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Writing Techniques

• Murder Your Darlings by James Patrick Kelly
• Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric by Gideon O. Burton
• Split Infinitive from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Mistakes in Writing by Roger MacBride Allen
• Writerisms and other Sins: A Writer's Shortcut to Stronger Writing by C.J. Cherryh
• The Snowflake Process by Randy Ingermansion
• Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do) by Pat Holt
• Writing Advice by Caro Clarke
• TOC About Writing articles on writing on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. website
• Charlotte Dillon's Resources for Romance Writers romance writer or not, Charlotte's extensive listing is priceless -- these resources are worth saving and reviewing

Query Letters

• The Complete Nobody's Guide to Query Letters by Lynn Flewelling
• Dos and Don'ts: How to Write the Perfect Query Letter by Gail Eastwood
• Master The Art Of The Query Letter by Monica Jackson
• Query Letters: Do Them Right! by Lori Foster

Synopses

• How to Write a Synopsis by Marg Gilks
• O2 Proposal Given as Sample Proposal by Randy Ingermanson  --  requires Adobe Acrobat
• Writing a Selling Synopsis by Mia Crews
• Writing The Synopsis or Summary

Agents

• Hunting for a Literary Agent: Which to Keep and Which to Shoot by Chuck Rothman
• Sharks in the Water: Scams by Alicia Rasley
• Miss Snark, the literary agent
• Everything you wanted to know about literary agents by Neil Gaiman

Editors / Publishers / Publishing

• The Truth about Publishing by Ian Irvine
• I Am Your Editor: Submitting Your Novel by Caro Clarke
• Evil Editor
• TANSTAAFL and the Novice Writer by Elizabeth Moon
• Word Counts: What Is a Word? by Chuck Rothman
• Manuscript, Short Story Format
• Create Space vs Lightning Source     New!
• Do I really need a separate ISBN for my e-book?     New!
• Small Presses     New!

Lists of ... listings

• AgentQuery a database of literary agents
• Duotrope free writers' resource listing over 3525 current Fiction and Poetry publications
• Poets & Writers searchable database of small presses and literary publishers
• Preditors & Editors a guide to publishers and publishing services for serious writers since 1997
• QueryTracker free database of literary agents and publishers
• Ralan SF/F markets
• What Writers Need to Know About Copyrights FAQs from WritersDigest.com
• Writer Beware® warnings about the schemes, scams, and pitfalls that threaten writers

Books:

• The Elements of Style by Strunk and White, ISBN: 020530902X
          Elements of Style Online
• Self Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition by Renni Browne and Dave King, ISBN: 0060545690
• Eats, Shoots and Leaves by Lynne Truss, ISBN: 1592400876
• Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell, ISBN: 3531310942
• Chicago Manual of Style published by the University of Chicago Press
  
  • ISBN: 0226104044, CD-ROM; ISBN: 0226104052, Cloth with CD; ISBN: 0226104036, Cloth
    
  • Chicago Manual of Style Online

Special Sites for SF/F Writers

• Evil Overlord list by Peter Anspach
• The Fantasy Novelist's Exam by David J. Parker

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