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Sharon Hazard, ASJA
 Several years ago I wrote an article for a local newspaper. The pay wasn’t great, but the topic was. It was based on my finding an old photo of a member of the Roosevelt Family. Of course, I recognized the famous last name, but the first name eluded me. My writer's instincts kicked in and after some research, I discovered that the photo was taken in 1884 and depicted a woman named Kate Roosevelt, whose husband Hilborne was President Theodore Roosevelt's first cousin as well as a world-renowned organ maker and inventor who collaborated with Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell before his untimely death in 1886.
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ASJA
Companies love writers who are in the know about Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Writers with up-to-date SEO skills are often hired by cream-of-the-crop clients. On Oct. 21 you have the chance to hear from our guest expert Heather Lloyd-Martin, or as Forbes Magazine calls her, the pioneer in SEO copywriting.
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ASJA
 ASJA's Annual writing conference will be May 20-21, 2016 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, N.Y.
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The Authors Guild
Publishing agreements, as our Fair Contract Initiative keeps demonstrating, are among the most one-sided documents most authors ever see. But they enable another set of documents that can be at least as baffling and unjust: royalty statements.
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Esquire
Esquire's interview with Diane Foley, the mother of freelance journalist James Foley, who was beheaded last year by ISIS. James Foley is a 2015 recipient of ASJA's Conscience in Media Award.
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Publishers Weekly
Compel yourself to write several hours every day no matter how bad you feel. Eat well three times a day. Ceremoniously. Candles at dinner time. Habits like iron. They will serve as a reward for writing several hours every day no matter how awful you feel. Read the newspaper. It will make you properly angry about everything. Regularly.
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Writer's Digest
Writing is Zen.
Writing isn't about inspiration or waiting for your muse to arrive and undress.
Writing is about getting down to it, about finding your way into the moment and sustaining the energy for as long as you can effectively and in the rhythm of your narrative.
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The New York Times
In another sign of tension between Tribune Publishing and its two California newspapers, executives at the papers have disputed the company's decision last month to adjust its revenue projections downward for the final quarter of 2015, and cite the papers’ performance as the reason for the revision.
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Variety
Few would doubt Lena Dunham has many awards coming her way as her career unfolds, from the Emmys she’s bound to receive to the Oscars to which she probably aspires. But given her recent foray into digital publishing, could the Pulitzer Prize be what she's really after? Dunham seems to be well on her way to journalistic respectability with her new feminist newsletter, Lenny, co-created with her fellow "Girls" executive producer Jenni Konner. Her first issues have attracted considerable buzz for a Hillary Clinton interview and Jennifer Lawrence essay on gender equality in Hollywood.
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GalleyCat
AmazonCrossing, Amazon Publishing's literary translation imprint, has revealed plans to spend $10 million to develop translated works over the next five years. The new funding will help the imprint expand its translated titles and will be used to pay translators.
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The Associated Press via Salt Lake Tribune
You may have heard of Roger. He's the little rabbit in a new bedtime book that can't go to sleep, RIGHT NOW. In a month's time, which is lightning speed in publishing, Penguin Random House acquired and released new editions of "The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep," an unusually paced and illustrated read-aloud that a Swedish life and management coach first self-published back home in 2011.
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