Best Tweets for Writers (week ending 1/7/11)

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Best of the Best

The Top 10 Fiction Writing Articles of
2010


@BubbleCow



"I've sold over 185,000 books since April 15." Amanda
Hocking on e-publishing.


@sarahw



Lessons Learned From Tim Ferriss' Book Launch


@thecreativepenn

Getting Published, Agents/Editors

Here's
a post I did on word counts after consulting with a number of US trade book editors

@colleenlindsay



When Publishing Dreams Become a Nightmare - the
author's perspective on my blog

@RachelleGardner



Freelance Writer Rates: Who Pays the Most Online?


@AdviceToWriters

Craft & Technique

The Contradictory
Nature of Great Fiction


@40kBooks



5 situations where it's better to tell than show in your
fiction


@io9



Five Words You Can Cut


@AdviceToWriters



A Writer's Plot Board: Getting organized


@4kidlit



Great series on self-editing, this week contextual editing [by
@ChuckWendig]

@BubbleCow

Publishing News & Trends

10
Biggest Predictions for the Future of Book Publishing


@thecreativepenn



Fantastic essay on the nature of the web. Read this
now: "The Web Is a Customer Service Medium"


@andrewsavikas



What lies ahead in publishing: @timoreilly on the
influence of ebooks and why notions of "publisher" should change.


@toc

Marketing and Promotion

A Market Of One via @mitchjoel
(remember re ebook protestations!)


@thecreativepenn



Drop the Pen, Grab a Hammer: Building the Writer's
Platform


@ChuckWendig




Book marketing mistakes: great series from @bookbuzzr:
No 1 – No Tag Line for Book or Author

@dirtywhitecandy



Creating An Author Brand: Why It's Not Really About the
Book


@elizabethscraig



YouTube trends manager offers tips & new tools for
book trailer makers


@GalleyCat

Self-Publishing & E-Publishing

Do
authors make good publishers? Agent Richard Curtis said no, J.A. Konrath answered
back [see comments on post for link to Konrath's response]

@publisherswkly



TechDirt asks: Have We Reached A Tipping Point Where
Self-Publishing Is Better Than Getting A Book Deal?


@PublishersWkly



Author Devon Glenn shares lessons learned while reaching
her @kickstarter goal this week


@GalleyCat

Websites & Blogging

Very
interesting thoughts on the value of blogging vs Twitter


@DanBlank



How to Create an Engaging and Effective Bio Page for
Your Blog or Website


@elizabethscraig

Social Media

8
Sentences to Immediately Cut From Your Twitter Bio


@elizabethscraig



The Counter-intuitive Nature of Social Media Influence. Sometimes
Up is Down & Down is Up

@elizabethscraig



Case Study: How Twitter propelled @sarahsalway's republished
book up the Kindle charts


@publishingtalk

Online
Tools & Resources

Best
of the Best: Character, Plot, Dialogue and Structure


@4kidlit



Resources for Authors Traveling To Book Clubs & Schools


@elizabethscraig

The Writing Life

J.K.
Rowling on Failure And Imagination


@jonathanfields



Why slow, long-form thought & writing is thriving in
a world of Tweets


@pomeranian99

@nickbilton

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