Skip to Content

Writers' Web Resources

Life Cycle of a Book in Translation

Contacts

Another extremely informative infographic, following on from Life Cycle of a Book, which shows you the various processes a book goes through to be published as a translation . This comes from Publishing Trendsetter and is accompanied by a series of video explanations from publishing staff from across the world.  Read more

Life Cycle of a Book

Contacts

A brilliantly informative infographic which shows you the various processes a book goes through to be traditionally published. This comes from Publishing Trendsetter and is accompanied by a series of video explanations from publishing staff in the various departments, showing what they do. It's really clear and useful.  Read more

Adam Maxwell's Fiction Lounge

Contacts

Author Maxwell's website offers a Character Name Generator and a Writing Prompts Generator which is quite fun if you're stuck on what to write next, plus short stories and flash fiction, all served up in a sardonic tone. www.adammaxwell.com

Literary Market Place

Contacts

United States

This site uses the huge publishing database belonging to the American publishing bible Literary Market Place

This site uses the huge publishing database belonging to the American publishing bible Literary Market Place, but free access is only to the small press listings and publishers' names and addresses. To get access to all the other information and to use of their powerful search facility, the annual fee is $399. www.literarymarketplace.com/lmp/us/index_us.asp

, but free access is only to the small press listings and publishers' names and addresses. To get access to all the other information and to use of their powerful search facility, the annual fee is $399. www.literarymarketplace.com/lmp/us/index_us.asp

Writers Free Reference

Contacts

Handy American reference site which gives links to a wide range of different information sources, from bay names to song lyrics, from daily newspapers to international postal codes. www.writers-free-reference.com

All Readers

Contacts

Rather unusual site which allows you to look up books and their authors by searching on plot lines and other elements. www.allreaders.com

Megan Kerr

Contacts

We've included the website of this enterprising writer and ghost-writer because it includes useful resources such as The Publishing Machine, a free database to do all your admin for you, and a toolbar to sort out your layout and styles, useful templates for Word and Excel, and a quick tutorial on Styles and formatting in Word. http://www.andrew.kerr.name/megan/Writing/Writing.htm

Writers’ Guild resources

Contacts

Very useful resource section with agreements for TV, radio, theatre, radio, animation and video games. Also has useful articles on late payment of invoices and writers’ rights, and audiobooks. http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/005_WritersGuil/index.html

Ask about writing

Contacts

Useful introduction and weekly newsletter. www.askaboutwriting.net

Playwrights Publishing Co

Contacts

Husband-and-wife run online publishing company for plays, both one-act and full-length. They charge a small reading fee but, if accepted, half of your work will go online to gauge interest and hopefully collect royalties. You can download their guidelines from the site. http://www.geocities.com/playwrightspublishingco

Syndicate content