#CreditWriters: Because if writers don’t credit each other, who will? And why not make it easy for your fellow writers to credit you? Read More
Milo Yiannopoulos Book Sparks Freedom of Speech Controversy
The ideas in Simon & Schuster’s forthcoming Milo Yiannopoulos book may not be popular in the community, but does that mean he shouldn’t be published? Read More
Use Twitter Analytics to Boost Your Social Media Marketing
‘You’re looking at a whole page of intelligence about your social media marketing on Twitter and how your presence on this vast medium is playing out.’ Read More
Twitter: The Author's LinkedIn
One of Twitter’s function in publishing—as a directory, a roster in which you need to be discoverable—is being overlooked by too many writers Read More
Is Online Life Real Life? #AskELJames – No, Ask Chuck Wendig
One Big Gray (Not Grey) Area Of Rage Online is IRL. It’s all real. This is all really happening… It’s not a show, no matter how much we want it to be. That’s the author Chuck Wendig, wrapping up what he seems to have thought would be his one post on the PR hair-tearer #AskELJames. But a funny… Read More
Author: Beware Having Lunch With A Logo
Have you ever shaken hands with a corporation? Have you ever kissed a building façade on both cheeks at a cocktail party? Have you ever chatted with a book cover on legs? Of course not. Which makes it all the more ridiculous that we seem to be expected to do these things online all the… Read More
#MSWL: Agents And Editors Calling Out Requests — To Authors
‘Play It Again, Sam’ For a long time, most author-agent communications on the front end have gone just that way — author to agent: the query letter. The query letter is so daunting for many writers that there are whole courses offered simply on how to write a good query letter, never mind the damned… Read More
#FutureChat recap: Your 2015 Digital Publishing Predictions
We asked, and we received. We started with the excellent, provocative predictions of a group of invited guests. We’d asked them to give us around 50 words each on what they see ahead in digital publishing. Among some of the strongest commentary we had was Philip Jones’ estimation of the reader’s place in the digital dynamic… Read More
#PorterMeets Alastair Nash: 'Barriers falling'
Alastair Nash is among featured speakers who will bring especially astute messages to publishing from other, nearby sectors on Friday (14th November) in Europe’s busiest publishing conference, The FutureBook , at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster. Bookings will close Tuesday the 11th, so hurry to secure your seat. We are fond of… Read More
Night Of The Social Media
“Your ignorance is stunning!”…That line got one of my Twitter followers muted recently. And she has stayed muted. And she will stay muted. I only regret that I have but one chance to mute her. Despite this follower’s flattery — I’d never speak of my own ignorance in such vaunted terms — she is one author I will… Read More