This is my hodge podge collection of sites that help me research, edit and format my books. Maybe you’ll find some resources that help you, too:
Writer’s Sites
African American Literature Book Club: Writers Resources
Awesome Indies–find great Indie books by category
Novelists Inc.--for multi-published authors
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Working Stiffs--where crime writers talk about their trade
For Authors
Rough Draft–Free Word Processing program for writers
Writers Digest 101 Best Websites
Research
Berkeley Data Lab – Part of the UC Berkeley library system
Copyright Friendly Images, Sounds and More
Data and Story Library – An online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods, from Carnegie Mellon
Fiction Writer’s Character Chart
FootballGlobal Health FactsUNdata
Godchecker: about gods and goddess
Google Scholar
GoPubMd: Science and medical search
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Library of Congress: Science Reference Services
National Archives--all things American
National Center for Education Statistics
National Science Foundation–Statistics
PubGene genes, biological terms and organisms.
Reverse Photo Look-up (for Photos)
Sacred Text Archive: free books on religion, mythology, folklore and more.
Scirus scientific articles and publications.
SpaceRef Websites: 21 news and reference web sites
Smithsonian–museum and research center
TIGER – From the US Census Bureau, detailed data about roads, railroads, rivers, and zip codes.
UCLA Statistics Data Sets – Some of the data that UCLA stat uses in their labs and assignments.
Variety of National Indicators
Marketing
Publishing
Scribd (digital ms)
Smashwords (digital formats)
Teachers Pay Teachers (Teachers Only)
If you’d like to be added to this list, leave a comment with your information. Thanks.
Jacqui Murray is the author of the popular Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy. She is webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com and TeachHUB, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, Cisco guest blog,Technology in Education featured blogger, IMS tech expert, and a bi-monthly contributor to Today’s Author. In her free time, she is the editor of a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum, and creator of technology training books for how to integrate technology in education. Currently, she’s editing a thriller that should be out to publishers next summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
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Wow! This is a truly outstanding list of writing resources. I’m totally coming back here. Thanks!
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Jacqui, this is my second visit to your blog. I am so impressed. You must have put a great deal of time and effort into assembling this collection of tips, resources, etc. to share with the writing community. What a wonderful thing to do. I just subscribed. Glad I found your blog.
By: Teresa Cypher-Willowlive on March 7, 2012
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Thanks, Teresa! I love the kind words!
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