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Sat, 01/01/2005 - 12:00am
Writers' Resources has been developed to help writers get published or to self-publish

We have enlisted the help of a number of distinguished writers and publishing figures to develop our Writers' Resources. Over the years this has become a massive resource base for writers.  Read more

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Links to websites of interest by category - suggestions always welcome

These are our recommended links to sites of interest to writers, selected by us or suggested by you, accompanied by a brief review.

New links are added all the time,  so it's worth checking the many interesting sites we have added.  Read more

© Chris Holifield 2004-14

Picture library links

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
How picture libraries work

The growth of digital technology

With the rapid spread of digital imaging and web use has come a huge change in the way images are sourced through the Internet. Picture researchers of vast experience and encyclopaedic knowledge have been challenged by younger researchers who can undercut them on cost and whose greatest strength is their ability is to find the right image quickly   Read more

Keyboard skills

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
Learn to touch-type

The online courses which are available to help you learn to touch-type  Read more

Writers Online Services

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Writers' Blogs

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Links to other web resources

Writers’ Software

Mon, 01/01/2001 - 12:00am
Where to look

There are thousands of products that claim to help writers do their job better, and some of them do just that. But finding the appropriate product for your work can be a trying experience. The web is full of sites offering shiny new software, and there is no easy way to tell if you are buying the right tool for the job.
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10 December 2018 - What's new

December 2018
  • 'I've always thought that writing poetry has very little to do with the intellect. It's not something one can explain and chat about very easily: certainly not about the making of it. It's very resistant to explanation. It comes from a place that is occult, in the sense of being hidden.
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Publishers and authors work together on children's reading initiative

10 December 2018

In an interesting initiative involving the London-based Hachette Children's Group (HCG), sister company Orion and 22 of their authors, they have worked together to run advertisements in their books encouraging readers to share the love of reading with children. The advertisements will run next year in more than 400,000 of their books.  Read more

A poet and an editor

10 December 2018

'I've always thought that writing poetry has very little to do with the intellect. It's not something one can explain and chat about very easily: certainly not about the making of it. It's very resistant to explanation. It comes from a place that is occult, in the sense of being hidden. It attends to some of our deepest anxieties and hopes in the same way that dreams do...  Read more

'Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?'

— Cornelia Funke

26 November 2018 - What's new

November 2018
  • ‘Sean and I have written psychological thrillers together under the name of Nicci French for nearly 25 years now - a quarter of a century of collaborating, of entering the other's imagination and exploring the world together.
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