Today’s links of interest:
- A Chickens in the Road Sampler Platter
Suzanne McMinn is up for a Bloggie. Check out her site, read this post, scroll to the bottom and vote! You love to vote, right? - A bestselling author proposes the most improbable bailout yet
No, we don’t need a federal subsidy for book reviews. Sorry. - 8 Articles/Posts All Writers Should Have Read in 2008
Thank you to Writers Digest for choosing some our work to appear on this terrific list! - Cell phone novels come of age
Deep down inside, this article contains much variation on the theme reading and writing are killing reading and writing. - Conde Nast Shuts Down Domino
Okay, now it’s personal. - Book World is Dead; Long Live Book World
Sarah Weinman says stop your whining. - Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab
Maybe it’s our everyone gets a trophy culture, but just become someone *wants* to write a book doesn’t mean they should. - David Barnett: Science fiction is the genre that dare not speak its name
If you don’t give it a name, does it really matter? - The Friday Project To Offer Profit Share Agreements
Are we seeing the emergence of a trend or one-offs? The Friday Project looks to the future. - Washington Post to End Book World As Stand-Alone Section
Not unexpected. Note in particular the proactive approach taken by the LAT’s David Ulin versus the stay-the-course attitude by his predecessor.
Re: The Sci-fi article, that explains why it’s hard to find good science fiction nowadays. Nobody is labeling it as such!