This week’s offerings are heavy on writing advice, but you don’t have to be a writer to love the first two articles.

• Oddly satisfying photographs.
• An art blogger I follow bought a Victorian townhouse in Jersey City.
• Excellent writing advice.
• Excellent advice for poets and writers who have been asked to do a live reading of their work.
• How to promote yourself as an author before your first book is in print.
• How to write a blurb.
• How writers can maximize their social media.
• For the nonfiction writers: your book proposal bio.
• How to write a great essay.
• How some authors achieved their dream of getting a book deal.
• How to network with other authors.
• How to write your memoir.