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E-mail Pat (pat at patmcnees dot com)
Dying: A Book of ComfortThis site built to support the book expanded into Illness and Recovery
Writers on Writing(complete archive of the NY Times series, writers exploring literary themes. Requires free membership.)
Letters of Note (fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos--that you were never expected to see)
Aha Moments (from the brilliant Mutual of Omaha campaign to record people's stories about moments of clarity, defining moments when they gained the wisdom to change their life)
TED: Ideas worth sharing Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
Freelance National Anthem (Bill Dyszel, 4 minutes)
KeepMeOut (addicted to a website? bookmark this page and it will remind you to get back to work!)
Today's Front Pages (check out Newseum's U.S. map -- move your cursor across the map and see the front pages change)
Online Education Database150 resources to help you write better, faster, or more persuasively
Help a reporter out (HARO)(useful for reporters and for sources)
Paris Review "Writers at Work" Interviews (selections from 1953 on, a gift to the world, and with a single click you can view a manuscript page with the writer's edits)
The Onion (if the news is making you sick, try this approach)
Truth-o-meter (St. Petersburg Times, www.politifact.com)(St. Pete Times on whether, and how much, various notable people are telling the truth)
Fact Check (Annenberg sorts political truths from half-truths)
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Translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers
Links to groups and resources
There's a whole separate section for editors and publishing professionals
Archivists. National Archival Organizations in the United States, a directory on the website of The Society of American Archivists, which links to societies of medical archivists, religious archivists, regional history archivists, business archivists, and state organizations of archivists. See So You Want to Be an Archivists: An Overview of the Archives Profession.Association of Independent Information Professionals (aiip, an industry association for owners of independent information businesses)
Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) ( individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials)
Photoworkshop (online community of photographers)
PMA (The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations)
Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA)
Stock Artists Alliance (SAA)
Professional Cartoonists' Index (Daryl Cagle's daily compilation of editorial cartoons from around the world, covering current issues and figures). Offers e-mail subscription.
Professional Photographers of America
Stock Artists Alliance (SAA)
San Francisco Film Society
Society of American Archivists (SAA) provides a directory, National Archival Organizations in the United States, with links to societies of medical archivists, religious archivists, regional history archivists, business archivists, and state organizations of archivists. See also So You Want to Be an Archivists: An Overview of the Archives Profession.
The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL)
Society of Illustrators
Society for News Design
Society of Publication Designers
Software and Information Industry Association (SPA)
StockPhoto Talk
Wedding and Event Videographers Association International (WEVA.com) (professional wedding and event videographers). Check out Zoom, a music licensing platform for wedding videographers and digital imagers, useful for clearing music rights through licensing 'bundles.'
Wise-Women (women who are Web designers, developers, programmers)
World Wide Web Artists' Consortium (WWWAC)
Archival Advisor (for the family photo collector, the genealogist, and the scrapbookmaker, from RIT's Image Permanence Institute)
Books on Design
• Brady, Michael. Thinking Like a Designer: How to Save Money by Being a Smart Client
• Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style
• Hendel, Richard. On Book Design
• Lee, Marshall. Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production, 3d edition
• Lupton, Ellen, and Abbott Miller. Thinking with Type: A Primer for Designers: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students. See Ellen Lupton's website
• Tufte, Edward. Envisioning Information and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. See Edward Tufte's website, including PowerPoint Does Rocket Science--and Better Techniques for Technical Reports.
Books on visual and multimedia storytelling:
• Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud, the author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
• Making Documentary Films and Reality Videos: A Practical Guide to Planning, Filming, and Editing Documentaries of Real Events by Barry Hampe
• Picture This: How Pictures Work by Molly Bang (a children's book illustrator explains how images help elicit emotion in story readers)
• Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books by Uri Shulevitz (a masters class in illustrating books for kids).
• Book of Movie Photography by David Cheshire (a guide to telling stories through images)
Thanks to Upstart Crow for leading us to these titles!
Daniel Milnor on visual storytelling (and why he's gone back to black and white film)
How Much Should I Charge? (Writers and Editors, Pricing Strategies, How to Set Rates, and Other Basics for Creative Professionals)
Online timeline of the lives of H.A. and Margret Rey, authors of the Curious George books, from birth through life in and escape from Paris, made interactive by moving avatar of them on bicycle (Jewish Museum, NYC)
Usability: Typefaces for Dyslexia. Why certain fonts -- including Myriad Pro, Lexia Readable, Tiresias (especially good for visual impairment), Verdana, Trebuchet MS, Arial, and Geneva -- are easier for many to read. If you care about this audience, follow advice in the British Dyslexia Association's Friendly Style Guide and read Dyslexia.com's page on Accessibility.
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A GREAT READ
and communities of book lovers
Best reads and most "discussable"
Fact-finding, fact-checking, and news and info resources BOOK AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING
New, used, and rare books, Amazon.com and elsewhere
Blogs, social media, podcasts, ezines, survey tools and online games
Entrepreneurship for creatives
And finding freelance gigs
Blogs, video promotion, intelligent radio programs
Indie publishing, digital publishing, POD, how-to sources
Includes original text by Sarah Wernick WRITERS AND CREATORS
Plus contests, other sources of funds for creators
Copywriting, speechwriting, marketing, training, and the like
Literary and commercial (including genre)
Writing, reporting, multimedia, equipment, software
Translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers
Groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, Webwriting, and wine (etc.) ETHICS, RIGHTS, AND OTHER ISSUES
Google Books Settlement (Pro and Con)
Plus media watchdogs, FOIA EDITORS AND EDITING
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