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Books AtoZ
Links to related publishing sites, academic research, a calendar of book events, experimental online publications, and advice.
Everyone Who's Anyone in Adult Trade Publishing
Directory of contact information for literary agents, editors, and book publishers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada
Publishers Marketplace
Online database for publishing professionals. From PublisherLunch.
Writers Publish
Resource for authors and publishers featuring news, e-books, freelance jobs, writing contests, and advice.
NetRead.com
The Publishing Portal. Provides the tools, the community, and the knowledge to make book publishing simpler, rewarding, and profitable.
FINDaPLAY.com
Offers a searchable directory of the catalogs of major play publishers.
ITI's Literary Market Place.com
Directory of American and Canadian book publishers. Helps publishing professionals, authors, and those looking for industry data.
Writer’s Resources
BellaOnline: Writing
Danielle Hollister writes articles, reviews links and hosts an email newsletter, and discussion forum.
BloomsburyMagazine.com
The writers’ area is devoted to writers, published and unpublished. Advice, regular updates from the book business, a calendar of literary dates, and links to other sites.
Ideas4writers.co.uk
Ideas to make better writers. Writers’ bookshop, discussion forums, eZine and newsletter, competition, plus writing, computing, and word processing help.
Lit.Org
Offers forums and interviews with published authors. Also paying market and contest listings in a weblog format.
NotWriting.com
Aims to make writers feel better about procrastinators. Features ongoing commentary, diversions, and resources.
Resource Central
Links and resources for writing. Improve your writing skills, library skills, writing style, grammar. Fiction and nonfiction resources.
Scrawl: The Writer's Asylum
Provides writing workshops, story critiques, publication and support information, weekly flash fiction workshops, on-site e-zine publication, and discussion forums.
The Writer at Work
A free, weekly comic, by Richard Krzemien, for writers and creative people of all ages. The Writer mixes the working world of Dilbert with the absurdity of The Far Side.
Website Ideas for Writers
Every writer today needs an effective website as part of a complete marketing plan.
Writer Beware
Warnings and cautions for writers about literary frauds, scams, deceptions, and pitfalls.
WriteSuccess
Ideas, information
Writers Write
Weekly magazine. Features author interviews, articles
Writing Corner
Resources, event listings, feature articles, newsletters
Writer Beware
Warnings and cautions for writers about literary frauds, scams, deceptions, and pitfalls.
Writing-World.com
Writing articles and resources. Tips about how to become a better writer, get published and find writing markets. From Moira Allen.
eWriteLife.com
Find creative writing articles, prompts, ideas, reviews and other resources for writers.
Blog
How to compare book editors
A good book editor is essential to an excellent finished product. Besides, without their assistance your book may never make the shelf. However it can be difficult to find the perfect one that is suited to you from all the choices available today. Many may seem to...
How to Accept or Reject Track Changes
Your editor will have edited your documents using the Microsoft Word Track Changes tool. This retains your original document while enabling you to see the amendments marked in red. The document will automatically open revealing these. Once you have had the chance to...
Ampersand
The ampersand is friend to punctuation lovers, store owners with limited signboard space, and lazy people who can’t take the time to spell out “and” – for “and” is the meaning of this symbol, widely recognized visually but not always identified by name. Interestingly,...
How and When to Use Ampersand
The ampersand (&) is a symbol for “and”. With the growth text messaging it has found new uses in SMS language, but how and when should you use the ampersand. Unlike the percent or degree symbol, the ampersand is generally not used in editing except in very...
Using a thesaurus to improve word choice
A thesaurus—a collection of synonyms and antonyms—can be an excellent way of improving word choice in your document. The thesaurus provides a variety of word choices as suggested replacements that may help you better describe a feeling, a landscape or an event. This...
How to Use Chicago Style in English Writing
As most non-fiction authors know, there are many citation styles available. Many of them are discipline specific (e.g., Modern Language Association for the humanities, American Psychological Association for the social sciences, etc.), and they vary in many different...
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