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This short video — Book Launch 2.0 — is going around the publishing industry like wildfire, I'm told. It's priceless.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
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These blog posts are my random thoughts on ... well, the writing life.
Note that the page/tabs (in parentheses) are newly created. I'm in the process of moving side-bar links onto them.
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Good book blogs
Publishing links
- "Editors & Preditors" — a guide
- "Write a great query" by Noah Lukeman
- Buzz, Balls & Hype — M.J. Rose's fabulous blog-site
- From proposal to publication — by Literary Agent Rachelle Gardner
- Media Bistro
- Poets and Writers magazine
- Publishers' Marketplace
- Publishers' Weekly
- Publishing Trends
- Query Shark: a blog on writing a good query letter
- The Three Questions I Am Most Often Asked About the Writing Business, by C.M. Mayo (on publishers, agents and promotion)
On book design
Historical fiction links
- "How Historical Fiction Went Highbrow" —a wonderful article in the Atlantic
- "Top Historical Novels of All Time"
- Enchanted by Josephine
- Historical Fiction Network
- Historical Fiction.com
- Historical Novels
- Historical Novels Review — a publication of the Historical Novels Society
- Historical Tapestry
- Reading the Past
- Writing the Renaissance
Wonderful historical novels
- A Walk with Love and Death, by Hans Koning
- Coal Black Horse, by Robert Olmstead
- Conceit, by Mary Novik
- Enemy Women, by Paulette Jiles
- Music & Silence, by Rose Tremain
- Santa Evita, by Tomas Eloy Martinez
- The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald
- The Boys in the Trees, by Mary Swan
- The Color of Lightning, by Paulette Jiles
- The Ghost of Monsieur Scarron, by Janet Lewis
- The Hummingbird's Daughter, by Luis Alberto Urrea
- Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
- Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
- Year of Wonders; a Novel of the Plague, by Geraldine Brooks
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1 comment:
Beautiful, Sandra! Thanks for the link.
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