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Write what you know. It's a cliché, but you can turn it upside down--trust your own crazy uniqueness and don't write what everybody else is writing.

If you want to know what everybody else is writing, check out the slush pile title list just released by excellent, and I mean excellent, Virginia Quarterly Review.

It's a rare glimpse into the rejection pile, revealing that "the ten most common titles of submissions" were about memories, fires, divine inspiration, and rebirth.

This one is for all the science fiction buffs, the kids who never quite grew up, and the fans of childhood movies. The Last Starfighter: The Musical! The SciFi Scanner has links to Starfighter video game and soundtrack for the true believers. (Thanks, SF Signal)

Finally, Paper Cuts just re-reviewed Cormac McCarthy's hardboiled crime classic, No Country for Old Men. His link to a McCarthy essay in The Believer has riled up the comments section, it's worth reading this literary squabble about the merits of this tough-as-nails writer. 

Writers have all these amazing technologies at their disposal, but too many of us sit around blaming them for ruining the business.

Ed Champion and James Marcus reported from the Columbia Journalism School debate about the future of book reviewing last night. I was stuck at my day job, so I couldn't bring you the scoop.

Champion celebrated the panelists who look forward, rather than throwing stones at the bloggers. Check it out:

"At least Mark Sarvas was open about the technological chasm... [he] observed the Guardian’s audience of 23 million, positioned through its online reorganization. He had choice words to say about the Los Angeles Times‘ failure to obtain a synthesis between print and online, citing the 'failure of imagination' in its execution."

If you're looking for webby inspiration, the lovely Caitlin Shamberg passes along a link to the most useful blog I've seen in months: Fact Checker. Every single genre of literary criticism needs this level of support and research, and only the Internet can provide it.

Finally, LitKicks put together a killer email discussion about book pricing, featuring Tao Lin and Sarah Weinman and Ron Hogan.

Can blogs build homes for long-form literary criticism?

I struggle with that question every day, trying to come up with an acceptable balance of smart content and speedy delivery. Like the first silent movie directors, we are playing with a medium that has no rules.

Someday all these debates will be settled, but until then, all fledgling writers should read this essay about blogged criticism up at The Reading Experience: 

"If blog detractors were to sample, say, the shorter posts sometimes offered by Steve Mitchelmore (This Space) or on a regular basis by Jonathan Mayhew, they would surely see that "deliberate analysis" can occur in shorter, more compacted blog posts as readily as in the conventionally drawn-out critical essays they champion." (Thanks, Ed Champion)

How much should you write every day? The MFA Blog suggests we try the daunting, but powerful, goal of 750-1000 words every day. That's right kids. Every day.

Over at The Valve, Adam Roberts is debating novelist Cory Doctorow about the future of books. Roberts imagines a happy day when his books all fit on a delightful reader like music on an iPod. Dig it:

"I can’t imagine how I put up with such a wasteful and onerous method of music storage as CDs for so long.  I could certainly imagine doing something similar with books; I’d buy an iReader, codeX, bookloader, ePod or whatever these devices will be called, store everything I need on a block-sized piece of memory hardware rather than on, well, three whole rooms of my small house."

Do you remember the giddy thrill of book fairs and book orders in grade school? As a kid, I used to live for those days when some bookseller would brings cases full of the newest Hardy Boys books to my school.

Over the weekend, the Brooklyn Book Festival made me feel the same way. I saw so many cool people: Rachel Fershleiser from Smith Magazine, author A.M. Homes, editor and novelist Ed Park.

A.M. Homes won my Best Advice for Fledgling Writers Award, telling Brooklyn writers to pay attention to the economics of their characters. Questions like "How do they earn money?" and "How do they spend money?" are equally important as questions like "Where do they live?"

I missed Ed Champion and Matthew Cheney, and Matthew missed Ed too, but he turned the whole experience into an existential crisis:

"I never saw Ed. Sure, there were 10,000 people at the festival, but still. If anybody can stand out amidst 10,000 people, it's Ed. I think one of us doesn't exist."

Fantasy novelist Robert Jordan has died. I spent many happy days buried under blankets and reading his fantasy series, Wheel of Time. I never even finished the gosh darn collection, but the experience of reading him was truly satisfying. Rest in Peace.

Are you writing in the wrong genre? 

Short story writer and essayist Steve Almond just wrote an essay about how he figured out he wasn't a poet. It's an unexpected tribute to C.K. Williams poetry:

"Somehow, in the midst of manifest suffering, he managed to capture the rescuing beauty of the world. The flashing yellow beak of a blackbird. A box of foil-wrapped chocolate eggs. The bulges and crevasses of his baby's naked body."

USA Today just named the Top 25 Headlines from the last 25 years. It's a good way to think about your writing--how can you account for these earth-shaking moments in your fiction and non-fiction?

Over at PaperCuts, Tom Perrotta just delivered a musical playlist for writers. He ties together a few seemingly unrelated songs, thematically and story-wise. Give it a listen.

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

Putting their enthusiasm for William Gibson to good use, science fiction fans have re-invented the critical wheel.

BookNinja reports how some webby readers created a carefully tagged collection of criticism that acts more like an A.I. Book Reviewing Machine than a boring old archive of reviews.

Dig it (along with a 1980's programming reference):

"an aggregator of sorts that organizes searchable critical reception on his new novel, Spook Country, into a “cloud” of responses that record reading paths through the novel. The article’s author thinks this could be the future of literary criticism. I am getting sort of dizzy thinking about it."

SlushPile has some simple advice that most writers don't think about until it is too late. BACK UP YOUR WORK!

Over the weekend, author Peter Sacks has a heartbreaking and inspiring essay about the mid-list authors who toil in the thankless corners of the publishing industry. It's a reality-check for all fledgling writers:

"Meanwhile, a thousand splendid authors, working in relative obscurity, have written a thousand splendid books that you will never hear about. We splendid authors dwell on the dark side of the publishing world, clinging to our precious bones of good news."

From our discussion with bandleader/novelist Willy Vlautin to my Best Music of 2006 Post, I love writing about how music can change your writing process.

Today, Miranda July is over at the Papercuts blog, sharing her favorite music. The atmosphere of indie music infuses her films and short stories in a really powerful way, and you should give her inspiring playlist a listen.

According to The Millions, writer George Saunders has a new blogging gig. He's one of the only living authors who can make me laugh out loud, so dig it:

"Saunders is taking up residence at the Powell's Blog this week as he embarks on a book tour promoting his latest (released today), The Braindead Megaphone. To my knowledge, it is Saunders' first foray into blogging, a format we discussed nearly two years ago (scroll down)."

Over at Poetry Hut, Jilly muses about a new poetry web round-up that forgets to mention her daily resource. I'm here to say that you need to check out both sites, they both deserve your attention: "Poetry Blog-O-Rama (but not this one hahahaha. hmmm. I guess I’m not doing something right - it’s been 4 years of posting poetry news mostly every day & not even a blip on anyone’s radar LOL. I have to think about that.)"

After years of reading and thinking about The Believer magazine, I finally landed my first story in one of my all-time favorite magazines (MediaBistro asked me how I did it). If you get a chance, check out my new piece, "Skinning the Americans," about horrific radio horror dramas:

"I discovered an eerily similar story buried in a sixty-year-old radio program. Recorded in 1942 for the radio show Lights Out, the drama was broadcast under familiar circumstances: one year after a terrorist attack on Pearl Harbor and one year into an uncertain war. The show opened with radio writer Arch Oboler warning his audience: 'We urge you calmly, but very sincerely, if you frighten easily, turn off your radio now.'"

Now that you've wrapped up a summer of breezy beach reads, you might want to check out The World's Longest Book--a three million page opus by Richard Grossman that will be coming to performance spaces around the world. (Thanks, Millions)

After you sick of hearing how bloggers are only good for opinions and news aggregation? Ed Champion spotted these essays about some hard-hitting bloggers (like Ed) who aren't afraid to interview, chase sources, or report a story. Follow all three links for blogging gold: "Jay Rosen on the journalism that bloggers do. And here’s more from Scott Rosenberg. (Latter link via Books, Inq.)"

Are you friends with your sources?

The Huffington Post explores a tricky twist of digital-era journalism, comparing different articles about the ethics of being Facebook friends with your sources. Ben Smith at Politico says "No way," and Poynter.org and CBC agree. Nevertheless, the HP has a way to avoid the question all together:

"It appears Ben isn't at all familiar with Facebook's privacy settings, which allow you to, you know, not let others see who your friends are!"

Journalism professor Mindy McAdams writes about two newspaper journalists who maintain regular blogs, exploring the gradual convergence of print and digital journalism. 

You ain't gonna make it in this business without an agent. Jeff VanderMeer, as always, has some simple, clear advice about finding the best agent for you and your book. Here's a taste:

"The best advice I got with regard to agents was to look around at authors whose books and careers I admired–ones who I thought I could emulate career-wise–and then ask those authors who their agents were, and if they’d recommend them."

How many journalism jobs are there, really? 

Over at the PBS blog, MediaShift, journalist Mark Glaser has some encouraging news for fledgling writers. He claims that there are plenty of journalism jobs to be had, we are just looking in the wrong places. 

Dig it (especially his booming comments section): 

"[W]hile Tribune Co. has been in the news for all its devastating cuts to the L.A.Times staff, there’s still a selection of 85 interactive job openings at the parent company, including a handful at the Times. Similarly, the MTV cable networks have had far-reaching cuts and reorganizations, yet there are dozens of digital job openings listed online." 

The Urban Muse has a fascinating discussion about kinds of writers. Some of us are suited for long, long pieces, others for short. The essay explores what happens when a sprinter tries to go long.

Jeffrey Yamaguchi brings us news of The Haiku Inferno Book, the spoken-word adventures of a poetry crew. This exciting work comes with a warning wrapper and everything. Go read the post.... 

The war is over. Finally literary bloggers and literary newspaper sections are combining forces, instead of fighting with each other.

You can see the truce in effect over at Ed Champion's site. He just interviewed science fiction pioneer William Gibson for his blogged Bat Segundo Show, and then published a review of Rupert Thomson's novel in the Los Angeles Times in the same weekend.

Emdashes blogged a killer reading list that will teach any fledgling writer a masters level course about short fiction. Here's the intro:

"I propose a new category: works of fiction that originally appeared in The New Yorker that later took on a life of their own apart from the magazine."

Our buddy Jeffrey Yamaguchi has initiated a lunchtime revolution, and I'm joining tomorrow. You should too, because after this GalleyCat post we should see the insides of plenty of literary lunches.

"Yamaguchi has also created a public "Brought My Lunch" photo pool, and whoever posts the best photo by this Friday, August 31, will receive three creativity-themed books and possibly some lunchtime accessories."

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

Does one misspelled word a poem make?

Our intrepid reporter friend Ian Daly asks that question in a Poetry Foundation cover story about the controversial one-word poem by Aram Saroyan: "lighght." This description of the poem alone is worth the price of admission:

"Take away one 'gh' and it would pass straight through you—add another, and its starkness is lost. Repeating the “t” in the middle would be like dropping a rock in the ancient-lake stillness laid out by those four silent consonants. What you’re left with is more sensation than thought. The poem doesn’t describe luminosity—the poem is luminosity."

In sadder news, Editor & Publisher notes that the American Journalism Review is struggling. Like the Columbia Journalism Review, these magazines are lighthouses in the storm that new media created for journalists. Let's not lose our way. (Thanks, Isak!)

Novelist James Patterson is going to build a videogame out of his fast-paced thrillers. All writers should heed his advice as reader-connectivity tools evolve:

"With interactive entertainment, and casual games in particular, now available on mobile phones, PCs and television screens, this is a superb way to connect with my diverse group of readers, and do so with partners that can reach them anytime, in any format." (Thanks, Galleycat!)

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

You can't keep a good novelist down. 

The LA Times reports on the return of Ross Macdonald, the private detective novelist who never got the respect he deserved and in my mind, holds a place in the Hardboiled Holy Trinity of Private Detective Novelists that includes Dashiell Hammett (who pioneered the form) and Raymond Chandler (who perfected the form).

But why take my word for it? Read the story! (Via Ed Champion via Sarah Weinman.)

Grace Paley, short story writer and poet, has died. Her stories have always supercharged my imagination, stretching the boundaries of both form and language. Read her stories and celebrate her life.

Over at Urban Muse, freelance Taylor DiMeglio has some advice about balancing a mountain of writing projects, urging you to just chill out. SlushPile has some similar advice for novelists, urging us to chill out on the research:

"If you’re working on the first draft, if your bit of needed info isn’t absolutely, positively crucial to the entire basis of your story, then skip it and move on."

Where in the world is your book? A string of geographical posts about fictional settings surfaced in my reader today. (Thanks, SF Signal!)

To start things off, Google blogged about how they are slowly "geomapping the world's literary information," and creating a Google map of famous settings from literature.

Then Elegant Variation blogs about the joys of "reading books in the cities where they are set." I did this in New York and Guatemala, and this literary tourism always inspired me. If I had more money, I would spend my life visiting these literary locations.

Dig it:  "I've only done it twice. The second book-and-city combination was Joanna Scott's Arrogance in Vienna. The first was George Eliot's Middlemarch in Rome."

Speaking of money, over at Morning News, Courtney Lichterman has a heartbreaking tale of freelance dental woes. As both a struggling writer and root canal patient, I was riveted by this familiar problem:

"My departure from my last job was a mental health emergency. The job was supposed to be a temporary thing; it had nothing to do with who I was, but it paid the bills until I could find something else ... [soon] the thrill of being “not there” eclipsed the stress of finding temporary work. And then a sequence of little ailments appeared: a recurring headache became a series of debilitating migraines, a bad back from years of slumping in front of a computer; a slight pain in an upper tooth."

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

What happens when your non-fiction subject turns out to be a much different person than you expected?

The NY Times City Room blog has an essay about Joseph Mitchell's awe-inspiring book of literary journalism, Joe Gould's Secret. Read the book. You will thank me. That's all I have to say.

If that's not enough kooky literary characters for you, read about this Cape Cod novelist who wrote an entire fake transcript of his hoax visit to Oprah's book club. The transcript is one of the craziest pieces of fiction I read all week. (Thanks, GalleyCat)

Finally, the San Francisco Bay Guardian Online delivers an insightful essay about Tao Lin, featuring some interesting thoughts about the first generation of novelists weaned on the Internet.

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

I love reading about imaginary books inside of books, imaginary movies inside of books, and any other kind of imaginary text hiding inside a real book. These twisty bits of metafiction make a literary world more textured and mysterious.

The public radio show, To The Best of Our Knowledge, has an entire episode dedicated to metafiction, including interviews with Jorge Luis Borges and Robert Coover--two keystones of my bookshelf. (Thanks, Now What!) 

If metafiction isn't your cup of tea, then try something shorter--flash fiction. Five Easy Questions graduate Jeff VanderMeer has a piece in an Amnesty International-sponsored compilation of short short fiction. Check his sample, then dig the book here.

Finally, Barrett Hathcock has a guest essay up at Conversational Reading about the chronological order of Philip Roth's career. It's worth it for this quote alone, a new way of thinking about your favorite writers:

"I for one hold a special fondness for the chronological listing; it’s like seeing the geological strata in a roadcut in some mountain pass."

What happens when Harry Potter faces the existential void?

The final book of the series has prompted a few prominent reviewers to plug another book series with a darker, but sublime, vision of the child's imagination. If you haven't checked out The Golden Compass series, you should.

The Elegant Variation sums it up:

"Now, to be entirely fair to [Christopher Hitchens's review], we were planning to re-read the His Dark Materials series in advance of this December's film version of The Golden Compass...It's been said too often to bear repeating, but His Dark Materials might aptly be called Harry Potter for Smart Kids or Harry Potter with Good Writing." 

Scott Esposito thinks it might be too soon to write about the Hurricane Katrina disaster in fiction. The Guardian disagrees. Either way, 21st Century writers will be wrestling with this grim decade for the next hundred years.

Happy Birthday Bookninja! Go celebrate four years of nimble, razor-sharp blogged criticism.

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

How do you write on your computer without distractions?

Bud Parr has some excellent advice about how to avoid checking your email and Googling sports scores while writing furiously. His essay Writing in (Computer) Isolation contains a simple way to turn your computer into a word processor program with a dictionary. 

In these days of print-on-demand publication, promotion can become an unhappy burden for any self-supporting writer. Bookseller Chick has some advice for the freelance, self-employed publicist, explaining how to build an online press kit--complete with plenty of links.

Ed Champion picks a fight with Stephen King's thoughts about Harry Potter, part of Bat Segundo's tireless quest to convince book reviewers (however famous) to provide specific examples in their arguments about novels: "But if King cannot offer examples from the text as to why Rowling’s voices work and if he must stick to Bart Simpson-style observations (to claim that the books 'grew as they went along' is to simply observe the rising page count across the volumes) when he has about 1,800 words to rant, then he is clearly not the guy to fulminate on the subject."

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

How do you choose the best material to read out-loud to an audience?

I've spent the last four years researching that question at readings around New York City, and I appreciated the debate now raging at the MFA blog about the subject. Guest blogger Anna Mendoza asks readers "I've found that some of my poems are better read aloud than read on paper, and vice versa. When at an open mike, should I present something that's funny and likely to be crowd-pleasing (even if it's somewhat shallow), or something that's more intellectually substantial but might be hard to get?" Read the responses here.

Ed Champion (happy birthday!) interviews one of the funniest writers I've read in a decade--check out 40 wonderful minutes with novelist Gary Shteyngart, ranging from fat lit to 21st century satire.

Over at his funny, funny blog, Stanley Bing opens the floodgates for airport storytelling. 63 people jumped in already, add your travel story today. "Writers are like doctors, they are always on call," the good man says. Dig it! 

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs after my week-long vacation. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

The Mortal Kombat of writers is headed to New York tonight.

This competitive literary test of reading and writing wits has already caused some problems in San Francisco, so it will be interesting to see how the whole thing goes down in a Manhattan park. Check it out:

"The Literary Death Match returns to New York City on July 25 in Washington Square Park (as part of the Park Lit Series). Reading starts at 6:30, and by 7:45, a champion will be crowned."

While lit bloggers and print literary reviewers duke it out in a real life deathmatch for control of the hearts and minds of readers, novelist Aoibheann Sweeney told Galleycat that she's on the bloggers' side.

"There's something so alive about bloggers; it's like they're writing as soon as they can put the book down, instead of trying to come up with something polished that makes them look smart." Don't expect me to come up with something smart...

They are putting Beowulf on the silver screen with Angelina Jolie and Crispin Glover as the monstrous family of Grendel. High school English will never, ever be the same.

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

Did YouTube kill the political star?

Last night the first installment of the YouTube/CNN presidential debate was waged. I missed it, but Steve Bryant has provided me with a cornucopia of links and analysis. Check it out:

"At one point Barack Obama noticed that almost every question reflected cynicism. Ya think? That right there is the most important YouTube contribution: Demonstrating the anger seething in America...Here's the transcript from the debate. PoliticsTV has a good series of candidate response videos, while the NYTimes' Caucus blog embeds the YouTube question videos."

How will blogs affect literary style? Ed Champion writes in the Los Angeles Times about a new breed of confessional literature spawned by our interactive times. Rachel Kramer Bussel adds more discussion on her blog.

Sarah Weinman reports on the death of the most imaginative newspaper ever stuffed into a supermarket rack. Weekly World News is dead.

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

It's tough finding readers these days. Would you go find them at work?

The SF Chronicle reports that new publicity companies are seeking readers at workplace readings for corporate audiences--staging brown bag lunch readings series or full-fledged presentations at work:

"'At public bookstore events, 10 to 20 percent of the people buy books. At corporate events, 50 to 80 percent buy books and attendance tends to be higher,' she said. Plus, some companies, like Google, buy the books on behalf of their employees, often in orders of a hundred copies or more." (Thanks, Galleycat!)

Over at the West Coast literary journal, ZYZZYVA, editor Howard Junker asked a number of established writers how and where they had their First Time in Print. It's a demystifying look at the early lives of some of our favorite writers. 

Finally, if you are in New York and free tonight at 8 o'clock, I'm reading at the Anthology Film Archives tonight as part of the MDP/Sensei Bazaar--featuring short films, two bands, and three stories. What more could you want? My story was planned so quickly that the flyer spells my name "Jason Bogue" instead of "Jason Boog." Check out the sponsoring art gallery here.

Is your novel entertaining?

The insightful, anonymous Print-On-Demand Critic demands that novelists entertain the reader. He takes one of the most famous non-traditional books of all times, finding entertainment value in James Joyce's Ulysses. Love it or hate it, you should think about it:

"a writer should be able to approach a book with this decidedly singular agenda [to entertain], abutting it and supplementing it with experimentation, lofty artistic objectives, or other personal goals, so long as the primary agenda remains in full frontal view." (Thanks, Bookblog!)

Need a new book? Join a book swap. I went to one last month, and I'm still enjoying the four new books I brought home. Galleycat shares my joy: "Yesterday's "Book Maven" blog at PW Daily, which sees our pal Bethanne Patrick waxing enthusiastic over bookswapping parties, gave me a bit of a chuckle."

Finally, if you happen to be writing a novel/article/poem/play about young people in New York City, you gotta watch the User's Guide to Williamsburg over at Gawker. There are enough laughs and fashion close-ups to float a hundred scenes for your book. 

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.

Who is saving the stories of your family members? 

Over at Memoirville, World War II vet Norman Bussel is writing a serialized account of his nightmarish experience as a POW. The first installment opens with a heartbreaking ode to storytelling:

"Well, my own mortality has now become a factor and I know that this story will never be told if I don’t record it now. So here it is. In sincerity. In candor. In awesome remembrance. And with apologies to those who died, for any imperfection in this work, because nothing is perfect." (Thanks to Rachel for sharing the link!)

Writing a novel in a month is one thing. Writing one in three days is ___________. A small, wacky segment of our writing population would finish that sentence by saying, "pretty cool." If you are one of those people, sign up for the 30th anniversary edition of the Annual 3-Day Novel Writing Contest of Insanity. (Thanks to MFA Blog for the link!)

Finally, our poet friend Robert Bruce is having some hilarious problems selling his book on YouTube. If he could only afford my exclusive two million dollar super-duper web writing consultancy fee--then wouldn't have these troubles.

Lots of blogs and magazines have been debating if Harry Potter has helped (by bringing millions of kids back to books) or hurt (by swamping the market with unfair standards for blockbuster books) the pushing industry.

SF Signal has avoided the whole silly debate, creating a way to share new books with Harry Potter fans--books that both Potter-lovers and Potter Haters can love. Instead of fighting, let's use Harry Potter as a doorway to a whole world of lesser-known classics.

Download the PDF and share it with the kids in your life...

We spend so much time fantasizing about writing our first novel that we probably don't even think about the unique struggles of writing our SECOND NOVEL...

Over at Bookseller Chick, Christine Fletcher (author of Tallulah Falls) guest-blogs about her second time around the block. Dig it:

"The challenge of the second novel is making it better than the first, and writing it faster. It took me almost four years to complete Tallulah Falls. For the second book, I had one year. I also had two day jobs, and Tallulah to promote. Not to mention a boyfriend, a house, friends, family, pets…"

Finally, tech journalist hero Clive Thompson asks the question someone should have asked a long time ago. We love B-movies, but where in the heck are the B-videogames?

Publishing Spotted collects the best of what's around on writing blogs on any given day. Feel free to send tips and suggestions to your fearless editor: jason [at] thepublishingspot.com.