Check out Advice for Writers for links to over 65 useful pages on the site. The latest are The Ins and Outs of Indexing, Sell, don't tell - a two-part article on how to pitch your script,How to market your writing services online, Writing for the web, Top Ten Tips for nonfiction writers, Choosing a Service, Getting your manuscript copy edited and  Getting your poetry published.
	Read our new 7-part series An Editor's Advice, by Maureen Kincaid Speller, which deals with the most common problems she has encountered in the manuscripts which cross her desk. Read Michael Legat’s 19 Factsheets on everything from plotting your novel to publishers’ contracts.
	Use our editorial services to let our expert editors help you get your work ready for publication.  These cover everything from Reader's and Editor's Reports to Copy editing. You could start by looking at Which service? Our latest new services are Blurb-writing, PhD editing and Poetry critique.
	Our latest new service is Our Poetry Critique service, which provides  line-by-line comment on up to 150 lines of your poetry.  Indexing is a must for most non-fiction books, and then there's our three-tier Children's Editorial Services and Synopsis Writing, to help you get your submission package ready, Typing and Manuscript Polishing, which acknowledges the growth of world English and helps non-native speakers get their work into shape. Our fictionalised stories show you how the services work.
	Trawl our WritersBookstall for the right book to improve your writing - just updated again with 60 more titles, making 200 books in all - covering every kind of writing from Fantasy to Writing a memoir.
	Use our new writers' magazine reviews to find one to subscribe to. Just added: Self Publishing Magazine.
	Take a look at our  Education Resource Centre, nearly 80 pages of downloadable information set up for writing course organisers and students.

How to get published

	There's a useful page ooof advice on Getting your poetry published.
	Check out our page on putting together Your submission package.
	Look through our UK  and US literary agency listings, bringing you hundreds of detailed listings of UK, US and international agents.
	Work your way through our tips for Finding an Agent, essential reading for anyone who is looking for one.
	The Slush-pile - advice from an editor on how to get through it.
	Consider using our new Submission Critique Service to get your submission package into good shape before you send it out.
	If you have used our services and the editor reports favourably on your work, we will recommend it to agents we know.
	Check out our advice on Avoiding Rejection and Submissions.
	Working with an agent shows you how to get the most out of this key relationship.
	Try our Problem page to see if we've dealt with your problem.
	Explore our WritersBookstall to find a book which will give you the answer to your problem.
	Use our Contract Vetting service to make sure you know what you’re signing.
	Once you have a publisher, Preparing for Publication guides you through the next steps and tells you what to expect.
	If your problem is a handwritten manuscript or you can't face re-typing a messy one, our Manuscript typing service can get it into pristine shape.

	Bookmark our weekly News Review or subscribe to our email newsletter.
	Read our Inside Publishing series, which gives you the lowdown on royalties, subsidiary rights and what’s really going on in publishing.  The latest article is on The Writer/Publisher Financial Relationship.
	See if you can get to any of the International Book Fairs we've listed.
	Watch our for vanity publishers.

	The business of writing by Joanne Phillips helps you deal with tax, national insurance and other business matters connected with being a writer.
	Sell your book to a publisher (see How to get Published above).
	Look at the possibility of self-publishing.

	Check out our carefully selected Links to link you up to the world. Constantly updated with new poetry sites.
	Our new list of free online Keyboard skills courses shows you how you can learn to touch-type.
	Read our writers’ reviews of books on writing.
	The latest new one is The Creative Writing Handbook.
	Our Writers' Software section offers links, a page of script-writing software and our latest software review on Indexing Software.
	Look through our agency listings, for information on which agent to submit your work to.
	Our new checklist on Entering competitions helps you to review how you approach competitions.
	Use our Site map to find all the sections available on the site.

	Examine the truly bizarre but authentic Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year.
	Follow the triumphs and disasters of an unpublished writer’s life in Bob G Ritchie’s Journal of a Virtually Unpublished Writer
	Enjoy the silly mistakes publishers have made in turning down writers' work in our Rotten Rejections page.
	Check out our pages of Writers' quotes

	Check out WritersServices Self-publishing Clear guidance on self-publishing, including the difficult questions answered in our FAQs.
	Read up on Private Publishing if you want your book printed but don’t want to sell it.
	Limit your costs through Print on Demand and get worldwide distribution.
	Have your own large print edition of your book.
	Read the article on Print on Demand in our Inside Publishing series to find out what it is and how it works.
	Check out our review of How to Market Books if you're planning to publish your own.

	A useful section deals with using the web as a research tool.
	Try not to avoid Health Hazards’ warnings about what the computer can do to you...

Use our new My Say page to write about something you want to communicate to other writers.