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This week on The Lede … What really works on Twitter One thing social media copywriters should never do 9 productive social media hacks A reminder of the power of the original social media If you just can’t wait for…

For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week, including Barnes & Noble’s “declaration of war” against Amazon, how to rescue Goodreads books and S*** Agents and Editors Say (video embedded above). Click here to sign…

It’s easy to write about how hard something is, because so many synonyms exist for that vague word and its more formal cousin difficult. Many of these terms are somewhat interchangeable (that’s why they call them synonyms), but even then,…

As well as all sports fans and/or language enthusiasts, I present to you a compilation of language-related Super Bowl XLVI links.Macmillan Dictionary the Super Bowl - definition Wordnik Word Soup-er BowlThe Wall Street Journal Words With GiantsThe Wall Street Journal…

I love the barter system. And I've gotten a lot of valuable things from it. In the past few years, I got a swanky overhaul on my freelance writing website by bartering for freelance work. I also got a great…

Kristina Holmes will start her own literary agency, The Holmes Agency. Holmes plans to take on nonfiction clients exclusively. Her list will be open to several different genres, including health and wellness, business, psychology, spirituality, sex, relationships, environmental issues, science,…

In 2013, book lovers could get a chance to explore BookExpo America (BEA), the major publishing industry trade show that has been traditionally limited to industry professionals. BEA event director Steven Rosato posted about the potential change on the show’s…

The Hollywood Reporter just revealed a Hunger Games cover story this month. The article reported that 7.5 million Hunger Games books have been sold since the first trailer’s release back in November 2011. The article included the news that Jennifer …

Listen: Sommer Browning – “The Beers” Today’s poem is by Sommer Browning and is titled “The Beers.” You can read the full text of the poem after the jump. Sommer Browning is the author of Either Way I’m Celebrating (Birds,…

Boston-based publisher Beacon Press and New York-based Other Press have a promotional wager riding on the Super Bowl. Here’s more from the release: “the publisher whose home team loses (Beacon’s New England Patriots or Other’s New York Giants) will promote…

Do you think Amazon would fit in beside the Walmart and Target in your local mall? Jason Calacanis reported rumors this week that the online giant may launch brick-and-mortar stores. Even the New York Times speculated about the resurfacing rumors:…

The act of letter writing has inspired countless songs. For your letter writing inspiration, we’ve created a special Spotify mix with an hour of inspiring music–plenty of time to write some letters this weekend. Follow this link to listen to…

Romance author Kresley Cole has landed a deal with Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for her first young adult novel. Entitled Poison Princess, the first book will launch The Arcana Chronicles series. Publication is set for October 12th.…

What if most of the business world stopped blogging tomorrow? Would you stop as well? No, if that happened, you’d find yourself sitting on the opportunity of a lifetime. Social networking sites would explode with likes and retweets and pins…

A guest post by Joanna Penn from The Creative Penn, one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers Claiming the word ‘writer’ for yourself can be a big step. You may have been writing all your life but do you…

Therese here. I’m so pleased to bring you today’s guest: author Sarah McCoy. Sarah’s second book, The Baker’s Daughter, about the daughter of a German baker during WWII and her continuing story in the present day, was released just last week…

TGIF! How has your week been? It’s been a crazy week for me, but I am hoping things will settle down starting this weekend. Here’s to a great weekend for all of us! Freelance Writing Jobs Content Writing Freelance Creative…

Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus will publish his memoir with Amazon Publishing in hardcover and eBook edition in spring 2013. Trident Media CEO Dan Strone negotiated the deal alongside John Ferriter, Lo Bosworth and Stuart Dill from Octagon…

Artist Jon Cotner thinks that poetry shouldn’t just be studied, but rather should be looked at as ”a way of life, a mode of knowing.” With this in mind, the artist created ”Poem Forest,” a work created for the New York Botanical…

by Joanna Penn I’m really pleased today to bring you an article from my friend and fellow blogger Joanna Penn. Her blog, The Creative Penn is an inspiration to me and thousands of other writers, and it was recently voted,…

They sell books, don’t they? This week, Amazon and Barnes & Noble make news over which books they sell – and which ones they won’t. And a new entry in the fantasy genre, Rose Fox tells us, finds Hurricane Katrina…

I haven’t had a chance to announce it yet, but I’ll be self-publishing a new book pretty darn soon.  I know, I know, I have a publisher and while I love her to pieces, I want to see what this…

Open, hyphenated, or closed? Usage guides, dictionaries, and style manuals may differ in their treatment of the following words, so there’s not necessarily one right answer — except for the purposes of this exercise: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. All terms in…

Dr. Laura A. Maciuika will be touring mid-March to mid-April 2012 with her self-help book Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry. Stressed out? There is plenty of real external stress, sure, and a serious stress epidemic going…

Maghound, a magazine subscription service run by Time Inc., will be closing April 30, 2012. The site says, "We're sorry, this site will close April 30, 2012. No new orders accepted." Maghound was launched in 2007. The site let people…

If you like clicking on “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” links to find new books, you will love this homemade Amazon books visualization and recommendation site. Follow this link to see the search results for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84.…

I wonder if Jesus will forgive the person who made this welcome mat.Thanks to Jonathan in Knoxville for sending in this catastrophe.…

Sunday Super Bowl commercials will include a movie trailer for The Hunger Games, a film based on a book about a much more dangerous sport. We’ve embedded the new video above–what do you think? The new trailer gives a glimpse…

Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska has passed away. She was 88 years old. Here’s more from her Nobel biography: “Szymborska was born in Kórnik in Western Poland on 2 July 1923. Since 1931 she has been living in Krakow,…