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Rae Padilla Francoeur, ASJA
 My sociology professors taught me that I'm not quite the Rae Padilla Francoeur I think I am. I inhabit many roles and practice a number of skill sets. And people relate to me according to the role I've adopted in the moment.
Some of my roles: Mornings, when I'm fortunate, I’m a creative writer plugging away at my work in progress. At noon I transition while I eat lunch. In the afternoons I move my attentions to my arts/nonprofit marketing business, New Arts Collaborative. That’s just the tip of my complex set of interlocking enterprises and the same is true for most of us.
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Writer's Digest
Five authors can be given the same basic plot elements and through each author’s use of time and place the characters will develop differently and each story will unfold in utterly unique ways. For example — boy meets girl, hot romance ensues, parents intervene, boy and girl separate, they get new jobs, some how boy and girl end up together, happily.
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Reuters
It could soon pay more to write lengthier books, if you are an author self-publishing on Amazon.com Inc's Kindle ebook platform. Starting next month, the e-commerce giant will pay independent authors based on the number of pages read, rather than the number of times their book has been borrowed.
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Publishers Weekly
Graphic artist Bailey Fort's first foray into self-publishing was her debut picture book, The Bewundering World of Bewilderbeests, which Publishers Weekly praised, saying "there's plenty of amusement to be found in these pages." As she began her self-publishing journey, Fort quickly realized that although researching blogs and articles is important, most of them don't focus on picture books.
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SFGate
Laura Shumaker, a nationally recognized autism and disabilities writer and speaker, writes: "With the exception of eight copies sitting in an Amazon warehouse in Indiana, I have completely sold out of A Regular Guy: Growing Up With Autism, the book that I self-published seven years ago. The book, which tells my story of raising a child with autism (my son Matthew) from babyhood to young adulthood, is forever available digitally, which I find comforting."
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The WRITER
Crime. In practice, it's bad. But sometimes, it can be good. Take, for example, Robin Hood who stole from the rich to give to the poor. And then there's our writing contest Crime Pays. We don't want you to commit a crime. We want your characters to. And we're giving cash prizes and publication to the top three 1,000- to 2,000-word stories.
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The Verge
Here's another one for the Twitter-is-becoming-Facebook files: some article previews to external sites have started auto-expanding in your timeline on Android and iOS devices. As you browse your feed, you'll notice that tweets from some publishers now include a large image and some introductory text along with links to the full article.
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