The Whole Kit n Caboodle: REFERENCES FOR WRITERS

The Future of Ink

Writing On the Ether

Gutsy Indie Publishers (FB Group)

ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors)

A Newbie’s Guide To Publishing

The Business Rusch *a must-read blog

The Book Designer

Let’s Get Visible

Kristen Lamb: We Are Not Alone

Problogger

Jane Friedman

The Creative Penn

Molly Greene

The Path to 10K: Strategy, Luck & Mistakes: Hard numbers & The Emotion Thesaurus’ marketing plan

Creative Book Launches That Command Attention: A breakdown for hosting a successful event

Asking For Online Exposure: The do’s and don’ts when approaching top bloggers for visibility

Hand Selling: How Savvy Are You?: Observations on what works and what doesn’t

Writer Beware: Find scammers before they find you

Preditors & Editors: Writers, before you sign anything, check the person/service here first!

Copyscape: Think maybe someone’s stolen a blog post? See if you’re right.

Viper Plagiarism Checker (free): Check the net for plagiarism

Gumroad – sell PDFs via your own online store

Booktrakr – track your digital sales, bestseller rank & more

TechSurgeons – One stop shop for hosting & website design (specializes in author sites)

Big Blue Button – A virtual classroom & party room for book launches

200+ Free Book Marketing & Author Tools – some marketing leads

Book Blogger Directory – looking for book bloggers? This is the place

Anti Social: Shut off social media or internet for a specific time to focus on work

Siteliner: Search for broken website links and more

YASIV: See what book purchases are tied to your book at Amazon

MailChimp – easy to use, professional newsletter creator

C.S. Lakin

Jodie Renner

Quilldrivers

Autocrit: Search for grammar, weak words, overused language, etc.

Wordle: Create word cloud from your story text. Helps you find overused words, theme & key words that might make a good title

Scrivener: An excellent “does it all” writing & organization tool

QueryTracker: Great organization & information software for your agent search (free)

The Writers Helping Writer’s Toolbox – Lots of writing/editing tools created by Becca & Angela

AIYAP Worksheets & More – worksheets on just about everything to do with writing fiction

Hiveword Online Fiction Organizer – great little online organizer & writing tool

Save The Cat Tools – Must have printable sheets that work on Save The Cat priciples

Page 99 Test: Does your page 99 past the reader interest test?

The Waistline Test: How flabby or lean is your prose? Run the test and see

Triberr – encourage greater online sharing

WANA International – excellent online classes & recording on writing craft, social media management & more via webinar technology

Margie Lawson’s Writing Academy

Write Now Mastermind

Writer’s Digest University

Tracy Hickman’s Scribe’s Forge

 Writing Heroes Blogs (Advocates for Writers)

Adventures in YA & Children’s Publishing Gang
Cynthia Leitich Smith
Elizabeth Spann Craig
Donna Gephart 
Gene Lempp
Jami Gold
Janice Hardy
Julie Musil 
K.M. Weiland 
Kristen Lamb
Laura Pauling
Matthew MacNish
Martha Alderson (The Plot Whisperer) 
Operation Awesome
Stina Lindenblatt
YA Confidential

The Critique Circle – give and get critiques by your peers, growing and learning together

SCBWI Message Board (Formerly Verla Kay’s Blue Board) – # 1 place to be if you are a writer of Kidlit or YA. Tons of information about publishing, agents and the writer’s road

Query Tracker Forums – helpful community for writers on the query trail–share knowledge, strategies and make new, supportive friends

NaNoWriMo – The “write a novel in a month club” that keeps on trucking all year long. Even if you don’t Nano, this is a treasure trove of writing resources and links!

WANA Tribe – a community for all creative types, but populated mostly by writers. Friendly and supportive, here you’ll find people wanting to connect, not promote!

Writers Support 4 U (Facebook Group) – a great collection of writers intent on support, knowledge sharing & collaboration, not promoting to one another

Rainy Mood: Write to the sound of rain

Blade Play & Incised Wounds: A primer on knife wounds to insure accuracy

Reverse Dictionary: know related words, but not quite the word you need? Meet your new best friend.

Visual Thesaurus: Displays words and meaning, connecting like-concepts

Sensual Words List: Get into the mood with these steamy descriptive words

Action Verb List: Lose the bland and get specific!

Tough Issues For Teens Write gritty YA? Find a huge list of Issue books broken down by topic for research

Spezify: An unusual way to search for information (hint: try your name)

Serendipity: Need inspiration or ideas? This is generator nirvana.

The Skeptic’s Dictionary: A perfect place for story inspiration on the weird and wonderful

Author Name Pronunciation Guide: Meeting an author and don’t know how to say their name? Help is here

Onomatopoeia Dictionary: Need to write a sound? Here’s how.

Writing Realistic Injuries: Don’t wing your injury descriptions after battles and mishaps–write it accurately

The Character Therapist: Put your characters on the couch!

Adventuring Hazards:  Add conflict by making sure Mother Nature trips your hero up

World Building Research: So many great topics of time period-specific research…let’s just call this WOW for short