Writers and Editors

Overview:
GREAT READS
• A+ blogs (a blogroll)
• Book news, reviews, and author interviews
• Books for book groups
• Books for writers and editors
• Great search links (fact-finding, fact-checking, conversion tables, and news and info resources)
• Memoirs (recommended reads)
• Narrative nonfiction (long-form journalism, e-singles, online aggregators)

BOOK AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
• Acquiring, selling, and swapping books
• Agents and book proposals
• Book collaboration and ghostwriting
• Collaboration and ghostwriting
• Communicating and marketing online (Web 2.0--Blogs, social media, SEO, podcasts, survey tools, and online games)
• Freelancing, contracting, telecommuting (creative entrepreneurs)
• Getting published (starting out)
• Great covers sell books, but what makes for a great cover?
• Job banks, publishing marketplaces
• Marketing, publicity, promotion (blogs, video, intelligent radio programs)
• Publishing (and e-publishing)

• Secrets of successful book titles and covers
• Self-publishing and print on demand (POD, indie publishing, digital publishing)
• So, You Want to Write a Book! (Sarah Wernick, updated)

WRITERS AND CREATORS
• Adding images, sound, story, humor, animation (maps, graphs, cartoons, audio and visual storytelling, songs--visualizing data)
• Awards, grants, and fellowships (plus contests and other sources of funding)
• Conferences, workshops, and other learning places for writers (including book fairs, writers colonies, residencies, retreats)
• Corporate and technical communications
(Copywriting, speechwriting, marketing, training, and writing for government)
Fiction writing (literary and commercial, including genre)
• Films, plays, and documentaries
• Journalism and journalists
• Local and regional organizations and events
• Major writers organizations
• Mastering multimedia (writing, reporting, equipment, software)
• Media pros and other allied professionals (translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers)
• Memoir, biography, and corporate history
• Nonfiction (including essays, academic writing, and food writing)
• Poetry and verse
• Science and medical writing
• Specialty and niche writing (groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, webwriting, and wine, etc.)
• The writing life

ETHICS, RIGHTS, AND OTHER ISSUES
• Copyright, work for hire, and authors' rights issues (fair use, contracts, reversion of rights, Google Books settlement, etc.)
• Ethics, libel, and freedom of the press (plus privacy, plagiarism, libel, banned books, media watchdogs, FOIA, protection for whistleblowers)

EDITORS AND EDITING
• For editors, proofreaders and other publishing professionals
• The difference between a preface, a foreword, and an introduction And the parts of a book: in what order do they appear?
• Style, grammar, diction (editing yourself and others)
• Tips on tact and tone (and the author-editor relationship)

Grant proposal writing and fundraising resources

• Acquiring, selling, and swapping books
• Adding images, sound, story, humor, animation (maps, graphs, cartoons, audio and visual storytelling, songs--visualizing data)
• Agents and book proposals
• Authors' rights and publishers' rights grabs
• Amazon versus book publishers (Do writers win or lose?)
• The art of the pitch
• Arts and poetry organizations
Author interviews (venues for)
• Awards, grants, and fellowships (plus contests and other sources of funding)

• Banned books
• Blog roll
• Blogs, news roundups, and watchdogs for writers and editors
• Book covers: Great covers sells books, but what makes for a great cover?
• Book covers: Secrets of successful covers and titles
• Book fairs, festivals, conferences, and colonies
• Book news, reviews, and author interviews
• Book proposals
• Books for book groups

• Clearing rights and finding rights holders
• Collaboration agreements
• Collaboration and ghost writing
• Conferences, workshops, and other learning places for writers
• Content curation
• Content marketing and custom publishing
• Contract terms for books (including reversion of rights and indemnity clauses)
• Copyright: How, why, and when to register it
• Copyright issues, documents, FAQs, and explanations
• Copyright, work for hire, and authors' rights issues
• Corporate and organizational histories (commissioned histories)
• Corporate and technical communications
• Communicating and marketing online (Web 2.0 and social media)
• Conferences, workshops, and other learning places (including book fairs, writers colonies, residencies, retreats)
• Crowdfunding and other creative sources of funding

• Defamation, libel, and slander
• The difference between a preface, a foreword, and an introduction
• The differences between mysteries, suspense novels, and thrillers

• Ebook basics
• Ebook prices and price wars
• Ebook devices and platforms (publishing services)
• Ebook subscription services
• Editing checklists
• Editors and publishing professionals (resources and organizations for)
• Errors and error rates in editing
• Essays, personal
Ethics, libel, and freedom of the press (plus rights of privacy, publicity, plagiarism, censorship, and related issues)
Eulogies and video tributes

• Fact-checking sites
• Fair use: what it is, how it works
• Fees for freelancing (how much to charge for various functions, products)
• Fiction writing
• Films, plays, and documentaries
• Food writing
• Freelancing, contracting, telecommuting (creative entrepreneurs)

• Getting published (starting out)
• Ghostwriters: how much and how they charge
• Ghostwriting and collaboration (books
• Ghostwriting (fiction)
• Ghostwriting (medical)
• Grant funding and grant proposal writing
• Great brick and mortar bookstores
• Great search links

• Health insurance and disability insurance
• HIPAA, electronic health records, medical privacy laws, and patient rights
• Historical novels, about
• How much to charge (for various functions and types of product)
• How much editors and other publishing professionals charge
• How to calculate your effective hourly rate (EHR)
• How to deal with warranty and indemnification clauses
• How to set your prices as a freelancer or consultant

• Income tax, home office deductions, and IRS how-to's
• Indemnification clauses, how to deal with
• Indexing: why and how
• Indexing, books and sites on
• Interviewing (journalistic, artful)

• Job banks and publishing marketplaces
• Journalism and journalists

• Kinds of editors and levels of edit
• Liability and property insurance
• Library sites and portals
• Local and regional writers organizations

• Macro tools and editing software for editors and proofreaders
• Macros etc. for references, citations, footnotes and endnotes
• Major writers organizations (see also Organization for specific types of writers)
• Marketing, publicity, and promotion
• Marketing your editing and proofreading services
• Mastering multimedia
• Media perils and liability insurance
• Media pros and allied professionals (translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers)
• Medical ghostwriting and ethical issues in medical publishing
• Memoir, biography, and corporate history (and various forms of life writing)
• Memoirs (recommended reading lists)
• Memoirs, coming of age (recommended reading list)
• Memoirs and personal accounts of vocation, avocation, occupation, profession, "calling" (in other words, work)
• Memoirs of regular people (and lives lived outside the limelight)
• Memoirs of friendship, family, and other relationships
• Memoirs, graphic
• Memories and biographies, food-related
• Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival
• MFA literary fiction vs. NYC
• Microsoft Word macros and shortcuts
• Mysteries, suspense, thrillers, and crime novels, including The difference between mysteries, suspense novels, and thrillers


• Narrative nonfiction and long-form journalism, sites and resources
• Narrative nonfiction (classic examples in book form)
• Narrative nonfiction (excellent online examples, short-form)
• Narrative nonfiction (books on the craft, including useful anthologies)
• Narrative nonfiction (resources))
• Nonfiction (including essays, academic writing, and food writing)
• Novels and novelists (and shorter fiction)

• Online games to engage the brain (including learning games for people with cognitive deficits)
• Organizations and sites for biographers, memoirists, personal historians, and other life story writers
• Organizations for corporate, government, and technical communicators
• Organizations for editors, proofreaders, and indexers
• Organizations for fiction writers and fans
• Organizations for ghostwriters and collaborators
• Organizations for journalists
• Organizations for media pros and allied professionals (translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers)
• Organizations for medical and science writers
• Organizations for publishers and booksellers
• Organizations for screenwriters, playwrights, documentary filmmakers, and critics
• Organizations for sports journalists and editors
• Organizations for translators and interpreters
• Organizations for travel writers

• Paris Review interviews with fiction writers
• Piracy
• Plagiarism
• Poetry and verse
• Preface, foreword, or introduction--what's the difference?
• Pricing strategies for creative professionals
• Print-on-Demand (POD) (digital publishing)
• Procrastination, writer's block, creativity, and time and effort management
• Privacy, online privacy, and invasion of privacy
• Publishing (books and ebooks)
• Publishing (books and ebooks)
• Publishing (self-publishing and print on demand, or POD)
• Query letters (pitches) to land an agent or book publisher
• Query letters (pitches) for magazines and newspapers

• Radio programs and podcasts (especially from public radio)
• Recommended for book clubs
• Recording phone interviews
• Reversion of rights to author vs. Rights in perpetuity to publisher
• Rights and permissions (clearing rights in visual arts, in music and sound, and in books, scripts, and screenplay)
• Rights: Authors' rights (and publishers' rights grabs)
• Rights and contracts for academic authors


• Sample contracts and agreements for services
• Scams, bad deals, and other ways to lose money (vanity/​​subsidy publishing, subsidy presses, and author mills)
• Science and medical writing
• Screenwriters
• Self-Publishing (indie publishing)
• Self-publishing and print on demand (POD)
• Shield laws
• Social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, social networking)
So, you want to write a book (Sarah Wernick)
• Specialty and niche writing
• Standing and adjustable-height desks and walkstations
• Starting Out (getting published)
• Storytelling venues
• Style, grammar, and diction (editing yourself and others)
• Style guides, basic
• Style guides, online
• Style guides and dictionaries, discipline- and situation-specific (print and online)
• Style and grammar books
• Subject specialties (animals, autos, bowling, children's books, food, gardens, family history, jazz, résumés, sports, travel, website, wine writing, etc.)'

• Talk shows, radio and TV (the best shows for authors, readers, thinkers)
• Technical writing and editing (technical communications)
• Textbook and academic authors
• Tips on tact and tone (for editors)
• Tools for writers and editors
• Training in editing, proofreading, publishing
• Translators and interpreters, associations for
• Translators and interpreters, for and about
• Travel writing
• The truth about print-on-demand (POD) publishing


• Veterans writing groups and projects

• Well-designed authors' websites (scroll left column)
• What book doctors and consulting editors do
• What editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders do (kinds of edits and levels of edit)
• Where to find editorial work
• Work for hire (aka Works made for hire)
• The writing life
• Writing white papers