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The Faerie Encyclopedia is one of the sweetest sites on the web.
Joshua Berlow has created his pageful of links to many famous and important authors on the net. Berlow's own work isn't that bad either.
The Elaine Case page is beautiful, informative, personal, and usable. I really believe this will be one of my all time favorites.
Shara Rendell-Smock's home page has made the grade. If you haven't been there recently , take a look at the definite improvements on this writer's page.
Mystery Net Com is for mystery writers and mystery readers.
Resources for Mystery Writers is pretty, and easy to use.
* Trance And Dental Meditation Site, This is worth the visit just for the background and sense of humor. It is also an intensely interesting and usable site which goes far to explain many aspects of your character's lives.
The Page for Poets, Zuzus domainful of resources for writers and poets is fresh, clean, and more. The 7,000 links are all inclusive and easy to navigate. "Our mission at ZPQ Online is to expand the influence of poetry beyond its traditionally academic audience and to make quality writing an everyday craving."
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How many brothers did George III have? How many sisters did George Washington have? Okay, so you're smarter than I am. Now, what are their names? Ah ha, gotcha. When you are writing historical fiction (or fact) it would be a good idea to check out their genealogy. Do that here.
Cyndi's Genealogy Links page has Over 25,700 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over 70 categories. On top of that, it is beautiful and easy to use. This is a Don't-Miss-It site for anyone wanting to know anything about genealogy.
Authors, self-publishers and independent presses belong to this trade association You will find SPAN is a new nonprofit professional trade association that will show you how to make -- and save -- money. Here you'll discover complete details to help you become more successful. Our members are independent presses, self-publishers, and savvy authors who realize if their books are to be successful, they must make them so.
Metis (may'-tis) is a greek word meaning artifice, strategem, plan. In the homeric epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, Odysseus (also called "Ulysses" in Latin translations) is the hero most commonly associated with metis. His most common epithet is polymetis, which is grossly translated as "man of many wiles" in lots of English versions. The most famous strategem (metis) is the Trojan Horse, by which the Greeks finally managed to conquer Troy. So what? Well, this page is a very good example of literary craftsmanship in an advertising epistle. Check it out, just for laughs, and learn salesmanship at the same time.
Using the web profitably is the next step up in building your sales volume, and finding new talent. Let me introduce you to the Web Marketing Information Center. Here you will be overwhelmed with useful information, from various sources. The Yahoo page for Business and Economics is another launch site for using the web.
The most helpful legal site aimed at the literary field which I have found comes from IVAN HOFFMAN, B.A., J.D. Attorney At Law. Here are some of the HUBs: HELPFUL ARTICLES FOR WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS -- ARTICLES ABOUT THE INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC RIGHTS -- ARTICLES FOR WEB SITE DESIGNERS AND SITE OWNERS -- ARTICLES FOR RECORDING ARTISTS AND SONG WRITERS -- ARTICLES ABOUT e-THICS (TM) Each hub leads to more and more pages chocked full of information.
MediaFinder from Oxbridge Communications, Inc. "We are the search engine for the print media and catalog world. If it's in print, it's in here." They back up their claim. This is also a great place to advertise. Make sure YOU are listed here. What I liked best was a list of the best PRINTERS in the country.
First Books is looking for writers. If you've written a novel or a book-length work of nonfiction and are looking for an agent, First Books has sold books to include: Hyperion Simon & Schuster Penguin-Putnam's HarperCollins Villard The Free Press Crown John Wiley Running Press Macmillan Farrar, Straus & Giroux McGraw Hill/Irwin Little, Brown Ballantine-Fawcett Scribners Houghton Mifflin St. Martin's Viking Coffee House Press Andrews McMeel Universal Contemporary Books Pocket Books Random House
Bloominghouse Literary Agency has a page of links similar to this one but with some very important differences you should check out. My writer friends have told me this is also an agency worth looking into if you need representation. I only know the site is well worth emulating.
Studio B (a literary agency specializing in computer book sales) brings you the latest news and information from around the computer book industry. "We work hard to stay up-to-date, collecting only the best news and articles so you don't have to."
This is the Heartsong Books Publishing Tips page. Don't miss the rest of this fine site found by clicking on Heartsong Books Website. Says author/publisher Maggie Davis: For twenty years, I was published in New York and other places. Four years ago, at age fifty, from my cabin in the woods, I created Heartsong Books to move my books into the world in ways that would reflect the kinship vision expressed on their pages. Each of our Heartsong Books is a favorite. I'm very glad to tell you about them. On my website, I feature the in-depth, story-behind-the-story of each of these books.
Dan Poynter's Para Publishing "Resources For Publishers" which has thousands of pages of free reports (with a search engine) Dan also put a little dabble duya on our guestbook register which was refreshing, humorous, and effective.
Internet Publicity Resources Huge, sprawling, and best of all, USEFUL! Really, really useful.
AcqWeb is the librarian's sweetheart. Mrs. Bailey in Reference, this site's for all the help you gave me before I got on-line to find most things myself. It has Books in Print and many other services.
Something wonderful from Canada Internet Resources for Canadian Publishers for the Canadian Publisher's Council. "Back before radar, satellites, and global positioning systems, adventurers would send a scout ahead of the party to tell them of possible dangers and identify sites worth pillaging. I've tried to be your scout." If you do business with Canada Publishers, and you should, this is the place to start.
Bookwire, has a calendar of events, answers key questions, has made itself a hub of resources I use the page to find lists of publishers.
BookWeb, the web site of the American Booksellers Association. Good for book news, markets, resources. Directory of thousands of bookstores with links to hundreds of bookstore web sites.
Authorlink is a good source of news and updates in the literary field. The site also provides an opportunity for good writers to meet good agents and good publishers. The site has received praise from editors at Avon, Berkley, Random House, Time-Warner, Bantam Doubleday Dell and other major publishers.
The Book Behind the Book Behind the Book is a terrific, aggressive, abrasive web site from a terrific, aggressive, abrasive author. I recommend it, for "adults" only. The huge, sprawling site gives hard information on the the book writing, editing, marketing process and leads visitors by the hand to thousands of other pages just as good.
A beautiful new (to me) page on the web has a startlingly beautiful book for free. This is from Online Originals Publishing. The story, one of humor, insight and wonder set in China delighted me so much I read it all the way through. The trip is well worth the time. This is a wonderful site.
Brief Reports from an expert can cover the salient points of many topics remarkably well. Here at Short Subjects is a collection of free reports on topics of interest to publishers, writers and, anyone who likes books.
There is a beautiful, and free site, called Learn2 which provides all kinds of basic help information writers can use to make their stories more credible. There you can learn how to do anything from set a table to prune a tree. Check it out. You'll have fun, and you could easily learn something valuable.
Opinionated Book Recommendations comes from a reviewer of Grief Books and shows how to make an excellent, concentrated point.
Clause for Alarm: The wording may be different from one contract to another, but most publishing contracts will have some clause that basically states that if the manuscript as delivered, is not acceptable to the Publisher in style, length, content and form, the Publisher, at its discretion, shall ahve the option either to notify the Author in writing to what extent the manuscript is unacceptable, in which event the Author shall have ____days (30/45/60) The complete article is found on our site:
I've just spent a delightful hour on the WWW --- Let me rephrase that. I have been anxiously engaged in studying the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Home Page Where "WWW" means Wretched Writers Welcome. Take the time to look at this one and I believe you will be delighted also.
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