Writers' Links
ALEX
This site provides nearly 2000 Electronic Texts for download.
Bartleby.com
Columbia University’s Bartleby Library provides online works in the public domain.
BiblioFind.com
Booksellers offer millions of rare and used books through Bibliofind, an
Amazon site.
Classic Reader
This site has full-length classic books, some poetry, Shakespearean works,
and short stories.
Digital Library
Index More than 10,000 books are provided for free reading online.
Bookfinder
This site lets you search several sources at once for rare, used, and
out-of-print books. The sources are Amazon, Powell's Books,
BiblioCity, AntiqBook, Advanced Book Exchange, and Interloc. The
site also provides a mailing list for book buyers, sellers, and collectors.
Penn's Online
Books Here are 10,000 books in the public domain, provided
by the University of Pennsylvania.
Project Gutenberg
On this site, you will find the downloadable, complete text of many well
known works.
TomFolio.com
The site is a cooperative of international professional dealers in used,
out-of-print, and rare books, periodicals, and ephemera.
WritersStore.com
This is a store that has books for all sorts of writers.
AbsoluteWrite.com
This site has features for book writers, playwrights, and poets, such as
links and market information.
Author-Author
Here is a community for writers.
BookWire
Complete information on the book industry is here, including 1000's of links.
ForWriters.com
This provides general resources for writers, including links to agents,
password-protected critiques of manuscripts, and forums.
WritersToolbox.com
At this site are resources for writers of prose, including screenwriters
and technical writers.
WritersWorld
This site is a print-on-demand book publisher based in
the United Kingdom, specializing in reprints. It publishes in the US
too.
WritingCorner.com
This site's features include a section for writers under eighteen.
CoffeeHouse4writers.com
This site has online workshops that may be audited without cost.
Freelance Proofreading and Editing
Courses Here are low-cost courses for the U.K. and U.S..
NovelAdvice.com
Online classes are available, a bookstore too.
Suite101.com Almost
1000 experts are here to help writers on any project, a few pages or book-length.
Writers On The Net
There are online classes here, taught by published writers, and personal
tutoring is available too.
Content-Exchange.com
A writer interested in creating content can list his qualifications here
or find job opportunities.
Freelancers.com
Freelancers can place their resumes and sample works here, then read the
help-wanted section.
Editorial Solutions
Editors and writers may converge here for links to editorial jobs and pertinent information.
JournalismJobs.com
Here are newspaper jobs and some in other media.
Monique's NewsJobs.net
This site is for journalists who need a list of jobs.
MovieBytes.com
Screenwriters find industry news here.
RoseDog.com This is
a hub for writers, agents, and publishers, where they can search for each
other.
Shaw Guides
On this site are writers' guidelines, which are searchable, market news,
and other information for writers.
SpecFic & Humor Webstravaganza
Science fiction and humor writers can find many links here.
Writers Place This site
has a large list of markets.
ArtsLynx
Here are links to organizations for writers.
Associated Writing Programs
This site lists writing programs at various colleges.
Children's Book Council
On this site are resources for those who write books for children.
HTML Writers Guild This
is a guild for webmasters and their issues, such as html code and web
technology.
Writer's Guild of
America This is the guild that may have some members who
think that excessive acronyms are an abomination of technology.
Biography.com One
who has a mind to talk about people can find 20,000 brief stories here.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
After more than 200 years on paper, the notable encylopedia is now online.
Encyclopedia.com
Here are 170,000 links in 14,000 articles from the 1994 Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia.
Experts.com Experts
in diverse fields are available here.
E-Zine List
A web surfer's guide to periodic publications, at least 4,000 in number.
FedWorld Information Network
See what the federal government has to say about your topic.
InfoJump.com This
site centralizes over 5,000,000,000 writings from thousands of
publications, providing links and visitors' reviews.
Library of
Congress Here, writers may get some benefit from the world's largest library.
Old Farmer's Almanac This
is that almanac.
PubList.com Here is
a descriptive list of 150,000 publications.
News Directory This
site has over 16,000 links to newspaper and magazine content in English
the world around.
Google The biggest player
in the search engine business.
About.com This site provides
individual communities for various subjects, including several for writers.
Mamma.com Using this
site, search the ten top search engines with one click.
Metacrawler.com
This site, too, searches the larger search engines.
Open Directory This
is a directory owned by AOL but compiled by volunteers who review sites
before listing them.
Pilot-Search.com
This is a specialized search engine that provides over 11,000 links of
interest to writers.
Yahoo If you are on
the Internet, you already know Yahoo. Its directory lists sites
reviewed by human editors, not search engine robots.
AcronymFinder.com
Here are more than 125,000 acronyms. Please wear mind protection if
you intend to stay long.
FlashBase.com This
site has templates for writers.
GrammarLady.com
Grammar, be a lady tonight.
Grammar Slammer Online
Here is more grammar--or, to be precise, more of grammar.
OneLook.com This one site
looks at more than 500 dictionaries and may prevent premature presbyopia.
Slot.com Copy
editors find their kind of style on this site.
Writers Software - Find writing tools and resources for book writers, script writers, and others at WritersSoftware.com.
2HaveIt.com This site provides
shareware, freeware, and trialware searches for downloads that might help.