Writers' Guidelines - Women's Magazines

Australian Woman's Day
Woman's Day Fiction Guidelines

Woman's Day (U.S.)
Guidelines for Articles and Essay submissions

Book Industry News, Trends & Observations

The Book Reporter
The tagline is - Where readers and writers click

Fresh Eyes - A Bookseller's Journal

Bookseller Chick

Writing Industry News, Trends & Observations

Write News.com

Writer's Blog

Marketing - Lessons from Libraries

Library Marketing Strategies can be modified for small business marketing, and of course for authors, in the same way that libraries adapt business marketing strategies

Library Marketing - Think Outside the Book
Jill Stover is the Undergraduate Services Librarian at Virginia Commonwealth University

Libraries & Technology

Libraries have always been at the forefront of new technologies and strategies, for advocacy, marketing, communicating, networking and learning. Check out what libraries are doing & get some tips you can use yourself

Brown University - Evaluating a Website
A useful checklist for evaluating the quality, relevance & authority of a website

Otterbein University Library Site
Looks at e-learning and the future of learning in the digital age

The Shifted Librarian
This site from Jenny Levine, aka The Shifted Librarian, has info on the latest technology as it applies to libraries, community & learning e.g. social networking etc.

University of Minnesota Library
This is a virtual library portal especially for undergraduates

Market Your Writing - John Kremer

Editorial - The First Step in Book Marketing
This article is gold, but if you want more, John Kremer, is also the author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books, Do-It-Yourself Book Publicity Kit. He shares tips giving actual author and publisher examples.

He says the book helps you learn how to -

- Edit and design your books for promotional clout
- Open new markets
- Get national publicity for your books
- Advertise your books effectively
- Sell your books direct to your customers
- Get nationwide distribution for your books
- Work with bookstores to sell more books
- Sell books to specialty retail stores
- Sell books to schools and libraries
- Sell subsidiary and foreign rights
- Sell books via the Internet
- Sell to premium and catalog buyers
- Spin off products from your books

He goes on to say
1001 Ways to Market Your Books also includes 200 specific marketing tips just for authors as well as a separate chapter on how authors can capitalize on the increased recognition a book gives their work.

Freelance Jobs

Freelance Mom.com
This site supports mothers working outside the usual workplace situation. It has a forum and posts jobs, including freelance writing and coding

Work At Home Moms Who Write
This forum is part of WAHM.com for sharing tips, leads and tribulations

Research Sources

Sixty Sites in Sixty Minutes
Jenny Levine aka The Shifted Librarian, and Susan Skyzinski shared these for the Texas Library Association - good starting points for research and exploring.

Smarter Surfing - Better Use of Your Web Time
Comprehensive list of links and resources from Sreenath Sreenivasan, Professor of Journalism at Columbia University.

He says
Be wary when you surf. Watch for giant waves of misinformation and the jagged rocks of hidden agendas. But there's plenty of useful stuff; you just need to know where to look

Editing

Copy Editing for Magazines
Outline for a Copy Editing course. The Editor says
What follows is the syllabus for my course. I think it may be useful for anyone who wants to teach copy editing skills and also for people who are curious about jobs in publishing

She's not running the course - just offering the outline for anyone who can use it

Freelance Writing Tips

Full Time Freeelancing - 10 Things I learned in 10 Days
Cameron Moll from Authentic Boredom offers some wise advice

Linda Formicelli
Linda Formicelli is the author of The Renegade Writer and also runs online workshops

Favourite Writing Links

Poynters Online

Poynters is one of the very best sources for writing know how for anyone in the writing game - professional or just starting out

Writing For the Web - Freelance Job Links

This list includes telecommuting writing and editing jobs. I will add new links as I discover them

All Readers.comWrite Book Reviews

Deb Ng's Freelancing Writing Jobs Leads
Part of the Writers' Row site - forum and articles

Freelance Work Exchange

Freeelance Writing.com Jobs Board

The Golden Pencil
A b5 media blog with jobs and writers' resources

Life Tips
You can apply as a research guru, expert guru or celebrity guru

Love To Know
A Wiki site covering a range of topics from Weddings to Travel

Sun Oasis Jobs
Includes freelance and telecommuting

Write Jobs

Writer Find Jobs
Freelance & telecommuting jobs