INTRODUCTION
SECTION ONE: IMPROVING YOUR WRITING
- Free Online Creative Writing Workshops
A way to improve your writing in a very short time and make it fit for publication.
- Useful Links For Authors
Online quotation sources, grammar and style guides, dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, warnings about scams, writer groups, copyright stuff, etc.
- Common Writing Mistakes
A list of stuff I've seen in my years as a Senior Editor and Author Development Specialist, and links to other sites offering more of the same.
- Narrative & Dialogue - A Contrast In Writing Styles
The differences between the two, and how to use them both to maximum effect.
SECTION TWO: PUBLISHING
- Print Publishing vs. Electronic Publishing
A comparison of the two mediums, the reasons I want to be published in both, and how I'm going to do that.
- Electronic Publishers
A list of the ones I believe are reputable and my criteria for selecting them.
- How To Break Into Print Publishing
Bottom line -- Traditional print books are where most of the readers are! So here's my plan for breaking into that market. After publishing electronically. This article includes listings of print publishers and literary agents.
- Print-On-Demand Publishing
What is it? Should you use it? If so, how?
(Hint -- I've written some stuff that traditional print publishers won't publish.)
SECTION THREE: PROMOTING YOUR PUBLISHED WRITING
- Book Reviewers, Author Interviews, Book Listing Sites
While not the end-all and be-all of promotion, this a good way to start "word-of-mouth" publicity. If you've got a good product, I hope it'll sell itself after that. This list contains both electronic and print resources.
- Book Contests
If you've got what it takes to win or at least get short-listed, this will also create sales, exposure, "word-of-mouth."
SECTION FOUR: PROMOTION ON THE INTERNET
CONCLUSION
ADDENDA
- How Not To Get Published
Partly goofball personal anecdote and partly a repeat of some things I've already said. I wrote it after my first publication, in a fit of unbridled excitement.