To piggyback on yesterday's link soup (aka news from around the blogosphere), here are two new great links you might want to check out:

From Folio Mag: "You Survived 2009/2010.  Now What? A seven-step post-recession check-up for publishers."  It's aimed toward magazine publishing, but interesting reading for everyone.

From Writer Beware: A very ( Read more... )

I’ve been staring at the screen trying to figure out how to start this article.  “Show me the money!”  Seems too clichéd, especially since we all know we won’t actually see the money for a couple of months after negotiation…one, at least, in which to get the contracts and haggle out any remaining points, send said contracts to the author for ( Read more... )

Yes, writing is an art.  It's also a business - see The New York Observer article on publishers cracking down on blown deadlines.

Remember your mother telling you “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”?  Well, I’m not suggesting that each and every blog should be all sweetness and light, but something publicists et. al. don’t mention when they suggest that you go forth and blog is that blogs can be as demotional as promotional.  If you turn people ( Read more... )