I spend a lot of time giving advice to young writers. It's cool, I like doing it, and I really don't mind spending time with newbies discussing the business and the art. But I thought it might be useful to everyone if I put some of my favorite stuff here in one post.
Chuck gets it.
I find that I often link a series of the same places over and over. There are a lot of resources out there on the web, and yeah, I could just tell y'all to go Google it, but while Google brings up some great links, I also have my own personal favorites. So here you go, EKA's Favorite Writing Resources:
On Querying, Publishers, and Agents
Absolute Write: Bewares & Background Checks
Jennifer Represents, blog of literary agent Jennifer Laughran (I especially love her posts on Genre and on Word Count)
Chuck Sambuchino's Guide to Literary Agents
Literary Rambles
Publisher's Marketplace
Agent Query
Query Tracker
On Marketing and Publicity (Including Social Media)
Shrinking Violet Promotions
Debi Ohi's Writer's Guide to Twitter
Greg Pincus' Happy Accidents
On Publishing Opportunities/Markets
Duotrope.com
Ralan.com
Newpages
Other
Andrew Karre's Blog at Carolrhoda/Lerner Publishing
Absolute Write Forums
Verla Kay Forums
Cynsations, blog of New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith
Mitali's Fire Escape, blog of award-winning author Mitali Perkins
SCBWI - Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
Writer's League of Texas
RWA (Romance Writers of America)
SFWA- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
PS: I see a lot of you have some favorite resources of your own. Because this is a somewhat "official" list, and I'm putting my name on it, I'd prefer it if you didn't link to your resources here. I don't have time to vet them all, so I'm going to hide comments with links in them -- but of course I encourage you to share in your own journals!
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