Links for Writers – a growing resource

This series of links were included as part of an article I wrote for WQ Magazine,”Markets – from woe to go and getting a foot in overseas! ” [March issue 2011] . Sadly, the actual links had to be removed due to space restrictions so I have placed most of them here.

This list of resources, sources and publishing opportunities on the internet and elsewhere is far from exhaustive. Please do contact me if you have or know of a resource that can be included!

Review Blogs and sites

Book Review blogs

• Terry Doherty – Reading Tub and Jen Robinson – Reading Tub Blog
• Dr. Virginia Lowe – Create a Kid’s Book
• Debra Sloan – The Picnic Basket
  http://www.thepicnic-basket.com/
  
• Carol Denbow – A Book Inside
  http://abookinside.blogspot.com/
  
• Magdalena Ball – Compulsive Reader
  http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/
  
• Susan Whitfield
  http://susanwhitfield.blogspot.com/
  
• Jo Linsdell – Writers and Authors
  http://writersandauthors.blogspot.com
  
• Betty Dravis & co-bloggers  - Dames of Dialogue
  http://damesofdialogue.wordpress.com/
  
• New Zealand Writer –
  http://new-zealand-writer.blogspot.com
  
• Sarah Chavez-Detka       
  http://minorreads.blogspot.com/
  
• Kerry Neary  
  http://kerryneary.blogspot.com/
  
• Catherine Johnson www.kangaroobee.wordpress.com
• Sandie Lee Muncaster 
  http://imaginationcafeblog.blogspot.com/
  

Review Sites

All genres:

Goodreads –
http://www.goodreads.com/

Children’s Literature:

The Reading Tub

Terry Doherty Reading Tub 
http://www.thereadingtub.com/

Reading Tub Blog
http://readingtub.wordpress.com/

Marketing & Promotional Aids

• BookBuzzr  www.BookBuzzr.com World’s No. 1, Free Online Book-Marketing Technology for Authors
• Freado  www.fReado.com World’s Biggest Book-Winning Site
• Free Press Relese DIY site - 
  http://www.prlog.org/submit-free-press-release.html
  

Magazines that publish short stories and poetry

[I have submitted a list of online journals most on Facebook, some with links -
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150093435850908
and growing.] New additions

Leaf Garden Press
http://leafgardenpress.blogspot.com/

http://leafgardenpress.blogspot.com/2009/01/submissions-open.html

Dash Literary Journal

Rose and Thorn 
http://www.roseandthornjournal.com/Home_Page.html

Cross genre:

Good Reading –
http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/

Children’s Writers & Illustrators:

Dream Chaser promotes children’s writers and illustrators globally.
http://www.dreamchasersmagazine.webs.com/

Poetry Sites and Blogs:

• QPF –
  http://www.queenslandpoetryfestival.info/?page_id=11
  
• Graham Nunn – Another Lost Shark
  http://anotherlostshark.com/
  
• Graham gives an excellent list of inks to other poet’s blogs.
• Jessica Bell
  http://thealliterativeallomorph.blogspot.com/2011
  
• Poetry UK
  http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/
  
• My own, under J.R.McRae :
  http://jrmcrae.blogspot.com/
  – note review of John Knight’s “Letters from the Asylum”

Children’s Poetry

Publishers

• Salt Publishing 
  http://saltpublishing.com/kids/
  
• List UK
  http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/publishers/children/
  
• USA Children’s Poetry Publisher
  http://www.boydsmillspress.com/reviews/wordsong
  
• 
  http://www.boydsmillspress.com/writers-and-illustrators-guidelines
  
• 
  http://www.cupcakepoetry.com/?tag=wordsong-boyds-mills-press-childrens-poetry-kids-publisher-publishing
  

Magazines

Interview with RebeccaNewman of “Alphabet Soup” and with Meredith Costain of  ”Comet”, “Explore”, “Challenge “(Pearson education)

http://monthofpoetry.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/poetic-aside-publishing-poetry/

CHILDREN’S POETRY Blogs

Julie Larios – The Drift record 
http://julielarios.blogspot.com/

Children’s Writers’ Blogs :

• Jackie Hoskings
  http://www.writing4successclub.com/public/department63.cfm
  
• Kat Apel: 
  http://katswhiskers.wordpress.com/
  
• Tara Lazar
  http://taralazar.wordpress.com/
  
• Susanne Gervay
  http://www.sgervay.com/blog/
  [YA]
• I am endeavouring to add regular tips, tricks and resource links to my own blog, so keep posted…

Publisher’s blogs:

• Sharon Creech - 
  http://sharonkaycreech.blogspot.com/2011/01/book-design.html#comment-form
  
• Tate Publishing - Curtis Winkle, Senior Editor
tatepublishingeditors.blogspot.com
• Tate Publishing – Melanie Hughes, Director of Production 
melanieharrhughes.blogspot.com

Writers blogs – tips n tricks

Jayme Ian Woode 
http://jaymesianwoode.wordpress.com/

Writers’ Organisations:

Writing cross genre:

• Fellowship of Australia Writers [FAW]
  http://www.writers.asn.au/
  
• Australian Society of Authors [ASA]
  http://www.asauthors.org/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=ASP0016/ccms.r
  
• State of Writing [free] –
  http://astateofwriting.org.au/
  

Children’s/YA writing Organisations:

• CBCA
  http://cbca.org.au/
  
• SCBWI Australia and New Zealand also provides updates for members via an emailed newsletter:
  http://www.scbwiaustralia.org/
  
• QWC
  http://www.qwc.asn.au/
  
• Book Links
  http://www.booklinks.org.au/