Resources

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

Author Tech Tips

Authorlink

Awesome Indies–find great Indie books by category

Mystery Scene Magazine

Novelists Inc.--for multi-published authors

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America

Thriller Writers

For Authors

Rough Draft–Free Word Processing program for writers

Writer Unboxed

Research

Academic Earth

Basketball Reference

Baseball DataBankdatabase

Census Bureau

Data Sources

Data and Story Library – An online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods, from Carnegie Mellon

Encylcopedia.com

Fiction Writer’s Character Chart

Flickr Shapefiles

Godchecker: about gods and goddess

Google Scholar

Library of Congress: Science Reference Services

MAPlight

National Archives--all things American

National Center for Education Statistics

National Science Foundation–Statistics

OECD Statistics

Online Archive of California

Open Culture

OpenStreetMap

Phobia Guide

Phobia List

Reverse Photo Look-up (for Photos)

Rhyming Dictionary

Sacred Text Archive: free books on religion, mythology, folklore and more.

Schools–Public and Private

SpaceRef Websites: 21 news and reference web sites

Smithsonian–museum and research center

Variety of National Indicators

YouTube University

Marketing

Twitter Search

Publishing

Google eBooks

LibreDigital

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.

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4 thoughts on “Resources

  1. 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.

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