As
a service to our clients, those wishing to become clients or those who
prefer to "go it alone" or seek another agent, we provide this list of
helpful links for all writers. Suggestions for additions to this list
are always welcome. Please send the information to Webmaster and Senior
Editor Glenn Knight at Glenn@AgentR.com.
Helpful pages on this website
Other links of interest
- Literary Market Place a world wide resource for the book publishing industry. http://www.literarymarketplace.com/lmp/us/index_us.asp
- Preditors and Editors A guide to publishers and writing services for serious writers. http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/
- Publishers Weekly http://www.publishersweekly.com
- For Public Relations http://www.bookbuzz.com/
- Writers Digest http://www.writersdigest.com/
- Marketing your work http://www.bookmarket.com/101mark.html
- www.bookzonepro.com includes a newsletter, and service directory
- www.copylaw.com Most everything you need to know about copyrights
- Library of Congress' U.S. Copyright Forms http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/forms/
- www.bookflash.com Book Marketing Update, a twice-monthly
newsletter about Editor-in-Chief: John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market
Your Books. Provides news, marketing tips, Internet sources, media contacts and
marketing techniques. Bradley Communications, Box 1206, Lansdowne, PA 19050-8206
Tel: 800-989-1400, ext 432, Fax: 610-284-3704 E-mail: info@bookmarket.com, www.bookmarket.com
- www.grammarbook.com is a link to Jane
Straus's Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation. There are several useful items
on this site for any writer to review.
- www.bookcoaching.com is a link to Judy Cullins' site which offers
tips and links on writing, marketing, your non-fiction book.
- www.angleonwriting.com : Angle on Writing is a
website "designed to offer information to beginning fiction writers.
Although, writers of all levels, as well as nonfiction writers and poets, can
find it useful." By Lisa Angle.
- www.artslynx.org Artslynx: International Writing Resources
lists organizations for writers, has links to other sites.
- www.awpwriter.org Associated Writing Programs includes lists
college writing programs and writer's conferences.
- www.authorinterviews.com,
an online advertiser that sends information about authors to the media.
Includes enough info to function as a media kit or website.
- www.bookflash.com provides links to news
releases and other publishing information.
- www.booktalk.com Booktalk has an archive
of articles about publishing and links to other sites.
- www.bookwire.com Click on Publishers Weekly for free
subscription to a daily dose of publishing news. The site also provides or
links to other helpful sites including dozens of online marketing companies.
- www.bookzone.com Offers a newsletter, links to authors' sites
and promotional material.
- www.cspan.org information on the cable TV station's book
programming.
- www.flashback.com Information about writing events.
- www.frugalfun.com Shel Horowitz, the
author of Marketing Without Megabucks. Free Monthly Frugal Marketing Tips and
other helpful information.
- www.geocities.com The Writer's Toolbox has resources for
novelists and journalists.
- www.infoproduct.sitesell.com 1,143 pages of resources
for selling books, products and services online.
- www.iuniverse.com A print-on-demand publisher offering a links
and information.
- www.nciba.com The Northern California
Independent Booksellers Association, 415-561-7686.
- www.nicholas-direct.com Marketing tips from the author of How to
Publish a Book & Sell a Million Copies.
- www.holtuncensored.com A free weekly newsletter by former Chronicle
Book Editor Pat Holt. Must reading by the conscience of the industry.
pat@holtuncensored.com.
- www.pilot-search.com Lists 11,000 writing links.
- www.profnet.prnewswire.com Provides a link to authors and other experts
for journalists and 11,000 PR professionals.
- www.publicrelations.com Edward Segal, author of Getting Your 15
Minutes of Fame--and More! A Guide to Guaranteeing Your Business Success,
provides resources for promotion.
- www.ralan.com Ralan Conley's SpecFic & Humor
Webstravaganza Info on humor and sci-fi markets, and 600 writing links.
- www.romance.net.
For romance writers, hosted by Harlequin.
- www.speakernet.com Free weekly newsletter aimed at speakers that
also provides valuable ideas for writers.
- www.writersdigest.com Includes daily publishing news, information
about promotion and writer's conferences.
- From
Betsy Mitchell SF, advice on qery letters http://www.suvudu.com/2008/10/what-i-learned-this-week-were.html
Speakers'
Organizations
- National
Speakers Association, 1500 S.
Priest Dr. Tempe, AZ 85821,
Tel: 480-968-2552, Fax: 480-968-0911 Website: www.nsaspeaker.org Has 37 chapters and conferences.
- Toastmasters
International, 23182 Arroyo Vista Santa
Margarita, CA 92688-2620, Tel: 949-858-8255 Fax:
949-858-1207, E-mail: tminfo@toastmasters.org
Website: www.toastmasters.org Has 8,900 chapters that meet weekly and a
national conference.
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