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Iain is the editor of Write for Your Life and Websites for writers. His first novel is called A is for Angelica and is represented by literary agent, Tibor Jones Associates. By day, Iain works as a copywriter for leading UK design and e-learning company, The Workshop.
Writing Forums
Highly active writing forum that allows you to communicate with other writers and: “post your own writing for review, read our ezine exclusive author interviews, visit our bookstore, post to your personal writing blog, and enter our frequent short story and poetry writing contests.”
Writing News Weekly
Writing news, features, interviews, editorials and reviews from this Alltop featured site.
The Independent | Books
News, features and reviews from one of the UK’s leading broadsheet newspapers.
Tumblemoose Writing Services
Inspiring Writers Every Day reads the tag line. Inspirational and thoughtful writing tips delivered in a humorous and conversational style.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging platform with a social networking community built in. You can use it to meet like-minded writers or as an online scrapbook to keep your thoughts, ideas and anything else you find on the internet. “Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, [...]
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Daily Writing Tips
A blog that offers practical writing advice and daily updates to help you with punctuation, grammar or the correct usage of words.
Nathan Bransford
Nathan Bransford is a literary agent working for Curtis Brown in New York. He provides useful information about the publishing industry and blogs about his work a s literary agent: “I’m particularly interested in literary fiction, mysteries and suspense, historical fiction, narrative nonfiction, business, history, sports, politics, current events, young adult fiction, science fiction and [...]
Writer Dad
Blog written and edited by Sean Platt, a father, copywriter and online entrepreneur. Writer Dad focuses on “family and fatherhood with well written tales about those things that orbit our lives, alongside helpful hints and strategies to render our children into remarkable writers so that they may help us all write our best future.”
Men With Pens
The ever-popular Men With Pens is a blog that offers, “smokin’ designs, rockin’ content and killer business sense”. They’ve also written ebooks on freelance writing and fiction writing, and have a lage community of regular readers.
Novelr
An internet fiction blog run by writer, Eli James: “Novelr is a blog about writing and presenting fiction on the Internet. It deals with the way the Internet is changing the way we read – whether it is books we’re dealing with or not. What is the future of the book? Can blooks make a [...]
Publishing Talk
Publishing Talk started in April 2007 as the company blog for Reed Media, a social media consultancy. What started as a way of communicating tips, trends and issues to help publishing clients get to grips with new online marketing methods has become a resource for both authors and publishers.
Terry Heath
A blog about all things creative writing from Terry Heath, writer and MFA candidate in creative writing.
Cueprompter
CuePrompter is a free teleprompter/autocue service, which makes your browser work like a teleprompter – with no extra software needed. Perfect for radio and live performance, plus a useful tool for developing the rhythm of your writing.
Guardian books
All the latest literary and book-related news from UK newspaper, The Guardian, including features, gueat posts and interviews.
Self-Publishing Review
The Self-Publishing Review is an online magazine devoted to self-publishing: book reviews, publisher reviews, interviews, news, opinion, and how tos for the self-publisher.
BBC writersroom
You can’t really go wong with this site from the BBC. It’s packed full of ideas and tutorials, and provides valuable information for UK-based authors in particular. It also runs regular competitions and encourages you to send your manuscript. A quality, reliable source.
Iain Broome
Iain Broome is a professional writer who completed his first novel in 2008. He blogs about the writing process at Write for Your Life and is the editor of this very site, Websites for writers. By day, he’s a copywriter for an award-winning UK design company, The Workshop.
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