Publishing Pulse: Dec 30, 2011

Jane Friedman shared secrets for finding timeto write, promote, and still have a life. 

Are you creating a book trailer and want to add explosions to it? Galleycat tells you how to do it with a free app. 

Here are the ten commandments of asuccessful author by Roni Loren. 

Agent Janet Reid has a brilliant new way toshoot yourself in the query (which is actually less painful than shooting yourself in the foot). 

Have you written your goals for 2012 yet? For advice on how to write realistic ones, check out this post and this post. 

From all of us at the Querytracker.net blog, we wish you a happy (and safe) New Years!

Stina Lindenblatt writes young adult novels. In her spare time, she’s a photographer and blogging addict, and can be found hanging out on her blog, Seeing Creative.