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ASJA Board President, Sherry Beck Paprocki
 We write. We edit. We speak. We teach. We mentor.
We collaborate. We create websites for our own businesses, as well as the businesses of some of our clients. We dream up apps. We build social media businesses. As a group, our knowledge base is on the cutting edge of healthcare, technology, finance and any other subject you can imagine.
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ASJA
Registration is now open for ASJA Dream Bold Atlanta (#ASJAatl), a one-day conference at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where freelance writers will have an opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors, content providers and agents. REGISTER NOW!
Keynoter and international bestselling author Robert Hicks will debut his new book: The Orphan Mother.
A limited amount of rooms are reserved for ASJA event attendees at the Courtyard Atlanta Decatur Downtown/Emory at $159/night. The cut-off date to book your room is Thursday, Oct. 13. RESERVE YOUR ROOM NOW!
 Saturday, Nov. 5: Dream Bold Atlanta
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GalleyCat
Global English Editing has created an infographic called, "The Fascinating Work Habits of 18 Famous Writers," which explores the process of 18 famous authors. From Victor Hugo to Gertrude Stein, the graphic outlines the curious work habits of each individual author and relates their process to their work.
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Publishers Weekly
Terry McDonell has spoken at a lot of memorial services: Hunter Thompson’s, Peter Matthiessen’s, and George Plimpton’s, to name a few. In his remarks, he always mentions that elegies are a "miserable assignment," a term he picked up from a letter Ernest Hemingway wrote to Sara and Gerald Murphy when their youngest son died. McDonell adds, though, that the subtext is that "we are lucky to have the lives we lived, no matter how rocky things go."
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Writer's Digest
Eight seconds. That’s how long your query has to get an agent’s attention — or the delete key.
"Eight seconds," you ask. "What is this…a bull ride?"
Funny you should say that because that's exactly how the query process feels — like a brain-rattling, often painful, yet exhilarating ride. And it all begins with the query letter.
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Digital Book World
The journey to writing and launching that first book is one of the most challenging things anyone can do in their professional career. You’re constantly out of your comfort zone, having to learn a myriad of new things, and must wear every hat in the business realm. It’s no wonder that as many as 80 percent of the books that hit the market fail to sell even 100 copies.
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Columbia Journalism Review
Michigan's primary elections, taking place today, may offer few competitive races. But one of them has offered a look at an unusual type of legal action — one in which a government entity sues a local media outlet in response to a public-records request. These cases aren’t unprecedented. Often, they arise when a local government entity says it fears being sued after responding to a records request, and decides to go on offense. But they are, fortunately, uncommon, in part because courts generally have tended to take a dim view of the legal maneuver — which is what happened here.
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Digiday
Creating original editorial content is expensive. That's why modern publishing is as much an exercise in dusting off and repurposing old content as it is creating fresh posts. There are a few ways publishers squeeze more out of their content. One is the approach BuzzFeed has honed, to keep iterating. One way it does this is with what it calls "hot frames." It may write up a post with a certain frame, and if does well, try it again across different platforms and geographies.
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NewsRewired.com
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism recently released three reports on trends in news consumption, and research associate Nic Newman says the principal takeaway is that journalism is "a much more complicated world" than it used to be.
What's clear is that the consumption of news via a mobile phone in the UK is rapidly becoming the primary means for consumers to access this type of content.
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MediaShift
Learn how to measure impact in journalism and why it's becoming a valuable and necessary skill in today's newsrooms. Set yourself apart by knowing not only how to do work that drives real-world change, but also how to make sure that change gets noticed. Learn how to tell the story of your reporting just as effectively as you tell others' stories.
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The Huffington Post
In the article “Meet Douglas Gardham, the hardest-working Canadian novelist you’ve never heard of,” Globe and Mail Books Editor Mark Medley features a Canadian author who has travelled every weekend for the last three years and driven over 115,000 kilometres to "hawk" his books to strangers.
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