
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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A short list this week because of the holiday! I’ll be back next Sunday with more links. :)
- Pro Tips for Surviving a Writing Conference: by Kelley J. P. Lindberg
- Top 5 Reasons A Writing Retreat Will Help Your Writing: by Lucy V Hay
- The best audiobooks of 2025: by Andrew Limbong
- The Best Books of 2025: Historical Fiction: By Molly Odintz
- 8 Books About the Transformative Power of Live Music: by M. L. Rio
- Make Peace with Your Past and Move Forward: by Rochelle Melander
- What Kind of Writing Monster Is Lurking in Your Brain? by Colleen M. Story
- 4 Steps For Learning From Great Writers: by Stephanie Morrill
- The 23 Best Bookish Gifts: by Amanda Patterson
- How Much Trouble Are You in at the MacGuffin Gift Exchange? by Oren Ashkenazi
- Tom Gauld on the last-minute Christmas rush at the bookshop:
- Holiday Gifts for Writers: by Elaine Viets
- Five Things I Still Have Not Learned About Writing: by Chris Winkle
- The Uses, and Abuses, of Ambition: By Therese Anne Fowler
- How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction: by Jessica Ewing
- 9 Traits of a Seasoned Writer: by DiAnn Mills
- It’s the Writer’s Job To Say Something True: by Emma Copley Eisenberg
- In The Spotlight: Edgar Wallace’s The Clue of the Twisted Candle: @mkinberg.bsky.social
- Prisons as an Element of Crime Fiction: @mkinberg.bsky.social
- Spammy AI Emails to Writers:
- No, Colleen Hoover Did Not Email Me: Current Scams Targeting Authors: by Teri Case @janefriedman.com
- Flattering Emails are all an AI Scam: by Anne R. Allen
- “Weapons” Beat Sheet Analysis: by Shari Simpson
- 20 Years Later: Dissecting Twilight: by September C. Fawkes
- Decoding Author Voice: from Fox Print Editorial
- Examine your relationship with the reader: by Anne Janzer
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I hope you had a lovely Christmas, Elizabeth, and I wish you the best for the new year. Thanks, as ever, for these links. I immediately noticed the one about writer's retreats. I've often thought of doing that, and just haven't I should…
Thanks, Margot! I haven’t done a retreat either, but it sounds amazing. Happy 2026!