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Publishing Links – Paragraph Bombs and the Editor's 30 Percent

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Happy Friday, loyal readers and visitors future loyal readers!

It has been a crazy week, from figuring out that Dan Brown is lately more popular than the Bible to learning that the Hulk is now a literary critic. My favorite Lit Crit Hulk observation: “HULK KNOW IT PASSE TO COMPLAIN ABOUT TWILIGHT FRANCHISE, BUT HULK STILL WANT TO SMASH EVERY GROWNUP HULK SEE ON TRAIN READING THAT CRAP.”

(Hello, Xbox?  Wii?  Marvel Superheroes vs. Twilight characters, please.)

So, a crazy week, but you know what’s not crazy?  Checking out this week’s links from publishing industry pros:

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Publishing Roll – Reading Fees, First Pages, and Weird Words

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“So why,” you ask, “do you keep alternating the name of these round-ups between ‘links’ and ‘roll’?”

“Because sometimes they are spicy and meaty, and other times just a hearty helping of carbs!” 😀

You sigh at my dumb joke, and click the link below to see this week’s awesome publishing links. 

On a roll.

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Publishing Roll – Rewrites, Talking Animals, and Theme Songs

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Remember when you first heard the phrase “Happy Hump Day”?  You were probably a teenager, as this is a work-world phrase and in the teenage years we start to be exposed more and more to the work-world realities from which children are relatively insulated.

And remember how disappointed your adolescent self was to learn that the “hump” only referred to the “hump in the middle of the week”?  Well, Happy Hump Day anyway.

On to the roll!

Alan Rinzler at The Book Deal offers tips to writers on how to make the most of a rewrite.

At the Magical Words fantasy fiction blog:
Stuart Jaffe explains how to develop characters in vng-the-most-out-of-a-rewrite-tips-for-authors/”>how to make the most of a rewrite.

At the Magical Words fantasy fiction blog:
Stuart Jaffe explains how to develop characters in very little space,
Misty Massey tackles talking animals (well… she tackles the subject of writing about them), and
David B. Coe posts part X of the “Writing Your Book” series: The Read-Through.

S. W. Vaughn at Murder By 4 asks, “What’s your novel’s theme song?”

Also, for anything interested in reading, watching, or writing “sword and sandals” fantasy or historical fiction, Meghan Sullivan has a great blog on Greek antiquity called Ancient Musings.  Check it out!

Publishing Links – Medieval Militaries, Online Bookselling, and Writing Sex

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A little history/archaeology news before we move on to the publishing links.  A dig in Coventry has uncovered a 13th Century copper badge displaying the three lions of the English Coat of Arms.

This is particularly intriguing to me, as the intertwined history of badges and heraldic symbols (particularly animals) is central to the Observer Tales.

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