(Dianne) Fox Writes

While You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop To A Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing [Amazon | Barnes&Noble | Subterranean] didn’t tell me much I don’t already know about writing or publishing, the realization that I already knew all the key pieces of information Scalzi was offering as someone with a decade of experience in the field was actually very useful in and of itself.

The book covers a wide variety of topics, from royalties and advances, to authors behaving badly, to how one might actually make a living from writing. Because the book is actually taken from Scalzi’s blog, The Whatever, his writing style is conversational and entertaining.