by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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- Writing for Children’s Magazines: @RDCwrites
- How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence? by Dave King @writerunboxed
- Comparing Fiction vs Non Fiction Sales: by Doug Lewars
- How to Sell Books Direct to Readers: The Complete Guide: @davechesson
- In England: The Booker Prize Names Its 2023 Longlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Germany’s BücherFrauen, Book Women, Issue Their Prize’s Shortlist: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: A.M. Stuart’s Singapore Sapphire: @MargotKinberg
- Five Novels Featuring Political Scandals and Skulduggery: @jamesdnicoll @tordotcom
- The Western Gothic in Film, Music, and Literature: A Primer: @jonbassoff @crimereads
- The Four Women-in-Fantasy Tropes I’m Bored With: by Emily Russell
- Unreliable Narrators, Unrealized Stories, and the Unexpected Perils of Hate-Reading: @kaliwallace @tordotcom
- Different Forms of Reading Still Count: @mollytempleton @tordotcom
- 7 Obsessive Love Affairs in Literature: by Bronwyn Fischer @electriclit
- The Daily Routine of a Full-Time Author? by P.S. Hoffman
- Writers Don’t Need to Suffer To Make Art: @HaleyJakobson @lithub
- How to kill your productivity: @pubcoach
- Why Dating Is Like a Whodunnit: @LM_Chilton @crimereads
- The Problem of Shuttering School Libraries : @margotkinberg
- Letting Go of Your Book: @terahsharris @writerunboxed
- The Power of Community: Why Writers Thrive Together: @aprildavila
- It’s okay to be who we are – novelist Cynthia Newberry Martin @catchingdays @Roz_Morris
- You don’t need a vision: @austinkleon
- Don’t Forget to Play…in Writing: @msheatherwebb @writerunboxed
- I always wanted to be a stay-at-home freelancer, so why am I so sad? by Carmen Shea Brown @seejavaciawrite
- Horror Mechanics: What Are They, How Do They Terrify, and Where They Go Wrong: by Peter Derk @litreactor
- Dreadful Dialogues: Crafting Convincing Conversations in Horror Stories: @horrortree
- Hopes and Dreams as Elements in Crime Fiction: @margotkinberg
- The 19 Most Polished Detectives in Crime Film and TV: @oldrutigliano @crimereads
- Boost Your Backlist on Amazon for More Sales: @bookgal @bowker
- Business Musings: Niche Marketing: by Kristine Rusch
- A US Court Temporarily Blocks a Library and Bookstore Law: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Artificial Intelligence: Threat, Opportunity, and Shimmr: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Richard Charkin: The Big Deal About Big Publishers: @RCharkin @pubperspectives
- Cambridge University Press Reaches 100-Million User Milestone: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- IngramSpark Marks Its 10th Anniversary: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- A PRH-Kalimat Partnership: South and Southeast Asian, Arabic, English: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- A Focus on AI Opens Frankfurt’s Reformatted Rights Meeting: @Porter_Anderson @pubperspectives
- Europe: A New Residence Map Pinpoints Opportunities for Translators: @JaroslawAdamows @pubperspectives
- David Farland’s Hourglass of Evil: @davidfarland
- How to Build Sizzling Sexual Tension in Your Novel: @bang2write @onestop4writers
- Homonyms with Harmony: Commonly Misused ‘A’ Words: @harmony_kent @storyempire
- The need to ditch story structure sometimes: @foxprinted
- The Pros and Cons of Prologues: @richardgthomas3
@litreactor - In defense of chapter-opening anecdotes, also known as “malcolms”: @jbernoff
- A Powerful Plot Point is a Strategy for a Successful Story: @LynetteMBurrows
- Perfect Your Plot: @diymfa
- Five Scenes That Make or Break Your Novel: @nanowrimo
- How to use the 27 Chapter Plot Structure: @themaltesetiger
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With all these links every week, the Writer's Knowledge Base just keep growing and growing!
It does, at that! Lots of great links in there.
A great list of links, as ever, Elizabeth. I really appreciate the time you take to gather them. This week, I especially noticed the one about writing prologues. I keep hearing mixed reviews of them, and sometimes, I'm not sure which is best. I used one in one of my novels, but not in the others. For me, it's a question of whether the story is better for a prologue. If it doesn't need one, it shouldn't be there. If a prologue serves the story, then include it.
So funny! That’s exactly what I’ve done. I have a prologue in one book, but skipped it for the others. I’ve got mixed feelings about them, for sure.
Hi Elizabeth – these are all so comprehensive – and thank you for being so professional – they're great reference points. Cheers Hilary
Thanks for coming by, Hilary!