Writers and Editors


"We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end."
~ Henry David Thoreau

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.
~Julien Green, diary, May 4, 1943

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."
~Thomas Mann, Essays

Quick Links

E-mail Pat
About Pat (site host)
Help a reporter out (useful for reporters and for sources)
Bowling 1, Health Care 0 (Elizabeth Edwards' op ed piece, NYT, on the dismal state of the corporate media)
The Onion (if the news is making you sick, try this approach)
Truth-o-meter (St. Pete Times on whether, and how much, Clinton, Obama, and McCain are sticking to the truth)
Fact Check (Annenberg sorts political truths from half-truths)
Telling your life (or family) story
Medical links for smart patients
Contemporary Latin American Short Stories
Blog roll (and other great stuff)


Find Authors

Site map

This site map is not in alphabetical order because of the current peculiarities of the Authors Guild sitebuilder combined with the fact that I created it as I went along. Maybe in the next incarnation of the sitebuilder software I can make this more logical! For an easier list of contents, click on HOME, INDEX at top of page.

Getting published (starting out)

Style, grammar, word choice, and pronunciation

GREAT SEARCH LINKS

Memoirs

Blogs and news round-ups

Agents and book proposals

Publishing (and e-publishing)

Books for writers and editors

Book club recommendations

Freelancing

Book news, reviews, reviewers, author interviews, and social networking about books

Marketing, promotion, blogs, vidlits, intelligent radio

For editors

Conferences, workshops, and other learning places

Awards, grants, and funds for writers

Job banks and publishing marketplaces

Mastering art, craft, skills (writing, reporting, multimedia)

Shopping, acquiring, swapping, or selling books

Tips on tact and tone

Preface, foreword, or introduction

Self-publishing

Ethics, freedom of the press, and media watchdogs

Book Collaboration FAQ

Copyright, fair use, permissions, work for hire, and other rights issues

Beyond text (adding images, sound, story, humor)

Copywriting, speechwriting, corporate and technical communications and training

Media professionals and allied creative and professional groups

Fiction, literary and commercial (including genre fiction)

Film, drama, and documentaries

Journalism and journalists

Local and regional organizations

Major writers organizations

Memoir, biography, personal and corporate history

Narrative nonfiction

Nonfiction

Poetry

Science and medical writing

Specialty writing, from children's books to sportswriting

Writing (general)

Communicating and marketing online (Web 2.0, blogs, podcasts, e-zines, survey tools)

Well designed authors' websites (see links on left column)
So, You Want to Write a Book! by the late great Sarah Wernick



Websites, organizations, and other resources

A GREAT READ
Memoirs
Blogs and news round-ups
Books for writers and editors
Book club recommendations
Book news, reviews, reviewers, author interviews, and social networking about books
Narrative nonfiction
Book publishing
Agents and book proposals
Publishing (and e-publishing)
Marketing, promotion, blogs, vidlits, intelligent radio
Shopping, acquiring, swapping, or selling books
Self-publishing
Book Collaboration FAQ
by Sarah Wernick
Communicating and marketing online (Web 2.0, blogs, podcasts, e-zines, survey tools)
So, You Want to Write a Book! by the late great Sarah Wernick
Editors and editing
Style, grammar, word choice, and pronunciation
For editors
Tips on tact and tone
Preface, foreword, or introduction
Ethics, rights, and other issues
Ethics, freedom of the press, and media watchdogs
Copyright, fair use, permissions, work for hire, and other rights issues
General
Getting published (starting out)
GREAT SEARCH LINKS
Fact-finding and fact-checking
Freelancing
Conferences, workshops, and other learning places
Awards, grants, and funds for writers
Job banks and publishing marketplaces
Mastering art, craft, skills (writing, reporting, multimedia)
Writers and creators
Beyond text (adding images, sound, story, humor)
Copywriting, speechwriting, corporate and technical communications and training
Media professionals and allied creative and professional groups
Fiction, literary and commercial (including genre fiction)
Film, drama, and documentaries
Journalism and journalists
Local and regional organizations
Major writers organizations
Memoir, biography, personal and corporate history
Nonfiction
Poetry
Science and medical writing
Specialty writing, from children's books to sportswriting
Groups for writers who specialize in animals, children's books, food, gardens, family history, resumes, sports, travel, Webwriting, and wine (etc.)
Writing (general)

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