I like to visit Nathan Bransford’s blog to keep tabs on the publishing industry (he does a helpful post on Fridays of the important publishing news of the week). Plus, he’s written long blogs on the business aspects of writing–such as query letters, writing a synopsis, manuscript formatting, et cetera.
He runs a writing contest at least once a year. He just finished a “first paragraphs” contest, with 6 finalists chosen from over 1300 entries. He wrote a long post about how he came about choosing the finalists. In reading his post (December 15, 2008), one can get a quick and dirty education on how literary agents think as they’re wading through submissions.
I also enjoy his sense of humor.
