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ASJA
 Jennifer L.W. Fink, ASJA board member and co-chair of the 2015 ASJA Annual Conference, will provide tips, tools and tricks to help you expand your business to a family-supporting enterprise. Register today for the Aug. 18 teleseminar!
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Sherry Paprocki, ASJA
 With the Capital Event coming up in Washington, D.C., in August, I'm reminded of all I've learned in the last year by attending three ASJA-sponsored conferences. Particularly, in New York, I was surprised to hear several national magazine editors put out the welcome mat for fresh ideas and new writers. But there was more, too. Following are some trends I've noticed in New York, San Francisco and Chicago.
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Publishers Weekly
Social media and other online tools have made it easier than ever for authors to connect with readers, but they've also made it more difficult for self-published titles to stand out. Authors of self-published children's books, in particular, have their marketing work cut out for them. Promotions for these titles have to appeal to two distinct groups: kids and the adults, such as parents and grandparents, who might buy books for them.
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Writer's Digest
Whether you’re writing your first novel or are struggling with completing a second one (or more), sometimes you need some help focusing and figuring out how to reach your goal. Use these 9 tricks to help you go from first sentence all the way to completed novel.
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The Poynter Institute
Articles, features and longform stories are designed to be read, viewed, heard. Our stories are written on the Web, read in an app, printed onto paper, translated in a text-to-talk speaker, displayed in a presentation, spoken over radio waves, all with intentional structure and design to be easily consumed and understood. By design, our words follow a style guide to keep in line with spelling and grammar, and when edited well, have brevity and rhythm.
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Good e-Reader
Seven out of 10 Americans expect librarians to prevent children from borrowing materials that are inappropriate for their age. This puts librarians in the role of a gatekeeper and many of them are now calling for a rating system for books. They cite that movies, music and video games all have age ratings and books should too.
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The Hartford Courant
The world of book publishing is thought of as a hard field to break into. If you've written a book and you'd like to have it published, it's often not a simple goal to achieve. The bigger publishing houses may seem unattainable in terms of getting your foot in the door and having your manuscript read. But if you're savvy, you can still get a book out into the world through self-publishing, using some online tools.
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