This message contains images. If you don't see images, click here to view. Click here to advertise in this news brief.   Mobile version    RSS    Subscribe    Unsubscribe    Archive    Media Kit Nov. 15, 2012 Home   About ASJA   How to Join   Our Members   Find a Writer   For Writers           Why you should become a member of ASJA ASJA    Share    One benefit of ASJA membership is access to its exclusive Freelance Writer Search (FWS), ASJA's job listing service. FWS has its own dedicated web site. There is no charge to job posters and our FWS committee reviews potential job descriptions for clarity and accuracy and, of course, for spam, which we will not permit. Lisa Jordan, ASJA liaison with FWS, says, "With just over 1,300 professional and experienced freelancers as ASJA members, our FWS clients rarely, if ever, have issue with finding the most suitable candidate that best fits the requirements of their listing; be it big or small, weird or wonderful!" More Self-published author signs a 3-book deal, heralding new adult fiction The New York Times    Share    Earlier this year, Cora Carmack self-published her novel about a 22-year-old girl who is a virgin in her last year of college and decides to have a one-night stand to solve the problem. She selects a man, but from there on things go disastrously wrong. More Mobile apps every entrepreneur should have Forbes    Share    Time in a very real sense is your most valuable asset as a business owner, and even if streamlining only saves a few minutes here and there, that saving really does add up and is what grants you increased productivity at work and more time at home with the family that's waiting for you to hit it big. More Oyster app brings ebook library to your pocket Mashable    Share    Though Apple and Amazon seem to have the ebooks market cornered, another startup has entered the digital books space to broaden readers' selections. Oyster, a startup located in New York City, recently announced plans to launch a subscription-based book app, tailored specifically for smartphones. More Planting the book publicity seed The Huffington Post    Share    We often equate book publicity with planting a seed. You have a written a novel (or self-help manual or cookbook or memoir). You have published it (either through a major publishing house, a small press, self-publishing, or e-book). It is ready to go out into the work or it's already out there on shelves or online. Now you're ready for people to start talking about it! More The New York Times Chronicle tool explores how language, journalism has evolved Nieman Journalism Lab    Share    Chronicle is a database of articles and story tags from the past 31 years of New York Times content. The tool makes it possible to see the frequency of use of certain words — but also what people, organizations or locations are most related to keywords. More The Indie Photo Book in the 21st Century TIME    Share    Two years ago Larissa Leclair founded the Indie Photobook Library in her Washington, D.C., home with the goal of preserving rare self-published books and making them available to a larger audience. She hopes the collection will one day land at the Library or Congress for safe keeping. More Hemingway book idea began on seaplane ramp Chicago Tribune    Share    It was a random encounter during a 1980 vacation getaway that planted the first seeds, Hendrickson said. He and his wife were on their way to the Bahamas. "We were on the seaplane ramp," he told the Tribune's Rick Kogan on Sunday at the Harold Washington Library (as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival), "and we saw this broad-shouldered man with a full beard who was a dead ringer for Hemingway. Obviously, Hemingway died in 1961, so it wasn't him. More The Wall Street Journal's The Accelerators, Startup Journal to cover entrepreneurship The Next Web    Share    According to its press release, Startup Journal's page on WSJ.com will aggregate all of its coverage "on the world of startups, funding, founders and entrepreneurship." As for The Accelerators, it is designed to be an "online forum," bringing together relevant external contributions around a weekly topic. More AP to launch Spanish stylebook The Associated Press    Share    Access to the Web-based "Manual de Estilo Online de la AP" will be available to subscribers of the AP's Spanish news services starting Nov. 19. It will be opened to non-AP subscribers early next year. More   The ASJA Weekly Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469.420.2601 Download media kit Yvette Craig, Senior Content Editor, 469.420.2641    Contribute news This edition of The ASJA Weekly was sent to ##Email##. To unsubscribe, click here. Did someone forward this edition to you? Subscribe here -- it's free! Recent issues Nov. 15, 2012 Nov. 8, 2012 Nov. 1, 2012 Oct. 25, 2012 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063