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Our weekly roundup of links we hope you’ll find interesting and useful.
Writers need mentors. Novelist Alexander Chee talks about studying with Annie Dillard and learning that writers aren’t born, they are made.
Writers need exposure. The HarperCollins site Authonomy is a community for unpublished and self-published writers to post fiction — and just possibly have it noticed by editors. Check it out, and find all the scoop in their FAQ.
Writers need readers. Here’s what happens when students get to pick the books they read for English class — they want to read more. (Via this post from Gavin Brown.)
Writers need readers. Does that mean that every reader should pay to read a book? Join this interesting conversation about sharing versus piracy.
Writer need readers. The latest good news in making e-books accessible to everyone — including 1 million kids who might not be able to afford to read otherwise — is BookServer.
And writers need to write! NaNoWriMo is nearly upon us. Are you ready?
If you have a link of interest to writers that you’d like to see in a roundup, please email us or leave a comment.
Have a great weekend. Write something wonderful!
Posted by: Kelley
The sharing vs piracy thing has been going on in the music industry for a while now. Here’s Janis Ian’s take on it:
http://www.janisian.com/article-internet_debacle.html
Ms. Ian believes that by sharing (music, literature, whatever), fans promote the artist / author.
The same goes for reading library books rather than buying copies. If I’d never checked out The Blue Place (by Nicola Griffith) from the library — and then Stay and Always — I’d never have purchased And Now We Are Going to Have a Party; I’d never have recommended the Aud novels — or asknicola.blogspot.com or sterlingediting.com — to my friends.
It’s all good.
Interesting article on kids picking their own books. I hated every book I was forced to read in school. I only read To Kill a Mockingbird a year or so ago, ironically for a class, and loved it. There’s a lot to be said for getting kids to read because they want to and not because they have to. Librarians in my youth sniffed at Nancy Drew and wouldn’t carry the series. But I read them. I also read Henry James. But I stopped reading fiction for decades and only recently restarted.
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