What’s New in Publishing Blogs this Week

April 25, 2008 at 8:51 am | Posted in Blogs, books, publishing, writing | Leave a comment
Tags: Fine Print Literary, Harper Collins, Janet Reid, Lori Perkins

Here are some posts from some new blogs we haven’t shared with you before.  We hope you find them as helpful as we did!

— In the vein of Nathan Bransford’s ‘Anatomy of a Great Query Letter’, here’s Guide To Literary Agent’s Anatomy of a Bad Query Letter.  Not only does he show what is bad, but he walks step by step through the letter explaining why.  

 

— This weekend Lori Perkins discusses the new Harper Collins’ Reverse against Returns policy — learn when and how it started and how it will have an impact on the industry.

 

 

— Janet Reid if Fine Print Literary talks about the difference the RIGHT agent can make.

 

 

— Joe Wikert responds to INDEX // mb blog on ‘The 14 Things I Have Learned From Author Websites.’ If you haven’t thought about this yet, this will help you start.

 

— Why mentor young authors? Tara Yellen gives you very good reasons here.

 

 

— John Scalzi at ‘Whatever’ wrote a story. He posted it for free. He said if you like it, give me a couple dollars. See what happened.

And those are the new and random posts from around the blog-o-sphere this week.  Have a great weekend!