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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The writers’ area is devoted to writers, published and unpublished.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.
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How to use a spell-checker?
So, you’ve finished your novel or your dissertation, and you want to give it that final read-through and polish…and what better way to do so than by using the spell-check function of your word processing program? But wait, before we discuss ways to get the most out of...
How to Cite a Video in English Writing – By a Professional Editor
Electronic sources are becoming more and more commonplace these days, but unfortunately, many have no idea how to cite them in their academic papers. This blog will cover one type of electronic source, the video, and show you how to cite it properly. Most commonly,...
How to Accept or Reject Changes in Track Changes
While editing you will not want to accept a Tracked Change, because this means the original text can no longer be retrieved in your edited version. This could be problematic if the client wished to restore his original text. On the other hand, sometimes it is useful...
How to use parentheses
Parentheses, they sit there, on your keyboard the simple set of symbols that always come in pairs. For British readers, you’ll probably know them as brackets and they are wonderful little marks of punctuation. They can be used in a variety of ways, you probably see...
How to Use the Chicago Manual of Style in English Writing
When writing research papers or academic texts, you will most likely be required to use a specific style guide determined by your department or specialization and perhaps your school. There are three main style guides we use in academic writing: The American...
Using Parentheses
Parentheses are among the more easily-recognizable punctuation marks. We see them when we read fiction, when we are going through instruction manuals, and we use them in math from a fairly early age. In writing, the primary purpose of parentheses is to include...
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