Vibrant tomato sauces, captured courtesy of photographer Donna Ruhlman.
Who has time to keep up with all the tips and irresistible stories on the Internet?
Now you do! I’ve saved you hours by aggregating this tomato-sauce colored list of links about food and recipe writing, successful bloggers, book promotion, and freelance writing opportunities — all to read at your leisure, or right now, if you can’t resist.
This list first appeared in my last quarterly newsletter, a free compendium of links like this. If you’d like to subscribe, please sign up here. If you’re already a reader, thank you! You’ll find a few bonus links at the bottom.
- A profile of super-successful food blogger Non Nom Paleo shows her creativity with a cookbook, an app, merchandise, and details her huge following.
- Does this sound familiar? How an author tackled her first cookbook.
- And this one about writing a cookbook manuscript.
- Have you just self-published a book? Read What’s In Your Media Kit? and
- How to Market Your New Book.
- Have you fantacized about a job at a big food magazine, testing recipes? Here’s what a recipe editor does at Bon Appetit.
- More people are buying self-published books, especially if they’re priced right.
- There’s a new prize for food-related books: The Art of Eating prize. Entries close November 30.
- If you need to do recipe conversions, thank Clotilde Dusoulier. She has done most of them for you!
- Read this if you want to know about emerging food trends.
- Want more readers? Focus on Facebook, says the London Telegraph.
- The worldwide magazine Four will now publish a US edition featuring the country’s leading chefs.
- How Pinterest Fosters Creativity, from Wired magazine, featuring food blogger Gaby Dalkin.
- Free guides for authors on writing, promoting and selling. Just download.
- For an example of a strong voice, read Josh Osersky’s piece on what it takes to become a food writer.
- I love this list of banned food words from Series Eats.
- You’ll want to avoid them if you plan to pitch Serious Eats a story idea.
Bonus: For newsletter readers, read these new links:
- Just in time for the holidays: A food style guide from AP.
- A cookbook author shares her experiences in writing recipes, comparing her style to those of famous writers and publications.
- If you’re a food blogger, you’ll want to read A Lawyer’s Guide to Defending Your Online Content.
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See you this weekend at FoodFightWrite in Las Vegas? I’ll be talking about recipe writing and food writing ethics. Come say hi.
Thanks so much for great info on so many different fronts.
My pleasure, Helen.
Thanks Dianne, these are immensely helpful.
My pleasure, Judy. Thanks for saying so.
Thank you so much. This is so generous of you to do. You’re the best friend a food and drink writer/author/blogger has. Cheers.
Hah! That’s sweet. Thank you for saying so, Leeann.
Thank you… a brilliant list for keeps.
Hi Ishita! You are most welcome. It is a pleasure to compile such useful info.
Pinning this one for later but I’ve already read through some of the articles and they are very informative! Thanks for compiling such a great list.
My pleasure. I keep a whole bunch and then cull through them for my newsletter, so you are getting an edited list.
Dianne,
This is fantastic. Thank you!!!
You are most welcome, Cynthia. Thanks for saying so.
This will be a great reference to come back to again and again. Thanks for rounding up all this terrific information.
My pleasure, Carol. I’ve got dozens more under the Useful Links category on my blog, so when you come back, look them up too.
Diane you have done several ‘resource guides’ and they are very useful and informative. It’s apparent that you spend time thinking about what will serve your readers or be useful to them. Thank you!
Thanks so much, Lynn. I do feel like I know you — you like the same things I do!
Great list I’m saving for future, but headed over to how the author tackled her first cookbook now. Sounds like it would be super helpful to me. Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure, Susan. I just finished a cookbook manuscript myself. Next week I’ll be ranting about the copy editing!
Excellent Link Soup! Thank you. I especially like Clotilda’s conversions, very impressive and useful.
I just had a very different issue. I had a company tell me that I was in violation of their copyright of a photo that was on my website, and that even if I took it down I would owe them 1165.00 for damages. The photo that they referred to was of a cookbook review and a recipe from the book with a photo from 2008. All credit was given to the publishing company, cookbook author, etc. I called my attorney and he said they have no claim as it was under the fair use act, a review is a commentary. I called and wrote to the company and I said I would not pay and that this felt like it had shades of a scam connected to it. I wonder if there are other bloggers out there who have experienced this. I wonder how many just wrote a check out.
Aha, you are writing this regarding the link on copyright violation. It does sound like a scam to me. Good thing you contacted an attorney. I hope no bloggers wrote out a check, but I bet a few have done so.
This is very helpful! New follower, but love everything you write to help budding bloggers such as me! The Secret list of Banned words is hilariously true. I have taken a print out and pinned it right in front of my desk 🙂
Thank you for this!
Happy to be of service. I’m so glad you enjoyed both my list and the one from Serious Eats. It’s a keeper.
THANK YOU Dianne !!
Hey Rita, you are most welcome. Enjoy the links.