Writers’ Roundup: February 25

Hello friends! Thanks for checking in for this week’s roundup of links.

Here’s what I’ve got for you this week:

• Are you too busy to blog? Chris Garrett suggests ways to blog more productively.

• Fascinating read from The New York Times: The threatening scent of fertile women.

• Blogging isn’t dead, it’s just evolving, says Mathew Ingram. We now have so many more choices of how to blog.

• Jessica Lawlor explains Google Reader and how it allows her to read and comment on so many blogs. If you’re not using Google Reader yet, you should be. Huge time-saver.

• Career Break Secrets gives ebook Negotiating Your Sabbatical a solid review.

• The Online Journalism Review imagines the 21st century’s digital bookstore.

• Forbes brings us How to Quit Multitasking. What do you mean, you didn’t know you needed to quit?

• Tips from Rolf Potts on planning a travel itinerary around a budget.

• TechCrunch says, I will check my phone at dinner and you will deal with it. Agree? Disagree?

• Soon-to-be author Doug Mack offers insight into the life of the travel writer.

• And finally, literary agent Janet Reid says what needs to be said: Don’t blog about your query process! At least until it’s over. None of us wants to watch you shoot yourself in the foot.

Now that I have a nice break from my book, any time I spend on the computer this weekend will be dedicated to the blog, guest posts and Book #2. More on that down the road.

Have a good one!