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Today I woke up to breakfast being made for me by my lovely daugther. She made me coffee and a bagel with cream cheese. She is so amazing.

I am excited today because I have sent my first rough draft of my novel (I know there are many re-edits, rewrites and and drafts to go) to a few objective fellow writers and friends of mine.

Ok, well here are the picks for the Fab Five Friday:

1) Thanks to @dallaswoodburn for this tweet about Judy Blume’s website and the page for kids. I clicked on the writing a report link at the bottom of the page. A page comes up to reveal a page offering writing advice to kids along with Judy’s bio and info on Judy for kids doing a report about her.

2) Next thank you goes to @martinvarlow for sharing a tweet about Motown Writers Network, Michigan’s largest literary network for readers and writers. The post introducing Pam Perry (an Oprah guest) who shares publicity tips.

3) A new twitter friend of mine @wordywoman shared a post from the New York Times online about how Target is helping unknown authors become bestsellers through their new BookMarked Club. The post states “for each book selected as a Bookmarked Club Pick, the publisher produces a special edition, and the author writes a letter addressed to Target readers.” Sounds like a more expansion for authors into the main frame.

4) Another new twitter friend of mine @pwheeler_agent offered a tweet about Slate writer Farhad Manjoo writing about Amazon action of deleting ebooks from Kindle. Amazon stated that the titles were deleted because they were bootlegged copies of the famous books and it was only trying to protect author’s intellectual property. And for these Kindle customers’ who purchased these “bad” copies, they did get their money refunded. Farhad brings up a good point. When you go into a bookstore and purchase a book, the bookstore does not make you sign a contract stating you will have to give the book back if they say you can not read it. It is about the power Amazon has over Kindle customers and as such customers you don’t own the property even when you purchase the copy of the books or music you download. Thought provoking post!

5) Rounding out this Fab 5 Friday is @megandimarie with her tweet on her post from the Examiner listing some great Twitter chats for writers, authors and readers.

I wish you a wonderful day and weekend!