Nathan Bransford - The Forums

A Year in Creative Writing: http://claudiea.blogspot.com/2011/08/ye ... iting.html

Review of Perfect Shadow, a novella by Brent Weeks: Incandescent Phoenix

I'm participating in the Third Writers' Platform-Building Campaign! http://aimeebeatricejodoin.blogspot.com ... lding.html

Where to find editorial advice.
Link below.

YA RECOMMENDS--time travel

http://caitlinnicoll.wordpress.com/2011 ... me-travel/

A trip through the blog archives as my intro to the Writer's Platform-Building Campaign!
http://nicole-singer.blogspot.com/2011/ ... igner.html

On Tell Great Stories, it's Hot Dystopian Summer Nights week!

Why are we still obsessed with Dystopian fiction? http://sommerleigh.com/archives/3998

And a Wicked & Tricksy post inspired by another Bransforumer:

The Courage of Writers http://www.wickedtricksy.com/?p=1149

Gobleki Tepe, or the ruins that predate civilization: http://claudiea.blogspot.com/2011/08/go ... edate.html

The I AM LEGEND Blogfest celebrating my first year of blogging...

http://urbanpsychopomp.blogspot.com/201 ... egend.html

Deep roots bind the publishing agencies to their way of doing things and the new e-publishing paradigm offers a way to grow wings. As a successful e-publisher, I expected attacks from traditionalists who are fighting change (using dirty tactics such as slandering e-publishers who charge fees for actual work produced without understanding the paradigm), but I was surprised and delighted to receive an attack from an author.

Surprised because I've done my homework and cut my rates to provide the best service I can and still earn enough to buy peanut butter. I provide a list of renowned editors, marketers, and my books receive distribution to bookstores, libraries, Amazon, and a full range of devices world-wide. For cheap. I would have thought an author would embrace this concept.

Delighted because her attack reveals an ignorance in general about e-publishing and allows me an opportunity to educate authors who really do want readers to read their books, in spite of their holding onto a decaying image of "being an Author"--an image which entails receiving oodles by way of advances for their wonderful book, having adoring fans lined up at bookstores, having a propitiating agent at their feet begging for the next chapter while they slog down a Bloody Mary saying "Can't you see? I'm blocked! They'll just have to wait!" and then slamming the door as they drive off in their respective Jaguars. Gee. That was a nice image once. But the true image nowadays is more about social networking, the author doing the marketing, while the agents and publishers take the bulk of the royalties. So e-books and POD come swooping in like an eagle and land on that tree, offering a way to fly to the next level. The tree doesn't like it.

Here's a link to my blog: http://croppedcircle.blogspot.com/

Taking "writing what you know" too literally

http://maybegenius.blogspot.com/2011/08 ... w-too.html

Hearing voices isn't always bad--they start creative juices to flowing.

http://opposingfarces.blogspot.com/2011 ... oices.html

Why you should back up your work:

http://fesewell.blogspot.com/

My first Blog Book Club! I would love hear what you have to say about All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy!

http://aimeebeatricejodoin.blogspot.com ... es-by.html

In which I analyze the rhetorical structure of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog: http://wp.me/p1H0Xz-1M