Writerly Ways

I've been thinking a bit about something I've been seeing lately in this round of submissions. We hear a lot about increasing BIPOC authors (and I'm all for that). However I found tons of anthologies and magazines/podcasts that are not allowing for ANY identifying information on a submission. It's a blind submission no names etc on your manuscript. Which yes, let's be honest you can take a good guess about ethnicity sometimes based on names. Not always of course but it is a clue. I'm wondering exactly what is this about? An end run around bringing more BIPOC authors into the fold? An honest attempt to take race out of the picture?

I'm not sure I know but I do know it rather makes me uneasy. I'm not sure if I'm making a mountain out of a mole hill or what here. Anyhow it's curious.

So back to giving you more links!

from around the web
The NoSleep Podcast This is a horror short story podcast that I thought might interest people

IN DEFENSE OF MESSY QUEER BOOKS: BECAUSE “GOOD REPRESENTATION” IS EXHAUSTING


Writing Comedy Collaboratively: How To Squeeze The Pips

Three tools even this newbie writer could use

Writing from Multiple Viewpoints

Ada Hoffman: Five Things I Learned Writing The Fallen

Harness Social Media To Sell Books

Don’t Forget Your Book’s Back Cover

From Betty

How to Develop a Marketing and Promotion Plan as an Indie Author

THE BASICS OF PLOT FOR WRITERS

Getting to the Heart of Why You Write What You Write

How to Use TikTok to Boost Your Book Sales

Do or Do Not. There is No Try: Clarifying What Your Characters Do.


Archetypal Character Arcs, Pt. 23: Summary of the Archetypal Character Arcs

Characters & Settings: Making Them Interact

How Romanticism Harms Novelists

Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Master and Apprentice

What’s Your Character’s Love Language? (And Why Does it Matter?)

Kidlit Social #60 Replay: Nathan Bransford on Finding Your Story's Hook

the Subscriber Journey

Avoid naming universal emotions in a novel