resources for writers
Work at your craft, write daily, and follow your dreams because dreams do come true. —Christopher Paul Curtis
the gift of encouragement
advice on writing
editing and coaching services
- Ten Tips on Editing and Rewriting will help you tackle the structural edit of your novel.
- Tessera Editorial offers copyediting and proofreading services using Chicago Manual of Style.
- Jessica Strawser, the former editor of Writer's Digest, offers a Gut Check Package that helps you perfect your submissions materials.
- The Writers Marketplace is a marketplace of book publishing professionals—including book coaches, book editors, book translators, publicists, agents—all of whom are members of the Authors Guild.
- Copy Write Consultants offers synopsis editing if you're struggling with your novel or memoir synopsis.
- The Editorial Freelancers Association is a national, nonprofit professional organization of writers and editors, with more than 3,000 editorial professionals.
keep writing
Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover what is most important and strangest and most pleasurable in themselves, and keep believing in the value of their work, despite the difficulties. —Bonnie Friedman
the book publishing path
literary agents on twitter
literary agents and submission guidelines
This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't consider it rejected. Consider that you've addressed it 'to the editor who can appreciate my work' and it has simply come back stamped 'not at this address.' Just keep looking for the right address. —Barbara Kingsolver
serving writers and readers