7.26.15 - Sunday Linkage

It's high time we resurrect the "Best Links of the Week" - a gathering of the most interesting stories and essays I came across during the week. Sometimes there will be many, sometimes few, but always, these posts will appear on Sundays!
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"Business Musings: The Branding Surprise"  Kris Rusch always has excellent business and career blogs, but this one about branding is stellar. I'm in the midst of it myself, so it was very timely!

Peyton Manning launches Chattanooga Heroes Fund to honor shooting victims | WKRN News 2 

The Web We Have to Save - A great philosophical essay by Hossein Derakhshan about what the Internet has become. All bloggers, especially those who came up in the 00s, should read this awesome piece. 

Resistance, Housekeeping, Writing, & Me by Laura Benedict
A fabulous essay for all writers who are here (ahem) instead of writing now. And can we give props for the Oxford comma in the title?

Brilliance from Steven Pressfield about the revision process, its importance, and its difficulties, using GO SET A WATCHMAN as the prime example. This is really valuable info - Atticus Finch 2.0

"The Puzzle of Life"   I loved this quote -- "Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and devote yourself to it wholeheartedly.” Amen to that!

Debbie Haupt's Reading Frenzy has an interview with moi on What Lies Behind

This week on the Tao, we had a 7 Minutes With... interview with @SeanChercover

As always, News from the Book World

And I've just found out WHAT LIES BEHIND is $2.99 on Kindle. What a deal!

J.T. Ellison

J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 25 novels, and the EMMY® award winning co-host of thJoss Walkere literary TV show A WORD ON WORDS. She also writes urban fantasy under the pen name Joss Walker.

With millions of books in print, her work has won critical acclaim and prestigious awards. Her titles have been optioned for television and published in twenty-eight countries.

J.T. lives with her husband and twin kittens in Nashville, where she is hard at work on her next novel.