Today's Writing Links

There is just so much to write about, today I'm writing a compendium of links to help keep it all sorted.

First, there is a terrific article from The Kill Zone by Claire Langley-Hawley regarding how to successfully integrate back story into a novel. This is a pet peeve of mine, right up there with poor foreshadowing, so I loved this article. Had it not been for the other links below, this would have been today's post all by itself. Well worth the five minutes it takes to read it.

The second link is this story about Apple appearing before the Justice Department today to discuss price fixing for ebooks. How can you have an ebook and epublishing series and not include this? Personally? My thoughts? Despite Cook's demurral, I believe what Job's said in hisbiography,

"We'll go to the agency model, where you set the price, and we get our 30%, and yes, the customer pays a little more, but that's what you want anyway," Mr. Jobs said in the book."

Then there was this article in the weekend WSJ about how to create a spy. This article resonated with me due to the fact that I'm reading The Ghost War right now by Alex Berenson and it's all about moles, spies and the CIA. Based on the article I'm looking forward to reading Jason Matthew's novel Red Sparrow.

Finally, there is this article from Thriller Ink that goes hand in hand with what I wrote last week when discussing Stephen King, established authors fearful of epublishing. I like Thriller Ink's take on this, mostly cause it echoes my own. Again, worth the five minute investment.