Reference Shelf 6.22.06

imagesgothic.jpgI’ve got plenty of links for you that are sure to help you out. If not you, somebody else.
An Editor’s Tips on Getting Published (from Ohmynews, which is a citizen journalism site, so this might be for newbies.)
You can write better fan fiction than this.
oh, don’t forget: ” remind yourself, or someone else, about an event at a specific day & time, queue up birthday reminders for the next several months, have your to-do items sent to you throughout the day”
10 Ways Not To Create Content For Your Weblog (#11: read this link)
Authorbuzz is a marketing service that puts authors directly in touch with readers, booksellers and librarians allowing them to offer excerpts, phone chats with reading groups, material for newsletters, info about contests and freebies, mentions of new reviews – anything and everything authors want to buzz directly to the people who read and sell their books.” (Note: this has not been tried and thus not (so far) endorsed by MBToolBox.)
Via the Journalist’s Toolbox: “RuralJournalism.org helps non-metropolitan journalists define the public agenda for their communities, and grasp the local impact of broader issues. It interprets rural issues for metro news media, conducts seminars and publishes research and good examples of rural journalism. Also, the organization’s Rural Blog highlights dozens of ag issues in the news.”
Do you need a way to insult someone without enraging lots of people? That’s so bitchcakes.

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