For other wish-you-were-there conference attendees, Armchair BEA takes in Book Expo America and Book Bloggers confs. I’m so grateful to people who share their experience of these conferences, the industry news and a general sense of where things are at.

Nathan Bransford talks about reversals in story structure. Up and down, up and down.

Jenny Bent, literary agent, has started a series of posts on authors and agents and finding one another, plus selling that first book.

I’m fascinated by the idea of a news network training citizen journalists.

Small Reviews has a great post explaining how to include a signature in your Blogger posts. May be old news to some people. The tech-challenged, like me, need all the help we can get.