Happy New Year, all! Hope you had a good holiday. I spent mine at my parents’s place, being intensely lazy 🙂 Anyway, new year, new writing goals, including Turning Off The Internet. Well, sometimes.

Publishing: Why Social media fails to sell books. Jane Friedman absolutely nails it. What’s in it for the reader? Why should they follow you? Why are you following me? Wait, don’t think too hard about that last one!

eBook lending has been launched for the Kindle, though as usual it’s only available in the US right now.

InsPiring: Why Netgalley is the best kept secret on the web. Netgalley is a tool for publishers to share ARCs with reviewers, journalists and educators. If you’re serious about reviewing it’s definitely a service worth signing up for.

Interest-Piquing: A map of relationships between British citizens, measured in phone calls. It’s really interesting how national borders still show up (and regional), which tells you a lot about how even these days people haven’t moved as far from their families as you might assume.

Procrastination: Damn You Autocorrect.