Top Picks Thursday 08-08-2013
We love us some bookstores here at the Author Chronicles. Take a look at some truly novel bookstores featured in the Wall Street Journal; and find out about a delicious new strategy keeping patrons in...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 09-05-2013
Welcome to September! We hope everyone had a fun Labor Day holiday. We write for all sorts of reasons. Jane Lebak ponders how we writers can use our writing skills for doing good. Nathan Bransford...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 09-19-2013
Welcome to another week of writing links! In library news, ex-librarian Carol Snowden saves more than $1 million over her lifetime to be distributed to libraries to help the disadvantaged; and a...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 09-26-2013
Happy Autumn, everyone! Welcome to the last Thursday in September. For Banned Book Week: The 10 most frequently challenged books, and the reasons behind the challenges. If you’re ever at a loss trying...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 10-17-2013
Welcome to this week’s link roundup! It’s already halfway through October–are you ready for Halloween yet? We talk a lot about the role of authors these days, and all the different hats we are forced...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 10-24-2013
Welcome to this week’s edition of Top Picks Thursday! We’re getting close to Halloween, so to help you out, here are some 10-minute literary Halloween costumes for you. Unfortunately, health woes will...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 10-31-2013
Happy Halloween! And to get you in the mood: 10 novels that will scare the hell out of you. Nobel Laureate Alice Munro contemplates coming out of retirement, and the late Seamus Heaney’s last poem has...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 11-07-2013
Welcome to Top Picks Thursday! It’s November now, and NaNoWriMo is in full swing! Here’s a NaNoWriMo pep talk from Chuck Wendig. With all the noise about boycotting Ender’s Game because of Orson Scott...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 11-14-2013
We are approaching the halfway point in November. How is your NaNo going? Chuck Wendig has insight into organic story structure, while Roz Morris has a routine to help you finish. Here’s 2 writing...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 11-21-2013
Welcome to this week’s links! Are you still NaNo-ing? Chuck Wendig has something to say to NaNo haters. Two notable writers passed away this week. Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing died at age 94, and...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 01-16-2014
Welcome to another week in link-land! We all have goals for 2014. Elizabeth Spann Craig tells us how to meet our writing goals in 2014; Jordan Rosenfeld urges us to clean the slate by finishing an old...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 01-23-2014
Another large snowstorm engulfed our region, as did bitter cold. But we warmed our frozen fingers on our keyboards as we collected links for you! In a very long but highly informative blog Q&A, Joe...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 02-06-2014
We here at the Author Chronicles are totally ready for spring! Two storms this week and another forecast for the weekend…Enough! Still, being snowed in gives us plenty of time to cruise the Internet...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 02-20-2014
Welcome to another link round-up! Happy book birthday to friend of the blog Tiffany Schmidt, whose YA book BRIGHT BEFORE SUNRISE is available now! It’s also Black History Month, and Kelly Jensen has...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 02-27-2014
Welcome to the last round-up in February! Author James Patterson is paying it forward—literally. He pledged to send $1 million to independent bookstores, and the first installment of over $267,000 went...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 04-24-2014
It’s the last links round-up in April! In sad news, a couple of writers have passed away recently. Sue Townsend, author of the Adrian Mole books, has died. Also, Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 05-01-2014
Welcome to May! Hard to believe we’re here already. The New York Public Library is hosting the exhibit The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books Matter. And if you think kids reading ebooks is the same as...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 05-15-2014
It’s time for another week of what writers on the web are talking about. Welcome! Anne R. Allen praises the new golden age of short fiction. Stephen Swartz explains the mother of all writing processes....
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 05-22-2014
Enjoy this week’s round-up before celebrating Memorial Day this weekend! In author news, John Green and the Nerdfighters are upending the summer blockbuster model, novelist Chan Koonchung is banned yet...
View ArticleTop Picks Thursday 05-29-2014
Welcome to the last links round-up of May! We hope your Memorial Day was relaxing and fun. Now back to the grind! We lost two authors this week: Maya Angelou died at age 86, and Sam Greenlee died at...
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