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ASJA
 Gene Policinski, the chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and a founding editor of USA Today, will keynote ASJA's regional conference in D.C., on Aug. 28. He will share his thoughts on the increasingly important role of freelancers in today's media, the importance of maintaining credibility and securing the public's confidence in news sources, and how these themes relate to preserving the freedom of the press.
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ASJA
Ann Douglas an ASJA member and author, will provide you with the strategies and insights necessary to make the shift to a happier and more productive writing life. Register today for the July 15 teleseminar!
Susan Shafer, ASJA
 I bet you've had your share of freelancing nightmares: Magazine editors who pay late or not at all. Once-dedicated book editors who change publishing houses a month before publication of your novel. Cancelled contracts. Boundary-pushing clients.
I thought I had heard, or experienced, it all until a unique incident happened to me in my new freelancing field.
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Writer's Digest
Every person has a unique life path and therefore an interesting tale to share, and yet so many of us struggle with whether or not we have the right to tell our stories. We are silenced by the fear upsetting others, especially our family, in writing our truth.
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GalleyCat
Not surprisingly having a Google Doodle can help spike an interest in an author. For example, when Google featured a Google Doodle of Mark Twain in November 2011 to celebrate his 176th birthday, searches for the author reached an all time high.
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Publishers Weekly
Author Elizabeth Bluemle, writes: "In the 18-plus years I've been a bookseller, the average word count in picture books has dropped, and dropped again, and dropped again. When we opened the bookstore in the mid-1990s, 1,500 words was at the upper limit of what was considered to be an acceptable length. Now that's a laughable number, and the general rule of thumb is that you’d better watch yourself if you're over 500."
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Writer's Digest
Brilliant one-of-a-kind artists sometimes never find the recognition they deserve because Lady Luck didn’t happen to smile down at the right moment. In fact, they fail to be recognized more often than not. Artists and creators don’t follow the same type of paths to success that most doctors and lawyers do.
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Columbia Journalism Review
In an April meeting of the Senate Finance Committee, a tragically buttoned-up affair, the subject of the day was tariff policy. It would have remained an event only of concern to the most deeply wonky of Beltway insiders, had Pat Roberts, the senior senator from Kansas, remembered to silence his phone.
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The Passive Voice
The author Joanne Harris has shed light on her experience of sexism in the publishing industry in a series of tweets.
Harris, whose books include psychological thrillers, the Rune fantasy series, and the bestselling Chocolat trilogy, told of being ignored by a male presenter while on a panel with three male guests before a female presenter came out to interview her, and being asked repeatedly about EL James's Fifty Shades of Grey book while on her last U.S. tour.
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