A look back at some interesting topics this week. 

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From PublishersWeekly.com:

5 Writing Tips from Chelsea Cain:

Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.  Maybe a few of these will work for you. I hope so. Personally I think you’d look very nice in a mini-skirt.  read more…

From Steven Pressfield Online:

iCrazy Interrupted

The headline stared out from the magazine rack in the check-out line. Beyond the guess-which-celebrity-has-the-worst-beach-body headlines was:

iCrazy
Panic. Depression. Psychosis.
How Connection Addiction Is Rewiring Our Brains

It was splashed across the top of Newsweek.  Read more…

From SOS Aloha.com:

Celebrate Little Victories

Every Saturday, I celebrate little victories … to appreciate the good that came my way.   Today I celebrate a BIG victory following the RWA National Conference. Read more…

From NPR.org:

A Rainbow Of Happy Endings In Ethnic Romances

Romance fiction is the Rodney Dangerfield of the publishing world: It don’t get no respect.

This, despite the fact that romance is the most consistently profitable genre in an unsettlingly shaky business. Last year, romance alone contributed more than $1 billion to publishing’s diminished coffers. And a growing amount of that income comes from romances written by ethnic writers for ethnic readers. Read more…