Howdy, y'all! : ) I feel like I haven't talked to you guys all week with all the awesome guest posts. Hope you enjoyed them.
All right, now it's time for the weekly links round up where I fill you in on what you may have missed and you can feel free to fill me in via the comments on your favorite post of the week.
A few of you have asked me how I find the posts that I put up here--i.e. when do I find time to go through my google reader when we all are suffering from blog overload. Well, to be honest, it's as simple as this--I pretty much only read blogs these days that I see links to via Twitter.
I rarely have time to go through my reader lately, so
I'm left with "bright, shiny link" method. Meaning, as I see post titles pop up on Twitter, I go--ooh, that sounds cool, and click over. Then when I come across ones that
I want to share with you guys I use my Feedly toolbar to click "save for later". Then at the end of the week, I have this nice page I can go to that has a list of all the ones I've saved. If you're not using Feedly, I highly recommend it.
Anyway, on to the links!
On Writing:
What Does Your Author Bio Say About You? by Jami Gold
10 Twitter Hashtags for Writers at Publishing Talk
Why Query Letters Matter by Tawna Fenske (I so agree with this)
Are You Wasting Your Time Trying to Get Published? by Jane Friedman of Writer's Digest
Why Every Author Needs to Know About Cover Design--Even If You're Not Self-Publishing at BubbleCow
Eve Berlin on Research and Writing Sex via Genreality
How To Get an MFA in Five Steps at Glass Cases (I don't totally agree with everything she says--particularly that you can't learn anything you don't know about writing from reading non-literary books. But there are some good tips in there otherwise.)
Building a Facebook Fan Page by Ebook Endeavors (cool tip on how to create a welcome screen for your fan page)
On the Author Blog:
So those are some of my favorites of the week, what were some of yours? And how do you decide which blogs to read? Do you use a reader, email subscriptions, bright-and-shiny Twitter method? I'm curious to know.
Hope y'all have a great weekend!
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