Category Archives: Links
Links roundup: Promotion, ebooks, and more
Tomorrow’s C-U Writers Group meeting is about promotion, so that’s what starts off this set of links: Writing Excuses podcast: Basic marketing, branding, and websites (3 separate episodes) YA author Saundra Mitchell on Marketing Timelines (thanks to Kelly Swails for … Continue reading
Links roundup: QueryTest, JAKonrath's giant ebook, tiny 24-room apartment, and more
Since I’m collecting writing links for my local group, I thought I’d share them here as well. May 5′s meeting is on pitching a novel, so let’s start with… Pitching/Queries: New query testing site (post your query, see how many … Continue reading
Links
Lolcat-style science — My favorites are Michelson (I lived in a dorm named for him, my senior year) and the minerals. limyaael on science fiction and fantasy hybrids — Some good points. I learned last year that dealing with reader … Continue reading
Food, Harry Potter, and Links
Adventures in food labelling Found at the grocery store: Ready-to-Eat peaches — First, they still have to be washed, so technically they aren’t ready to eat. Second, what would constitute non-ready-to-eat peaches? Green ones? Blossoms? A potted peach tree (just … Continue reading
Weekly Summary July 1
Yesterday I did my first volunteer stint at the park, which mostly consisted of more detailed training. Watered the butterfly garden, made hummingbird food and filled feeders, fed the fish and turtles and frogs, sent visitors with questions to the … Continue reading
Park Volunteering, Revising
Elizabeth Bear remarks: It’s harder to revise old text to anything like not sucking than just to write new less sucky text from scratch. It’s like the suck gets ossified in. Thursday I had my volunteer interview at the park … Continue reading
Video Gambling
Links: Some people in Ohio have been trying to get a video gambling game approved by claiming it’s a game of skill. (Tried to link to an article, but the newspaper’s search results page won’t let me “see more” because … Continue reading
Links: Book Deals and GMaps Pedometer
Links: My Book Deal Ruined My Life in The New York Observer: And even before the potential post-publication humiliation, there’s deadline pressure; crippling self-doubt; diets of Entenmann’s pastries and black coffee; self-made cubicles structured with piles of books, papers and … Continue reading
Lettuce and Links
My lettuce has sprouted; a few seeds of something else have also started coming up. Or maybe two something elses. (No, I didn’t label my herb container. They’ll become identifiable eventually.) Links: Sci-fi writers join war on terror — The … Continue reading
Crochet, Dvorak, and Links
Today I redesigned the afghan I’m crocheting to account for the impending shortage of yarn. I decided to try adding to more colors to it: it’s off-white and navy and dark green, so some lighter shades of blue and green … Continue reading
