Who's Moving Where? - Changes at Books Publishers

Book Marketing Update - Top 101 Book Publishers
best of the independent book publishers in the US

Society of Children's Books Writers and Illustrators
maggie is a member of this fine,well-established organization, which provides myriad services and support.

RebeccasReads.com
A whole range of professional services and reading entertainment! Fun, personal, easy to travel and informative.

LitKit: Readings on Books and Writers

Graham Literary Agency Writer's Hotspot
maggie says: "This is one of the best writing/publishing resource sites on the web."

Audenreed Press
great books that make a difference

Inkspot: The Writer's Resource
Market Information for Writers

Online Originals
a publishing company that operates solely on the Internet and distributes book-length works in digital form, using e-mail for both orders and delivery.

The Golden Quill Page
"I was just given this Golden Quill award. I thought you'd like to see the helpful Tale Wins website page it came from. maggie"

Ivan Hoffman, Attorney at Law
an eye-opening look into copyright law, online and offline—great tips for writers and publishers

Tale Wins Literary Agency Post Page
This is a Post for editors, agents, librarians, and friends of the publishing world.

"A jampacked, fun, informative site" says maggie

Writer to Writer
Have you ever wanted to ask someone who has been there how it all happened? Ladybug Press presents Writer to Writer, an opportunity to hear from the professionals.

Rural Women Writers
A web of words sparkling with the dew of originality, covers wide distance and links us. We offer ourselves, our words, woven by women.

10 ways to increase your odds of getting published
Book publishing FAQ
Point's Top 5% books site (terrific!)
Authorlink — for publishers, agents and authors
WordSmith's WebBook
BookZone's Short Subjects
The Logical World of Etymology
The Word Detective
Para Publishing Resources
Helpful Articles for Writers and Publishers
Inkspot
Graham Literary Agency
Children's Literature Web Guide

and for those with writer's block . . .

Go to Infoseek. In your search box, enter each of the following, separately, and then Search:

"query letters" (with the quotes)

"writing FAQ"

"publishing FAQ"

Writing Down the Bones
by Natalie Goldberg

How to Get Happily Published

by Judith Appelbaum
Poets at Work: The Paris Review Interviews,

ed. George Plimpton
On Being a Writer

edited by Bill Strickland
The Writing Life

by Annie Dillard
If You Want to Write

by Brenda Ueland
Becoming a Writer

by Dorothea Brande

(This was my father's favorite—and my father wrote twenty-six books!)
The Passionate, Accurate Story: Making Your Heart's Truth Into Literature

by Carol Bly
Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

by Rita Mae Brown
Knowing Where to Look:The Ultimate Guide to Research

by Lois Horowitz
First Person Singular: Writers on Their Craft

compiled by Joyce Carol Oates
Writing from the Inner Self

by Elaine Farris Hughes
Wild Mind

by Natalie Goldberg
One Writer's Beginnings

memoirs by Eudora Welty
Writing for Children

by Catherine Wooley
The Children's Picture Book: How to Write It, How to Sell It

by Ellen Roberts
Writing and Publishing Books for Children in the 1990s:The Inside Story from the Editor's Desk

by Olga Litowinsky
On Writing, Editing and Publishing

by Jacques Barzun
1001 Ways to Market Your Book

by John Kremer

describes more than 1000 ideas, tips, and suggestions for marketing

books ø all illustrated with real-life examples showing how other authors

and publishers have marketed their books
Rotten Rejections: A Literary Companion

ed. Andre Bernard

(Did you know that Dr. Seuss was rejected over forty times before he

was first published?)
Rotten Reviews I & II

edited by Bill Henderson

Some reviewers didn't like the work of such greats as William Faulkner

and John Milton.
Literary MarketPlace
The Self-Publishing Manual:How to Write, Print & Sell Your Own Book

by Dan Poynter
The Publish-It-Yourself Handbook: Literary Tradition and How-To

edited by Bill Henderson
The Writer—essays and updates by published writers in this magazine that's been around for ages
Publishers Weekly
Poets & Writers Magazine—up-to-date news, guidance and opportunities, plus feature stories
School Library Journal—a magazine summarizing what librarians have to say about many current children's books
PMA (Publishers Marketing Association) Newsletter
Writer's Market

Society of Children's Book Writers

P.O. Box 66296, Mar Vista Station

Los Angeles, CA 90066

Mystery Writers of America

17 East 47 Street, 6th Floor

New York, NY 10017

The Children's Book Council

568 Broadway, Suite 404

New York, NY 10012

Association of Authors' Representatives, Inc.

10 Astor Place

New York, NY 10003—(212) 353-3709

The Authors Guild, Inc.

330 West 42nd Street

New York, NY 10036

and more from maggie . . .

I'll be adding more to this page. In the meantime, if writing is something you "can't not do" then do it! Don't listen to detractors. The good of this, not just for you but for the world, is the joy you experience progressing and persisting at an art that's often befuddling. Remember—you can't force your creativity, just as you can't make your garden bloom. The universe works in ways, and at speeds, we mere humans often don't understand. What you can do is cultivate good ground. Writer to writer, we're in this together. Here I am in my little cubby with my pencil and paper and my laptop. There you are in your nook, no matter what your age or circumstances—each of us struggling to express all we are with words that ring.