Go Where the Pain & Pleasure Is

I found this video today and I think she gives good advice.

Go to the Pain - think back to the painful experiences you've had, and write from there.

Go to the Pleasure - she says to write what YOU enjoy, write what you want.

She talks about publishing and it's a bit more encouraging than talks on publishing are sometimes. I'm not a hundred percent sure about self-publishing - that's a choice for us all individually - but check out her video and see what you think.

Welcome Zina Petersen to YPublish!

Zina Petersen is our new faculty advisor for the club! We are so happy to have her, and excited to learn from her experience. She shared some websites that might be interesting to take a look at - including blogs from authors and editors.

http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/

http://jscottsavage.blogspot.com/

http://www.ulfelder.com/category/blog/

http://www.garycorby.com/

http://jeffreysomers.com/blather/

http://misssnark.blogspot.com/

http://absolutewrite.com/

We also discussed possible connections with Gibbs Smith publishing, and we hope you all will consider querying Gibbs Smith in the future. :)

http://www.gibbs-smith.com/