Facebook Marketing Basics: Free Webinar

Whether you’re self-published or a mainstream author, marketing matters. The VT Small Business Development Center, part of the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project, is generously offering a webinar on marketing basics, free of cost.

Click here  for details.

First Novel Contest

The McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize
http://www.writer.org/page.aspx?pid=927

All first novels published in 2010 are eligible, including those published by major, independent, and self-publishing presses. As far as I can tell, there is no fee to enter.

Only American authors publishing in English are eligible.

How To Make A Living as a Writer: Free Webinar

American Writers & Artists, Inc. is offering a free webinar. Click here for details.

Literary Agent Offering Contract Review

Literary agent Peter Cox is offering to review contracts for authors. This is apparently in response to the recent trend of literary agents setting up their own publishing imprints – a potential conflict of interest situation, if ever there was one.

The service, called Project FreeAgent, will be run out of his Redhammer agency. The interesting thing is, he won’t charge a cent for it.

This is a terrific thing for authors, like a second opinion on their contracts.

Click here for a very provocative post by Mr. Cox.

Odds and Ends

• For a residency program (for Writers, Poets etc), check out Global Arts Village.
• For you Hyderabadis out there – check out Literary, Intellectual & Cultural Hub (Hyderabad)
• If Romance is what you’re looking for, download for free 16 books from Harlequin Romance. Available in pdf and a variety of other formats.