{"id":1819,"date":"2012-03-04T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T20:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2012-03-17T21:55:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T01:55:23","slug":"weekly-link-round-up-march-4-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/weekly-link-round-up-march-4-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly link round-up &#8211; March 4, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best of what I shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/megancrewe\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/megancrewe.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a> this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-Another thoughtful post from YA author Diana Peterfreund, this time on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianapeterfreund.com\/plagiarism-it-still-sucks\/\">plagiarism in self-publishing (and elsewhere)<\/a>, and why there&#8217;s no excuse.<\/p>\n<p>-Some thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/50500\/why-should-the-price-of-ebooks-be-on-the-floor\/\">fair pricing of ebooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-DoctorNerdLove takes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctornerdlove.com\/2012\/02\/nerds-male-privilege-3-cross-assault-sexual-harrassment\/\">sexual harassment in the gaming community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-YA author and agent Mandy Hubbard&#8217;s inspirational post on <a href=\"http:\/\/mandyhubbard.livejournal.com\/258686.html\">the value of persistence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.springhole.net\/writing\/marysue.htm\">The Universal Mary-Sue Litmus Test<\/a> helps writers and role-players determine if their characters are a little too self-indulgent.<\/p>\n<p>-A reminder to authors that <a href=\"http:\/\/chipmacgregor.typepad.com\/main\/2012\/02\/does-the-publisher-lose-money-if-my-book-doesnt-earn-out.html\">your book doesn&#8217;t have to earn out for it to be a financial success<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-And, how to piss off Star Trek, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Harry Potter fans, <a href=\"http:\/\/megancrewe.tumblr.com\/post\/18535574535\/how-to-piss-off-star-trek-star-wars-lord-of-the\">all with one picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What did you find interesting on the internet this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best of what I shared on Twitter and Tumblr this week&#8230; -Another thoughtful post from YA author Diana Peterfreund, this time on plagiarism in self-publishing (and elsewhere), and why there&#8217;s no excuse. -Some thoughts on fair pricing of ebooks. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/weekly-link-round-up-march-4-2012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1822,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/1822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}