When we started this blog, we thought we'd link to other author blogs. It soon became evident, however, that we were going to have to do some serious thinking about how to manage the ever-growing list of author blogs. So we divided it up into a couple of categories: Writers who blog mostly about Writing/Publishing (things that might be useful to readers who write) and Writers who blog about writing...and life!
So here is the first installment. Writers on Writing. (If you're looking to find out about your favorite writer's vacation, you have to wait for the second installment.) I've made the arbitrary decision to limit this to writers of genre fiction. If anyone wants to take on the job of creating a set of writing links of other types of writers, we'd be happy to have a "guest blogger" to do the job!
Other limitations: I've spent a great deal of time through the years studying accessibility and design issues. Any site with flashing or scrolling anything, or that requires high bandwidth plug-ins didn't make the list. Any site with frames didn't make the list. Anything hard to navigate didn't make the list. You get the idea.
- A Newbie's Guide to Publishing
J.A. Konrath's excellent blog on the trials and triumphs of being a genre fiction writer. - Confessions of an Idiosycratic Mind
Blog of Sarah Weinman, The Baltimore Sun's crime fiction columnist - Criminal Brief
James Lincoln Warren, Leigh Lundin, Angela Zeman, Steven Steinbock, Deborah Elliott-Upton, Robert Lopresti, and Melodie Johnson Howe chime in on a blog so much fun it's criminal - Jungle Red: Writing Well Is The Best Revenge
Blog of Rosemary Harris, Hallie Ephron, Hank Phillippi Ryan and Jan Brogan - And Another Thing...
blog of Irish thriller writer and journalist John Connolly - Two Pages Away From Greatness
Dawn Hawkins Johnson on putting words in order - Inkspot
blog of various authors with books published by Midnight Ink - All The World's A Page
group blog of authors and editors on writing and publishing - Storytellers Unplugged
30 writers, editors, booksellers and other industry pros - 101 Reasons To Stop Writing
Sean Lindsay's hilarious blog on why you shouldn't bother - Crime Fiction Dossier
Blog of crime fiction critic and journalist David J. Montgomery - Janet Koch on trying to become a published mystery writer
- Grumpy Old Bookman
Blog about writing and publishing by UK author Michael Allen - Tess Gerritsen's blog
- Robert W. Walker's blog
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3 comments:
Great job, Laura. Thanks for putting this together. Terrie
Great list with some new ones for me to explore!
What a terrific list! Thank you so much--this was not an easy task, I'm sure. And here's me, blushing with pride, to be part of it. We have fun at Jungle Red Writers, and try to be a good resource for our fellow writers.
We're now discussing whether there's such a thing as the "writer's dream"--like the student's dream or the flying dream.
And interestingly, lots of us have similar dreams. (Not including the best seller list. We all have that..)
Come visit after you finish here..and as for you Women of Mystery, you're an instant short cut on my computer. See you soon!
xo Hank
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