For Writers




Books Every Writer Should Read

ON WRITING by Stephen King
THE FIRE IN FICTION by Donald Maass
WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL by Donald Maass
WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL WORKBOOK by Donald Maass
BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott
SAVE THE CAT! By Blake Snyder


And if you write fantasy, you should really read THE TOUGH GUIDE TO FANTASYLAND by Diana Wynne Jones




Links to My favorite Writing Resources (For Querying Writers)

How A Book Gets Published by Nathan Bransford 

How To Write A One Page Synopsis by Susan Dennard  

QueryTracker (A Great Place to Find Agents) 

Literary Rambles (A fantastic site for agent information, author Interviews & book giveaways)  

Brenda Drake's Website (This woman is the contest queen, if you are querying, you should be following her) 


The Bent Agency Blog (Where smart people write about helpful things) 

Pub(lishing) Crawl (This site has everything:  writing advice, behind the scene's industry sneak peeks, inspiration ideas, fun giveaways, and it's comprised of really nice people)

Miss Snark's First Victim (Another great site for writing contests, writing advice--I've learned so much about writing from following this blog)