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The Freelance Writing Jobs Network

Iain Broome — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:51:59 +0000

The Freelance Writing Jobs Network is a great resource for all writers who make a living from their freelance from work or who want to start doing as much:

“Welcome to Freelance Writing Jobs, a blog network and community for freelance writers.

“Sit back, relax, pour yourself a cuppa whatever gets you through the day, and enjoy our daily dose of job leads, tips, advice and even some fun stuff. We hope you like what you see and find the tools you need to grow as a freelance writer.

“Thanks for coming by – and don’t be a stranger! Please see our featured posts below, and click on the colored tabs above for access to all the blogs in the FWJ network.”

The Society of Authors

Iain Broome — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:22:13 +0000

An essential for all published authors:

“The Society of Authors has been serving the interests of professional writers for more than a century. Today it has more than 8,500 members writing in all areas of the profession. Whatever your specialisation, from novelists to doctors, textbook writers to ghost writers, broadcasters to academics, illustrators to translators, you are eligible as soon as you have been offered a contract.

“The staff are ready to help members with any query, however trivial or obscure, relating to the business of writing. Our services include the confidential, individual vetting of contracts, and help with professional disputes. In addition, the Society holds meetings and seminars, publishes a quarterly journal, The Author, and maintains a database of members’ specialisations.”

Life123 Writers Community

Iain Broome — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:23:56 +0000

A freelance writing community: “Our Web site is a collective of expert content sourced from Experts, Editors, and You. We exist to help people quickly find information on a wide range of life topics. If you have expertise to share, value quality writing, and want to showcase your knowledge we’d like you to contribute to our Web site!”

Silverwood Books

Iain Broome — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:12:32 +0000

SilverWood Books offers professional publishing services for individuals and organisation – from manuscript appraisal and prep for submission to agents and mainstream publishers, through to self-publishing packages. We’d be delighted to help you with your next project.

Smashwords

Iain Broome — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:13:51 +0000

From the site:

‘Welcome to Smashwords! Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. We offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device.

‘At Smashwords, our authors and publishers have complete control over the sampling, pricing and marketing of their written works.

‘Smashwords is ideal for publishing novels, short fiction, poetry, personal memoirs, monographs, non-fiction, research reports, essays, or other written forms that haven’t even been invented yet.

‘It’s free to publish and distribute with Smashwords.

‘For readers, Smashwords provides an opportunity to discover new voices in all categories and genres of the written word. Once you register, the site offers useful tools for search, discovery and personal library-building, and each week we add new features based on feedback from members.’

Poets & Writers

Iain Broome — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:33:28 +0000

Poets & Writers is a US-based site with tools for writing, an exhaustive list of literary magazines, contests, and other opportunities, and general information about the US market. Many contests, grants, and awards do not specify US residents only, so this would be relevant to writers in other English-speaking countries.

Sixty Minute Story

Iain Broome — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:19:45 +0000

The Sixty Minute Story is a new story form, designed for modern day fast-moving lifestyles – where the story is designed to fit neatly within a single hour of reading – which readers can discover and download straight to their mobile reading device.

The website SixtyMinuteStory.com provides information and tips on how writers can publish their original short stories of 15,000 words or less, to readers using devices such as e-readers, cellphones, laptops, and the iPhone and iPod touch.

Together, we can inspire new writers with a new and exciting story form, and also encourage more readers to pick up a book and enjoy reading with small, manageable and exciting stories which they can easily discover, download and read.

floreatbooks

Iain Broome — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:00:13 +0000

floreatbooks helps authors design, edit, publish and market their books. We believe in offering writers a route to market that takes the best from both the traditional and self-publishing industries. Our website and blog also contains loads of information and tips on how to get published.

A Blogger’s Books

Iain Broome — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 08:36:52 +0000

The blog provides lists of sites to which writers can submit their work. It also lists helpful writing sites that cater for writers/bloggers and resourceful articles for people in the publishing industry.

The posts themselves (about 2-3 a week) deal with the writer’s news, books, releases, and hosts a follow friday (blogs) weekly.

Write This Moment

Iain Broome — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:07:58 +0000

WriteThisMoment.com features listings of the latest paying writing jobs and opportunities. The website was established in 2004 and offers a service much valued by its members.