In July the host for this writers' community, Ning, will begin phasing out its free service. "Our shift to a paid service model will enable us to focus to a greater degree on enhancing the features, performance and services we offer to our paying Network Creators," Ning announced on its site. That means Soundings in its present form will disappear, along with your profiles and posts.

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With a website, author and character blogs and a presence on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, Laurie King is a champion of social marketing. The author of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice and the forthcoming God of the Hive, Ms. King posts in the voice of one of her characters, runs several writing contests for fans and…

Ever find a photo and wonder about its origin? There’s a search engine for that. It’s called TinEye, billed as a reverse image engine that uses image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. According to the company, “You can submit an image to TinEye…

In the business world, the old saw goes something like this: the secret of success is not what you know but who you know. In the world of writers, we might adopt the phrase that educators have used for centuries: it’s not what you know but whether you can apply that knowledge. As prima facie evidence I’d like to nominate…