Writer Wednesday Blog Hop #19

Every week I weed through over 100 blogs, looking for writing advice and new and interesting books to read. Considering how time consuming this is, I share the posts I find the most interesting here every week. If you’d like me to add your blog to my feeder or a link from my weekly tour, leave a comment on the most current tour or send me a link via Twitter @by_wjhoward.

All About Writers

• On Enchanted by Books, Guest Author Carolyn Crane & Giveaway! discusses the "Top 6 cool things about being a series author that I never expected"

Books I Want to Read

Book reviews that caught my eye this week, and the books that got added to my GoodReads to-read list:

• On Bookgasm, Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer — and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets AND I Am Not a Serial Killer AND Tooth and Claw
• NEW FAV On Book Lovers, Review: Unholy Ghosts by Stacia Kane +Giveaway
• Looks like a pretty good list on Farm Lane's Book Blog in The Best Literary Science Fiction Books?

All About Writing & Publishing

• Platform, Shmatform on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing shows you don't have to be an established author to be a top seller.
• NEW BLOG On Guide to Literary Agents, 7 Tips on Book Publicity. I also watch Livia Blackburne's blog and she provides excellent advice. On her blog, How to Get (and Keep) People's Attention was a great read this week
• On 1st Turning Point, Marketing Before Publication? How About Before It’s Written?
• On Biting Edge, Writers and Readers...what we owe each other
• Fear was a focus on Copyblogger in Is F.E.A.R. Holding You Back? AND 7 Quick-Start Techniques for Fighting the Fear to Write
• On Editorial Ass, How to Throw an Awesome Book Launch
• On Passion on Paper by Gina Leigh Maxwell, Terrible Twos-day: Word Count vs. Words That Count
• On Wordplay, 8 Ways Longhand Writing Frees Your Muse
• On Richard Dansky's blog, Seven Things You Should Always Ask A Writer. We used the question about which book you wished you'd written this week on Vamplit Writers
• On Leterary Agent Rachelle Gardner's blog, Getting People to Read Your Book

Weekly Features

• Book Blogger Hop at Crazy for Books
• Follow Friday for blogs at Parajunkee's View
• Literary Agent, Nathan Bransford's This Week in Publishing is a blog tour of sorts. I also enjoyed What Makes a Great Setting
• Win on Wednesday on All Things Urban Fantasy
• This week's Where Stories are Made: Keri Arthur over at Book Chick City
• NEW On Book Lovers Inc., Around the Bookish World: News Week-in-Review
• On Overbury Ink, Number 38, part 5 by Ian Eliot LeWinter

Join the Hop

Are you highlighting writers and books in your blog for Writer Wednesday? Then add your blog to my new blog hop link group.