Weekly News Round-Up (May 27, 2022)

Here it is, your batch of book-, publishing-, and writing-related news you can use for the week of May 27, 2022. Like every week, this journalistic pile comes to you courtesy of  Alternative Incite magazine and the Butter Lamb Reference Library. 

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:

Stephen King: The 'Craft' Of Writing Horror Stories

The Real Difference Between Content Writing and Copywriting

How I started writing for TV: The case against "fake it til you make it"

How to be a bestselling writer, according to prolific authors

Lessons in good writing from the love of a good dog

Christopher Nolan's 20 Tips for Writing Screenplays

6 Ways To Fight Your Inner Critics


THE BUSINESS:

US Book Show: How TikTok Is Transforming Book Marketing

Book banning laws inspire fireproof edition of Handmaid's Tale

Amazon Starts Monthly Book Club

Dorothy, a (Successful, Experimental) Publishing Project

Riddle Fence magazine launches imprint for debut authors


MISC:

Can “Distraction-Free” Devices Change the Way We Write?

In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing
 

Weekly News Round-Up (May 20, 2022)

Well, I did it again. I failed to post on Friday. That's okay, no one cares. That's kind of a shame, though, because I have a nice crop of writing- and book-related articles for your reading pleasure this week. Enjoy, and tell your friends (ha!).

 
WRITING ADVICE:

A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

How a bigshot writing coach beats writer's block

You Can't Have Creativity Without Boredom

Things To Consider When Writing About Ghosts and the Supernatural in Fiction

Channel Your Inner Authorpreneur for Your Writing Labor of Love

Managing Point of View: Mythbusting

How to write a Hollywood blockbuster, with Aristotle's Poetics
 

THE BUSINESS: 

Life As a Book Publisher in Wartime Ukraine

What Happened to The Believer?

Celebrated literary mag The Believer back to original owner

How writing duo Christina Lauren went from fan fiction to best-selling romance novels

The 'Atlantic' to Launch Book Imprint with Zando
 

MISC:

Indianapolis native, National Youth Poet Laureate finalist builds bridges through poetry

We, the Writers? A Global Literary Congress Meets in New York

Buffalo's poet laureate Jillian Hanesworth presses for change

 

Weekly News Round-up (May 13, 2022)

Admittedly, I dropped the ball last week, but not this time! Here, on time and under budget, is this week's crop of writing-, publishing-, and book-related information for your reading enjoyment. This week, there was something of a bumper crop of relevant articles to offer and I did my best to capture them all for you here. Enjoy. 

Writing Advice:

5 Tips on Writing From Your Own Family History

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood: On Focusing on the Work

 A Reporter Explains His Approach to Writing News and Features

Telling My Story: How to Work Through Painful Feelings While Writing a Memoir

The Business:

How Working with Libraries Can Help Sell Your Books

How I Went From No Book to Book Deal in Under a Year

What It Takes to Make a Living As a Working-Class Writer | Lori Fox

 A Master Class in Failure (To Find Writing Success)

 

Misc:

Robots Are Writing Poetry, and Many People Can't Tell the Difference

Whatever Ideas About Writing You Have It's Really Just Something You Do (Or Don't)

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Writing Toward a Poetics of Aging

Hello, Bookstore’ Review: A Document of the Independent Bookstore as Oasis

Five Writers Weigh in on the Weird Shame of Publishing a Book

Weekly News Round-Up (May 6, 2022)

Well, it finally happened. A Friday night came and went without me posting a new installment of the Weekly News Round-up. For shame .... Of course, since it seems like no one is reading this, I'm not going to beat myself up about it!

 So, once again, here's the latest batch of articles I've come across that pertain to writing, books, the business of writing and selling books, and other book- and writing-related stuff. Please do enjoy them and, please, if you came across anything related to these topics that you don't see here. Please send me a link.

WRITING ADVICE:

6 Tips for Writing a Contemporary Ghost Story

How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

There Is Grace in Patience: On the Writing Lessons of Tarot

The Art of Writing


BUSINESS:

Fraudster impersonates Harper Collins editorial director and offers book contracts

In praise of a small press with big impact

Interview with an Indie Press: Grid Books

What You Should Know Before Self-Publishing a Book



MISC:

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh on Writing About Bad Jobs

7 Times People Used Virgil's Poetry to Predict the Future

The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine