- 8 Things You Might Not Know About the New York Times Best Seller List. Veronica Roth wrote up a quick explanation of what the New York Times Bestseller List is, what is isn’t, and the basics of how it works at YA Highway.
- Decolonizing as an SF Writer (also cross-posted here). Rochita Loenen-Ruiz wrote an article about how the Phillipines’ colonization by first Spain and then America has drastically affected the way Filipinos view their native culture, and how it has shaped her writing.
- Get a Grip on Twitter Handles. Porter Anderson has a great guest post about why Twitter handles matter and why you should use them.
- How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit. A class on historical hoaxes at George Mason University gets “found out” by Reddit users.
- Social Networking and the 10% Rule by Liana Brooks, and Preventing Writer’s Cramp, or, Control Your Social Media So It Doesn’t Control You by Elizabeth S. Craig at Jungle Red Writers. Two posts on managing social media time with respect to writing time.
Links Round-up
May 18, 2012 by Lisa Rodgers / @_LisaRodgers
Links to articles that have caught my interest from the past few days. Most of them are about books.
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