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AGENTS

•Association of Author's Representatives (primarily book agents)

•See Literary Marketplace under Cool Literary & Book Stuff

ASSOCIATIONS ONLINE

•American Society of Journalists & Authors

•Authors Guild

•Horror Writers Association

•Mystery Writers of America

•National Writers Union

•Romance Writers of America

•Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America

•Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

•Writers Guild of America

BESTSELLER LISTS

•New York Times

•Publishers Weekly

•USA Today

BOOKSTORES & FREE BOOKS

•Amazon Books

•Barnes & Noble Books

•Backinprint.com

•The Internet Bookshop (UK)

•Project Gutenberg

COOL LITERARY & BOOK STUFF

•101 Best WebSites for Writers

•Bookwire

•The Dickens Page

•Edgar Allan Poe

•Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism

•Literary MarketPlace

•The New York Times: Book Section

•The New Yorker

•The Paris Review Online

•Poets & Writers Magazine

•Publishers Weekly

•Salon

•Shakespeare (Collected & Searchable)

•USA Today BookShelf

•Web Del Sol

•Writer's Digest

•WritersMarket.com

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAMS - TOP 3

•Iowa Writers Workshop (ranked first)

•Creative Writing Program at University of Houston (tied for second)

•Johns Hopkins (tied for second)

•Search for a Creative Writing Grad Program

•Creative Writing Grad Schools

E-BOOKS, POD & SELF-PUBLICATION

•Amazon Advantage

•Book Marketing Website (info/many links)

•Author House

•iUniverse ... partnered with Barnes & Noble

•Ingram's Lightning Source

•Dan Poynter's Parapublishing Website (info)

•Xlibris ... partnered with Random House

E-ZINES

•John Labovitz's E-Zines List

ONLINE FICTION COURSES

•Gotham Writers Workshop

•WritersOnlineWorskhops by Writers Digest

•Writers on the Net

PUBLISHERS

•Association of American Publishers

•International Publishers Association

•Publishers Catalogs(Worldwide)

REFERENCE

•Brittanica

•Classic References: Bartlett, Bullfinch, Roget, Strunk, etc.

•The U.S. Copyright Office

•Garbl's Grammar and Style Links

•Glossary of Literary Terms

•Grammar and Style - Jack Lynch University of Penn.

•Google (search the web)

•The Internet Public Library

•Library of Congress

•LibrarySpot

•Online Slang Dictionary

•Refdesk

•Research-It!

•Rhyming Dictionary

•Yahoo! Literature

WRITERS HANGOUTS & RESOURCES

•AuthorLink

•Author's Registry

•The Online Writing Workshop (SF/F)

•ForWriters.Com

•The Internet Writing Workshop

•Resources for Mystery Writers

•Romance Central

•SFF Net

•SFNovelist

•Warnings & Cautions: Writers Beware

•Victory Page

•Patricia C. Wrede's Worldbuilder Questions (Fantasy)

•Writers Calendar

•Writer's Write

•Writing-World.com formerly Inkspot

WRITING SOFTWARE

•The Writer's Computer Store®

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