Ink Byte Tracker a free tool to help writers manage the submission of their work to publishers, agents, journals, or any other markets.
Sonar a free Windows manuscript submission tracking program for short storys. A handy way to track which market has which story, whether a story's been sold or rejected and how long its been on the editors desk.
Writer's Data Base a freeware program for keeping track of where you sent your manuscript. Works on Windows but it seems like a DOS program.
WinSam a free manuscript tracking program for Windows and DOS. Website also has a link for a manuscript tracking program for Macs.
Adler & Robin Books Writing Book Proposal advice from Adler & Robin Books, Inc. - a Washington, DC book packaging and publishing company. Check out thier old site for even more info on publisher tips.
Press Release Writing Tips Samples, tips and formatting.
Pubrants A blog that critiques querry letters.
Purple Crayon A children's book editors site with info for writing and illustrating.
Write and Publish Fiction Writing, publishing, marketing, resources and tools.
Writers Digest Writer's Digest features daily writing and publishing updates, tons of writer's guidelines, the hottest places to get published, courses and contests.
Writers Resource Center Includes formatting short stories, poetry selling and gaining the background for technical writing tips.
Synopsis, queries and propsals require that the author be able to sum up their mauscript in one sentence.
Six Sentences Write you story in six sentences and submit it here..
Six Words Write the same story in six words.
Research the publication by visiting the web site and reading the information before you make a submission.
Writers for Kids.com Lots of good tips on what publishers look for in the Children's writers marketplace. Publisher market wishes updated every couple of months so check back issues.
CBC Childrens Book Council Members list posts the needs of their publishers.
Kid Magazine Writers Editors speak, special reports and market guide.
Ultimate Directory of Children's Publishers Online Children book and magazine publishers and a good list of market tips.
Smart Writers Children books and magazine publishers and promotional tips and tools.
Writing for Children Writer's markets and columns on writing.
Blue Oasis Online Support Teams Many Christian children magazine and book guidelines. Articles on the craft of writing.
Utmost Christian writer and poet markets.
Sally Stuart Christian Writers Market Guide.
Preditors and Editors Agents and publishers links and tips.
Freelance Writing Magazine Writers submission guidelines.
Forwriters.com Lists markets accepting submissions.
Internet Publishing by Piers Anthony is a good on-line guide to Internet Publishing.
Journalism Jobs The job board for media professionals contains magazine, radio, tv, and newspaper openings.
Paying Markets A nicely organized writer market link page.
Towes's Links to Online Guidelines Publishers, agents, paying and low paying markets .
The Write Market Web Links general and main markets.
WritersNet A excellent resource on agents, publisher, editor, and writing.
The Writers Place Writing For Dollar Guidelines.
FictionAddiction Book publishers network for fiction writers and readers.
Fiction Factor Magazines on the Internet; fiction Ezine markets.
Burry Man Writers Corner Science fiction, and horror reviews and magazine market links.
Check Smatterings Choosing the Correct Script Format page for television, film links.
Blood Letters The Goblin markets.
Dark Markets 83 listed.
Story Pilot Science Fiction, fantasy market search engine. A title is not necessary. Will list them all if you desire.
Market List Science fiction, fantasy and horror and writing market links.
Ralan's Webstravagnza An excelent place to look for info on sci-fi publishers. Has over 800 writing links.
Speculative Fiction Divides the SF magazines into cents per word listings.
Writer Spells Science fiction and fantasy magazine and book publishers.
(general listings-- writers guidelines not covered on these sites.) These sites may have the bit of info you lost when your computer crashed or you deleted your contact to a magazine somehow by accident.
Writing EBooks A site to purchase a magazine or buy a hardcopy of a writing publication over the Internet.
As it gets harder to get your book publishes by mainstream presses, self publishing becomes more prevelent. Attack this route carefully. It means investing your own capital into your book on top of the time you've already spent writing, polishing and sending it out to publishers. In this new game you need to either learn a new program for typesetting, or learn typesetting, make a photo ready pfd copy of your work or pay someone to do that for you, pay for printing, design and create a professional looking cover or pay someone for that too, learn how to market and promote books, invest in advertising tools, and learn how to become your own business.
Smatterings: Choosing The Right Tool will help you decide on programs for typesetting, whether to learn typesetting, make a photo ready pfd copy of your work or pay someone to do that for you.
Smatterings: Freeware Graphics Software Links Originally written for web designers interested in creating their own graphics. I added info on free programs for creating book covers and jackets.
