This is a post in our continuing series of writing and self-publishing links of the week.

Writing

• The single most common err a new writer makes by @WritingNoDrama
• 73 Ways to Become a Better Writer via CopyBlogger
• Three story tricks you see in movies that you can’t pull off in prose via @dirtywhitecandy
• 6 Reasons a Premise Sentence Strengthens Your Story via @kmweiland

Publishing

• The Importance of Doing Pre-publishing Preparations via @Bookwhirl @CPatrickSchulze

Marketing, Promotion and Social Media

• 12 Ways to Create a Mailing List that Will Sell Books via @bookgal @thecreativepenn
• How to Create an Engaging and Effective Bio Page via @elizabethscraig
• 18 Things I’ve Learned About Marketing starring @elizabethscraig
• Seth Godin’s Secret to Selling Books via @WarrenWhitlock
• 10 Steps To Turning Your Blog Into A Bestseller by Pamela Redmond Satran
• How to Massively Improve Reader Participation on Your Blog via @Blogussion

Motivation & POV

This is a post in our continuing series of writing and self-publishing links of the week.

Writing

• 4 Steps For Organizing Plot Ideas into a Novel by @jodyhedlund
• Finding Your Writing Voice via @ChipMacgregor
• An editor on paragraphs via @elizabethscraig
• How to Write Your Novel’s Hook via @elizabethscraig

Publishing

• How To Make Money on Ebooks via @bubblecow
• Self Publishing Doesn’t Mean Do It All Yourself: 5 People You Must Have on Your Self-Publishing Team via @Julia_olbooks

Marketing & Promotion

• The Difference Between Sales and Fans via @elizabethscraig
• 5 Mistakes You Make When Writing a Blog Post via @fuelyourwriting
• Nine Tips for Helping Your Publicist Do a Great Job via @BookMarketer
• What does your avatar say about you and your business? via @julia_olbooks
• Top 5 Copywriting Secrets To Selling Your Book by @TheTightwad via @thecreativepenn
• What Does Distribution Really Mean for Self-Publishers? via @bubblecow
• 10 Important Facts About Book Selling by @JohnBetcher
• Stuck in the Dip: What to do When Your Platform Stops Growing by @caroleabrown
• Inbound Marketing Rocks! Now what? via @elizabethscraig

Resources

• This Week in the Self-Publishing Blogs, June 27 – July 3, 2010  via @SueCollier @Sophfronia
• 6 Common Publishing and Marketing Mistakes via @BookMarketer

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Writing

• How’s your art of misdirection? by @WritingNoDrama
• 14 Tips for Effective Characterization by @cpatrickshulze
• In praise of a writing journal via @elizabethscraig
• Take the whine out of writing via Mysteries and Margaritas
• How to get the most out of a critique group via Chip’s Blog
• 12 Ways to Overcome Writer’s Block via @meghancward
• Improve Your Writing Overnight With “The Rule of 24? via @copyblogger

Publishing (Mostly focusing on indie/self-publishing this week)

• Tips for Potential Self-Publishers via @TheCreativePenn
• Number 1 most important factor for writers considering self-publishing via @SueCollier
• Self-publishing does not necessarily equal slush-pile publishing via @SueCollier
• The Self-Publishing Blueprint via @BubbleCow
• I’m self-publishing with no shame or regrets! via @zerotosold
• Great eye opening post about self-publishing via @BubbleCow
• Self-publishing isn’t a last resort but the best option for some. via @robinhoffman

Promotion

• What Authors Can Learn From the World Cup via @WarrenWhitlock
• Promoting your book by using your natural talents via @SueCollier

Motivation, Inspiration and Resources

• Great long list of articles for writers via @4kidlit
• Those Writer Insecurities via Genreality
• Why Do You Write? via @BubbleCow

A Bit of Fun

• Mark Twain is a Slob by Willa Cather via @goldenwordsmith

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Writing, Revising and Editing

• How to Find Critique Partners by @keligwynv via @JodyHedlund
• Balancing family and writing via @ElizabethSCraig via @CPatrickSchulze
• Dude, you write books? The 3 classic reactions via @elizabethscraig
• The Craft of Revising via Writer Unboxed
• 8 Oddball Writing Tips via @yaHighway
• How to Write Drunk: A Revising Technique by @paulocampos
• How one writer successfully faces her writing demons via @elspethwrites @margotkinberg

Marketing and Promotion

• Do You Have a Marketing Plan, or Do You Have a Business Plan? via @selfpubreview
• Conquering Book Marketing Fear: Seven Tips for the Introverted Author by @Duolit via @tonyeldridge <– Thanks!
• 4 Things that Big Bloggers tell You that You Shouldn’t Ignore by @LiteraryNobody
• Building Your Book/Author Website via @QueryTracker
• Self-Publishing Promotion: Why the best thing for sales is to give books away for free by @cathryanhoward

Motivation and Inspiration

• Rejected By 40 Publishers, A Great Self-Published Book You’d Never Have Known About via @selfpubreview
• Great #LitChat from 6/21 on Indie Authors & Self-Publishing — 705 tweets in one hour! via @LitChat
• How Self-Publishing Can Lead to a Real Book Deal via Forbes.com
• Baring It All: We can’t get better unless we get vulnerable.  by  jodyhedlund

Perspectives & Resources

• An Open Letter to Amazon – Revisited. by @JohnBetcher
• Year Zero Writers: Indie fest/celebration of excellence via @agnieszkasshoes!
• When anyone can be a published author via Salon.com

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The Art and Craft of Writing

• Writing Basics: Write What You Know via @Bubblecow
• Are You Setting The Wrong Writing Goals? via @bubblecow
• Vary the ending clauses in your sentences via @elizabethscraig
• The ominous rise of 2nd person via @elizabethscraig
• Focus Groups and Pre-Readers by @JohnBetcher
• Do you know what you characters want? via AuthorCulture

Motivation & Inspiration

• Authors: 5 Ways You Can Be Your Own Alchemist via @thecreativepenn
• Get Wild – How to Set Your Creative Beast Free via @WriteToDone
• Self-publishing and the meandering route to success via @SueCollier
• Write Your Novel an Hour a Day by @dirtywhitecandy
• Struggling With Feelings of Failure by @jodyhedlund
• Field Notes From a Published and Self-Published Author via @writing_novels

Marketing and Promotion

• Do Readers Want to Read Your Work or Do You Wish They Did? via @hopeclark
• How to balance writing and promotion via @scottsigler
• Examples of writers getting their blogs right via @liakeyes
• Book Promotion Tips for Skittish Sellers via @elizabethscraig
• Not Self-Promoting—Self-Alienation via 1st Turning Point

Resources

• 10 Fabulous Articles for Writers & Other Cool Stuff This Week by @JaneFriedman
• Getting Book Reviews – Submission Guidelines for 21 Top Book Reviewers from Paul Krupin via @JohnBetcher

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