Happy Earth Day Everyone!
Click on this amazingly gorgeous snail for more incredible pictures of fauna from the Borneo rain forest – a true tribute to Earth Day!
Interested in a few of the amazing iPad stats:
So you are an author, or you wanna be one? Take a look at these links:
- A very cute poster for children (and adults) which out lines the process to be ready for publishing.
- April 14th 2010 - self publishing writers in the US - numbers defined.
- Here are some great tips for writers.
- And you thought authors and writers play nice? - the darker side of literary reviews.
Here are a few writing gigs:
- A writer’s contest - for general fiction and ends May 1st
- Story Contest for Science Fiction – accepting submission till June 30th
- Accepting submissions at ezine Crossed Genres
And for the readers and bloggers in the group:
- Very cool book challenge - Around the World in Eighty Books
- If you have a blog and would like to be on a great list which has just been published on Shelf Awareness link to Firefly’s Book Blog and sign up. She has a wonderful blog, and is an experienced and articulate blogger.
- Library Advocacy Day is coming up soon. – June 29th.
For the Speculative Crowd:
- Dystopias and Apocalyptic teen reads are hot now – Check this article out. Here's another big list of titles.
- LepriCon 36 in Mesa AZ – May 14th–16th Charles Vess is the guest of honor!
- Phoenix Comic Con – May 27th-30th
- The Shirley Jackson Award Nominee post.
- The Locus Award Finalists (Soulless has been included – Congrats Gail!)
A few giveaways celebrating milestones:
- Author Laurel Rain-Snow is having her two year blogoversary give away, with a number of interesting women’s novels to celebrate. Link to the giveaway here. It ends April 28th.
- Missy at Missy’s Book Nook is also having a 200 follower giveaway. Link here. She's giving away a $20 Amazon gift certificate. It ends April 28th.
Cheers my dears! Until the next link up post have a great day and hug your mother (earth.)
6 comments:
Thanks Shellie -- awesome list! Shirley Jackson is one of my favorite authors (I'd no idea that they had an award in her honor), and I hope the iPad is friendly to Indie publishers. This is a great post today.
Nicole -
I had never heard of Shirley Jackson until a friend told me that the award was in fact better than the Bram Stoker in determining the best dark fiction and horror for the year... we love dark :)
Me too.. since I love indies... but I thought it would be of interest to a few of our readers here... yourself included. But we shall see some of these reporters are just speculating out their...(blankity blanks)and Jobs is no dummy... and appears to be fairly civic minded...
Thanks!
Thanks for another newsy post. You managed to kill about half an hour of my goofing-off time.
I read a story somewhere about other crap going on at Amazon.com by "disgruntled" Kindle readers: if a bunch of them decide a Kindle book is overpriced, they trash the BOOK itself in retailiation, thus hoping to ruin traditional sales.
This whole e-book industry is in a state of flux right now, not to mention the entire publishing industry. It appears to me that people want everything for nothing, and business just doesn't work that way.
Until the whole thing is sorted out, I'm going to limit my reading to the back of my cereal box.
Charlie -
Jeeze - people can be such jerks. It still amazes me the mean stuff humans can come up with. At least disembowelment then hanging and quartering is illegal in this country.
My cereal comes in a plastic bag so that option is out for me.
Thanks for commenting.
Thanks for the link to my Around the World challenge! I try to blog about books or book related subjects every day...or around there...when my toddler doesn't stop me.
I hope some of your readers link up to the reading challenge page and submit titles to add to the reading list. That would be awesome. :-)
Thanks again.
Shelbi -
You are so welcome - Its a great challenge.
I hope this will bring in some takers too. I would love to join the challenge, and maybe I will - just a little swamped right at the moment.
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