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 Books and Software:
Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 2002-2003
This ultimate writer's reference connects you to who's who in the publishing industry. Inside, you'll find the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail and Web addresses of hundreds of top editors and agents, plus essays from industry insiders who reveal the secrets to big-time success.

Writer's Guide to Queries, Pitches & Proposals
This book offers much more than just information on queries, pitches, and proposals. Moria Allen gives advice on becoming a syndicated columnist, securing an agent, landing speaking and teaching engagements, and doing business writing. She has added a treasure chest of URL links, helping the new and experienced writer both with online resources.

EBook Starter
Ebook Starter is a complete do-it-yourself ebook design kit to assist you in designing your own ebooks and ebook covers. With over fifty templates to choose from, you'll easily find the perfect template for your project.

How To Write a Newsletter Kit
Discover how to write award winning newsletters and ezines in under 20 minutes! This toolkit is a MUST for anyone that creates newsletters!

EBook Writer's Market Directory
Resource directory of ebook publishers and ebook stores that accept author submissions.

Directory Of Ezines
A database of quality ezines, your gateway to 25 plus million readers! Learn how your ezine or newsletter can make you money!

The Paperless Newsletter Publishing Guide
Find out how to make money with a newsletter. With this kit, you get Digital Newsletter Publishing. A MUST HAVE for those serious about publishing!

How To Write your Own Ebook In Seven Days!
How to write your own ebook, in as little as seven days! Find out how easy it really is to write, create, and publish your own, and start to make money!

Ebook Secrets Exposed
Find out how to make MASSIVE amounts of money in record time with your own eBook, whether you wrote it or not! Even if you don't have time to write the ebook yourself, get your ebook out to as many people as possible, and create new income streams for your website.

Enewsletters That Work
The small business owner's guide to creating, writing and publishing an effective electronic newsletter. Written in easy to understand language, this ebook gives you the information you need to create a successful newsletter. It includes a template and checklist.

Instant Home Writing Kit
How to save money, time and effort, plus simplifly everyday writing tasks. Beat the Writing Blues and SAVE Yourself Lots of TIME and MONEY by Using This Writing Kit -- The More Than 60 Professional Real-Life Templates Will BOOST Your Writing Work INSTANTLY!

The Step By Step Guide To Creating and Promoting your Ezine
A simple guide to building your ezine, with information and resources on how to promote it. Tons of resources! Plus you get three free bonuses with your order.

Christian Writers' Market
If you dream of becoming published, Sally Stuart's Christian Writers' Market Guide 2002 belongs on your desk. The ultimate reference tool, it includes: over 1,200 markets (with contact information) for books, articles, stories, poetry, and greeting cards; topical listings of which publishers and magazines are interested in various topics; market analysis; literary agents; editorial services; Internet resources; a wide range of writing helps, workshops, contests; and more. Easy-to-use and indispensable!

The Complete Guide to Writing and Selling the Christian Novel
Author, Penelope J. Stokes, shares her twenty years of experience in writing, editing, teaching, and consulting in the Christian market. This book can help you to write and publish your own Christian novel!

Plots Unlimited : For the Writer of Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Screenplays and Television Episodes
Plots Unlimited is one book you can't afford to be without. This book has thousands of story line suggestions. Overall, an excellent resource!

The Writer's Digest Sourcebook For Building Believable Characters
The author gives you lots of ideas for characters in this book. The book is divided into three parts, the first being a discussion of several authors about how they approach charactreization. The second part of the book is a very insightful character questionaire. You basically "build" your characters with this questionaire. The third part offers a wealth of ideas about character traits, such as personality, hobbies, their past, etc. A wonderful resource that no novelist should be without!

You Can Write a Mystery
Have you ever thought about writing a mystery, and gave up the idea because you weren't sure how to start it? Well now is your chance to go out and write that mystery you have always dreamed of. You Can Write A Mystery, written by Gillian Roberts, author of the Anthony Award-winning Amanda Pepper Series, will help you start your mystery and guide you through to the end.

The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
Six books in one: A Screenwriting Primer, A Screenwriting Workbook, A Formatting Guide, A Spec Writing Guide, A Sales and Marketing Guide, and A Resource Guide. A wealth of information for writers.

How to Write Funny: Add Humor to Every Kind of Writing
Not everyone can write humor. Now you can! This book teaches writers how to sharpen their sense of humor in their writing. Readers will discover how to add humor to any kind of writing from short stories and novels to columns and memoirs and create humorous characters, and dialogue.

How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy
This book provides invaluable advice for every science fiction and fantasy writer interested in constructing stories about people, worlds and events that stretch the boundaries of the possible...and the magical. They'll learn what is and isn't science fiction and fantasy, and where their story fits in the mix, how to build, populate, and dramatize a credible, inviting world readers will want to explore, where the markets are, how to reach them and get published.

Writers Dreamkit
This package is targeted at beginning to intermediate writers, and attempts to get you involved in working out the mechanics of your story before you even begin writing it. It features a step by step writing system, helps you how to make plots, and much more.

Writer's Digest Magazine
Writer's Digest Magazine focuses on writers and their trade, the craft of writing, the tools for writing, the markets for writing. Features offer specific advice on how to write and sell magazine and newspaper articles, novels and nonfiction books, plays, poetry, scripts--anything involving the written word.

How to Write & Illustrate Children's Books and Get Them Published
An introduction to the art of writing and illustrating children's books. Nine writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, and educators present a chapter or two each on such subjects as storytelling, classic children's fiction, contemporary themes in children's literature, illustration, and production.

Get Your First Book Published : And Make It a Success
The official resource used by the Associated Writing Program this book goes beyond the conventional advice for writers. The authors includes hundreds of awards and publishers that are exclusively in the market for first-time authors or favorable to unpublished authors. Complete with deadlines, names of previous award winners, advice from directors, and more.




Helpful Writing Books


  • 45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters

  • How to Write a Mystery

  • Literary Agents: What They Do, How They Do It, How to Find & Work with the Right One for You

  • How to Be Your Own Literary Agent

  • How to Publish, Promote, & Sell Your Own Book

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction & Fantasy

  • You Can Do It!: A Guide to Christian Self-Publishing

  • Online Markets for Writers: How to Make Money by Selling Your Writing on the Internet

  • Writing with Pictures: How to Write & Illustrate Children's Books

  • Successful Freelancing: The Complete Guide to Establishing and Running Any Kind of Freelance Business
  • The Well-Fed Writer: Financial Self-Sufficiency As a Freelance Writer in Six Months or Less

  • The Writer's Digest Handbook of Making Money Freelance Writing

  • Freelance Writing for Magazines & Newspapers

  • Artist's & Graphic Designer's Market: 2,500 Places to Sell Your Art & Design

  • Business and Legal Forms for Graphic Designers, third edition

  • Publishing For Profit

  • 1,818 Ways to Write Better & Get Published

  • How to Write for Children and Get Published

  • Starting Your Career as a Freelance Writer

  • How to Publish and Promote Online

  • Writer's Online Marketplace: How and Where to Get Published Online

  • How to Publish Your Articles: A Complete Guide to Making the Righ Publication Say Yes

  • How to Make Money Publishing from Home: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Publish Books, Newsletters, Websites, Greeting Cards, and Software

  • Get Published: Top Magazine Editors Tell You How