With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion!
The social media landscape is certainly chaotic these days, but there are still some great writing and publishing types out there still clicking away on the old interwebs.
Who are your favorite writers and publishing types to follow via newsletters, blogs, and social media?
For my industry news, I rely mainly on Publishers Lunch, Jane Friedman’s Hot Sheet, Kate McKean’s Substack, and Mike Shatzkin’s blog.
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Cassie Mannes Murray, Pine State Publicity. A brutal field to work in, but somehow she manages to think outside the ancient ways that have stopped working. Let’s not forget Dan Blank in the publicity field, too. A great podcast and blog from his enterprise We Grow Media, just about every week. Nothing says “publishing” quite like publicity does. People need to find books to enjoy them.
There’s this guy, he used to be a literary agent, the first one I ever read about and followed. He has a blog about all things publishing and writing. He hooked me up with my first CP, who became my writing soul mate, not to mention a hugely successful author. Anyway, he has years and years of worth of awesome writing & publishing advice, and I always refer new authors to him.
And his name is…NATHAN BRANSFORD!
You know I think I’ve heard of that guy…
(haha and thank you!!)
Yep, “That guy” is the only one I faithfully follow! Guess I should/could let him know!
I also read Jane Friedman’s blog.
I’m a fan of Anne Trubek and her Notes from a Small Press substack. Interesting views from a small publisher.
I follow the Sh$t no one Tells you About Publishing podcast and The Creative Penn podcast.
I think I started following you back in the days of Miss Snark! Then I got sidetracked into a career, and now that I’m back at the agent search it was nice to find you again. You and Jane Friedman are my go-tos, and I will check out the others suggested here.
Nathan, you are also the only one I still really read or follow! I never have ever really used X, but created an account and followed a bunch of authors and agents 15+ years ago and I still get email notifications when some of them post and I think about diving back in to the whole world, and then actually writing something! :0)
Substacks (in no particular order): Kate McKean, Neon Literary, Rebecca Makkai, Courtney Maum, Laura Leffler, Kathleen Schmidt. Blogs: This one and Anne R. Allen/Ruth Harris. I rarely listen to podcasts and, although I use Facebook and Instagram, I don’t really use them to follow many publishing people.
I like Susan Dennard’s substack. It’s called “Misfits and Daydreamers” and has lots of writing and industry advice.
I agree, Susan has some of the best writing advice out there.