WPN Insider

Here’s What’s New – Changes at Smashwords, Wattpad, Hay House, HARO, Crime Bake, WriteLink, Publisher’s Weekly, Midwest Booksellers Association and Book Inside.
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 10 writing opportunities including for travel mags.
Opportunities for Authors – Book of the Year Awards, more contests and submission opps.
Book Promotion Opportunities – 8 book festivals in September, tradeshows, outlets for your ebooks and more.
Opportunities for Screenwriters – Competition, get your script analyzed.
Going, Going, Gone – 4 mags out of business
Resources for Authors/Writers – A site with several directories featuring thousands of resources, a playwright conference in progress, 10 Commandments of Screenwriting and more.
Bonus Item – Interview with Irene Watson of Reader Views and the new FirstChapterPlus.com.

Here’s What’s New – Echo changes hands and Donohue raises prices
Opportunities for Writers — 5 solid opportunities and over 20 blogs for writers
Opportunities for Authors – 2 opportunities and publisher warnings
Book Promotion Opportunities – First Chapter Plus catalog opp., best blogs for authors and more
Going, going, gone – a publisher and a magazine have closed
Resources for Writers and Authors – 4 resources and two directories of resources
Bonus Item – Article: “Make More Money Writing Magazine Articles”

Here’s What’s New –a CO bookstore experiments with microdistribution, a new YA publisher and more
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 2 more job sites and 3 opps.
Opportunities for Authors – a contest for children’s book writers and publishers for memoirs
Book Promotion Opportunities – Book review opportunities galore
Opportunities for Artists and Photographers – 2 job sites and an opp.
Opportunities for Scriptwriters – Script Showcase Script Competition
Going, going, gone – 8 magazines and 3 publishers gone
Bonus Item: Interview with Social Media Expert, Penny Leisch

Here’s What’s New – New publishers/magazines for authors and writers
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 4 calls for fiction and a new writers’ mag.
Opportunities for Authors – 6 small press publishers for your fiction or nonfiction project
Book Promotion Opportunities – 3 book review directories plus
Opportunities for Screenwriters – Creative World Awards
Going, Going, Gone – 3 magazines have folded
Resources for Authors and Writers – 4 free e-newsletters for writers/authors
Bonus Item – Results of Author Survey
Interview with May Anne Hahn, founder of International Association of Professional Ghost Writers

Here’s What’s New – An innovative marketing program for booksellers, Entrepreneur
launches an online mag for seniors, Sam’s Club starts a Book Club, and more.
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 10 magazines that pay, including 7 regionals.
Opportunities for Fiction Writers — 22 good fiction markets you’ve never heard of.
Book Promotion Opportunities – 12 Book Review and 14 Book Excerpt opportunities
Opportunities for Photographers — 3 opportunities with magazines.
Job Opportunities – 2 of them.
Going, Going, Gone — 8 magazines, newsletters and sites are folding.
Resources for Authors – The Vook, a book bundle bargain a Facebook club for writers and more.

Here’s What’s New – 6 new magazines, re-launches and changes
Opportunities for Writers – a contest, a new mag and two new pitch sites for journalists
Opportunities for Authors – new agent/imprints seeking manuscripts and 24 regional publishing organizations.
Book Promotion Opportunities – 25 best book festivals in the world
Job Opportunity – at Wooden Horse Pub
Opportunities for Artists and Photographers – 5 magazines that use photos
Going, Going, Gone – a dozen magazines and a blog program gone
Resources for Authors and Writers – Addictomatic and gone-ta-pott.com
Bonus Item – Interview with Book Publicist Milton Kahn

Announcement – 100th issue of the SPAWN Market Update
Here’s What’s New – 5 tidbits of interest and controversy
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 7 promising leads, 2 job databases and a “bookkeeping” site for freelance writers
Opportunities for Authors – a new publisher in Canada and two large online publishers’ directories.
Book Promotion Opportunities – hundreds of speaking engagement leads, get on BookTV, book trailers, new book festival directory
Opportunities for Screenwriters and Playwrights – Ojai Playwrights Conference
Going, Going, Gone – 15 to report
Resources for Writers and Authors – 299 book promotion tools and advice
Bonus Item – article: How to Become a Magazine or Newspaper Columnist
Interviews with Experts – Louise May of Lee and Low Books & Janet Kobobel Grant of Books and Such Literary Agency

Breaking News – Editor and Publisher to close up shop.
Here’s What’s New – 12 news bytes, including 5 new publishing/book promotion opps.
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 7 possibilities for earning some money!
Opportunities for Authors – Agent list/directories, ebook sites and MORE!
Book Promotion Opportunities – How to use your resource pages to sell books.
Opportunities for Screenplay Writers – 9 opps and a new magazine to report.
Opportunities for Artists and Photographers – a job directory, 2 magazines and a book that might help you sell your digital photos.
Going, Going, Gone – a whopping 21 mags/publishers gone.
Resources for Authors and Writers – Meet Ups and Six Questions.
Warnings for Authors and Writers – Beware of scams for speaking gigs.
Bonus Item – Interview with Peter Shankman of HARO (Help a Reporter Out).

* Here’s What’s New – magazines are surviving, but bookstores are closing
* Opportunities for Freelance Writers – 9 new opps; 2 more job sites; how to use HARO
* Opportunities for Authors – 8 promising publishers for your manuscripts; and more
* Book Promotion Opportunities – 10 marketing tips and resources for published authors
* Opportunities for Screenplay Writers – 6 of them!
* Opportunities for Artists and Photographers – 5 new paying opportunities
* Going, Going, Gone – only 5 to report
* Resources for Authors and Writers – 7 resources with great potential: Author’s
* Roost, NewPages, Society of Young Publishers, AllTop and more
* Editorial Commentary – why you should know about mag/pub closures

Going, Going, Gone – 13 to report.
Here’s What’s New – Name changes, re-launches, and a new children’s health mag.
Opportunities for Freelance Writers – Job sites and job opportunities GALORE.
Special Report: How to Sell Even Non-Business Articles to Business Magazines.
Opportunities for Authors – How to get a review in Publisher’s Weekly.
Book Promotion Opportunities –Massive bookstore databases and book review sites.
Opportunities for Artists and Photographers – Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
Opportunities for Screenplay Writers – Get a foot in the door—2 membership orgs.
Resources for Authors and Writers – Research newspapers worldwide.
Call For Submissions – 3 new opportunities.
Editorial Commentary – Beef up your Research Skills… It’s Easy!
Let’s Adopt New Publishing Terminology.