Writers and Editors

• Acquiring, selling, and swapping books
• Adding images, sound, story, humor, animation (maps, graphs, cartoons, audio and visual storytelling, songs--visualizing data)
• Agents and book proposals
• Authors' rights and publishers' rights grabs
• Amazon versus book publishers (Do writers win or lose?)
• The art of the pitch
• Arts and poetry organizations
• Awards, grants, and fellowships (plus contests and other sources of funding)

• Banned books
• Blog roll
• Blogs, news roundups, and watchdogs for writers and editors
• Book covers: Great covers sells books, but what makes for a great cover?
• Book covers: Secrets of successful covers and titles
• Book fairs, festivals, conferences, and colonies
• Book news, reviews, and author interviews
• Book proposals
• Books for book groups

• Clearing rights and finding rights holders
• Collaboration agreements
• Collaboration and ghost writing
• Conferences, workshops, and other learning places for writers
• Content curation
• Content marketing and custom publishing
• Contract terms for books (including reversion of rights and indemnity clauses)
• Copyright: How, why, and when to register it
• Copyright issues, documents, FAQs, and explanations
• Copyright, work for hire, and authors' rights issues
• Corporate and organizational histories (commissioned histories)
• Corporate and technical communications
• Communicating and marketing online (Web 2.0 and social media)
• Conferences, workshops, and other learning places (including book fairs, writers colonies, residencies, retreats)
• Crowdfunding and other creative sources of funding

• Defamation, libel, and slander
• The difference between a preface, a foreword, and an introduction
• The differences between mysteries, suspense novels, and thrillers

• Ebook basics
• Ebook prices and price wars
• Ebook devices and platforms (publishing services)
• Ebook subscription services
• Editing checklists
• Editors and publishing professionals (resources and organizations for)
• Errors and error rates in editing
• Essays, personal
• Ethics, libel, and freedom of the press
• Fact-checking sites
• Fair use: what it is, how it works
• Fees for freelancing (how much to charge for various functions, products)
• Fiction writing
• Films, plays, and documentaries
• Food writing
• Freelancing, contracting, telecommuting (creative entrepreneurs)

• Getting published (starting out)
• Ghostwriters: how much and how they charge
• Ghostwriting and collaboration (books
• Ghostwriting (fiction)
• Ghostwriting (medical)
• Grant funding and grant proposal writing
• Great brick and mortar bookstores
• Great search links

• Health insurance and disability insurance
• HIPAA, electronic health records, medical privacy laws, and patient rights
• Historical novels, about
• How much to charge (for various functions and types of product)
• How much editors and other publishing professionals charge
• How to calculate your effective hourly rate (EHR)
• How to deal with warranty and indemnification clauses
• How to set your prices as a freelancer or consultant

• Income tax, home office deductions, and IRS how-to's
• Indemnification clauses, how to deal with
• Indexing: why and how
• Indexing, books and sites on
• Interviewing (journalistic, artful)

• Job banks and publishing marketplaces
• Journalism and journalists'
• Kinds of editors and levels of edit
• Liability and property insurance
• Library sites and portals
• Local and regional writers organizations

• Macro tools and editing software for editors and proofreaders
• Macros etc. for references, citations, footnotes and endnotes
• Major writers organizations (see also Organization for specific types of writers)
• Marketing, publicity, and promotion
• Marketing your editing and proofreading services
• Mastering multimedia
• Media perils and liability insurance
• Media pros and allied professionals (translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers)
• Medical ghostwriting and ethical issues in medical publishing
• Memoir, biography, and corporate history (and various forms of life writing)
• Memoirs (great reading lists)
• MFA literary fiction vs. NYC
• Microsoft Word macros and shortcuts

• Narrative nonfiction and long-form journalism, sites and resources
• Nonfiction (including essays and scholarly publishing)

• Organizations and sites for biographers, memoirists, personal historians, and other life story writers
• Organizations for corporate, government, and technical communicators
• Organizations for editors, proofreaders, and indexers
• Organizations for fiction writers and fans
• Organizations for ghostwriters and collaborators
• Organizations for journalists
• Organizations for media pros and allied professionals (translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers)
• Organizations for medical and science writers
• Organizations for publishers and booksellers
• Organizations for screenwriters, playwrights, documentary filmmakers, and critics
• Organizations for sports journalists and editors
• Organizations for translators and interpreters
• Organizations for travel writers


• Other storytelling venues

• Paris Review interviews with fiction writers
• Piracy
• Plagiarism
• Poetry and verse
• Preface, foreword, or introduction--what's the difference?
• Pricing strategies for creative professionals
• Privacy, online privacy, and invasion of privacy
• Publishing (books and ebooks)

• Query letters (how to write them)

• Recording phone interviews
• Reversion of rights to author vs. Rights in perpetuity to publisher
• Rights: Authors' rights (and publishers' rights grabs)
• Rights and contracts for academic authors

• Science and medical writing
• Self-publishing and print on demand (POD)
• Shield laws
• So, you want to write a book (Sarah Wernick)
• Specialty and niche writing
• Standing and adjustable-height desks and walkstatios
• Style, grammar, and diction (editing yourself and others)

• Tips on tact and tone (for editors)
• Training in editing, proofreading, publishing
• Translators and interpreters, associations for
• Translators and interpreters, for and about


• Veterans writing groups and projects

• Well-designed authors' websites
• What book doctors and consulting editors do
• What editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders do (kinds of edits and levels of edit)
• Where to find editorial work
• Work for hire (aka Works made for hire)
• The writing life
• Writing white papers

MORE TO COME

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Organizations for Writers, Editors,
and Other Media Professionals

• Agents (where to find them)
• Corporate, government, and technical communicators
• Editors, indexers, and other publishing professionals
• Fiction writers and fans
• Freelancers
• Job banks and publishing marketplaces
• Journalism and journalists
• Local and regional writers organizations
• Major writers organizations (fighting for creators' rights, interests, and ethical behavior)
• Media pros and other allied professionals (translators, indexers, designers, photographers, artists, illustrators, animators, cartoonists, image professionals, composers)
• Medical, health, and science writers and editors
• Online writers groups, critique groups, and communities (connect with other writers and editors)
• Poets and literary writers
• Publishers and booksellers
• Thoughtful radio and TV talk shows
• Rights holders (licensing organizations and rights clearinghouses; organizations for clearing rights in visual arts, music and sound, books, scripts, and screenplays)
• Screenwriters, playwrights, documentary filmmakers, and critics
• Other specialties and niches (groups for writers who specialize in animals, autos, bowling, children's books,food, gardens, family history, jazz, résumés, sports, travel, Web writing, wine, etc.)
• Screenwriters, playwrights, independent and documentary filmmakers, radio and television professionals, and critics
• Social networking for readers
• Translators and interpreters
• Writers workshops, conferences, and other learning places

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Think of this next part as an appendix, essential for the Authors Guild's original structuring but duplicating the more detailed site map above.

Grant proposal writing and fundraising resources