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Good Links, February Edition
Posted on March 7th, 2010 8 commentsOkay, okay, so we’re a week into March and this is a little delayed… big deal. I sort of deleted my listing of good links from February in a fit of ‘housekeeping’ and had to restore them from my Mozy backup–something I put off for a week or two thinking it would be difficult. It was actually surprisingly simple. I mean, uh, it was so difficult, it took me weeks of hacking code and recalling passwords, and digging through piles of aged files and… stuff. It did NOT involve two clicks and then voila, it was right back where I had deleted it from. Definitely not.
Um, so, yeah. The links. Here’s what I’ve got for you:
Marketing Yourself
Online Platform: Kidlit posting on some most excellent dos and don’ts in creating an online platform.
Copyblogger’s post on blogging and platform: Why people think you suck. I mean, why nobody reads your blog. I mean, dammit, just be bold and shake things up a little!
Literary agent Elana Roth’s post on how to market yourself. Brand, audience and trust. Everyone sing with me now, “Express yourself, hey, hey, hey, hey!”
Alan Rinzler shares good hooks that brought the publishing world to a writer’s door.
TK Richardson’s multi-post discussion on how to create a book trailer. Aspects of making a trailer and things to consider. The visual aspect (colour, images, and more). Where to get images. More on visuals and choices you make.
Technical Writing Stuff
Problems with spelling? The Oatmeal will help these common misspellings stick to your ribs with goofy comics and jokes to help you remember.
Craft, story, voice. And the difference is? And if you have one, but not the other? And how do you know? And what do you do to improve one? And crap, I think my brain just got tied up in a knot. Fear not, literary agent Rachelle Gardner explains it all.
Funnies
And because laughter is the best medicine, here are some writer jokes.
And that’s about it! Enjoy! Spring is on the horizon, the days are getting longer, the urge to stuff oneself with everything in the cupboard in order to make it through the long winter are subsiding. Take care, and have fun!
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Wow! I can’t believe some of my posts made it into your awesome “Good Links”! I’m so glad you found them helpful. I always look forward to your end of the month summary of helpful links. I know I miss so much good stuff that’s out there and when you post them all in one spot it makes it easy to check out the ones I missed. Thanks, Jean. You always do such a great job.
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Glad you liked my Copyblogger post. *waves hi* (:
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I’m glad the ‘all-in-one’ post helps you out. It’s kind of a fun compilation to make. And your book trailer posts have a lot of good stuff that most people don’t mention.
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It was a great post that makes the reader kind of say, “Oh yeah! That makes perfect sense!” A bunch of writers talked about your post over here, too: http://agentquery.leveragesoftware.com/group_discussion.aspx?DiscussionID=20ec7e040f044bbaa7b4ddba8676b209 Not sure if you saw it or not.
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Awesome links, as usual, Jean! I haven’t seen all of these yet – thanks!
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That’s my fear–that those who hang out with me on AQ, etc, will have already seen all of them as we are such great sharers! We must have gone to kindergarten or something!
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Yay, linkage! Thank you!
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You’re welcome, Suzette!
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TK Richardson March 7th, 2010 at 15:07