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Etelka Lehoczky, ASJA
 What a blast the ASJA conference was! It was my first time, and I was thrilled to meet so many writers – and so many different types of writers. There were health writers and business writers and a specialist in water. There was a think tank fellow and the author of a Dummies book. The variety was endless! I decided to get back in touch with a few of my new acquaintances by integrating them into a blog post. I reached out to four writers around the U.S. and Canada and asked: "When did you know you’d made it?"
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Bamidele Onibalusi, Writers in Charge
ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors) is a professional association of independent non-fiction writers. They only allow professional writers; if you’ve written in a professional capacity before — content mills don’t count! — then they will be happy to welcome you into their fold. Through their Freelance Writer Search website, they match their members with clients that might need writing services. They charge an annual membership fee.
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Poynter
As journalists and other writers try to make sense of the terrorism and slaughter in Orlando, they should take wisdom from Jim Dwyer, who covered both attacks on the World Trade Center for The New York Times. Speaking to reporters at a Poynter seminar, he passed along advice he learned from an editor: "The bigger, the smaller." How do we stretch our little arms around a story as big as 9/11 or mass shootings of the type we have seen in too many American cities?
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Writer's Digest
In the December 2014 issue of Total Funds for Writers, C. Hope Clark offers some great advice for authors who want to increase their odds of selling their books: "Don’t be invisible or you wrote the book for nothing." As a debut author whose hard 2016 goal is to promote my memoir Accidental Soldier: A Memoir of Service and Sacrifice in the Israel Defense Forces, this spoke to the heart. I interviewed C. Hope Clark on "The Courage to Promote Your Book" for my weekly podcast, "Giving Voice to Your Courage."
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The Independent
Self-published authors are sometimes ill-prepared or don't know what to expect when they approach booksellers about selling their titles, signing events, policy, etc. To be successful in pitching their books to booksellers, self-published authors should have a sense of the resources available to booksellers, what is appealing to them, and how to approach them. Here are eight things booksellers would like self-published authors to know.
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The Guardian
Trinity Mirror regularly publishes the numbers of its Facebook and Twitter followers and likes. Archant has also boasted of its social media success when doing the same.
Many journalists find this less than uplifting, but Trinity Mirror's digital guru, David Higgerson, argues that this "currency of endorsement" has value.
"We live in a world in which revenue follows endorsement," he writes. But does it?
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Digital Book World
More and more authors are self-publishing their books today, and many are finding the model to be more lucrative and sustainable than working with traditional publishers. But for authors trying to get started, the arena can be hard to break into—in part because of the sheer volume of editing, production, distribution and design services available.
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Business Insider
Newspapers are dying, and the internet is rising.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics recently highlighted a stark indicator that this generational shift in the nature of media is happening: Since October of last year, there have been more people employed in internet publishing than by traditional newspapers, according to the Bureau's Current Employment Statistics program, also known as the "establishment survey" in the monthly jobs report.
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Digiday
Snapchat is not just redesigning its key Discover section for media companies. It's also rethinking Live Stories, too.
Snapchat is expected to unveil a redesign of Discover by mid-June, according to sources. It will meld Discover and Live Stories into one content experience, sources said. Snapchat also is planning to introduce a "subscription" feature so users can have a say in what content is more visible in their version, sources said.
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