Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers

Just letting you all know that I’ll be offline until mid-July, so there will be no Inkygirl updates until then. – Debbie

I’ve heard good things about �Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation� (Gotham; $17.50) by Lynne Truss and plan to pick up a copy. Louis Menand of The New Yorker, however, is unapologetically critical of the bestseller: “The main rule in grammatical form is to stick to whatever rules you start [...]

Not sure about the rest of you, but I drool at the idea of the “smart-paper” technology used in Neal Stephenson’s book, The Diamond Age, where the content of the “paper” can change in a few seconds. I recall reading about so-called “electronic paper” a while back, and decided to check up on what’s going [...]

Although I may not agree with everything in John Ewing’s essay, Copyright and Authors, I have to admit that it’s definitely thought-provoking. “The problem of copyright is not author rights � the problem is balance. Copyright is control, with a purpose. Copyright controls the dissemination of works in order to provide incentives to create [...]

Time has a very interesting article about the growing popularity of blogs. “Over the past five years, blogs have gone from an obscure and, frankly, somewhat nerdy fad to a genuine alternative to mainstream news outlets, a shadow media empire that is rivaling networks and newspapers in power and influence. Which raises the question: Who [...]

Getting Booked and Printed by Penny Warner is a list of promotion tips for authors. I like this resource because it helps coach an author on what makes his/her book special by asking questions like “How is your book different from others?” as well as offering specific promotion tips.