Erika Dreifus

Writing- and publishing-related items to peruse at week’s end.

• Quite enjoyed “End of the Year Celebrations + all our favorite things” from Allison Pottern Hoch’s Books, Marketing, and More—especially the “Did-Do” list idea (a variation on Lisa Romeo’s “I Did It!” list).
• “How to Spot a Fake Literary Agency”: advice from Victoria Strauss.
• Gift yourself—or another writer—one of the many writing-and-publishing-related services up on the auction block here. (Or something totally unrelated! Football tickets? A chat with a celebrity?) Bids close at 4pm today.
• Talk about persistence: Check out Fern Reiss’s Nieman Storyboard essay on persisting through “multiple rejections and 17 edits to land an article in a favorite magazine.”
• And there’s a fresh set of Jewish literary links over on the My Machberet blog.