I’ve amassed a lot of writerly links over the past few years. Some are helpful. Some are just distractions. Some days you’ll want the former. Some days you’ll need the latter. I intend to update this collection occasionally, so check back.
Writer’s Essential Library (You should own these)
- Ernest Hemingway On Writing
- On Writing, Stephen King
- Being Indie, Eeva Lancaster
- Elements of Style 2017
- The Chambers Dictionary
- The Art of War for Writers, James Scott Bell
- Zen in the Art of Writing, Ray Bradbury
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
- Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
- The Rhetoric of Fiction, Wayne C. Booth
- The Well-tempered Sentence, Karen Elizabeth Gordon
- Write Right!, Jan Venolia
- Writing Fiction, Janet Burroway
Keep Writing…
- Writing prompts from Writer’s Digest
- Prompts and exercises from P&W
- 500 prompts from the NY Times
- The Elements of Style
General writing assistance
Publishing, editing, etc.
- BubbleCow: Professional book editing
- The Creative Penn: Contains a ton of information about publishing and links to many other resources.
- Duotrope: Spend less time submitting so you can focus on writing
Author/Book sites
- Independent Author Network
- Authors Guild
- askDavid: Book reviews and book promotion
- Being Author: Book reviews, marketing, and promotion
- GoodReads: You should probably create an author page
Awards/Reviews
- Readers’ Favorite: Book reviews and awards
- New Apple Literary Services
- Chanticleer Book Reviews
- The US Review of Books
- Online Book Club
- Indie Book Awards
- International Book Awards
Book/Literary sites
- Litreactor
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Books: The New York Times
- Omnivoracious: The Amazon Book Review
- Book Slut
- Alltop: Top literature news
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