For Your Information

What Twitter Really Is – By Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/0dYdq

For People to Trust You, Reveal Your Intentions – By Linda Hill & Kent Lineback – Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/YgAiU

Is Your Work Commercially Viable? – By Jane Friedman – http://goo.gl/m6L7j

Link Roundup – By Victoria Strauss – Writer Beware – http://goo.gl/FcQXq

Build Blog Products That Sell – By Greg McFarlane – For Problogger - http://goo.gl/07zOT

Publishing Strategies for Savvy Self-Publishers – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/0mK9R

Self-Published – by Seth Godin – The Domino Project – http://goo.gl/DHjLZ

Your Dream vs. Rejection – By JB Lacaden – For The Write Practice – http://goo.gl/MdDcR

15 Ways to Write Tight – By Barb Sawyers – write to done – http://goo.gl/9NLVk

Ebook price-fixing: Apple, publishers face class action suit – By Jason Magder – The Gazette – http://goo.gl/nLCIr

5 Steps to Getting More Targeted Website Traffic with SEO Copywriting – By Neil Patel – copyblogger – http://goo.gl/eqRPC

 

 Quote(s) of the Day

A good book is enjoyable. A great book sets off a bomb inside of you. - Ned Hepburn

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For Your Information

The Con Man Who Tried To Buy Writer Beware’s Silence – By A.C. Crispin – For Writer Beware - http://goo.gl/fPqyr

Believing We Have a Story to Tell – By Ellen Weeren – For Writer Unboxed – http://goo.gl/NfGP8

‘Lost’ Kerouac work didn’t need finding – By Ray Robertson – Globe and Mail – http://goo.gl/Q3C8k

11 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Blogging – By Victoria Mixon – http://goo.gl/JQ4Af

The More Informative Your Content . . . – By Brian Clark – copyblogger – http://goo.gl/0RCNz

Why The Hunger Games Is the Future of Writing – By Jeff Goins – http://goo.gl/m7pmi

Reversing the Curse of Dominant Logic – By Vijay Govindarajan – Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/Bo4E5

My Views on Publishing Today – By Jane Friedman – http://goo.gl/LnDym

The 3 Worst Blog Writing Blunders – Don’t Make These Mistakes! – By Danny Iny – Make a Living Writing – http://goo.gl/Y4wvR

The Rise of Visual Storytelling In Marketing – By Magdalena Georgieva – For Problogger – http://goo.gl/bc92s

“Scarlet’ launches writing career – By Glenda Garland – Wicked Local - http://goo.gl/K73eu

Author Publishes Futuristic Thriller for Young Adults – By D’Ann White – Bloomingdale Patch - http://goo.gl/AUe68

What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do – By L. Schlesinger, C. Kieffer, and P. Brown – Harvard Business Review - http://goo.gl/GML6W

Twitter 10,000 – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/ogK9q

 

Quote(s) of the Day

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. ” - Barbara Kingsolver

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For Your Information

Gorgeous Green Christmas Tree is Made from 40,000 Recycled Plastic Bottles – By Lori Zimmer – inhabitat – http://goo.gl/jz1U2

Hottest Twitter Topics of 2011 – By E-Junkie.Info – http://goo.gl/tMeBx

Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should – By Bill Taylor – Harvard Business Review – http://goo.gl/UiHQO

Hardcover Books Reach New Heights – By Joel Friedlander – The Book Designer – http://goo.gl/85ddE

The Simple Power of Asking – By Sanjeev Mohindra – Problogger – http://goo.gl/iIJcQ

How to Network Without Networking – By Nathan Bransford – http://goo.gl/AZEKP

Tool vs Insight – By Seth Godin – http://goo.gl/pCPfZ

 

Quote(s) of the Day

“There is no great writing, only great rewriting.”- Justice Brandeis

“It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn’t advance the story.” – Frank Yerby

“If you cannot gain an emotional reaction from your reader, then you have not written well enough.” – ACL

 Writing Contest

Andres Montoya Poetry Prize – Deadline Jan. 15, 2012 –  http://goo.gl/hZeQE

 

 

 

Special Tribute

Yasmin Shiraz – Someone who makes a difference – an activist and author who helps and empowers our teens -http://www.yasminshiraz.net/

Her latest book, Retaliation, a novel about a community’s response to violence, led Shiraz to partner with the Boys and Girls Clubs in creating violence prevention programs for youth . . . (excerpt from Yasmin Shiraz’s Bio)

Check out her YouTube documentary – Can She Be Saved :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3pAdF4Oog0

 

Hats off to this special woman who is making a difference in many of our youth’s lives!

 

 

 

 

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