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Cathy Day's course in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University
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Being Online
- 11 Essential Ingredients for Blog Posts
- 44 Hashtags for Authors
- 7 Ways to Write Your Twitter Bio
- Being My Own Book Publicist
- Building Lasting Traffic
- Building Your Profile
- Creating a Professional Online Presence (for Grad Students)
- Grad student Wordpress website (sample)
- If Publicity Doesn't Sell Books, What Does?
- Online Etiquette or Literary Citizenship 101
- Popularity is NOT the point
- Professor Grades Students by their Klout Score
- Sarah Wells Introduction to LitCitizenship
- Social Media Infographic Cheat Sheet
- Step by Step Guide to Social Media Success
- The Blog is Dead
- Why Authors Tweet
- Writing in a Changing World
Publishing 1: Writer to Publisher
- All is Not Vanity: The Rise of Literary Self Publishing
- Authors Feel Pinch
- How to Get Your Book Published
- How to Write a Book Proposal
- Independent Publishers and the Future of Books
- Mishka Shubaly on Self Publishing
- Roxane Gay on her micropress
- Self Published Author FAQ
- Small Press and Self Publishing: Who's "Indie"
- Small Presses, according to Wikipedia
- The Dark Side of Do it Yourself
- World of Publishing–Roundup of Links
Publishing 2: Publisher to Reader
- Finding self-published needles in the haystack
- Helpful Definitions for Modern Authors
- How People Discover Books Online by Goodreads
- How to Use Twitter to Connect with Readers
- Social Media for Authors: In Search of Buzz
- The Future of Independent Publishing
- What/How/Why Books Sell Everything you wanted to know about book sales
- Why Small Presses Matter: Paul Harding on the Rocky Road to the Pulitzer
- World of Publishing–Roundup of Links
Reviewing Others
- American Book Review on FIRES OF OUR CHOOSING
- Charles Baxter's "Owl Criticism"
- Criticism vs. Consumerism
- GIFs, memes, and liveblogging: the controversial new language of book reviewing
- How to Spot a Phony Book Reviewer
- How to Vet Book Reviewers
- How to Write a Book Reivew
- How to Write Amazon Reviews
- John Updike's Rules for Reviewing Books
- Prepub Reviews: What are they, and why are they important?
- Reviews and Recommendations by College Seniors
- Siegel on the Death of Negative Reviews
- The Making of a Bestseller
- Three rules for book reviews
- Twitter and the Lit Critic
- Why Reviewing Books Matters
- Why Teach Book Reviewing? Robin Becker teaches Lit Cit
- Writerly or Creative Criticism
Ethics of Reviewing
- Amazon Reviews
- Authors Behaving Badly: How I Pissed Off Legions of Emily Giffin Fans
- Blogging Ethics
- Has Twitter Made Book Reviewers Too Nice?
- His Biggest Fan was Himself
- Niceness is Beside the Point
- Reviewers for Hire Meet Demand for Online Raves
- Round up of Book Reviewing Controversies
- The e-book that Launched a Flame War
- Wikipedia and Citizenship Pedagogy
- Will You Still Like Me if I Tell You the Truth?
- Writing Negative Reviews–it's complicated
Interviewing Others
- A Paris Review interview
- A self interview
- Blog interview
- Blog Interview 2
- History of Author Interviews
- Hobart interview
- Interview in FWR
- Interview series "How to Become a Writer" by Kelcey Parker
- JCO's complaint about interviews
- Why Small Presses Matter: Paul Harding on the Rocky Road to the Pulitzer
- Words with Writers by Marissa Bell Toffoli
Lit Mags & Journals 101
Literary and Commercial
What Comes Next?
- 11 Reasons Why You Won't Get Hired
- A Creative Writers Transferable Skills
- Author Services business
- Cold-emailing your dream employer
- Cover Letters from Hell
- Freelance Copywriting
- Graduate School for Creative Writers A round up of links
- How to be a Professional Editor
- How to Become a Literary Agent
- Independent Editors and Ms. Evaluators
- Jobs at Creative Agencies
- Manuscript consulting
- Proofreading
- Skloot on Querying
- The MFA Day Job
- The Writer's Job A blog about writing and making a living
- Writing/Editing = "Content Creation"
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