Writer's Report 2.0

On Maria Schneider’s blog (of Writer’s Digest), she describes Stephen King’s recent New York Times essay about the state of the American short story. The essay is about what it took King to find stories for the newly released The Best American Short Stories 2007, which he edited.

You can read the NYT Essay here, but it may require you to subscribe (free) to the Times. Be sure to check out all the comments – they are as interesting as the essay itself.

Angela Hoy’s Writer’s Weekly has a good article about a woman who took a very different path to getting the word out about her book by marketing it using her MySpace.com account.