by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Marketing Yourself as a Ghostwriter and Important Elements of a Ghostwriting Contract: @LindaGilden @ediemelson
- Business Cards and Job Titles: by John Gilstrap
- Will copy editing change your manuscript? @pubcoach
- How Authors Can Use Bookfunnel To Reach Readers And Sell Direct: @thecreativepenn
- On the Self-Publishing News podcast with @agnieszkasshoes and @howard_lovy: It’s authors vs. OpenAI as lawsuits and petitions seek compensation for content scraped by ChatGPT. But it’s not so simple. @indieauthoralli
- Self-publishing News: Draft2Digital Acquire Self Pub Book Covers to Offer wider Options for Indies Under One Roof: @agnieszkasshoes @indieauthoralli
- Publishing as a class project: @janet_reid
- Sharjah Book Authority Begins Its Transitional Phase: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- What’s Next After a Writing Conference? @TickledPinkTam @ediemelson
- 7 Books About Friendships in Your 20s: by Katherine Lin @electriclit
- Top 10 books about missing persons: by Una Mannion @guardianbooks
- Five of the Greatest Turtles and Tortoises in Fantasy @ColeRush1 @tordotcom
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace the TBR Pile: @mollytempleton @tordotcom
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- 7 Books About Black Women in Complicated Relationships: by Cecilia Rabess @electriclit
Five Works About Intelligent Beings Who Are Their Own Worst Enemies: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
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- Learning from Your First Series with James Blatch: @sacha_black
- On Toxic Productivity:
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- The problem with most authors is that they start by writing: @jbernoff
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- How to Persevere in Your Writing: by Lori Z. Scott
- Living and Writing in a Regional Area: by Sophie Masson @writerunboxed
- Organizing the Mess of a Book: Four Methods for Staying Sane and Focused: @writeabook
- When Private Becomes Public: Facing Criticism and Exposure As Your Book Gets Published: @writeabook
- All going somewhere wonderful – discussing creative energy with @AndrewVerlaine: @Roz_Morris
- Does Writing Fiction Make You More Empathetic? @joshuaisard @LitReactor
- The Need to Feel Secure as an Element in Crime Fiction: @margotkinberg
- Police With Working Relationships With Civilians in Crime Fiction: @MargotKinberg
- What is an Amateur Sleuth? @mandsmagazine
- How Your Nonfiction Proposal Shapes Your Book: @bookends
- How to Find the Courage to become a Nonfiction Writer and Author: @ninaamir
- Episode 466: An Inside Look at the Publishing Industry: @diymfa
- Six Things I’ve Learned After Publishing My First Book: @writerwhitfield @womenwriters
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- Indian Publishers: At 50, Focused on ‘Nation Building’: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- British Independent Publisher HopeRoad Opens Fundraising Appeal: @Porter_Anderson @Pubperspectives
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- Page One Pitfalls: @HankPRyan @careerauthors
- How to Write Any Type of Character: from Writing Questions Answered
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- 3 Powerful Writing Exercises To Make Your Characters POP: @bang2write
- What’s the Difference? Your Character’s Ghost vs. Wound vs. Lie vs. Weakness: @kmweiland
- Dialogue Trick: The Double Conversation: @Virgilante @storyempire
- Revealing character through dialogue: @ReadAlessandra
- Writing the “I” Out of Your Fiction: @lindasclare
- Writing for the Inner Reading Voice: @annejanzer
- Omniscient POV versus Head Hopping: @Dwallacepeach @storyempire
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- Unlocking the 8 Secrets of Web Novels: by Eitan Estheim @nanowrimo
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- Accentuate the Positive: @jamesscottbell
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- Writerly Advice That Is Worth Listening To: @livewritethrive
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Thanks for including Angela Ackerman's IWSG post! She always delivers.
She does, indeed!
As always, Elizabeth, these are great links! One of the first ones I saw – the one about publishing as a class project – really got my attention. I've always thought that language arts classes could include a project where groups of students put their work together and published it. There are a lot of ways to do that that are free or nearly so, and it teaches kids so much about writing and publishing. That's not to mention the benefits to their confidence when they see their work in print.
As a professor, I’m sure that caught your eye!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing these very helpful links. Most appreciated!
My pleasure, Gwen! Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks for sharing one of my posts and for supporting Story Empire.
Great post, CS!
Thanks for sharing all these links and for including Story Empire among them. Happy Writing!
Thank for for these very useful links, Elizabeth :)
Thanks for coming by, D.L.!
Another fine list, Elizabeth.
Thanks, Beem!
Hi Elizabeth – I'm going to need some of these shortly … so will definitely check them out … thanks for the timely post!! Cheers Hilary
Thanks for coming by, Hilary!