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Randy Dotinga, ASJA
 As a guy who's 5 foot 19 inches — I'll let you do the math — doorways are not my friend. Neither are chandeliers, ceiling fans and low-flying planes. But at least with doorways, I know what to do when one comes along: Duck. It's automatic, a subconscious protective mechanism that's prevented countless concussions.
But sometimes putting ourselves on autopilot is absolutely the wrong choice, like when we get a new contract and reach for a pen without even skimming the fine print.
This is especially common among beginners who really want that writing gig, like my pal who just sold his first novel and couldn’t tell you a thing about what his contract says. But even veteran writers ignore their contracts at their peril.
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Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies
The New York Times
The Supreme Court ruled that President Barack Obama's health care law may provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people buy health insurance. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion in the 6-to-3 decision. The court's three most conservative members — Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented.
Tam Harbert, ASJA
 This summer, ASJA members have a prime opportunity to gather in the heart of our nation's capital as ASJA hosts its first-ever Washington, D.C. conference. The one-day conference on Aug. 28 will be at the National Press Club, an institution that contains the rich history of American journalism, and America, on its very walls.
The NPC was founded in 1908 primarily as a gathering place for reporters to drink and play poker. Although it had to officially stop serving alcohol during Prohibition, there was a room where members could hide their bottles. But it soon became much more than a drinking club.
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The Atlantic
Peter Wayner, a writer and programmer based in Baltimore, writes: When I recently learned of Amazon's new plan to pay some authors for each page that a Kindle user reads, I remembered an editor who looked at my one of my book proposals and said something along the lines of, “It feels like you've only got 20,000 words of material. You need at least 80,000 words for a book. Can you pad it?"
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Publishers Weekly
Roz Siegel is not new to publishing. Having worked as an editor at Simon & Schuster and Random House, Siegel — now director of acquisitions at MJF Books — is well versed in the traditional publishing path.
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Writer's Digest
ASJA member Susan Shapiro, a Manhattan, New York, award-winning writing teacher, author, writes: "After 22 years of struggling to build a writing career, six months of rejections on the road to landing literary representation, and then another six months until that agent found a fantastic editor to take me on, I still had to wait 18 months for my debut book to come out. I was told this was fast."
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The WRITER
It's tempting for a short story writer to open the story right in the heart of the action. Crash, bang, guns blazing, lovers screaming. It's an easy way to hook readers, right? Place them right in the action, and they'll be forced to keep turning the pages to see what happens next.
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The NewYork Times
It is theoretically possible that artists have lived who were totally indifferent to the prospect of having an audience. But to be truly consistent, such people would have had to consign their manuscripts or their canvases to the fire, unseen by anyone; and so they would leave no trace in history by which their existence could be known.
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Publishing Perspectives
"I'm evangelizing for metadata, currently I'm trying to create awareness among publishers about metadata for marketing," says Ronald Schild, CEO of MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbH, which is the technical and digital subsidiary of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association. “There is a saying in the market that metadata is the new bookseller. I wouldn't say that is 100 percent true, but if you look at the online catalogs with millions and millions of books it becomes increasingly difficult for a publisher to market the one book they want to market.
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