This Week on Books Direct -
24 March 2018
Here's a list of some great articles you may have
missed this week. Enjoy!
The Waypoint Writer - A Flexible Way To Plan A Story by Rose Andrews for Mythic Scribes
So
what is a waypoint writer? Find out here!
This Woman Wrote Her Novel At A Tire Store And Now They Are Her Biggest Fans by Farrah Penn for
BuzzFeed
This is Amy - a writer who was struggling on her
latest book. But after taking her car in to get new tires, she ended up
cranking out about 4,000 words in the waiting room.
Novel Writing In 30 Days Or Less by Penelope Silvers
We’re now seeing NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing
Month) in our rear view mirror. But if you call yourself a writer, the brakes
didn’t screech to a halt come November 30.
Romance So White? Publishers Grapple With Race Issues Amid Author Protests by Alison Flood
for The Guardian
Readers,
writers and editors of romance books are grappling with the genre’s record on
diversity, after a week where a report found that books by authors of color
were on the decline, an imprint specializing in diverse romances closed, and
another publisher was forced to apologize for telling a writer they avoided
putting people of color on book covers because they didn’t sell.
Racism In Publishing And How It Affects My Own Writing by Hans M. Hirschi
Racism in publishing: if you believe Riptide is the
outlier, you’d be wrong.
LibraryThing Acquires Litsy by LibraryThing
blog
LibraryThing
has acquired the mobile platform Litsy, a
mobile platform known for being “Instagram for booklovers.”
Feedback Makes Us Better Writers by Anna Simpson for emaginette
The best advice Anna can offer any new writer is be sure to listen to your
support team.
Who Stole 314 Items From The Carnegie Library Rare Books Room? by Marylynne Pitz for Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette
Valuable atlases, maps, and large plate books that
show the colorful breadth of Western civilization have been stolen from the
rare books room of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Oakland, right under
the gaze of Andrew Carnegie’s portrait.
Mark Zuckerberg Speaks Out On Cambridge Analytica Scandal by Issie Lapowsky for Wired Business
Following days of silence about the political data
firm Cambridge Analytica's alleged misuse of 50 million Facebook users' data,
CEO Mark Zuckerberg is finally speaking out.
4 Character Development Exercises For Writers by Yvonne Ho for EditionGuard
Here are some exercises that novelists can do to
create believable, relatable, loveable, and despicable characters.
Creating An Effective And Timely Book Publicity Plan
by Colleen Hatrick for Reedsy
Publicity is a commonly misunderstood side of book
marketing - it's often assumed that a publicists job is to get reviews and
interviews. But this is just the tip of your book publicity plan - there is so
much more a book's launch team needs to do.
Four libraries have been selected to participate in
the new initiative. Readers can print one-, three-, or five-minute stories from
a range of genres at the touch of a button via the Short Story Dispenser.
'Lost' Manuscripts Of Charlotte Brontë To Be Published by Heloise Wood for The Bookseller
The Brontë Society is marking its debut as a publisher
with a title featuring two unpublished manuscripts by Charlotte Brontë, found
in a book belonging to her mother.
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