A Quandry Filled Week in Review

Well, it’s not filled with quandry. Let’s call it 1/5 full.

I’m starting off our weekly review the way I was planning to last week, by drawing attention to a contest being held by LLBookReview. They’re due to review their 100th book very soon and are celebrating that fact by holding a contest wherein readers can decide which (from a list of six books) will be the Lucky 100th reviewed. In addition, everyone who posts a comment here is eligible to win a copy of that 100th book. Pretty cool, right?

So, where’s the quandry? Well, my novel is one of the six in the running, a fact I wasn’t aware of until last Sunday afternoon; a full four days after I had written up my original notes for this post. I decided to risk looking like a self-serving ass by going ahead and drawing attention to the contest anyway, because I think it’s a great way for our readers to be exposed to some good self-published books - and possibly to win one of those books. Also because I really like LLBookReview and want to send our readers their way. So if you get a chance, head on over and vote for your favorite book. And don’t forget to comment.

And now on to the remaining quandry-less 4/5 of my weekly review.

•  Our own Moriah Jovan was moonlighting over at Teleread with a review of Atlantis Word Processor. ( “I don’t demand things for free, but if they’re out there and they’re free and they work right, I’m all for it.”)
• Over at Writinghood, John Harmon gives some sage advice with To Succeed At Writing, Develop A Thick Skin.  ( “Sometimes the spark will be lit and you’ll feel everything is going just right and every word you’re putting down is perfect, perfect, perfect. Then you finish the piece and set it aside for a month or so. You look at it again and, lo and behold, it sucks. I mean it sucks big time.”)
• We all know how important social networking is to indie writers. But what if we spend so much time with the networking that we don’t get any writing done? Mary Jaksch has some suggestions of how to overcome this problem in her post How To Stop Digital Fiddling and Start Writing.
• And finally, Joanna Penn posted a video in which she evangelizes about the wonders of Print On Demand.

As always, feel free to drop any relevent links you’ve discovered in the comments section of this post.

Just a reminder that submissions for July’s Creative Works is still open. For more information on how to submit a piece, click this pretty link.

Have a great weekend!