Links, News, and a WuuHoo for WU
By Therese Walsh | April 30, 2008 | Comments Off on Links, News, and a WuuHoo for WU
There’s a terrific post up by Victoria Strauss at Writer Beware Blogs! about the precautions an author should take if working with a small press publisher. A number of authors have recently lost rights to their work when small presses have folded, and Victoria offers a number of preventative steps you can take to help ensure this doesn’t happen to you. Please do check it out–whether you’re with a small press now, are about to enter into this kind of relationship, or think a journey down a small-press road is in your future.
In other news from around the blogosphere, Colleen Lindsay, “an unrepentant nerd and literary agent with FinePrint Literary Management,” announces that she’s found the Best T-Shirt Ever. We agree. Thanks, Colleen!
Star Wars fans may be happy to learn there’s a new free book opportunity swooping into the galaxy. Check it HERE.
USA Today published THIS list of books you might consider giving to your mom on Mother’s Day. Hmm. I’d probably choose differently, focusing more on great fiction. How about you?
Our friend Chuck Sambuchino at the Guide to Literary Agents blogsite for Writer’s Digest has a tip for writers, straight from agent Barbara Poelle (Irene Goodman Agency). There’s a new genre in town, and it’s called Quagmire Fiction. Read a little about it HERE.
Oh, speaking of Writer’s Digest–drumroll–Writer Unboxed made this year’s new Writer’s Digest list of top 101 websites for writers! We’ll include the link as soon as the content is linkable, but for now you can get your hot little hands on the June issue of Digest at your local bookstore. Thank you, WD staff, for recognizing our site. We really appreciate it.
Check out WU’s Google Notebook for the latest books and business news HERE, including who just won the Nebula Awards, which new agency is looking for romance, why Bloomsbury’s authors are mad, and what Dmitri Nabokov decided regarding his father’s final wish to have his last unpublished book destroyed.
Write on, all!
Therese Walsh (she/her) co-founded Writer Unboxed in 2006 and is the site’s editorial director. She was the editor of WU’s only book, Author in Progress, and runs the Writer Unboxed UnConference.
Her second novel, The Moon Sisters, received starred reviews and was named one of the best books of the year by Library Journal and Book Riot.
Learn more about Therese on her website, and sign up for her newsletter to be among the first to hear about any new projects.
