by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Business and Creativity Go Hand in Hand: Q&A with Kern Carter: @KernCarter @JaneFriedman
- Choosing Your Agent: @BookEndsJessica @bookendslit
- Selling Books on Amazon—Are they Ripping Me Off? @Wogahn
- Business Musings: How One Writing Partnership Uses Kickstarter: @KristineRusch
- Self-publishing News: Audible’s Change to Returns Policy Not Enough for Rights Holders: @agnieszkasshoes @IndieAuthorALLI
- Doing Your Creative Work: Creative Self-Publishing Podcast: @OrnaRoss @Howard_Lovy @IndieAuthorALLI
- Bologna Barnstorms Its Sister Fairs: A New Tour at Frankfurt: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Sharjah Announces 2,213 Publishers From 95 Countries: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Frankfurt Shorts: FEP, WIPO, and PP Forum — We’ve Got the Numbers: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Kim de l’Horizon Wins 2022 German Book Prize for ‘Blutbuch’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Shehan Karunatilaka’s ‘Seven Moons’ Wins the 2022 Booker: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @TheBookerPrizes
- Should I Pay to Attend a Writers Conference? @ZoeMMcCarthy
- Frankfurt Releases Interim Numbers: 90,000 Trade Visitors: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- One Crisis After Another: 6 Stories of Finding the Fun in Life’s Misfortunes: @BookTrib
- A Life Told in Dishes: Five Essential Food Memoirs: @sylviebigar @lithub
- Need a friend? Google has a tool that lets you “talk to books:” @knownemily @lithub
- Five SF Works That Imagine Societies Without Poverty: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- You Can Procrastinate Anything If You Have Enough Books: @mollytempleton @tordotcom
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Kirsten McDougall’s She’s a Killer: @MargotKinberg
- All the Writing Advice You’ll Ever Need: @jimdempsey @WriterUnboxed
- Doctors and Deadlines: Writing with Chronic Illness: @AilishSinclair @WomenWriters
- Cultivating Autumnal Magic for Writers: by
Kirsten Barger @HorrorTree - Preparing for Computer Problems as a Writer: @bernadettegeyer @hopeclark
- The Serious Business of Having Fun as a Writer: @ChadRAllen
- The Best Advice Agents Have Given Writers: @PaulaSMunier @CareerAuthors
- Ambiance and Writing: @JoanHallWrites @StoryEmpire
- Toxic People Can Stall Your Writing Career and Make You Sick: @annerallen
- How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers: @HindsJess @lithub
- Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form: by Sarah Haas @lithub
- Moving Past the Middle Muddle Mood: @thatpluckygirl @DIYMFA
- The Thrill of Changing Lanes: @TheNormanNation @WriterUnboxed
- The Language of Brutality: @RijulaDas @CrimeReads
- Fictional Murderers With Depths and Nuances: @MargotKinberg
- The “Loyal Supporter” Character as an Element in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- How to Get Away with Murder in the Regency Era: @VanessaRiley @CrimeReads
- Plotting the Picture Book: 5 More Plot Structures: @Shutta @FloridaWriters1
- To Anthropomorphize Or Not to Anthropomorphize: @MiraReisberg
- 5 Seconds can Get You Blogging Even When You Don’t Feel Like It: @NinaAmir
- How to increase readership for your author blog: @pubcoach
- Prepare your author platform earlier than you think (podcast): @WeGrowMedia @DanBlank
- How Your Author Platform Helps You Do More Than Sell Books: @colleen_m_story
- Schadenfreude: Passport Line: ‘Longer Than the Flight From London’ : @RCharkin @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- At Frankfurt: ‘Different Approaches for Publishers’ to Audiobooks: @OliviaSnaije @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- At Frankfurt: How Independent Publishers Compete for Readers: by Theresa Brown @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Frankfurt Week: A New Report on the Indian Market: @Porter_Anderson @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- Frankfurt Week: Wiley Opens Its ‘Partner Solutions’ Division: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives @WileyGlobal
- Gallimard’s Anne-Solange Noble at Frankfurt: Retiring in Style: @OliviaSnaije @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- Frankfurt Buchmesse News Conference: Publishing Outlook: @Porter_Anderson @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- Building Demand for Books in the Arab World: @oliviasnaije @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- At Frankfurt: Maria Kulikovska Protests Russian Warfare: @RogerTagholm @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- Frankfurt: ‘The Future of Storytelling’ is About Reaching Readers: @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- At Frankfurt: European Publishers Hear of a ‘Perfect Storm’ Ahead: @RogerTagholm @Book_Fair @pubperspectives
- At Frankfurt: The IPA Puts a ‘Spotlight on Africa’: @OliviaSnaije @Book_Fair @IntPublishers
- Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky Addresses Frankfurt Book Fair: @RogerTagholm @pubperspectives @Book_Fair
- What Publishers and Agents Seek: @DancingLemurPre @TheIWSG
- Literary Agent Interview: Eve Adler Interview and Query Critique Giveaway: @NatalieIAguirre
- Beginnings – Not Just For Page One: @authorterryo @killzoneauthors
- Don’t let mysteries pile up (page critique): @NathanBransford
- What NOT to include in the First Chapter? @quillinary @DIYMFA
- Trust Me, I’m a Time Lord: The Faustian Bargains of Doctor Who: @pstyrt @tordotcom
- Five SFF Settings That Feel Like Characters: @ColeRush1 @tordotcom
- 10 tips for examining our language in shared editorial spaces: @LouiseHarnby
- Getting Your Writing Unstuck: @Lindasclare
- How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft: by Tracey Lien @lithub
- Story and Understory: @SPressfield
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Prologues: @KristenLambTX
- 3 Tips to Help You Become a Better Writer: @createastorylov @lornafaith
- Novel Sturdy Structure: @HLeeDavisWriter @DIYMFA
- Your Narrator’s False Belief–and How It Drives Your Story: @writeabook
- Do You Use Quotation Marks or Italics for Song and Album Titles? @epbure @write_practice
- About Gerunds and Participles: @BookDoctor4u @womenonwriting
- Why We Need Beta Readers Who Point Out Mistakes and Flaws In Our Books: @karisrogerson
- Feedback or Editing: What Sort of Feedback to Get When: @LisaPoisso
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Thanks, Elizabeth, for these great links. I learn every time I’m here. I especially liked the one about dealing with the misfortunes that happen to all of us. If you don’t laugh about it, you cry, and I’d much rather laugh!
So true! Sometimes things don’t happen exactly as we plan them. :)
Thank you, Elizabeth. Your posts are always very helpful. 😊
Thanks, Gwen!
Thanks for the links, Elizabeth, and for the Story Empire shout out.
My pleasure, Joan!
Thanks for the links, Elizabeth and for the Story Empire shout-outs!
Great articles from Story Empire!
Thank you, Elizabeth for your generous sharing and for one again including Story Empire!
Hope you have a good week, Jan!
Lovely links, Elizabeth. Thanks for the Story Empire mentions too.
Thank you, John!
Another great list. Thank you, Elizabeth.
Thanks, Staci!
Some fine links and info from very knowledgeable people! Thanks.
Thanks for coming by, Stephen!
Thanks for the links, Elizabeth.
Hope you have a great week, Beem!
Thank you another great list of links, Elizabeth :)
Happy to share them, D.L.!
Wow, what an amazing roundup! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I’ve got so many tabs open now, ha ha!
Welcome to my life, Deniz, ha! Tons of tabs open all the time. Hope you enjoy the links!