If you found a rock you fit under this week: Obama is the USA’s next President and Michael Crichton died — You choose the order of importance to your own life. OH, and NaNoWrMo started.
As always, even on election week, Jessica Faust didn’t let us down and had some great posts. On Thursday she did a really fun blog about over-the-top marketing some of her clients had done. Makes those bookmarks look a little tame.
In the From The Mouths Of Babes category – Julie the high school intern *Yes, I said HIGH SCHOOL* gives some of the best advice from her time working with Kristen Nelson. The advice is so good – she’s getting her own “Julie Intern Tag”
Caren Johnson did a two post blog on Query Etiquette. Must. Read: PART One and PART Two.
Christine Deriso at the Crowe’s Nest walked us through a talk with a newspaper report (namely HER in her twenties)— its worth the read for the giggle as much as for the great information about Making the Media Your BFF.
Moonrate over at Editorial Ass did an amazing blog walking through what’s going wrong with the publishing world economy-wise. He makes it all look so simple HERE. Go meet his challenge. Buy a book this weekend. Any book.
Comma splices *shutter* Quick, easy, simple examples and tips on spotting and fixing them over at Writing on the Wall HERE
I’m avoiding politics like the plague (aside: don’t we avoid anything else, and doesn’t that saying make look more like the plague avoids politics), but over at Deep Genre, Kate Elliot (who we all know I completely cyber-stalk and would love to lock in a room with my ms, me and a unlimited tape recorder) talks about Fantasy and Politics. It’s an amazing post even if you don’t write Fantasy. She challenges the idea of ‘lazy worldbuilding’ which, hey, happens outside Fantasy too.
Some greats reads you found this week! Thanks for sharing. Kate Elliot’s always an interesting read and Moonrat’s post was really something else.