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Post by Mark Neumayer on Jun 8, 2011 22:07:50 GMT -5
Share the blogs that you visit (when you should be writing, of course.) I'll start things off with a few. Dean Wesley Smith www.deanwesleysmith.com/This is the one that started it all for me. Really opened my eyes as to a better way to approach writing. Kristine Kathryn Rusch www.kristinekathrynrusch.com/The Busines Rusch series is honest and insightful and a great read. The Passive Voice www.thepassivevoice.com/An ex-lawyer's take on contract issues and lots of other angles on the business of writing. |
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Post by Tom Gallier on Jun 9, 2011 5:08:19 GMT -5
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Post by martinv on Jun 9, 2011 6:03:53 GMT -5
Share the blogs that you visit (when you should be writing, of course.) I'll start things off with a few. Dean Wesley Smith www.deanwesleysmith.com/This is the one that started it all for me. Really opened my eyes as to a better way to approach writing. Kristine Kathryn Rusch www.kristinekathrynrusch.com/The Busines Rusch series is honest and insightful and a great read. The Passive Voice www.thepassivevoice.com/An ex-lawyer's take on contract issues and lots of other angles on the business of writing. Those three are exactly the ones I regularly visit. Never a boring post, great for someone who is starting out. |
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Post by ajabbiati on Jun 9, 2011 7:54:43 GMT -5
A few more that I visit daily . . . J. A. Konrath -- jakonrath.blogspot.com/ -- a great place to learn about the business of indie pubbing ebooks and much more. Michael Stackpole -- www.michaelastackpole.com/ -- great advice for those stepping into the indie pub world. Guido Henkel -- guidohenkel.com/ -- more indie advice, including a great section on ebook formatting. Mine  -- ajabbiati.com/ -- a smattering of info from someone, like you, who's facing the indie choice, plus a blog series on constructing prose. |
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Post by erinlausten on Jun 9, 2011 10:51:19 GMT -5
I like to visit Ebook Endeavors as well at www.lindsayburoker.com/She discusses both her own journey publishing electronically and features others that are going through the same experience. |
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Post by gerarddemarigny on Jun 9, 2011 12:22:53 GMT -5
Mike Shatzkin's blog, "The Shatzkin Files" www.idealog.com/blog/ is a good one for the history of publishing. Claude Nougat's, "Claude Nougat - It's Political, it's Artsy!" claudenougat.blogspot.com/ is interesting and informative. ... and hey, you're all always welcome at my "SelfPubber's Pub" www.gerarddemarigny.com/selfpubbers-pub-blog.htmlI come at our industry from the perspective of a newbie student - following the teachings of Sensei Dean Wesley Smith, his geisha Kris Rusch, my boy in the Windy City King "K" Konrath, my non-practicing attorney "PG", Michael Stackpole, et al. There's always a pint waiting for my SelfPubber brothers and sisters at the Pub! 9-) |
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Post by davidgaughran on Jun 9, 2011 12:24:55 GMT -5
All the above tips are great, I would just like to add Robin Sullivan's blog. She runs Ridan Publishing. It started out as a self-publishing venture (putting out her husband Michael Sullivan's work) but expanded to other writers such as Marshall Thomas and Nathan Lowell who are selling huge amounts of books. Her blog has lots of tips, stats, and charts, so if you like sales numbers, pricing strategies, that kind of thing there is usually something good there every day. write2publish.blogspot.com/ |
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Post by ymck on Jun 9, 2011 16:45:08 GMT -5
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Post by antheal on Jun 9, 2011 23:03:57 GMT -5
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Post by lvcabbie on Jun 10, 2011 18:38:42 GMT -5
I'd like to follow your blog but I don't do the Facebook/Twitter/so on stuff. |
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Post by lvcabbie on Jun 10, 2011 18:44:17 GMT -5
I follow so many blogs and RSS feeds that I am someday going to have to do a WordPad file on it or add them all to my bloglvcabbie.blogspoy.com, if I can figure out how to do that!  |
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Post by gerald on Jun 13, 2011 10:13:13 GMT -5
All the above tips are great, I would just like to add Robin Sullivan's blog. Yep. I was going to mention that. Also Michael's blog is an interesting and humble insight into a successful writer's life riyria.blogspot.com/Also a great one (IMO) is Chuck Wendig's blog at terribleminds.com/ramble/ and Storyfix storyfix.com/ for the mechanics of writing good fiction. |
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Post by Dean Wesley Smith on Jun 15, 2011 0:30:04 GMT -5
I have to second or third Mike Stackpole's blog and Shatzkin's blog.
And of course Konrath's blog. Joe and I disagree on the agent as publisher thing, but that might become moot in short order since agency law doesn't allow it and both the California and New York attorney generals are looking into it. A couple of agents like Don Maass and Richard Curtis have either set up a different company (Curtis is E-Reads) or are trying to in order to get around the agency law issue.
Passive Guy's blog (The Passive Voice) is fantastic on this stuff lately.
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Post by lvcabbie on Jun 17, 2011 12:53:56 GMT -5
I did figure out how to add links to all the blogs I follow as well as the various forums. Check it out lvcabbie.blogspot.com |
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Post by Mark Neumayer on Jun 23, 2011 12:00:54 GMT -5
Interesting discussion over at SF Signal asking what cultures are neglected in SF&F. www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/06/mind-meld-what-cultures-are-neglected-in-science-fiction-and-fantasy/Working on my own Northern European-based books it made me wince just a touch. But then how obligated are we to write about other cultures in the first place? Writing "what you know" certainly lends to staying within your own cultural backyard. I'd rather see more exposure given to native writers of other cultures and then having their influences organically filter in. |
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