Interesting Links #10: technology and writing advice.
-This is my favorite article of the week. You can see that the writer is realizing that traditional publishing is a corrupt, obsolete mess – he even calls tradpub “broken and, frankly, creatively bankrupt”, and concludes with the advice “go indie and don’t look back.” (I agree!) I had sort of the same cognitive dissonance-inspiring paradigm shift in 2010, and then in 2011 I found out about Kindle Direct Publishing: Discriminating Against Quality – The New Low Of Traditional Publishing.
-Some good marketing advice here, since a lot of the “professional networking” that other jobs need really doesn’t apply to writing fiction: 5 Things I’m Not Doing To Launch My Book.
-When writing fiction, you have to learn to take self-doubt, lock it in the basement, and beat it with a bag full of doorknobs until it stops whining: Beating Critical Voice For Fiction Writers.
-You can kind of tell all those NFL coaches secretly wish they had iPads: Microsoft Extends NFL Deal For Surface On The Sidelines.
-If you have a Mac running macOS High Sierra, you should probably read this to make sure that the Mac’s root access bug has been solved properly: MacOS High Sierra ‘Root’ Access Bug Can Reactivate.
-All my books are in Overdrive, so libraries can order them in ebook format: How To Check Out Library Books On Your Kindle.
-JM
