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By Johanna Knapschaefer, ASJA
 After boarding a Bolt Bus to New York City, I squeezed into an aisle seat beside a young Asian man and pulled out my laptop to do a little work. Something about riding on a bus or a plane helps me focus my energy. The motion and calming drone of the engine and AC, perhaps.
Before getting started I greeted my bus mate. He was traveling with his parents visiting from Xi'an in China. "It's their first trip to New York City," he said.
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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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Writer's Digest
There are authors who have such fantastic first lines that they grab reader’s interest from the very first line. Take Jeffrey Eugenides for example: "On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide-it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese — the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope," (from The Virgin Suicides).
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Digital Book World
So you’ve written a book and you want to get it out into the world. You’ve decided that self-publishing is the way to go, but you’re not really sure how to turn that book on your computer into something that can be read by an eager public. In this post, we will show you the three most common file standards in self-publishing and let you know how you can easily create your book in these formats. Ready?
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Poynter
Back in February when Tronc was still Tribune Publishing, new chairman Michael Ferro in one day made all the editors at his newspapers editor-publishers. Two of the publishers whose positions had been eliminated got new corporate jobs; the rest left the company. A press release suggested the move was to reinforce the primacy of editorial excellence at Tribune (soon to be renamed Tronc). But connecting the dots, it seemed that the iconoclastic Ferro had concluded traditional publishers were no longer necessary.
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Harvard Business Review
Procrastination comes in many disguises. We might resolve to tackle a task, but find endless reasons to defer it. We might prioritize things we can readily tick off our to-do list — answering emails, say — while leaving the big, complex stuff untouched for another day. We can look and feel busy, while artfully avoiding the tasks that really matter. And when we look at those rolling, long-untouched items at the bottom of our to-do list, we ca'’t help but feel a little disappointed in ourselves.
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Publishers Weekly
When I was in college, I imitated the work of Ben Marcus and Samuel Beckett. This went on for a while, but then one day I began to notice that my mind was not quite that lofty, and the work I gravitated toward was about ordinary life. I became absorbed in writers like Mary Gaitskill, Richard Yates, and Akhil Sharma, to name a few. This was a sad time for me. I was isolated, living in this strange building 10 blocks from campus, having taken a year off college, with no friends, and all kinds of disorders that made people not want to be around me.
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Digital Content Next
I was speaking at a conference a few weeks ago about Spirited Media, the local news startup I currently run. After giving some background on our overall strategy, I took a few questions about our business model, which is primarily focused on events and not advertising. The questions were good ones, all coming from people who clearly understood that, without new revenue models, the survival of independent journalism is no sure thing.
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Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal
After 10 years in business, Minneapolis-based self-publishing company Hillcrest Media has been sold to Salem Media Group Inc. Camarillo, California-based Salem Media owns various radio stations and magazine and book publishers with Christian and conservative target audiences. It bought Hillcrest, which has $5 million in revenue and about 30 employees, for $3.5 million on Aug. 1.
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The New York Times
Reading books is tied to a longer life, according to a new report.
Researchers used data on 3,635 people over 50 participating in a larger health study who had answered questions about reading.
The scientists divided the sample into three groups: those who read no books, those who read books up to three and a half hours a week, and those who read books more than three and a half hours.
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