- Barbary Coast
Mysteries
- Inkspots: Writers' Resources
on the Web
This site is "a comprehensive resource for writers . . . up-to-date
market information, tips on improving your writing, articles, interviews
with professional authors and editors, networkings opportunities, and a
guide to the best resources for writers on the net." Inklings is
a biweekly newsletter than site visitors can subscribe to; it's free.
Contents
- News
- Editor Ink: latest editorial news
- Morning Coffee: links to online news from America and Canada
- What's New?: site updates (new site--Canadian writers on the web)
listed by date. (DL Alert: Questionable Agent Site link here. These are
agents and agencies with multiple complaints for charging contract fees
[$150-$750], reading fees [$45-$95]).
- Guidelines Library News and Updates: market updates from publishers
- Weekly Book Giveaway: random drawing of name and e-dress.
- Markets
- Inkspots' Writers' Guidelines Library: searchable database
- Markets
- Other Market Sources and Links
- Jobs for Writers: lists and directories
- Workshops
- Craft of Writing Resources and Links: grammar, style, editing,
copyright information, courses, critiquing, etc.
- Genres, Research and Search Tools
- Miscellaneous: hypertext, software, online literature, etc.
- Inkspot poll
- Writers' Bookstore/Recommended Reading
- Beginning Writers' FAQ
- Articles and Columns
- Freelancing 101
- Running Ink
- Children's Writers' Marketplace
- Ask Lou
- ASJA Contracts Watch
- Networking
- Networking Resources and Links: IRC's, chats, associations, for
writers, organizations, etc.
- Writers' Classifieds: market information, services, events,
promotions. FREE
- Discussion Forums
- Author Directory Resources
- Children's Authors Directory: list of authors on the web
- For Youong Adults: resources and market information
- Departments
- Search: sites and newsletter
- Edink: semi-daily news
- Feedback: comments, URL requests, bug reports, etc.
- Hotspots: list of sites and contents
- Subscribe: free biweekly newsletter, Inklings
- Internet Crimewriting
Network Some of the areas are open to everyone. Others require
membership: $29.95 a year for members of the Writers Guild of America,
Sisters in Crime, Writer's Connection, Mystery Writers of America, and
Women in Film; $39.95 a year for everyone else.
- Internet Writing
Journal
- Killer Fonts
Select the right font for your mystery based on the handwriting of
famous killers, only $4.95 per killer. Killers include Lee Harvey Oswald,
Jack the Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Dillinger, the Gainesville Ripper,
the Zodiac Killer and Cryptogram, Butch Cassidy, Billy the Kid.
- Painted Rock Writers and
Readers Colony
- Wicked
Company
"Mystery is Murder for new (and aspiring) mystery writers. Share
tips, info & experiences with your partners in crime."
- Write News
- Writer's Hood
Mystery editor Charles A. King says, "We're looking for writers to
contribute to our pages. We offer a free critique and we work with writers
who may have a piece that needs a hand. We publish, or prefer to publish,
unpublished work, though, we will openly consider work that has appeared
else where if no copyright is broken. Writers keep all rights to their
work by the way, and the Hood charges nothing for the review, the
editorial service, or anything."
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WritersNet
This site "helps build relationships between writers, publishers,
editors, and literary agents." It contains searchable directories of
the groups mentioned above. Members can add to or edit their entries
online. There is a new directory planned, Internet Database of Writing
Assignments.
Contents
- What's New: a total site upgrade is underway as of my 2-19-98 visit.
- Search: the site's engine.
- Map: the site table of contents
- About: a description of what Writers Net is, who it's designed for,
why it's free, where the idea for it came from, and what it accomplishes.
- Feedback: a place to submit personal information and send any
questions or comments to the site owner.
- Published writers
- Editors
- Publishers
- Literary Agents: These sections have the same format: a directory
with links for search, browse, add, edit, FAQ's; and a discussion section.
- Write
Page
an "online newsletter with over 300 pages of author and book
information for readers and how to information for writers of genre
fiction." The site defines genre fiction and lists categories that are
included.
Contents
- Site Description
- List of Links
- Celebration of Women Writers (from Carnegie Mellon)
- Unknown Romance Novelists
- Shameless Scribblers and More Shameless Scribblers
- Reformers, Missionaries, and Do-Gooders
- Diplomats, Diarists and gossips
- Unknown Children's Book Writers
- Unknown Women Non-Fiction Writers
- Modern Women's Romantic Fiction
- Genre Fiction and Other Books: each site lists publishers' releases
by month as well as signings and other author appearances
- Romance
- Historical Fiction
- Mystery, suspense and Intrigue
- Science Fiction
- Paranormal Fiction
- Westerns
- Multi-cultural, Ethnic or International Fiction
- Children's Books
- Young Adult Books
- Fantasy
- Humor
- Espionage
- Experimental
- Horror
- Non-fiction
- Poetry
- Cookbooks
- Inspirational and Motivational
- Action Adventure
- Sports
- Serious Fiction. These last two genres are not yet links.
- Features for Writers
- Writers' Rights
- How to write and get Published
- Tools of the Trade
- Write Organizations
- Write Online
- Conferences and contests
- Write Sites
- Write Research
- Writers with Heart (pre-event publicity and post-event summaries)
- Write Stuff
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