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18 Must-Read Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

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Pies

Summer pies from my local farmer’s market in Oakland, CA.

Want to keep up with best practices for writing a food blog or cookbook,  freelancing, or working with companies? Need a link to something fun once in a while? Of course you do.

That’s why you need these links, taken from my quarterly newsletter filled with resources for food writers and bloggers. If you haven’t signed up yet, what are you waiting for? Here’s what you missed in my last one, sent at the end of June:

  1. Do you have a media kit so companies can contact you? If not, you might consider making one. Big companies expect it.
  2. I’m working with a cookbook editor right now, and these tips are good reminders. Top 10 Ways to Make Your Editor Love You.
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8 Useful Links for Food Writers and Bloggers

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Menu board at Farm Burger in Decateur, GA from a recent trip to Atlanta. Amazingly good burgers. I also tasted my first boiled peanuts — salty and addictive.

It’s almost time for my next email newsletter for food writers, filled with useful links for writers, bloggers, recipe developers, cookbook authors and social media mavens. You fit into one of those categories, right? I thought so.

So you might want to sign up for the Will Write for Food newsletter, if you haven’t already. You’ll get only four emails per year, I promise. Here are 10 terrific links from my earlier newsletter, to whet your appetite for what’s to come:

1. Did you miss the Roger Smith Cookbook Conference in New York earlier this year? Here are videos to watch of selected panels.

2. Got a new book to promote? Congratulations! Here’s a post about What Works and What Does Not on selling new books in 2013.

3. If you have thought about promoting on Goodreads, here’s how to do it: 2 Ways to Make the Most of Goodreads.

4. The Definitive Guide to Recipes and Copyright. Ancestral Chef’s excellent discussion, except where she repeats the old canard about changing 3 or more ingredients. I don’t agree.

5. An infographic on How to Get More Tweets — There’s actually a science behind it, says Mediabistro.

6. The Times of London’s 50 Top Websites for Food and Drink, as of 1/2013.

7. food bloggers: 150+ links to everything you need to know. A huge, valuable list by ultra-successful blogger Lori Lange of Recipe Girl.

8. How Much Should E-Books Cost? Here are recommendations and rationales on pricing.