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Category Archive for ‘Tools’

Book Indexing Services

Written by Iain Broome on Jul 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

Book Indexing services for quality indexes that increase book sales. Book indexing to your specifications, budget and deadlines.

Writropolis

Written by Iain Broome on Apr 13, 2010 | 0 Comments

Writropolis is a community dedicated to collaborative fiction. Here you can join together with other writers to develop, plot and create fictional stories in any number of genres. We also offer a list of groups currently looking for writers, resources for research, contest listings and a reading room for sharing and receiving feedback on your [...]

Flash Fiction Forums

Written by Iain Broome on Mar 22, 2010 | 3 Comments

Flash Fiction Forums is a web community dedicated to reading and critiquing your flash fiction prose. We’re not a fishing site, we’re not a poetry site, we’re not a cooking site. We’re a site for fiction. Writers of all ages and skill want two things: they want people to read their work, and they want [...]

The Bookshelf Muse

Written by Iain Broome on Mar 18, 2010 | 1 Comments

Contains several descriptive thesaurus collections for writers, including an Emotion Thesaurus which shows over 40 emotions and the corresponding character actions that will show each emotion, a Setting Thesaurus that list common fictional setting and all possible description based on sight, smell, taste, touch and sound for each, a Color, Texture and Shape thesaurus with [...]

my Writers Circle

Written by Iain Broome on Mar 11, 2010 | 0 Comments

myWritersCircle is a free-to-join online writers forum with nearly 11,000 members world-wide. We pride ourselves on our reputation as ‘the web’s friendliest writers forum’. As well as getting feedback on their work, members can ask (and answer) questions about writing, check out the job listings on the Writers Wanted board, or just shoot the breeze [...]

Feedbooks

Written by Iain Broome on Feb 23, 2010 | 0 Comments

Feedbooks allows you to find e-books for your mobile device or to read on your PC. You can also upload and publish work of your own: ‘As a service, Feedbooks is a unique solution for e-books: it provides an easy way to find, publish and distribute e-books in a large number of formats, while focusing [...]

Grammar Bytes

Written by Iain Broome on Feb 17, 2010 | 0 Comments

A great resources for definitions, exercises and tips on all things grammar and wordery. Plus it has a gorilla in its branding. So that’s got to be a good thing too.

Bring Yourself

Written by Iain Broome on Feb 16, 2010 | 0 Comments

‘Bring Yourself e-courses are adventures in creative writing. Each course is a chance to play, explore and discover. You will find the time and space to daydream and the support to develop your writing. ‘You will be encouraged to look closer than ever before at the world around you and document what you find. You [...]

Medieval Demographics Made Easy

Written by Iain Broome on Feb 10, 2010 | 0 Comments

A site on medieval demographics, which is great for the historical fiction writer or the fantasy writer, or could be very useful for post apocalyptic or Space Colony writing. It is a must read. It also has demographic calculators which are very useful.

Writer’s Side

Written by Iain Broome on Feb 08, 2010 | 0 Comments

Writer’s Side, India’s first professional manuscript assessment service, is the brainchild of Kanishka Gupta, formerly an editor with a literary agency and a popular arts magazine. He has worked as the head of a men ‘s lifestyle portal. He has also worked with a publishing house as a freelance consultant. He is particularly interested in [...]

Discover Writers

Written by Iain Broome on Jan 18, 2010 | 0 Comments

We are a creative and dynamic web design agency who have provided websites for over 100 literary and publishing clients including Ian Rankin, Philip Pullman, Alain de Botton, Francesca Simon, Jeanette Winterson, Horrid Henry, World Book Day, Ian Fleming Publications and many more. We have been providing web solutions for 10 years so we understand [...]

The Bookwright

Written by Iain Broome on Jan 12, 2010 | 0 Comments

A mashup of information and writing resources: “The Bookwright is involved with all stages of the book’s production – from initial concept, through 1st & 2nd draft, right through to seeing it available for sale in bookshops and on the Interweb. “This particular Bookwright takes an author-centric approach dealing with issues such as time management, [...]

Essential Writers

Written by Iain Broome on Jan 06, 2010 | 0 Comments

Multi-author blog and some great resources for writers: “If you love words, you’re in the right place. This is a website for anyone who makes their living by writing, or who wants to. This includes journalists, authors, poets, short story writers, scriptwriters, graphic novelists, and anyone else for whom the written word is essential.”

Silverwood Books

Written by Iain Broome on Dec 15, 2009 | 0 Comments

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

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

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 [...]

Sixty Minute Story

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

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 [...]

floreatbooks

Written by Iain Broome on Nov 16, 2009 | 0 Comments

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.

Fictionaut

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

Fictionaut is a vibrant literary community that is opening exciting new possibilities for short fiction and poetry. Part self-selecting magazine, part community network, Fictionaut is a way for readers to discover new voices and for writers to share their work, gain recognition, and connect with their audience and each other.

The Writer’s Beat

Written by Iain Broome on Oct 26, 2009 | 0 Comments

An online writing forum with a plethora of helpful members and reams of reference and articles written and compiled by the staff. It’s billed as one of the most friendly places for writers to be, and the staff certainly tries hard to keep that reputation going.

Notebook in Hand

Written by Iain Broome on Oct 13, 2009 | 2 Comments

Notebook In Hand is a site where writers, artists, and all creative people can come together to share their skills and advice. It has members from all over the world, and many different ages. Our youngest is 14, our oldest is somewhere in his 60s. It is a small forum, but this means that you’ll [...]