Bleh. Another week is done. Nothing overly exciting came out of it. Let’s make the weekend more productive. But first, it’s Five Links Friday…Enjoy! 1. Here’s something I hadn’t thought about before: Using your family history for writing ideas. Check out The value of capturing family histories by Gail Martin at The Town Wordsmith. 2. […]
Podcast Episode 41 – Copyright, Trademark, and Fair Use
In this episode of The Write Good Books Podcast, Jason and Scott look at the difference between copyright and trademark and also how to determine if a work can be considered fair use. Click the link below to stream the episode. Also available at iTunes, Soundcloud, RSS and YouTube. About the hosts Jason Bougger lives […]
1 in 20,000 (but 1 is all it takes)
I was looking over some past tweets of one of the literary agents I follow on Twitter and she mentioned that she’s received over 20,000 queries so far this year. 20,000. And it’s only July. So once I read that, a whole group of thoughts and emotions popped into my head. The first was: “Holy […]
Get to know your genre before it’s too late
I don’t often go outside the typical genres of fantasy, soft science, and horror, with a few notable exceptions for humor and my novel, which happened to be YA. But I decided to take my chances and try writing in a genre of which I know very little: crime. I guess I shouldn’t say I […]
Five Links Friday 5/19/17
It’s time again for Five Links Friday: The best articles I read about writing this week. Hope you enjoy! 1. Let’s start this week with ta quick post by Christopher Kokoski on The Fastest Way To Make All Your Descriptions Better. 2. Whoa. Here’s a post by Blake Atwood with some really interesting numbers, but […]
Three Awesome Writing Resources
There are so many good resources for writers out there: some free, and some available for a small fee. I’d like to talk about three of the best when it comes to finding publishers and agents. I’ve mentioned these off and on throughout the last few years blogging, but I thought it would be a […]
Some thoughts on Tate Publishing and other scammers
I’d like to open this post with a link to another site. Yeah, I know it’s not the best strategy to immediately send readers off clicking someplace else, but I trust you’ll be back. It will even open in a separate tab, and we’ll be right here waiting for you. So go ahead and click […]
Five Awesome Semi-Pro Markets for Short Stories
A while back, I linked to 5 Awesome Top-Paying Online Fantasy & Sci-Fi Magazines. While it’s never a bad idea to submit to pro-paying markets, it goes without saying that the competition is very steep and it’s not uncommon for the more prestigious magazines to accept less than one percent of their unsolicited manuscripts. For […]
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