- What’s the Central Conflict of your Novel? Keep it Center Stage: @beccapuglisi @annerallen
- Lessons From the Cursed Writing of Vicious: by Chris Winkle @mythcreants
- What Writers Can Learn From Casablanca: @jamesscottbell @killzoneauthors
- How to Use Prologues: Unexpected Clues @harmony_kent @StoryEmpire
- The Book Nook: Create Your Own Syllabus: @LoriTheWriter @DIYMFA
- It’s Messy in the Middle: Transgender Narratives: @ColiceSanders @DIYMFA
- The Problem Behind the Problem: @ThereseWalsh @WriterUnboxed
- Managing Time in Summaries @SeptCFawkes
- How to better organize your research: @pubcoach
- One Writer’s Process for Researching a Book: @pj_hoover @WomenWriters
- Exposing Inner Conflict in non-POV Characters: @kcraftwriter @WriterUnboxed
- Conflict + Choices = Character Agency: @beccapuglisi @KMWeiland
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Thanks for including Angela Ackerman’s IWSG post!
Great post from Angela!
This is a great set of links, as always, Elizabeth. And I’m very happy for you that you’re going to be speaking at Escape the Plot Forest. It sounds like a great event! The link that really caught my attention this time was the one about interviewing real people. I couldn’t agree more. I’ve learned a lot from people I’ve interviewed for my books. Keeps me grounded in reality, and it’s interesting, too.
Speaking to people can really help! A conversation with a botanist helped me with poisons. :)
Thanks for sharing these resources, Elizabeth! Have a great day 💕🙂
Hope you do, too, Harmony!