This Week on Books Direct -
13 October 2013
Here's
a list of the articles you may have missed this week:
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"Rejection! Rejection! Rejection!" – Guest Post by AJ Meyers for Paige Nolley - Writer.
Author
AJ Myers shares her publishing and rejection woes. Keep reading to learn how she survived the
piles of rejection letters.
"Here's How Hugh Howey (Bestselling Author of Wool) Writes" - Article by Kelton Reid for Copy Blogger.
The
bestselling author of Wool, Hugh Howey, has become the patron saint of
empowering authors to take their publishing straight to the people. His own
successes with self-publishing have recently placed him squarely in the
spotlight as both a fierce advocate and savvy internet entrepreneur.
Does
who an author is as a person influence your reading choices? Is there some
ethical line an author can cross that will make you wary of reading his or her
work?
"Top Tips to Train Your Brain to Come up With Creative Content" -
Article by Jenny Stowemarket for VigLink.
Jenny
shares her top tips for overcoming writer's block and continued creative
content creation.
"Xist Publishing Creates Digital-First Children'sBooks" - Article by Wendy
Werris for Publishers Weekly.
Motivated
by her young daughter's desire to see picture books on her Kindle, Calee M.
Lee, founder of Xist Publishing, taught herself how to create digital children's books that are available in all
formats, including reflowable ePub for libraries.
There
is the rule not to use filters, those words that are so easy to drop into your
writing. Filters don't make writing better. In fact, if filters can be the
cause of a rejection, they usually are. They also keep the reader at arm's
length from the story.
Alice Munro, the renowned
Canadian short-story writer whose visceral work explores the tangled
relationships between men and women, small-town existence and the fallibility
of memory, won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday.
Here's
a handy flowchart to help you pick your next YA read.
In
the real world, where less than four percent of the population has red hair,
being born a redhead means you'll grow up feeling incredibly unique. But the
percentage seems to be significantly higher in the world of children's
literature. When Alison was asked to pick her top redheaded literary
characters, it was difficult to narrow down her list.
As
a full-grown adult, Jen has gotten her fair share of dubious looks and
halfhearted utterances regarding her young-adult reading habits. Well, I'm in
my 40s and love to read YA. Who's with me?
"Bestseller Success Stories that Started Out as Self-Published Books" -
Article by Ronald H. Balson for HuffPost Books.
You
write, you re-write, you edit, you tweak and when it's perfect, you submit. And
then you get rejected. Many times, maybe by a person who didn't even read it.
Rejectees, take heart. Many now-famous writers have been rejected before they
made it big.
Interested
in writing the next next next teen franchise? Here's a step-by-step guide.
"Alice Munro: 'Master of the Contemporary Short Story'" - Article by Kobo
Books.
Special
feature on Alice Ann Munro, the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in
Literature. She has also been awarded the 2009 Man Booker International Prize
for her lifetime body of work, is a three-time winner of Canada's Governor
General's Award for fiction and a two-time winner of the Giller Prize.
