Thanks, I really liked Ken Schneyer's SFF Podcasts post. Mostly, it made me feel guilty for being so far behind on my podcast listening and audiobooks..but hey! It was a great post, and I love it that he mentioned John Joseph Adam's new podcast Lightspeed coming out soon. (he's a friend and client of mine!)

Great reference list as always Jon, thanks!

As always, great selection. Cliche cracked me up. And it was much the same thing you said about using pop culture references. Used right, they can really enhance a story.

thanks!

What I'm putting here is a link to American Swastika, which was co-authored by a prof from my Alma Mater. I'm posting it because everyone has noticed by now that I'm constantly on about buying my book (as well as others' books) and posting a review, and I want everyone to see how easy that is. See my review of Amerian Swastika? It's the shortest one.

You don't have to be a lit major, or a journalist, to write an effective review. Just give a book 4 or 5 stars, unless you really don't like it, and two or three concise sentences. (Brevity is the soul of persuasion, as well as wit and underwear.) And not only do people read those reviews, they happen across them while googling.

Well, thank you (in advance) for that :)

I've only had time to glance at a few of these, but a few comments:

* It might be more helpful to link to grayrose's LJ rather than that single post, as I had to hunt several entries down to find out *what* they are looking for.

* The podcasts is a good entry. I subscribe to a few of them, but I really don't have time to listen to everything I subscribe to, more's the pity.

* Nathan Bransford makes the comment, "Agents existed in the era when publishers still accepted direct submissions from authors," which is pretty funny given how many publishers still do (among large publishers: Tor, Ace/Roc, Baen, and quite a number of mystery publishers as well). I know it's not in his interests to encourage writers to submit to publishers themselves, but spreading disinformation, even by implication, is not helpful.

Sorry about the name thing. I thought I'd put a link direct to Stone tellings 'Guidelines' page, but clearly I hadn't.

It's all fixed now :)

Enjoyed the one on clichés--and also Miss Stacy's Moby Dick one.

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Yes, yes. Take it as read. What I said last time. Move along...

Thanks very much for the link. I enjoyed Nathan Bransford's post as well.

Catherine

Thanks for the aswiebe post--I'm sending it to BD, who's an aspiring SF/fantasy writer.

great links! interestingly i had read some of them during the week.

nah. your net is plenty big. i think it was a fluke.