Writerly Round-Up 18 – 24 February 2016
Welcome to this week’s Writerly Round-Up.
The following is a collection of items and links I’ve collected from my email and social media. If you are promoting an event or release and you’d like to see it in next week’s Writerly Round-Up, please email me.
Ep 076: “How To Make A Living With Your Writing Pt. 1”
From Book Marketing Tools
Welcome to the 76th episode of The Author Hangout, a podcast designed to help authors, especially self-published and indie authors, with marketing their books and improving their author platform. Authors struggle with various aspects of marketing and we are here to help!
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A tip from Sandra Beckwith
It’s important to make sure your press releases reach the right media outlets so if you’re confused when using a service such as eReleases, call the customer support number for help. http://bit.ly/1iIsgUW (affiliate)
To your book marketing success. Sign up for Sandra’s 365 Daily Book Marketing Tips series!
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Small Library Survey ends Friday 26 February
From LibraryThing
Interested in using TinyCat—our upcoming online catalog for tiny libraries? Take our survey, and be automatically entered to win a $100 Amazon/IndieBound gift certificate.
We want to make sure we’re doing TinyCat right, and meeting all our small libraries’ needs. Whether you’re already beta testing TinyCat, or just potentially interested in using it, we want to hear from you! Survey responses are completely anonymous. The drawing will close Friday, at 12 noon Eastern, so be sure to get your response in by then.
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A Law and Fiction Article
Character opportunities — booking photos
Montana laws strongly favor public access to information, while also recognizing the personal right to privacy — both are expressly recognized in our 1972 Constitution, replacing the bare-bones model we enacted on statehood in 1889. Curiously, we did not have a recognized public policy on booking photos — aka mug shots — probably because our low population means some important issues simply never reach the courts. Read more on the Law and Fiction Site.
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Sign up for my Newsletter and be among the first to see my new cover art for If I Should Die.
If I Should Die has Murder, Embezzlement, Betrayal and Silence.
Peyton Farley has settled into a new life in southwest Montana. Research and fact checking for a local newspaper is a perfectly safe job, or is it?
One morning, Peyton awakens and finds a strange man in lace up work boots who is bleeding out on her kitchen floor. As Peyton calls 911 from her bedroom, someone is stealing the body. (Coming Soon)
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More Writerly Round-Up
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Digital Book World’s Launch Kids: Looking Forward and Back
February is a great time to talk about children’s books, in the aftermath of Toy Fair, Digital Kids, the MidWinter ALA and its accompanying Newbery, Caldecott and other awards, presented in January. While publishing for the adult market has its rewards and sense of community, children’s publishing has an infectious enthusiasm and sense of mission that is made manifest at ALA. Read the rest online.
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At The Writer’s Chatroom
Celebrity Sundays:
Famous writers, up-and-coming authors, and other notables closely tied to the writing and publishing industry will be our featured guests each Sunday at 7:00 PM ET. Our chats are moderated using a queue format, to allow those in attendance to gain the most from each chat. No password needed for scheduled chats!
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From JA Konrath’s Blog
I like Lee Child. He’s a generous guy, pleasant, smart, and a decent writer.
But Lee has aligned himself with the pinheads of Authors United, and though his views differ enough to be considered on their own merits rather than instantly dismissable like the majority of AU alarmism, Child’s continued anti-Amazon stance is getting boring.
Read more on JA’s website.
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That is it for this week’s Writerly Round-Up. If you’d like to suggest a link or promote an event email me at sally@sallyfranklinchristie.com. If you like these posts, sign up for my email and share this post on social media.
Till next time, don’t touch anything sharp!