LitLinks

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

LitLinks are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 70,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s the search engine for writers. While you’re there, check out the Writer’s Digest award-winning Hiveword novel organizer.

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LitLinks is going on summer vacation! I’m using this time to sync the feature with my BlueSky links, which will make the process more efficient going forward. My Monday blog posts will continue as normal. See you back here in July with more helpful writing links.

• 4 Simple Ways Freelancers are Finding New Clients In 2025: by Robyn Roste

• UK: Bernardine Evaristo Wins Special £100,000 Women’s Prize: by Porter Anderson

• Jay Gatsby, Confidence Man: By Danielle Teller
• 9 Books About Women Without Children: by Nicole Louie

• #1 Sign of a Successful Writer? Persevering Through Failure: by Dr. Diana Stout
• How to Win Book Awards: by Lisa Tenor

• Finding Inspiration to Write About Trauma: by Mary L. Devine
• 10 Things I Learned Teaching Children to Write: by Tari Lynn Jewett
• Writing Tips from a Neurodivergent Brain: by Jenny Hansen
• The 3 Brains of an Artist: By Steven Pressfield
• Older, Wiser. . .and Solving Crimes: by Alison Goodman
• Save or Shred? On the Allure and Conundrum of Unpublished Novels: By Randee Dawn
• Are You Holding Back Your Own Writing Career? by Fox Print Editorial
• Confessions of a First-Time Editor: by Cassandra Lee Yieng

• Writing Outside Your Usual Genre: Pros & Cons to Consider: by Nick Bailey

• Thriller-Writing Words of Wisdom: compiled by Dale Ivan Smith
• Hiding Bodies in Vacant Properties in Crime Fiction: @mkinberg.bsky.social

• The Best Author Swag I Ever Made: by Elizabeth Cole

• Audio Publishers Association: US Audiobook Sales Reach $2.22 Billion: by Porter Anderson

• Canadian Book Consumer Study: Pricing and More: by Porter Anderson

• Do You Really Need IngramSpark? by David Wogahn @janefriedman.com

• The Hidden World of Writing Scams: by Rachel Thompson

• First Page Critique – A New Day to Tell a Lie: by Debbie Burke

• Vulnerable, Villain, or Just Vile? Writing Problematic Characters: By Grace Wynter

• Secrets Thesaurus: Knowing Death Is Coming for Someone: by Becca Puglisi
• Grow Your Characters: 6 Tips to Enrich MG Characters: by Author Donna Galanti

• Dialogue’s Ten Basic Can’t-Go-Wrong Rules: By Carolyn Howard-Johnson

• When “Diverse” Is Who You Are: by Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow @natalieaguirre7.bsky.social

• From Shi**y First Draft to Something Worth Sharing: by April Dávila

• An Argument for Why The Christmas Carol Is Really a Coming-of-Age Story: by Colleen Patrick @janefriedman.com

• The Art and Craft of Ghostwriting: @rozmorris.bsky.social‬ with Matty Dalrymple
• Is Fictional Truth Reliable? by Sue Coletta
• Destroy Role Models: Female Characters Don’t Have To Be ‘Good’: by Lucy V Hay
• Want to Write Better Action Scenes? Cut This One Thing: by KM Weiland
• How to handle accented speech: by Daphne Gray=Grant
• 3 Tips for More Organic Writing: By Cathy Yardley
• How Readers React to Reactions: By Donald Maass
• Is it OK to End on a Cliffhanger? By Brandi Reissenweber
• Ease Your Reader Over the Bridge of Sudden Change: By Kathryn Craft
• Immersive Interiority: How to Collapse Narrative Distance to Get Emotion on the Page: by Alex Van Tol @janefriedman.com

• 6 Types of Narrators: Overview, Examples and Writing Tips: by Polly Watt

• Improving Your Writing Skills With Clean Copy Mastery: By M.T. Schwartzman
• Writing: Small Stuff Revision: by Linda S. Clare

• Cliffhangers and Transitions: by Charles Yallowitz

• Writing Voice: Paragraph Patterns: by Anne Janzer

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