Best Writing Linkage 08.15.2011

A lot of good links this week from writing sex and dialogue to eReaders–good or bad? to sexism in reviews.

  • Don’t Skip the Sex by Raelyn Barclay: Some links to awesome writing-about-sex info and how learning about writing a sex scene and the need for true characterization has ruined sex-scene reading for this writer.
  • Kathryn Stockett’s ‘The Help’ Turned Down 60 Times Before Becoming a Best Seller from More Magazine (via James Scott Bell): The title says it all; but if you’re feeling discouraged, read this story before you ever think of quitting.
  • These next two are related:
  • Time for book publishers to fight dirty by Aaron Gilbreath (via Kathleen Schmidt and Michelle Wolfson): This bookstore employee advocates that publishers fight dirty to combat the clever commercials eReaders, like the Kindle, are using. (And leaves me wondering why publishers should spend money, that I hear from everywhere they don’t have, to defend something that really has no impact on them.)
  • It’s time for publishers to start an ad campaign that attacks bookstores by Nate Hoffelder @ The Digital Reader: A tongue-in-cheek suggestion that publishers campaign against bookstores for carving into their profit margin by selling items other than books.

2 Comments

  1. I’m not sure how I missed this shout out! Thanks so much. I’ll have to check out some of these other ones.
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