Friday Feast: What You Have to Do to Get Published, the Writer's Disconnect from Praise, How to Handle Criticism, the 50 Scariest Books of All Time, and Big Cuties in Publishing

Friday Feast: What You Have to Do to Get Published, the Writer’s Disconnect from Praise, How to Handle Criticism, the 50 Scariest Books of All Time, and Big Cuties in Publishing

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Somehow, I managed to miss the most important best of/year-end list of 2015. The top sellers? The best of whatevers? Who cares?! It’s the best cuties in publishing! At left: “Bela Lugosi, who belongs to Ben Samuel and probably helps at the National Book Foundation, is so fun at parties.”

Is there an Instagram or a Twitter or a Tumblr compilation of these? I could use some serious scrolling with a cocktail in hand and emergency cuteness right about now.

For more squee-inducing pets and literary fare, read on.

Amrita Tripathi provides insight into the story of a book, cover and sinker if you aren’t brave: what you have to do to get published. Though the industry is India, I reckon the story will resonate with writers everywhere.
Author Robert Jackson Bennett contemplates the writer’s disconnect from praise and the importance of staying in contact with other writers.
And if those other writers have more than praise to offer, consult this advice from Some of the Greatest Writers of the Past Century on How to Handle Criticism.
Criticism is scary, but not as scary as the The 50 Scariest Books of All Time. (Yeah, I just wrote that.)
And for no other reason than it’s Friday and I’m a sucker for pets and books: Here are the biggest cuties in publishing. D’oh!