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Susan J. Gordon, ASJA
I don’t think my latest book, BECAUSE OF EVA: A Jewish Genealogical Journey, would have been written if my nagging curiosity hadn’t pushed me into it. I’ve always been interested in people’s lives. For years, I’ve written personal essays and stories taken from true life experiences. Shortly before my two sons’ weddings, I began thinking about famous couples in history. Soon I was researching their courtships and marriages, and learned why FDR and Eleanor got married on St. Patrick’s Day, what Elvis sang to Priscilla as he carried her over the threshold, how George Washington met Martha, and what happened on Napoleon and Josephine’s wedding night. Ultimately, my stories were published in WEDDING DAYS: When and How Great Marriages Began.
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ASJA
The media landscape has shifted dramatically in the past two decades — and successful freelancers know how to navigate these twists and turns to earn a satisfying living. Join us for two days of education, networking, and sharing winning strategies with top writers, editors, agents, content buyers, and more. Presenters and participants represent The New York Times Book Review, The Wall Street Journal, Harper's, New York, Marie Claire, Town & Country, Scientific American, Newsweek, The Atlantic, Family Circle, Writer's Digest, Budget Travel, BBC Travel, Eating Well, Wine Enthusiast, Woman's Day, Inc.com, Creditcards.com, Cosmopolitan.com, Bloomberg News, Fortune, Fast Company, Parents, Popular Mechanics, The Atavist, AARP, ESPN The Magazine, Bustle, Buzzfeed, Contently, Skyword, Seal Press, William Morrow, PBS Next Avenue.org, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and many more.
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The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild announced that general counsel Jan Constantine will be leaving on April 29 after over ten years in that position. Constantine’s tenure largely overlapped with the Guild’s landmark copyright infringement litigation, Authors Guild v. Google. She began working for the Guild on October 2, 2005, a week after the suit was filed; she will leave a week after the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
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Publishers Weekly
At its conference, the Supreme Court declined to take up Authors Guild v. Google, effectively ending the case after more than a decade of litigation. As is customary, the high court did not comment (beyond noting that justice Kagan did not participate in the decision) and merely listed the case as denied for Certiorari.
The decision was not unexpected. Legal observers had given the Authors Guild slim odds at winning a review, given that two separate appeals panels have unanimously affirmed that Google’s scanning and indexing of out-of-print books from library shelves was a fair use under U.S. copyright law.
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American Society of Journalists and Authors
Our efforts to defend copyright and the writing profession took a hard hit when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Authors Guild appeal of Authors Guild v. Google. The Guild sued Google back in 2005 for its Google Books Project, in which Google has scanned more than 25 million books (and counting), making their contents searchable online, without asking the authors' permission or compensating them in any way. Although a disheartening loss, Google will now take your book offline if asked. If your publisher gave permission (which many have, whether or not they actually had electronic rights), the publisher may have to ask to have it removed. Otherwise, you can ask yourself.
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The Good Men Project
One of the questions I’m asked on a daily basis is some form of, “I want to become an author. Can you help?” There are certainly better people to ask than me. But after writing hundreds of articles and nine books in 15 years — both traditionally published and self-published, both non-fiction and fiction, both epic failures and national bestsellers — I do have some thoughts on the matter.
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Echo Net Daily
Innovative self-publishing company Captain Honey are partnering with Byron Writer’s Festival to provide a venue at this year’s event exclusively for self-published authors.
The marquee will be an opportunity for self-published authors to showcase and sell their books, share their experiences and insights into the process with the public, and meet other self-published authors. Ahead of their Information night at the Byron Writer’s centre, Roz Hopkins of Captain Honey answered a few questions about the project and how authors can get involved.
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Editor & Publisher
Imagine that the children you raised in your home — fed, sheltered, educated — have grown up and are now talking a different language than the one they learned in your home. You don’t know where they learned this language, but you don’t speak it.
Now you know what it is like to be a newspaper publisher trying to reach millennials.
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The Atlantic
Kathryn Harrison, author of True Crimes: A Family Album, has some simple advice for her writing students: Please stop thinking. In our conversation for this series, she discussed a favorite Joseph Brodsky poem in which a man has a beautiful, restorative fantasy about a person he once loved — a dream that’s possible only with the lights turned off. For Harrison, the poem is a metaphor for the way writing works; good things, she says, happen in the darkness.
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PR Daily
Football players practice ballet. Pianists repeat small sections of music until it's perfect.
In "Outliers," it's called "putting in your 10,000 hours." In "The Talent Code," Daniel Coyle names it "deep practice," small exercises that are both challenging and repetitive.
The goal: to get better, quicker. What about writers? How do we pursue deep practice?
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The New York Times
Dude, where’s my Pulitzer?
When Brian Gleason heard that his old employer, Sun Newspapers of Charlotte Harbor, Florida, had won its first Pulitzer Prize, he was elated. Then he asked his former editor, Jim Gouvellis, what the award was for.
“He said, ‘The prisoner death editorials,’” Mr. Gleason recalled. “I said: ‘Jim, I wrote some of those.’”
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The Express Tribune
a renowned Australian current affairs journalist is counting days in a Beirut jail, waiting desperately, and optimistically, for the local authorities to give their final verdict in her case.
Tara Brown, who works for one of Australia’s biggest television networks channel Nine was arrested along with her crew and a Brisbane mother for an attempt to snatch two children, who the mother said had been “kidnapped by their father” and brought from Australia without her consent. All this effort was made for a 60 Minutes episode that gave the channel, the journalist and the entire crew more than just high ratings.
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Poynter
Life as a journalist now means reporting, writing a story, tweeting that story, tweeting it again, going for lunch, tweeting about your lunch, tweeting that first story again, looking up at CNN, then tweeting something about Wolf Blitzer, Jake Tapper or, of course, Donald Trump. And, finally, tweeting that story one more time, desperately hoping that another three relatives in Pittsburgh, Nebraska and Rhode Island, and perhaps a political consultant in Los Angeles, will retweet your tweet.
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