17 November 2014 - What's new
17 November 2014
- 'It's a great relief to all parties that Hachette and Amazon have come to an amicable settlement after many months of wrangling in a dispute which has been very much in the public eye, even though it was never made public exactly what the argument was about... News Review this week covers the good news of Amazon and Hachette burying the hatchet.
- Our Writing Opportunity this week is the 2014/15 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition, with a deadline of 28th November 2014; online entries accepted until midnight on the 1st of December 2014. Open to all, £25 entry fee.
- Our Poetry Critique service and Poetry Collection Editing might help you to work out where you've got to with your poetry.
- ‘I'm very conscious that as I get older, I think less nimbly and feel more keenly than I used to. Fingersmith, with its very complicated plot and its big twist, had an energy to it. I don't think I could write a book like that any more. Not that I'd especially want to. What I enjoyed about The Paying Guests was the depth of emotion in it. It was very heartfelt, wrenching to write but satisfying...' This week's Comment is from Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith and The Paying Guests, in the Observer.
- Tips for writers is an eight-part series which goes from Improve your writing to Submisson to agents and publishers, and includes Self-pubishing - is it for you?
- This week's links: a clear summary of the story of the week, Relief at conclusion of Amazon/HBG battle | The Bookseller; a useful overview of fanfiction, Fanfiction and Fandoms: A Primer, A History - Publishing Trends; how middle-aged and well-educated women dominate self-publishing, The Fifty Shades effect: women dominate self-publishing | Books | The Observer; a counter-blast on Self-publishing from a Bookbrunch editor, BookBrunch - Self-publishing: time for a reality check; and defining 'literature', Literary Genre Wars' Secret Truce - Flavorwire.
- A new short story site, Writing Short Fiction, is one of the new recommended links in our links section. Have you got any other favourite sites to recommend?
- 'The literary world is made up of little confederacies, each looking upon its own members as the lights of the universe; and considering all others as mere transient meteors, doomed to soon fall and be forgotten, while its own luminaries are to shine steadily into immortality.' Washington Irving in our Writers' Quotes.
