INDUSTRY NEWS
- New Auctions Project Supports ‘Kid Lit Says No Kids in Cages’ Effort
- Vida survey of gender bias in literary criticism shows ‘stubborn imbalance’
- Report: Americans are bad at telling news from opinion
- Children’s Book Council to Sponsor Diversity Award
- How Wattpad Is Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood
- What do we mean when we talk about “the Amazon algorithm”?
FOR ARTISTS
- Color palette for July – RGB: 122, 171, 171 CMYK: 55, 20, 32, 0 HEX: #7aabab (PDF)
- As Emerging Art Galleries Struggle, This Sotheby’s Vet Thinks He’s Found the Key to Success
- Book Cover Redesign: ‘The Last Will and Testament of Ernie Politics’
FOR WRITERS
- How to Make the Most of a Multi-Day Writing Conference
- Two Authors Discuss How Their Debut Novels Were Picked Up by Hollywood
- The Manuscript Academy podcast brings you conversations with agents, editors, and writers who can help you on your publishing journey.
- Simplify your story planning and writing processes with the application developed by authors, for authors
- 5 Ways a Developmental Editor Can Help Writers
- Kurt Vonnegut Offers 8 Tips on How to Write Good Short Stories (and Amusingly Graphs the Shapes Those Stories Can Take)
- Creating Setting and Subtext in Your Fiction
- Chekhov’s Six Quick Tips For Writing Gripping Scenes
MARKETING
- How to Get Your Book Into Libraries
- Improve Your Book Discovery on Amazon with These Tips
- A Step-By-Step Indie Authors Guide for Attracting Media Attention
- Three fiction lead magnet ideas. “Lead magnet” is a marketing term for the gift you give readers as an incentive to add themselves to your email list
- Twitter Basics for New Authors
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