What are first serial rights? What should writers know about taxes? How did an author’s FB page become a phenom? How are book bloggers finally earning respect in the publishing world? These headlines, plus more of the latest writing and publishing news are in this week’s Write Report.
Where the law and literature meet:
The Daily Business Review did a piece on the Writer’s Guide to the Courtroom: http://dailybusinessreview.typepad.com/insidetrack/2010/06/writers-guide-provides-courtroom-tips.html
What are first serial rights?: http://blog.writersdigest.com/qq/What+Are+First+Serial+Rights+Or+FNASR.aspx
Tax advice for writers: http://www.writersdigest.com/article/tax-advice-for-writers
More headlines:
Five lies unpublished writers tell themselves: http://www.guidetoliteraryagents.com/blog/5+Lies+Unpublished+Writers+Tell+Themselves+And+The+Truths+That+Can+Get+Them+Published.aspx
Why an author’s Facebook page for his book accidentally became a phenom (or, how to fool FB members by cleverly naming your page): http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/publicity/authors_book_title_inadvertently_becomes_facebook_fan_page_phenom_166147.asp
Jeff Bezos rubs his hands together and reveals his evil plan. BWAHAHAHA. Just kidding. He’s interviewed in Fortune. He actually does have lots of plans: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/06/29/jeff-bezos%E2%80%99s-mission-compelling-small-publishers-to-think-big/?s-mission-compelling-small-publishers-to-think-big§ion=magazines_fortune
And everyone analyzes the Jeff Bezos interview: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/29/jeff-bezos-ipad/
Then Amazon crashes: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/43688-amazon-com-crashes.html
Analyzing Harper Lee for the upcoming anniversary of Mockingbird: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1289793/Dont-mention-mockingbird-Meet-Harper-Lee-reclusive-novelist-wrote-classic-novel-mesmerised-40-million-readers.html
And the backlash against Mockingbird: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/jun/29/to-kill-a-mockingbird-backlash?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29
Is Robert Pattinson related to Vlad the Impaler, the model for Dracula? Or is it all a bad publicity stunt?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/7851237/Twilight-star-Robert-Pattinson-related-to-Dracula.html
Book bloggers get respect in publishing world, finally: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-book-blogger-20100627,0,4401314.story
And the world’s worst writer is: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128198534&ft=1&f=1032
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