Note: I’m moving the mini reviews to Wednesdays in a grand effort to focus my blog posts. I’ll post full reviews there too as they come available.
Writing
I couldn’t have asked for a better follow up to my posting of Karen McGrath’s stages of editing on Monday if I’d contracted one. A view from the other side of the revision letter:
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-on-revision-letters.html
And some revision survival tips. It seems revision is in the air. (Star Wars fans, make sure you listen to the added YouTube entertainment. It’s a blast.)
http://jmartinlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/07/26/revision-survival-tips/
Science
The discovery of solar system-like planetary system is fascinating for scientists and a thrill for science fiction.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991
It’s been too long since we had a dinosaur fix, so why don’t you answer the questions: Ornamentation or functional? What’s your best guess for this hunchback dino?:
http://www.livescience.com/animals/carnivorous-hunchback-dinosaur-discovered-100908.html
Promoting
Some suggestions for your blog About page. I’m going to have to take another look at mine…
http://michaelhyatt.com/10-ways-to-create-a-better-about-page-for-your-blog.html
Research/World Building
A fun way to choose your starting point for a book through visual images of the locale. I don’t know if it’s just me though, but it mostly shows me long stretches of road, calling out to the road trip addict in me:
http://web.mit.edu/~jmcmicha/www/globegenie/
Submitting
The trials and traumas of one book’s journey from the first word to the bookstore shelf (warning: some swearing involved):
http://magicdistrict.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/the-pregnancy-of-elephants-annotated/