Writing and Promotion

Rachelle Gardner answered questions about the Finances of Publishing.

James Scott Bell wrote Tips for Revising Your Manuscript.

Donald Maass wrote 4 Techniques to Fire Up Your Fiction.

Gail Carson Levine wrote about adding suspense to your story and about self-editing.

Camy Tang wrote about How to Plan a Blog Tour.

Stacy Deanne wrote about Online Book Promotion for Novels.

How Publishing Works

Jessica Faust wrote Trusting Your Editor.

Kristin Nelson wrote Publicists Help Those Who Help Themselves and Bring Back Term of License? and Sales Thresholds in OOP Clauses and When The No-Compete Clause Comes Into Play.

Rachelle Gardner wrote How Book Royalties Work (including for CBA authors) and more about the costs of publishing for the publisher and Sell-in, Sell-through, and Earn-out and Returns.

Writing, Queries, and your Rights.

Jessica Faust wrote about Licensing Your Rights and Fixing a Stalled Career.

Victoria Strauss wrote Rights and Copyright.

Kristin Nelson wrote Why I Don’t Like Net Amounts Received.

Janet Reid posted Notes from the Effective Query class at SCWW.

Rachelle Gardner wrote Giving Your Characters Life and Foreshadowing vs. Telegraphing.

Writing, Author Websites, Deadlines, and Critics

Rachelle Gardner wrote All About Backstory.

Matilda McCloud wrote about avoiding predictable or cliche writing.

Jessica Faust wrote about things authors should consider including on their web sites and about Deadlines.

Cynthia Leitich Smith wrote Note to Debut Authors About Hurtful Online Reviews.

Royalty Statements, Writing, and Self-Publishing

Sorry for the late post; I've been sick.

Kristin Nelson wrote Royalty Statements: Lack Of Detail and Sales By Accounts.

Rachelle Gardner wrote Back to the Basics of writing.

Jessica Faust wrote Which Tense Is Best.

Maya Reynolds wrote Should You Self-Publish?

More on Writing, Publishing, and Promotion

Mary DeMuth wrote What It Takes to Become a Master Writer.

Jessica Faust wrote about how she analyzes manuscripts when considering whether to represent them or not, if category romance authors need an agent, and What Do Publishers Bring to the Table.

Kristin Nelson wrote about Nuts & Bolts: Royalty Statements: Accounting Periods, A Look At Random House, and Reconciliation To Print.

Rachelle Gardner wrote Protocol - When an Agent Offers to Rep You.

Eric wrote Co-Opportunities.

Joe Konrath wrote about Kindle Numbers: Traditional Publishing Vs. Self Publishing.

Nathan Bransford wrote Should You Pay Someone to Edit Your Work?

On Vacation

I'm on vacation for a week, so I don't have a post of interesting links for this week. I'll be back and posting links again by next Monday.

Getting in the publishing door

Megan Crewe wrote about the myth of needing connections to get published in The publishing connections myth: Results!

Jessica Faust wrote Shoot for the Stars and Never Give Up and about knowing when your work is good enough to start querying.

Nathan Bransford wrote advice to Previously Published Authors who are querying agents and about Submitting to Editors Without an Agent and What Do Literary Agents Do?

The Publishing Biz and Writing

Kristin Nelson wrote about Earn Out, Does The Size Of The Advance Equal Success?, and Not Lost In Translation.

Rachelle Gardner wrote Tell Me the STORY and Is Your MC Proactive or Reactive?

Jessica Faust wrote When to Update Agents, Series Contracts, The Anatomy of a Coauthor, and talked about how much an author might make on romance novel.

Kate Elliot wrote about strategies for getting writing done.

Queries, agents, and writing

Kristin Nelson wrote Response Speak about what the various types of rejection letters mean.

Jessica Faust wrote about Choosing a Title and Writing the Rules.

Nathan Bransford wrote Will Authors of the Future Need Publishers?

The Rejecter wrote about Established vs. Less Experienced Agents.

Rachelle Gardner wrote an agents view of writer's conferences and Help! An Agent Relationship Gone Bad!

Daniel Menaker wrote about the challenges faced by editors in today's publishing industry in Redactor Agonistes.