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More on the Harlequin mess

Snurched from Jay Lake: Seanan Maguire weighs in.

Scalzi. And on a related note Scalzi on self-publishing with a good bit about how to do it and how it's not what Harlequin is doing.

Follow ups from Jackie Kessler: Part two, the day after and Q&A.

Ooh, almost forgot, Small Beer parodies Harlequin's nasty move. Via comments in the Seanan Maguire post above.

Friday Cat Blogging on Saturday

I do so hate these formal portrait sessions.



Have I mentioned recently that I despise you?



If you'll just hold still I think I can make this jump...



Lady trying to take a bath here.



I smell tuna. Is it you?

RWA Rightly Decertifies Harlequin As A Pro Publisher

The marvelous Jackie Kessler has the scoop. What she said.

Updated:

Add Kristin Nelson's take.

And Making Light.

Ashley Grayson. That one's going to sting.

Writing Related Link Salad

A bunch of interesting things for writers on the web today.

Via my friend Michael Thomas we have a discussion of the authorial income of one New York Times Best seller. Hint, it's not anywhere near as high as you would hope.

Kristin Nelson is talking about Harlequin's new plan for a self-pubbed line under the heading: Exploitation or Empowerment. I am frankly appalled.

My friend Greg Laden offers tongue in cheek help for writers block with a link to an academic sentence generator.

The Scrivener's...

Proposals and Series Vs. Standalone pt .1

Part 1: The Blueprint

One of the bigger changes in my mental model of writing over the last five years is that I no longer loathe and fear synopses and proposals. In fact, I have actually come to enjoy writing them. In part this is a function of practice. I've done a lot of these at this point, something on the order of 30, and as with all writing tasks, it gets easier with repetition. But even more, I think it is because I've spent the last five years working in the WebMage world with all its...

Monday morning WIP thread

Manuscriptomancy for me this week with a side order of putting in the last counter. The trunk novel. How about y'all?

Smart Things

Spent the weekend doing smart things, i.e. laying around the lake place with friends, drinking lightly, eating good food, and crawling into the hot tub in between times. Also, hanging out on the web. From whence, three smart things:

My friend Beth on defining success.

Kristin Nelson on how non-compete clauses are being reworded to prevent you from exercising digital rights if you don't license them to your publisher.

An interesting discussion on Steve Brust's blog about donate buttons and being ...

Cover Art Named "Smith"

Hang around enough writers and you will inevitably hear the topic of book covers come up. How good ones can make you, bad ones can break you, and forgettable ones leave you drifting in the wind. (This isn't an absolute truth by any means, but you will still hear it spoken as if it were.) And, in most cases, it's not something we writers have a whole lot of control over.

I am both looking forward to and dreading my first cover, because I have NO idea what it will look like. My novel is straigh...

Cover Art Named Smith

Hang around enough writers and you will inevitably hear the topic of book covers come up. How good ones can make you, bad ones can break you, and forgettable ones leave you drifting in the wind. (This isn't an absolute truth by any means, but you will still hear it spoken as if it were.) And, in most cases, it's not something we writers have a whole lot of control over.

I am both looking forward to and dreading my first cover, because I have NO idea what it will look like. My novel is straigh...

Friday Cat Blogging

What do you mean I'm on a special food diet?



Dude, that was some seriously mellow nip



Riiiiiigt...



I hearts video games



Now, which way is up again?