Moving days

From now on, head on over to Krasnaya Ekra for all your literary needs. And other nibbles as well.

See you there!

 

Wel…come

50 Word Fiction

Cute idea. He’s probably got a huge stockpile of prompts somewhere.

And another…

Micro Fiction

These are even better. I wish she updated more recently though.

 

Snarky

I’ve jumped on the Miss Snark bandwagon, albeit more than a year late, but the archives are a priceless vault of information nonetheless. Everything you want to know about publishing is there for free, and debunks tons of rumors and bad advice spread by how-to publishing guides. Every wannabe author should read this blog.

Miss Snark

 

Rejected

I subscribe to Writer’s Digest and worship the Internet so naturally, when they published a list of top sites and resources for writers I pounced on it, especially the blogs. One blog in particular, The Rejecter (see the RSS feed below and to the right!) strikes me as particularly useful. The Rejecter is a literary agent’s assistant, and her job is to sift through the piles of query letters and reject most of them. Her blog answers questions from writers who email her directly, but more importantly, points out blunders in queries and provides a window into what the first crucial step into the publishing world is like.

 

Blog Search Part 2

Now that I’ve searched through the tags, here goes the blogrolls and links contained within the chosen blogs themselves. Thus begins narrowing down the useful ones.

A quick scan of Scathing Book Reviews links another blog I chose, goody, and blasts “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” which I rather liked.

Moments in Erasure mixes it up with Rudyard Kipling next to Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Attack of the 50-Foot Book also links to One Minute Book Reviews and Dog Ear Diary, a more personal take on reviewing work.

The Book Eater has a long blogroll, and a lot of the blogs’ names start with “book” which would seem promising. But the four I clicked on weren’t what I’m looking for.

One Minute takes more than a minute to go through, it’s interesting enough. I logged onto it in the midst of the “Delete Key Awards,” which seem to be like the anti-Oscars for books, and its writer (a professional in the publishing world it seems) includes the excerpts which qualify their books for the award. The writer, Janice Harayda, oddly refers to herself and the blog itself in the third person, and puts a copyright symbol underneath each and every post. Internal links include the GalleyCat.

The last item on the list, Read it or Weep, gets to stay because the librarians who run it have a large audience of people they interact with in real life every day, and those people probably aren’t looking for something high-concept to read on their lunch breaks.

 

Blog Search Part 1

I took a look at each blog on the first page of the “recent posts” under each tag and picked the following:

Poetry
Noah the Great is local.
Ocellus uses wordplay.
Monday’s Verse reviews.
Nectarfizz is multigenre.

Literature
Moderato is high art.
Moments in Erasure excerpts.
Scathing Book Reviews is self-explanatory.

Short Stories
Art of Storytelling is wordy.
Attack of the 50 Foot Book has little pictures of books.
The Book-Eater is hungry.

Classics
One Minute Book Reviews are pithy.

Books
Bertram’s Blog is educational.
Urban Fantasy Land has lots of links.

Writing
An Unreliable Narrator uses profanity.

Fiction
The Books of my Numberless Dreams is high-concept.
Read it or Weep is by a library reference staff.