Weekly News Round-Up (April 29, 2022)

Greetings and salutations! 

Hello and welcome to this week's installment of The Underpublished. The following is our most recent batch of news, opinion, and miscellany pertaining to writing, the book business, book selling, and the like. Check it out and let me know what you think--and if there's anything I missed, please bring it to my attention.

Thanks and keep writing.

 

WRITING ADVICE:

8 Tips on How To Be Edited Without Losing Your Voice or Being Decolonized 

6 Types of Creative Nonfiction Personal Essays for Writers to Try 

How To Write History While It's Happening: Lessons From Tacitus 

25 best podcasts for creative writers and aspiring authors

Soon Wiley: On Finding Meaning in Moments of Tragedy 

8 Tips for Writing About Head Injuries in Fiction

How to Write a Pain Book

THE BUSINESS:

Book Sales in the US Are Stronger Than Ever

WRITERS DOING THINGS:

Amanda Gorman talks poetry, the pandemic and 405 traffic on first day of L.A. Times Festival of Books 

MISC:

What Passes for Hope: 19 Writers on Finding Meaning in the Face of the Climate Crisis 

Anna Quindlen on the Power of Writing by Hand

"It's The Most Stressful Book I've Ever Read, And I Couldn't Put It Down": People Are Sharing The Book They Wish They Could Read Again For The First Time 

‘It’s like being a therapist’: the highs and lows of an independent bookstore

Weekly News Round-Up (April 22, 2022)

 It's Friday, it's five o'clock (or somewhat after), and it's so freakin' wonderful to have you here for yet another installment of The Underpublished Weekly News Round-up!

You know, in the past I've said that my aim here is, "To provide independent writers and publishers with the news they need (or perhaps the news they might be interested in) to not only put words on paper, but also get it out there in the ways that make sense." That's true, but this information is also right up the alley of people who, like me, love books and everything about them. Be it writing them, reading them, hoarding them, or just plain appreciating them, the Weekly News Round-Up from The Underpublished is for anyone who has any affection for books what so ever. 

Now that I've got that off my chest, please enjoy this installment of writing advice book business news, and other book related stuff. As always, if you feel there's a piece of the independent writing and publishing puzzle that I'm missing here, drop me a line and let me know. Send me links!

Have a good one, and keep writing, keep publishing, and keep reading!

WRITING ADVICE:

Zac Smith: What's the Point of Writing if You're Not Having Any Fun?

“I Trust Nothing But Music.” Valzhyna Mort on the Patient Listening of Writing Poetry

On Writing and Living True Crime

What Does Gentrification Have to Do With Writing Place?

What Makes Great Sci-Fi Writing?

How to Research and Write History in the Digital Age

Repetition, Repetition, Repetition: Working With Alliteration, Anaphora and Epistrophe in Poetry

 

THE BUSINESS:

Getting the Word Out: 25 Years of Changes to Book Publicity

WRITERS DOING THINGS:

Seeking Respite in Landscape: On Following Henry David Thoreau's Walks 

MISC:

Plague poems, defiant wit and penis puns: why John Donne is a poet for our times 

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Weekly News Round-Up (April 15, 2022)

Greetings and welcome to the third installment -- installment three -- of The Underpublished Weekly News Round-up. 

As noted before, my aim with this jazz is to provide independent writers and publishers with the news they need (or perhaps the news they might be interested in) to not only put words on paper in the best way possible, but also get it out there in the ways that make sense. 

And hey, if you feel there's a piece of the independent writing and publishing puzzle that I'm missing here, drop me a line and let me know. Send me links!

Have a good one, and keep writing/publishing.

 

Writing Advice:

Tom Gauld on Writing Dialogue 

How Writers Can Best Conceptualize Their Work

Ocean Vuong on Taking the Time You Need to Write

Sven Birkerts on Discovering the Story You Need to Write

Sarah Manguso on Getting on the Freeway, aka Writing a Novel

Craft Lessons in Writing About Disability

Emily St. John Mandel on Finding a Sense of Creative Recklessness

The Business:

How Barnes & Noble Went From Villain to Hero

Barnes & Noble is Offering an Audiobook Service

The Book Sales Boom Is Over

Congress Investigates Book Banning in Schools

 

Writers Doing Things:

In "Six Walks," Ben Shattuck Retraces Thoreau's Wanderings

Misc:

Tokyo's Manuscript Writing Cafe Won't Let You Leave Until You Finish Your Novel

Writer’s Almanac

Weekly News Round-Up (April 8, 2022)

Hello and welcome to the second installment of The Underpublished Weekly News Round-up. Once again, the goal here is to provide independent writers and publishers with news that they may indeed be able to use as they chart their course through the world of putting pen to paper and then putting it out there. 

As usual, if you feel that there's a piece of the independent writing and publishing puzzle that I'm missing here, drop me a line and let me know. I'm also interested in any relevant news items I may have missed, so send me links to those as well.

Have a good one, and keep writing/publishing.

Writing Advice:

Think you can write a book? Here's how to pitch, publish and push your career

Maud Newton: Good Writing is All About Being Interested

How to write every day in a journal

Georgia authors share their favorite writing tips


Publishing:

Connell Sanders: 5 things I learned about the publishing process while writing my first book

How book lovers on TikTok are changing the publishing industry

Publishing company starts newspaper to focus on local stories

Literary agent Heather Carr on navigating the publishing industry – The Creative Independent

Opinion:

CYNN: Let the book publishing industry die

How to Research and Write History in the Digital Age | Higher Ed Gamma

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Misc:

Written Content Is Dying. Or Is It?

Millennial and Gen Z nostalgia is bringing back chain bookstores

Weekly News Round-Up (April 1, 2022)

Hello and welcome to the first installment of my weekly news round-up. My goal is to put one of these out every week. If you feel there's any element to the independent writing/publishing world that I'm missing, or you've seen a relevant item in the news I don't have listed on this site, please bring it to my attention. Thank you.

 

Writing Advice:

How to Write a Book: A Publishing Insider Shines a Light on the Secrets of Successful Authors

Should You Self-Publish Your Book?

 

Publishing:

Local Book Store and Publishing Company Gives Authors Creative and Financial Freedom

Where Have All the Midsize Book Publishers Gone?

Chapter House Is Turning a New Page for Indie Book Publishing

This Is the Future of Book Publishing

 

Writers at Work:

'Russian Scribes Against the War': Independent Russian Publishers Protest

Independent Media Publishers Go Dark for 24 Hours in Media Funding Protest

National Poetry Competition Has Its Youngest Ever Winner