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Book Indexing Services

Iain Broome — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 07:18:46 +0000

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

Writropolis

Iain Broome — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:56:22 +0000

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 work.

Flash Fiction Forums

Iain Broome — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:42:59 +0000

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 to get feedback. That’s what this site is all about.

The Bookshelf Muse

Iain Broome — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:23:35 +0000

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 real world examples of each to encourage a perfect comparison match and a Symbolism Thesaurus using nature and society to find examples to create deeper meaning in detail.

my Writers Circle

Iain Broome — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:25:56 +0000

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 in The Coffee Shop!

Feedbooks

Iain Broome — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:42:34 +0000

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 on creating the best experience for e-books.’

Grammar Bytes

Iain Broome — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:33:35 +0000

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

Iain Broome — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:29:50 +0000

‘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 will be challenged to take creative risks and begin to see yourself and your life from a fresh perspective.

‘An experienced guide will lead the way and you will be supported on your creative journey by a unique community of fellow writers.’

Medieval Demographics Made Easy

Iain Broome — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:00:03 +0000

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

Iain Broome — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:28:23 +0000

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 literary fiction and strong, relevant non-fiction.

At Writer’s Side, our team of skilled and proficient readers will give valuable and realistic assessment of manuscripts, both fiction and non-fiction. Apart from that, starting from Jan 2009 we will also be representing a very select list of authors in India and UK