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General Writing Links
General Research
English Language/Tools
E-zines
E-book distributers
Places to Submit Work
General Writing Links
www.writersmarkets.com
www.spawn.org
Site for all involved in publishing.
Articles on writing etc.
www.writers.org.uk
UK writer's site.
www.author.co.uk
Here you will find books published by writers, advice on how to publish your own work, a critique service, two book production services. There are also dozens of useful contacts, a growing list of UK writers circles, and make sure you subscribe to the ezine Write to Publish. Have a look at the new books that have just arrived on site.
www.adlerbooks.com
This is a page of an American publisher, but as well as promoting itself it has many articles about writing, book proposals, sample book proposals, fiction etc.
chebucto
A canadian page of general writing advice, contracts, book proposals etc.
w3.one.net
The site of a writer with advice on most things.
General Research
index
www.infoplease.com
Information on anything,
from encyclopedias, almanacs and dictionaries.
Quotations
Searchable quotations, about 1300 of them.
www.encyclopedia.com
Free ol-line encyclopedia, Good.
www.powerreporting.com
Research for journalists.
Companies, individuals,
check facts, historical stock quotes etc.
****FAIR*****
www.eyp.co.uk
UK yellow pages,
(telephone directory).
www.streetmap.co.uk
***GOOD****
Enter postcode, street name for map,
UK only.
www.lawrights.co.uk
UK law, adoption, liability etc.
www.nacab.org.uk
Site of the English C.A.B.
encarta.msn.com
***GOOD***
On-line enclopedia.
www.open.gov.uk
UK public sector information.
www.southern.net/wm/
Examples of all art from all eras.
www.metmuseum.org
Metropolian museum of art.
www.patents.ibm.com
Search keywords for inventions and discover
who holds the patent.
index
Engligh Language/Tools
Bartleby
The Elements of English Usage (garmmer, punctuation etc), on-line.
Writing for the web. Grammer, punctuation, being understood and specific, singular, plural, verbs, style, writing tight etc.
Reasearch on surfers habits that's useful to read for the understanding of what they want.
itools
Central research form where you can find meanings, anagrams, simultaneuos translations of English words into many languages all at once. Good.
www.perseus.tufts.edu
Translate words from English to Greek, German or Latin.
www.wordsmith.org
***FAIR***
Anagram generator.
www.anagramgenius.com
Annagram generator.
www.m-w.com/
******VERY GOOD******
On-line dictionary and thesaurus.
Very useful.
index
E-Zines
www.thestandard.com
Magazine about business on the Internet.
www.altculture.com
E-zine of alternative culture.
www.salonmagazine.com
Well known e-zine.
www.feedmag.com
General e-zine.
www.word.com
General e-zine.
www.suck.com
General e-zine.
index
E-book distributers
www.softbook.com
www.rocketbook.com
www.everybook.net
www.onlineoriginals.com
Places to submit work
Pure Fiction
A list of publishers' web sites.
Trace
General writing magazine, with a news section that outlines opportunities to submit work to various places including competitions.
Writers' Net
A site under construction, with a publisher and agent directory, looks very promising.
www.malvernfirst.com
A company that specialises in publishing first novels, by the look of the site they are very open to new writing, and they don't seem like a subsidy operation. If you try them, don't forget to network!
UPDATE: As far as I can work out, this place has disappeared now.
http://authorlink.com
Lots here for new writers, with many indicidual publishers guidelines if you hunt about.
www.publist.com
An Internet directory of publishers and media contact info. The site itself isn't working so well, but it's very comprehensive.
Jim Cypher
A New York based agency that has a reasonable amount of informationof general use to writers. Also, they don't mins short queries by e-mail.
www.writers.net
The now finished agents directory mentioned above.
Addicus Books
A publisher accepting self-help manuscripts.
www.awoc.com
Searchable guidelines database.
www.booklocker.com
An electronic publisher offering 70 percent royalties on electronic only rights, though I've no experience of dealing with them, let me know what happens if you try.
www.jbwb.com
Directory of publishers addresses maintained by an agent.
http://www.lights.com
List of publishers addresses worldwide
www.library.vanderbilt.edu
Site for librarians, with publishers' e-mail directory
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