How Not To Write

Roger Morris (R.N. Morris) is a crime writer in the UK. He posted this great video of the “Writer’s Life” on YouTube, Like Roger, I am hoping that my coffeepot will write my next book. (I kid. I kid because I love. I wish I had half the guts to [...]

No doubt, everyone has read or heard about the recent Cassie Edwards Fiasco and the Seinfeld Cookbook Scandal. Well, the ladies over at smartbitchestrashybooks.com (who broke the Cassie Edwards story) have a recommendation for readers who want to do something about plagiarism:

… I advocate a method that works, and works astoundingly well, and has [...]

I’m the sort of fellow who always wonders if the model can be changed, adjusted, tweaked. And so, with all the major shifts in the world of publishing (books, magazines, newspapers), I’m wondering if it isn’t time for me to explore the possibility of creating my own micro publisher.

Congratulations, Nancy!
Sweat the Small Stuff By Nancy Redd:
Who would have guessed that an article I sold for $200 the first month after subscribing to WritersWeekly.com would lead to a six-figure book deal seven months later? Certainly not me, but after all, that’s the exciting thing about a writing career - one never knows what opportunities [...]

So, Leo at Zen Habits is giving away the contents of his book and his website. He’s released the lot of it into the public domain and you can do as you see fit.
Open Source Blogging: Feel Free to Steal My Content:
I get a lot of emails asking me for permission to reprint Zen [...]