E-books are a groundswell that will change the publishing industry. At a minimum, it is changing what authors do with their back list of novels. Just today, David Farland mentioned in his Daily Kick email  that he'll have six works up on IBooks within the month. He has a fan base that will go for those books, as well as new people discovering them ( Read more... )

My post yesterday about "Making the Time" to write raised some comments about how to write and not let our pesky but valuable inner-editor pop up at the same time. So today I've been racking my brain and perusing my bookmarks and files for an article on "Fast Writing" that I read a while back. I finally found it, and here we go.

A year ago last ( Read more... )

David Farland said this today in his "David Farland's Kick in the Pants" email post:

"In any case, today I have a link to an article by literary agent Janet Reid.  Janet handles mysteries, thrillers, and some memoirs.  She reminds us that even agents sometimes make mistakes. http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2009/02/1399-tax.html"

Go read that post ( Read more... )

David Farland pointed out this article by Pat Holt: "Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)." It focuses primarily on word choice and other nasties.

From David's "Daily Kick in the Pants" yesterday:

"For new writers, here is a link to a helpful article on ten things to avoid in your writing--covering topics like overuse of ( Read more... )

I don't recall if I've ever mentioned this here before, but I highly recommend "David Farland's Daily Kick in the Pants" for writers. This is a "daily" email that David sends out about writing. It covers writing, editing, publishing, etc. He's even covered the Hollywood angle having spent several years there in the business. I put "daily" in quotes ( Read more... )