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365 Tomorrows

Written by Iain Broome on Aug 02, 2009 | 0 Comments

A great site where people can submit works of sci-fi ‘flash-fiction’”. A new story is published everyday. Also has a forum where people can discuss how to write flash fiction.

Read Write Tweet

Written by Iain Broome on Jul 27, 2009 | 0 Comments

Read Write Tweet is a Twitter directory of literary agents and all things Young Adult, including YA authors, characters, and reviewers. Agents and authors are tagged by genre, for easy searching.

The Arvon Foundation

Written by Iain Broome on Jul 21, 2009 | 0 Comments

The Arvon Foundation provides unique opportunities for writers at every stage of their writing lives. In the UK, Arvon runs week-long residential creative writing courses in four beautiful and historic houses. Arvon is a charity and fundraises to ensure everyone can take part, regardless of income. Grants are available for writers on low or no [...]

Scrawlers

Written by Iain Broome on Jul 06, 2009 | 0 Comments

Scrawlers was founded in Minnesota in 2006 by Barry Hess and Nathan Melcher. Brought together by a mutual interest in creative arts and web development, Barry and Nathan built Scrawlers to marry those interests into a web-based creative outlet. Ultimately, they are driven by the desire to use Scrawlers themselves and a hope it will [...]

Guide to Literary Agents

Written by Iain Broome on Jul 05, 2009 | 0 Comments

A blog edited by Chuck Sambuchino that tells you: “How and where to find the rght agents to represent your work.”

Writer’s Digest

Written by Iain Broome on Jul 01, 2009 | 0 Comments

WritersDigest.com is your one-stop shop for information, resources and writing community. Connect with other writers on our forum, visit our blogs and sign up for our free weekly e-newsletter. Here you’ll also find weekly writing prompts, contests and competitions, conference listings and online exclusive articles.

Publetariat

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 30, 2009 | 0 Comments

Publetariat is the premier online news hub and community for indie authors and small imprints, with an Alexa traffic rank in the top 1.25% and a Technorati blog rank in the top .3%.

Maternal Spark

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 29, 2009 | 0 Comments

Maternal Spark is a site for and about Creative Moms.  Posts are often about how to stay creative when balancing family life.  Maternal Spark accepts flash fiction submissions of 500 words or less and also features a forum.

WordHustler

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

WordHustler is the first and only website to take care of the whole process of submitting work to literary markets. Our free database features 4,000+ agents, publishers, contests, and publications. Our over 5,000 clients use WordHustler to send and track their physical submissions, which saves them time so they can do what they’re supposed to [...]

Cradle Fables

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 11, 2009 | 0 Comments

Cradle Fables Publishing is a new, independent publisher of children’s picture books. We are different to other publishing companies, in that our focus is specifically on picture books that are designed to encourage the creative development of under 5’s. We don’t publish educational books, as the market is already flooded with great books that help [...]

Helium

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 10, 2009 | 2 Comments

Helium is the world’s largest community of writers. Since its inception in 2006, Helium’s writers have published over 1.25 million articles on 125,000 unique topics. Each month more than 3 million people visit Helium.com to read articles on a range of subjects from careers to home & garden, parenting, politics and more. Helium writers earn [...]

QueryTracker

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 03, 2009 | 0 Comments

QueryTracker is a free site that allows users to find literary agents and to track their queries to those agents. This information is then compiled into reports and shared among its users to show what agents are reading, what they are rejecting, response times, and much more.

Freelance Switch

Written by Iain Broome on Jun 01, 2009 | 1 Comments

Freelance Switch is a site meant for *all* freelancers, but freelance writers will find much to bookmark here. In addition to daily posts on freelance tips and resources, the site offers such tools as a job board, rates calculator, and more.

Completely Novel

Written by Iain Broome on May 27, 2009 | 0 Comments

CompletelyNovel is an online hub for everyone who loves books. Aspiring writers can go there to upload their work and tap into a host of self-publishing tools for free, such as an online BookStreamer (allowing their work to be embedded around the web in a secure ‘Youtube’ style) and print-on-demand printing. Readers can go to [...]

LitMatch

Written by Iain Broome on May 27, 2009 | 0 Comments

This is the great site for writers to connect and develop a relationship with top publishers and literary agents.

The Writer’s Handbook

Written by Iain Broome on May 22, 2009 | 0 Comments

The Writer’s Handbook website is a resources site to accompany The Writer’s Handbook 2010 (Macmillan, 2010) now in its 23rd year of publication. Using a code found in the book, users can register for access to a searchable directory of publishers, editors, agents and broadcasters, use a variety of indispensable resources including tips and FAQS, [...]

Web Fiction Guide

Written by Iain Broome on May 20, 2009 | 0 Comments

Listings, reviews and articles on fiction published online. Great resource for writers to gain additional readers and feedback. Great resource for readers in search of fiction.

Red Room

Written by Iain Broome on May 13, 2009 | 0 Comments

Red Room provides authors and members with free, easy-to-use, elegant online homes. It’s a place for the literary community to promote their work, express themselves, and connect with their favorite authors.

National Novel Writing Month

Written by Iain Broome on May 12, 2009 | 2 Comments

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.

Nathan Bransford

Written by Iain Broome on May 12, 2009 | 0 Comments

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 [...]