Writers’ Roundup: March 11

So many great links this week!

Eat your heart out:

• Don’t look for a job as a writer, look for a job as a communicator, says Hope Clark. She’s right that this will broaden your opportunity.

• How long does it take to get published? Finally! Someone — that someone being literary agent Steve Laube — put numbers to the timeline.

• Marian Schembari brings us tips for creating an awesome contact page on your blog.

• Speaking of, literary agent Rachelle Gardner reminds us to make ourselves easy to find online. So important!

• Editor Alan Rinzler on breaking the rules of narrative story arc.

• Home and the adventure detox, from traveler and author Chris Guillebeau.

• Some fabulous ideas for promoting your book at its launch, from The Creative Penn.

• Fabulous breakdown of e-books and how much money authors make from them, by Nathan Bransford.

• Similarly, a Forbes piece on e-publishing and what traditional publishers do and don’t do for authors.

• Lastly, a story I reported — I learned something from this one, so I’m figuring you might, too: The Death of the One-Page Resume?

Who’s writing this weekend?