Agents
- A little-known way of identifying successful agents
- Agent first, then sale? Other way ’round?
- Career planning: before you look for an agent…
- Do you need an agent?
- Everything you wanted to know about literary agents…
- Five Writers Explain How They Got, Kept and Fired Agents
- How to Get Published: a Flow Chart
- On agents as publishers
- On agents' self publishing services
- On the getting of agents
- Preditors & Editors
- Questions to ask an agent who has offered you representation
- Sales reported in Locus since July 2004
- The 20 Worst Literary Agencies
- The Association of Authors’ Representatives
- Why fee-charging agents suck
- Writer Beware
- Writing a simple query letter
- You should never submit unagented to publishing companies
Book Publishing
- A Book Publishing Glossary
- A Publishing Dictionary
- Book Publishing Accounting: Some Basic Concepts
- Debut author lessons
- How Acquisitions Work
- How publishing works from the bookselling side
- How publishing works from the publishing side
- How to Get Published (a brief overview)
- How to Get Published: a Flow Chart
- How to Write a Query Letter in Five Easy Steps
- Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, part 1
- Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, part 2
- Publishing in the Twenty-First Century, part 3
- Publishing primer, part 1
- Publishing primer, part 2
- Sell-Throughs
- The Devil’s Dictionary of Publishing, corrections
- The Devil’s Dictionary of Publishing, part 1
- The Devil’s Dictionary of Publishing, part 2
- The Rise and Fall of the Mass Market Paperback
- Things the author does not get to control
- Under the Author’s Control For the Most Part/Not Under the Author’s Control For the Most Part
- Who are all these people?
- Word count for novels and children’s books
- Word counts and novel length
Copyright
Critique Groups
Ebooks
- Business Rusch
- Cover Designs for Digital Publishing
- ebook formatting guide
- On ebook piracy
- Pricing strategy, back matter, and discoverability (half the good stuff is in the comments!)
Jargon
Magazines
Markets
Money and Contracts
- Anatomy of a three-book deal
- Annotated first novel contract
- Bestseller list primer
- Business Realities for the Beginning Writer
- How much money you’ll actually see from a six-figure book deal
- Laura Anne Gilman’s Basic [and Updated] Rules for Going Freelance, specific to novelists
- More on money and the writing life
- Negotiating novel contracts
- P&Ls and how books make (or don’t) money: part the first: the mass market original complete failure
- P&Ls and how books make (or don’t) money: part the second: the hardcover to mass
- Real World Book Deals
- Real World Book Deals — follow-up #1
- Real World Book Deals — follow-up #2
- Royalty calculations explained
- Royalty periods, payments, and making a living
- Sell-Throughs
- Simple book revenue breakdown
- Survey of first novel advances
- The Big Misunderstanding About Money
- The Importance of Reversion Clauses in Publishing Contracts
- Unasked-For Advice to New Writers About Money
News, Rumors, and Daily Reads
Organizations
Publishing
Responding to Reviews
Scams and other bad ideas
Self Publishing
- “Indie First?” What Is Best In Publishing?
- A tale of two royalty statements
- Charlie Stross: Why I don't self-publish
- Cover design secrets
- Elisabeth Naughton on leaving her publisher
- How Tobias Buckell used Kickstarter to continue a slow-selling series
- Hugh Howey: Self-publishing is the future — and great for writers
- On agents as publishers
- On agents' self publishing services
- Pricing strategy, back matter, and discoverability (half the good stuff is in the comments!)
- Self-publishing income/sales survey
- The Importance of Backmatter
SF Writing Workshops
Short Stories
Slush
Working with editors
Working with other authors
Writing
- Avoid these clichés
- Billy Wilder’s ten tips
- Dan Harmon on story structure
- Dos and Don’ts of Setting
- Elmore Leonard: Ten Rules of Writing
- Holly Lisle’s articles
- How to Write a Novel
- How to Write a Sentence
- Jennifer Crusie: Plot Diagrams
- Jennifer Crusie: Revising Scene
- Jennifer Crusie: Turning Points, part 1
- Jennifer Crusie: Turning Points, part 2
- John Scalzi: 10 Things Teenage Writers Should Know About Writing
- John Scalzi: Ten Writing Tips
- John Scalzi: Utterly Useless Writing Advice
- Learn Writing with Uncle Jim
- Michael Hauge’s six-stage plot structure
- Orson Scott Card’s articles
- SFWA’s articles
- Stephen King: Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully in Ten Minutes
- Steven Brust's writing advice
- The Guardian collects ten rules of writing from various authors (part 1)
- The Guardian collects ten rules of writing from various authors (part 2)
- The secret menu of writing advice
- The Well-Tempered Plot Device
- Trouble vs. Conflict
- Write a Novel
Writing Life
- 12 things about authors
- A day in the life of John Scalzi
- A week in the life of Nick Mamatas
- Beware Of Writer II: Revenge Of The Teenage Penmonkey From Mars
- How to behave at conventions: hotels & going out to dinner
- How to keep writing as a new parent
- The Dictator of Writing Announces His Decrees, Part I
- The Penmonkey’s Paean
Been waiting for this site to come back for quite some time. The reading shall commence, thank you very much for putting all this together!
Thanks for your patience! I’ve added a few new links, too, and will be adding more over the next few weeks, mostly on ebooks and self-publishing.