by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
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Happy 2025!
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Tamron Hall’s As the Wicked Watch: @mkinberg.bsky.social
- Crime Fiction: In The Spotlight: Cat Connor’s Terrorbyte: @mkinberg.bsky.social
- 7 Thought-Provoking Books About Models and the Dark Side of Beauty: by Laura Elizabeth Woollett at Electric Literature
- The Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2024:
- Lit Hub’s 50 Noteworthy Nonfiction Books of 2024:
- The Best Nonfiction Crime Books of 2024: from Crime Reads
- My Favorite Book-to-TV Adaptations of 2024: by Maris Kreizman
- 10 Heartwarming Japanese Books Perfect for Cozy Nights: by Claudia Guthrie
- Print vs. eBooks: by Kay DiBianca
- Ten Children’s Books To Read and Enjoy Before The Year Ends: by Caroline Carlson
- 8 Books about Women Keeping Secrets: by Midge Raymond
- Celebrate the New Year with These 8 Novels About New Beginnings: by Katie Bloomer
- 8 Craft Books to Inspire Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions: by Claudia Guthrie
- A Refuge for the Soul: How to Build a Library, According to Montaigne: by Andrew Hui
- 10 Foundational Truths to Help Us Remain Steadfast as Writers in the Year to Come: by Edie Melson
- Writers on Not Writing: Elisha Emerson and Emma Bouthillette: from The Masters Review
- Equal and Opposite: by Steven Pressfield
- This Year in Books (2024): by Nathan Bransford
- How To Write When Everything’s on Fire: by Elias McClellan
- Are you deciding between writing projects? by Daphne Gray-Grant
- I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change: by Greer Macallister @writerunboxed@bsky.social
- Caring for Yourself During Writer’s Burnout: by Renee Roberson
- Year-End Author Checklist: 15 Things to Refresh, Revamp, and Revise Before the New Year: by Penny Sansevieri
- Support Your Fellow Writers: by D.L. Finn
- What the MFA Does and Does Not Do for Aspiring Novelists: by Nancy Wayson Dinan @janefriedman.com
- Tips for Cleaning Up Your Blog: by Hugh Roberts
- How to Brainstorm Blog Post Ideas for Your Blog or Content: by Kathy Widenhouse
- Your One-Sentence Summary: by Randy Ingermanson
- Top 10 Book Marketing Articles from BookBub in 2024: by AJ Yee
- 5 Ways Authors Can Disrupt Their Marketing (in a Good Way): by Penny Sansevieri
- How to Market Your Book Without Social Media: by Penny Sansevieri
- My 2024 Year-End Review: Most Notable Publishing Industry Developments: @janefriedman.com
- Listen up! Why 2024 was the year of the audiobook: by Ellen Peirson-Hagger
- How to Write a Book Review That People Actually Want to Read: by Leigh Shulman
- How Long Should a Chapter Be? by James Scott Bell
- Your Story Should Be Up, Down, and All Around: by Karen Cioffi
- Pros & Cons Of Writing A Prologue: 6 Key Things To Consider: from Bang2write
- How to fix a ghostwriting (or other freelance) project that’s gone awry: by Josh Bernoff
- Writing with 3 Equal-sized Acts: by September C. Fawkes
- Writing Crafts Articles for Children’s Magazines: by Suzanne Lieurance
- Structural Words of Wisdom: compiled by Dale Ivan Smith
- Writing The Other And Self-Publishing in South Africa With Ashling McCarthy:
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- Five Secrets to Perfect Pacing: by Hank Phillippi Ryan
- Story Movement Via Readers’ Experiences of Human Moments: by Donald Maass @writerunboxed@bsky.social
- Writing in First Person Personal: by PeggySue Wells
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Happy New Year, Elizabeth! Thanks, as ever, for these links. Funny you'd have one about the book pitch. That's always something I have to work on. For me, it's always making sure it's short and 'punchy' enough. I'm a better writer than I am a sales rep… ;-)
I’m a terrible sales rep, ha! Happy 2025!