I’ve started this page as a way to gather together links to blog posts and websites about writing/publishing I’ve found really helpful. It’s partly to help me find them again, but I’d like to share them too. You can comment on this page, so please add a link there if you find anything useful you’d like to share with other writers. Thanks!
Writing craft
The Bookshelf Muse – check out their emotion and character trait thesaurus links in the sidebar
What Charlie Chaplin Can Teach You About Writing a Great Love Story – Ollin Morales at Romance University
Converting Backstory into Character – Theresa Stevens at Romance University
Grammar – the nitty gritty
Misunderstanding Grammar - Patricia C. Wrede
Now I lay me down to sleep – Theresa at Edittorrent
The first draft
Write a HolyCowAwesome Story – C.J. Redwine at Romance University
Writing Out of Sequence without going (too) crazy – L. A. Witt
How I Went From Writing 2000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day – Rachel Aaron
Erotica writing tips
Numb Shots – Damon Suede at Reviews by Jessewave
Editing
Focus – Theresa at Edittorrent
Queries, blurbs and synopses
Ten Steps to a Clean Submission – Theresa Stevens at Romance University
Log Line Pitches, or, How to Tweet Your Novel – Theresa Stevens at Edittorrent
The publishing process
Why I Have an Agent – Heidi Cullinan
Self-publishing
Yes You Can (Er… but should you?) – Josh Lanyon
Step by Step Scrivener to Kindle Tutorial – Jon Mac
Amazon’s Ever-Changing Algorithms, Part 3: Why Lower Prices Might Give You Lesser Sales – Ed Robertson at Failure Ahoy!
Indie Earnings – survey by Brenda Hiatt at Show Me the Money
Idiot’s Guide to eBooks – pt. 1: Kindle Direct (using Scrivener) – Lou Harper
Promotion
7 Formats for Winning Blog Posts – Joel Friedlander
How Not to Blog – Anne R. Allen
Guest Blogging and Author Interviews Tips and Tricks – Mandy M. Roth
Marketing 101 for Authors – Chandra Years
Facebook for Authors – How to Get Started – Nathan Bransford
3 Principles for Facebook Fan Pages – Jane Friedman
What you Need to Know About SEO – Rick Daley
Author Blogging 101: Blog Infrastructure – Joel Friedlander
How I make a Book Trailer – Heidi Cullinan
What does Amazon Sales Rank Mean? – Nikkie Leigh at Learn to Sell More Books
M/M Genre Specific
For the Love of Man by Laura Baumbach