Top 101 Book Marketing Sites
This page features top sites of interest to book publishers, authors, and self-publishers.
Lots of book marketing tools and resources are featured here.Note: This is a personal list, based on the judgment of John Kremer. If you'd like to nominate an appropriate website, please email John Kremer. I know that I have missed some companies I truly would like to add to this list. Your company might be one of those. book marketing expert John Kremer, author of 1001 Ways to Market Your Books
Acses Book Price Search Engine This service allows consumers to compare prices from over 20 online bookstores! A good place to see what your books are selling for (after discounts and postage) at the major web booksellers. Note that this service makes its money by joining the associate sales programs of all the featured booksellers.
Adler & Robin Books This agent/publisher site features sample book proposals, tips on using agents, submission tips, advice on writing a book, etc. Good site.
All Books Free A site for sharing ebook versions of your novels, short stories, and children's books. All books are freely available for anyone to download and read.
The Art of Writing A free online magazine for writers, both aspiring and professional. It features articles, tips, free clipart for writers and publishers, and an Instant Muse writing utility to help poets and short fiction writers beat writer's block.
Aspiring Authors Filled with writing resources for authors and readers.
Author Assist, Patricia Benesh; 858-483-7900. Email: pbenesh@authorassist.com.
Author Reviews, Lukas Johnston. Email: author.reviews@gmail.com. Allows authors to promote their work free of charge.
AuthorBuzz Email: authorbuzzco@aol.com. Puts authors in touch with 365,000 readers, 12,000 librarians, 5,000 booksellers, and 14,800 leaders of bookclubs. Their blog ad campaigns reach millions.
Author's Den A 100% free web gathering site for authors. Allows authors to post photos, book covers, news photos, sample chapters, etc.
Authors Access Features live author forum.
Authors and Experts, Linda Radke, Five Star Publications; 480-940-8182; Fax: 480-940-8787. Email: info@authorsandexperts.com. A place for authors, experts, and speakers to connect with the media and for those looking for speakers.
Autographed by Author This website sells autographed copies of books direct from the authors (the authors fulfill the orders and give a percentage to the site).
BCA Books Features Barb Clews's e-book, Article Writing for Freelancers. Also offers a free monthly ezine, Words that Work, which is packed full of tips.
Best Book Buys This site allows you to compare prices at over a dozen online bookstores.
Book Blog Debra Hamel does book reviews in this blog. She also does reviews at http://www.thebibliofiles.com.
Book Boardz Book forums and communities.
Book Buzz This site is part of Susannah Greenberg Public Relations, a full-service public relations firm for publishers and organizations involved in the publishing industry.
Book Buzz, Sheila Dalton, Moderator, Toronto Public Library, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Email: sdalton@torontopubliclibrary.ca. An online book club open to anyone around the world. They read one book a month and hold free live online author chats that anyone can join.
The Book Coach Author, speaker and book coach Jim Donovan inspires people to go beyond where they are and reach their potential.
Book Links Email: paul@pmmarketing.org. A book search service.
The Book Marketing Network This free Book Marketing Network provides blogging capability, book trailers, photo-sharing, and most important of all forums for discussing and sharing tips, resources, success stories, and questions and answers. We could create a vibrant sharing community here. But it's all up to you to join and get involved. This isn't my site. It's yours. But I will be active in it.
Book Place A social network for booklovers.
The Book Report Network This site is composed of seven Internet sites about books, authors and reading. TBNR intends to become the nation's online leader of contemporary book reviews, author features, and news for these readers.
Book Treasure House Offers your own web address and multi-page book website with e-commerce capabilities. All for no charge.
BookBlaster An email query service for writers of both fiction and nonfiction. We can send the writer's query letter to our database of 650 agents and publishers on their behalf, with all responses going directly back to the writer. Our services include targeting agents and publishers in both the US and the UK. It's a quick and effective way of connecting with agents and publishers.
BookConnector.com, Paul Petrucci, Petruccis West, 3218 Portage Bay Place East, Seattle WA 98102; 206-383-6378. Email: paul@paulpetrucci.com or paul@bookconnector.com. Helps authors locate book review sites on the web as well as book signing venues in the real world. At this time, a free service.
BookHitch.com You can list your book here for free or pay to get more prominent position. Their description: Bookhitch was designed to meet the growing needs of authors and publishers, especially with trends towards online book marketing and selling. Many individuals and companies within the industry have chosen to design their own website storefronts and sell their books. Most also use larger distributors, but a large percent of profits are taken from the sale of each book. We are working to build a site where every book is listed (hence, we offer free listings), and provide direction to where these books can be purchased (usually the author's or publisher's website). We want to give readers access to all books that are available, not just the ones that are picked and chosen for display or distribution by larger companies. Compared with other search engines, we are book specific and allow users to place their own content onto the site. We have also launched a community book project, with all profits going towards education.
BookLoons Hilary Williamson, Editor. Email: Hilary.Williamson@sympatico.ca. BookLoons has columns, contests, online reading, over 1,600 book reviews across genres, and is updated weekly. They feature classics, contemporary, fantasy, historical, mystery, nonfiction, romance, SF, travel, and tales for teens and young readers.
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Bookmovement, Pauline Hubert. Bookmovement creates a private web page and discussion forums for reading book clubs, where they sell books for 30% off. Bookmovements online reading guides entice readers with authors discussion questions, an author Q&A forum, publisher information, related links and excerpts from books. For a charge of $250 to $500 per year, authors can reach book clubs with book previews, interactive reading guide services, and more.
Book Pleasures Norm Goldman, Editor. Email: l.goldman@sympatico.ca. A book review and author interview site.
BookCoaching.com, Judy Cullins; 619-466-0622. Email: judy@bookcoaching.com. She works with small business people who want to make a difference in people's lives, build their credibility and clients, and make a consistent life-long income. She is the author of Write Your eBook or Other Short Book Fast! and Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market Your Book Online.
BookHitch Designed to link authors and publishers with readers. Basic service is free, but there's also some sort of paid services as well.
Book Reporter Where readers and writers click. Also does AuthorsOnTheWeb.com, TeenReads.com, KidsReads.com, AuthorYellowPages.com, FaithfulReader.com, and more.
Books & Collectibles, John Hemans. Email: bookslinks@seotechnologies.com. Australian booksellers of rare, old, out of print, and collectible books. Also a book search engine.
Books & Writers Offers several services for book writers: Summary Search returns information from a number of online bookseller sites and allows the searcher to verify the accuracy of the material. Another service produces a regular notification of a title's ranking at Amazon.com.
Books for Women This website features reviews of women's books by women book reviewers.
Books Northwest This website features authors from the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and the Left Coast of Canada. Also any books featuring those areas.
The Bookseller The website for the Publishers Weekly of the European continent.
BookSense.com The book-selling website and branding effort for independent booksellers.
Booksigning Tips 34 tips and counting from Larry James.
BookSpot Calls itself the book information sweetspot of the Web. Provides many links to book-related sites, including reviews, reading lists, author sites, publisher sites, bookstores, online texts, and more.
Books That Live Christian books and supplies. Includes video interviews with authors.
Bookstores List of Lists A listing of bookstore lists available via the Internet.
BooksXYZ, Joseph N. Abraham, President, Acadiana Educational Endowment, 412 Travis Street, Lafayette LA 70503; 337-264-1765; Fax: 337-264-1065. Email: abraham@booksxyz.com. Dedicated to the free flow of information, this site encourages authors and self-publishers to list their works here.
BookTalk Features author pages, publishing articles, some promo ideas, publisher listings, a slushpile with info on sites and conferences, and literary agent listings.
BookTech: The Magazine Features an online buyers guide, articles on book production, links to related publications, as well as a discussion group.
Book Wormer A price comparison shopping engine for books.
R.R. Bowker Besides being the home of Books in Print and Literary MarketPlace, you can also order ISBN numbers online and download Advanced Book Information forms.
Browse Books for Free, Alastair Hall. Email: admin@browsebooksforfree.com. He turns an author's PDF book extract into a small HTML article and offers it to thousands of other websites for publication through article distribution lists via article-marketer.com. He can also convert large extracts from PDF to HTML.
Bublos.com A leader among book price comparison sites, Bublos also offers searchable book reviews, bookstore listings and much more.
Business Books and More, Duane Torres, Savannah GA; 912-927-9516. For people who want to work at home. Learn what you need to know from top selling books of all time. Find tips and advice for small business and much more.
The Business of Writing for Children Aaron Shepard's page on publishing and writing children's books. Shepard is the author of The Business off Writing for Children.
Candlenut Books Click on Resources for Self-Publishers for a list of resources.
Castle Communications, Castle Communications, P O Box 200255, Austin TX 78720; 512-346-2375; Fax: 512-346-0690. Email: lc@castlecommunications.com. The site of Lana Castle, the Style Meister, it helps you customize your writing style for different needs.
Children's Book Insider The website features items and reports from the editors of the Children's Book Insider newsletter.
Children's Educational Cooperative Links to author/publisher sites for children's books as well as parenting, teaching, and health-related materials.
Choose Books A multi-book seller site that offers shopping in English, Spanish, French, and German. Its search engine does all word searches and can do fully customized searches for those who want them. It lists dealer specialties and has a frequent buyer club. There is never a corporate mark up on book seller prices.
Cookbooks We Love Offers cookbook picks and reviews, featuring a hand-picked selection of the editor's favorite cookbooks.
The Copywriting Profit Center A resource on how to market your materials online and off by author-speaker-copywriter Joe Mr.Fire! Vitale.
Curled Up With a Good Book, Sharon Schultz-Elsing, Editor, 1402 West 9th Street, Sioux Falls SD 57104. This site's ezine is committed to bringing good books to readers. It features book reviews of literary and mainstream fiction. Warning: At least one author had a really bad experience with this website, getting what she thought was a cold review. When she asked them to not post it to their website, they refused.
DailyLit, 434 Mamaroneck Avenue #105, Mamaroneck NY 10543. Email: info@dailylit.com. This website allows people to subscribe to 500+ titles via email or RSS. Contact them for info on how to add your titles.
Departure Lounge Bookshop The Synergise.com Departure Lounge Bookshop includes a bookshelf on all the travel pages of their popular travel site. It works like an airport or train station bookshop: people buy on impulse when presented with the opportunity. For an inexpensive annual rate they display your book cover and a brief description across all their travel pages as one of 3 client books placed randomly alongside a bestseller. The low 500 client-book limit ensures your book has guaranteed exposure.
Dictionaries Directory Dictionary-related news, books and web resources.
Editorial Freelancers Association, 212-929-5400; Fax: 212-929-5439. EFA is a national, professional organization comprising editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, translators, and other self-employed workers in the publishing industry. Founded in 1970, EFA has over one thousand members who could help you with editing your books.
Education Oasis, Kimberly Wagner, Editor, 226 N. Nova Road #386, Ormond Beach FL 32174. Email: kim@educationoasis.com. A teacher-created website that features teacher resources as well as reviews of children's books, YA books, and professional books as well as adult books used in high schools.
Electronic Book Aisle Features a growing inventory of downloadable books on cooking, crafts, how-to, self-help, reference, computing, and business. They might also be interested in publishing an electronic edition of your book. You can offer them electronic books in Adobe Acrobat or HTML format. You grant them a non-exclusive right to distribute your book in that format. They send you 50% of receipts from any book sales on a quarterly basis.
Extreme Promotions A new author directory and book promotion service online. A one-year ($29.95) listing includes info about you, your books and services, registration with search engines, an online press release, and more.
Flashbase Offers a free tracking service for authors and editors for articles, upcoming events, conferences, etc. Also other services for magazine writers and editors.
Free Books for All A site where you can share ebook versions of your book for free.
Freelance Help, Jim Donovan. Email: jdonovan@freelancehelp.com. Hosts Creative Marketplace, a classified and auction section to help freelancers sell their existing work.
Freelance Writers, Jennifer Gregory; 727-789-4900; Fax: 727-789-4907. Email: jennifer@freelancewriters.com. Helps writers gain exposure for their skills and expertise. Also helps them get some paying assignments by featuring writer's skills, contact information, and experience. Their Writer's Room section features pricing guidelines, legal forms, and a community bulletin board.
Freelance Writing Organization A free site that hosts thousands of writing resource links in a massive online database, 40+ genres, funds for writers, job listings, education, news, submission calls, research library. From adventure to westerns, agents to publishers, all forms of writing information available. Professional resources for editors, journalists and writers of all mediums.
Top 700 Independent Bookstores Data Files This list started out as 500, then 600, then 700, and now almost 780 top general bookstores. It includes names of the buyers and event coordinators, address, phone, fax, email, website, and other information about each bookstore. You will be able to download six different formats (your choice of one or all) as well as an information sheet to let you know what is contained in the various data file formats (Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, comma-delimited ASCII, tab-delimited ASCII, dBase, and rich text format). Data file download, $40.00.
The Gentry Agency Kristina Parusel. Email: inquiries@gentryagency.com. Business development agency that offers consulting services to author & speaker entrepreneurs to design and deliver products, training programs, seminars, keynotes, and business books.
Getting Your Book Published Offers online information and choices for writers and authors to assist them in getting their works published. Sponsored by Biographical Publishing Company, a quasi-subsidy publisher.
Go Publish Yourself, Christopher Willitts, Founder; 931-422-9906. Email: christopher@go-publish-yourself.com. This site educates writers on the topic of self-publishing by providing them with quality articles and resources.
Craig Hart, Author Author site with help for writers, author interviews, and more.
How to Write a Children's Book in 30 Days or Less, Caterina Christakos. Email: CChrist896@aol.com. If you want to learn how to write a children's book, this is one good place to begin learning.
How to Write a Book, Rob Roy Barreca. Email: rob@electronicinsight.com. Information on how to write a book including book writing tips, how to write fiction, writing children's books, writing fantasy, writing a book proposal, writing software, format for writing a book, and books on writing.
How to Write Your Book, Dr. Claudia Rose; 888-522-4628. Email: drrose@howtowriteyourbook.com.
Humanist Books. Features books on contemporary humanism, humanist religion, self empowerment, personal growth, and character lessons for children.
I Can't Get Published.com, Andrew McQuinn. Email: mcquinn99@lycos.com. Offers tips and resources for all types of writers who seek publication.
I Love to Write Day, John Riddle, Founder. A grassroots effort to have people of all ages practice their writing skills on November 15th. In 2003 they had 12,000 schools all across the country hold special writing events and activities.
iFogo An author promotion website. For $99.00 per year, you can have two genre pages, author photo, author bio, sample chapters, video, audio clip, plus buy links to the major online retailers. Additional titles cost a little more. Free iPhones given out to people who buy books via iFogo links (one per 50 buyers). To visit iFogo, go here: http://www.ifogo.com/IFH/iFOGOHome.php.
Independent Publishers Network The website of the Jenkins Group, it is becoming filled with useful information.
Independent Publisher Hall of Fame Book publishing expert John Kremer highlights independent publishers who have made the big time.
Indiezon.com, Paul Saitowitz. Email: paul@indiezon.com. I've started a website for self-published authors similar to Amazon, except it's only for independent authors.
Internet Book Database. Email: contact@ibookdb.net. Authors can list books in the database, host a forum, post a bio, and publicize your book, all for free.
Italian-American Press This free service lists the books of self-published Italian-American authors, providing them with resources and information as well.
It's Only Ink! Informative website for anyone in the book industry, listing: authors, publishers, reviewers, illustrators, resources, and more.
JoJaffa Writing Website links on writing.
JungleShop Bookstore Online bookstore: comics, fiction, business, Christian, political, history, humor, cookbooks, college, travel, children's books, health, mysteries, romance, and used books.
Carol Kluz Author Site Offers a writer's resource directory, with a separate resource directory for children's writers.
Laughing Bear Newsletter, Tom Person, Editor, Laughing Bear Press, P O Box 613322, Dallas TX 75261-3322; 817-858-9515. Email: editor@laughingbear.com. Among other things, this site features a free library mailing list (not updated since 2000), a directory of organizations for small publishers, and the Laughing Bear Virtual Book Store.
LDS Writers A website for LDS (Mormon) writers brought to you by Ryan Orrock.
Library Journal Online Get connected to Library Journal via this site.
Library of Congress This particular link provides great links for book fairs. The general Library of Congress site has lots of great information for publishers, including info on how to apply for a Library of Congress Catalog Card Number.
Library Links Links to libraries brought to you by the publishing coordinator at about.com.
Library Spot A great reference site. Lots of book-related and reference links.
Literary Market Place Online A large part of this directory of the book publishing industry is browseable for free. Other parts are available only via subscription. Take a free look around all sections until the end of August, 1998.
Literature Resources A directory of literature related websites and discussion groups.
Manuscript Depot Showcases manuscript samples of novelists, non-fiction writers, short fiction writers, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, and self-published writers. These are paid listings.
Market-Smart Books Features the latest and best Internet and marketing books.
Marketing New Authors, Christa Chambers-Price. Email: christa@pricedesigngroup.com. Provides aggressive marketing, distribution, and publishing on behalf of authors.
Markets for Writers The online home for authors of the book, How to Make Money by Selling Your Writing on the Internet.
Mission Publishing We help independent professionals and experts turn their knowledge into a system of books and information products that attract a lifelong stream of clients and income. Our mentoring programs are based on 25 years of successful publishing and marketing experience.
Mystery Writing Center The website for Southmont Publishing, this site provides info of interest to mystery writers.
NetRead: The Publishing Portal This site offers tools and services for writers, publishers, agents, contractors, and booksellers.
New Book List Here's a new source for helping authors sell their works. A specialized traffic exchange that rotates authors websites for free.
News Media Connection Provides emails to major media lists.
NovelSpot A social networking site for novelists.
OnceWritten Allows any author to submit a Meet the Author essay via the website. You write a 350-word essay about your experiences and challenges in getting published or about your on-going challenges with marketing your book. They include the essays on their website as well as in emails going to their 10,000 readers.
Outstanding Authors, John and Judy Coker, Presidents, 24 Sunbeam Court, Saint Peters MO 63376; 636-278-2202. Email: judy@outstandingauthors.com. An online marketing cooperative for authors and small publishing companies. In addition to hosting websites and resources for authors, the site also sponsors a wide range of marketing programs, provides educational information and opportunities and hosts a consignment bookstore complete with a shopping cart and order processing and fulfillment.
Page One Literary Newsletter A website for writers. According to one of my correspondents, this site gets high praises from a lot of published novelists and top publishers.
Para Publishing The site of Dan Poynter and Para Publishing. Lots of book publishing info here, including many free reports. Dan says he has more than 450 pages of free material on site.
Peer Publisher Partnership Program, Dawn Matheson, Bumble Bee Productions, 725 Watch Island Reach, Chesapeake VA 23320; 757-410-9409, ext. 707; Fax: 757-410-9409. Email: dmatheson@bbpmail.com. Offers a wide range of co-op and other advertising programs for authors and publishers.
Pen Links A resource site for writers.
The Poetry Connection, Sylvia Shichman. Email: poetryconnect@webtv.net. A website for poets, with pages for connecting poets to poets, poetry contests, and more.
Polka Dot Banner, Jamie Saloff. Email: info@saloff.com. An author helping author site. This site works off the principle that if every listed author is doing even a little something promoting their book and the site.
Publishers and Agents A service to connect authors with literary agents and/or book publishers. Also submits columns and screenplays.
Publishers Lunch, Michael Cader; Email: michael@caderbooks.com. This site collects news stories of specific interest to trade book professionals. Also includes commentary and insider perspective.
Publishers Tool Shed This wonderful book publishing resource site is maintain by Pat Bell, author of The Pre-Publishing Handbook.
Publishing Questions A new website for writers that answers, or provides links to answers, for nearly every question about writing and publishing. Included at the site are a complete publishing glossary, a list of genres, and articles to assist writers on the road to being published.
Rating Zone It provides book, music, and movie recommendations to individuals. Check it out to see if you want your book featured here.
Reader's Circle, Norman Hicks, Executive Director. An online directory of book clubs and reading groups.
ReaderViews, Irene Watson, Managing Editor. Email: admin@readerviews.com. We offer very low a la carte packages that authors, publishers, and publicists love! Not only that, since our reviews are syndicated they get picked up by Reuters, USA Today, NBC, Fox News, and on and on. Also includes http://readerviewskids.com (kid's book reviews), http://www.insidescooplive.com (live author interviews), and http://www.authorsaccess.com (live author forum).
Rebecca Reads A book review site.
RocketReader Speed Reading Program Unleash your reading speed. Read manuscripts and books faster and with more comprehension. Free trial download of the RocketReader program.
Rosedog.com a home on the internet for unpublished or self-published authors. Some nice resources.
San Diego WriteWay, Sam Warren, P O Box 620685, San Diego CA 92162; 619-674-3066. Email: editor@sdwriteway.org. San Diego calendar and resources for authors and publishers.
Scribendi, Lawrene Denkers. Edits, critiques, rewrites, composes, checks, designs, produces, translates (in many languages) and publishes all types of manuscripts and documents for authors, poets, academics, businesses, and webmasters. It sponsors a writing contest and offers an affiliate program.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Suspense and Horror Bookstores Links
School Bookings, Linda Radke, Five Star Publications; 480-940-8182; Fax: 480-940-8787. Email: info@schoolbookings.com.
ScriptBlaster Pitch your script to Hollywood via email.
Self-Publishing Hall of Fame Another great resource from self-publishing expert John Kremer.
Self-Publishing-I, Rob Roy Barreca. Email: rob@electronicinsight.com. Information on self-publishing including books, presses, printing, software, services, children's book, comparisons, and sites.
Self-Publishing Help This site is about motivating, inspiring, and debunking the critics of self-publishing. Arrogance disturbs me...especially when it's cloaked with the air of intellectual validation.
Self-Publishing Resource Center This resource center from Wise Owl Books helps writers decide if they should self-publish. Includes a 5-point quiz, faq's, newsletter, and other info from Mark Ortman author of A Simple Guide to Self-Publishing and A Simple Guide to Marketing Your Book.
SelfPubNews, Tom Nixon. Email: info@selfpubnews.com. A place to make announcements about new books, upcoming conferences, book signings, special deals, and more. By the blogger of SmallPress Blog (http://www.smallpressblog.com).
Sensible Solutions for Getting Happily Published Solid information about book marketing from a pro (Judith Applebaum).
Eva Shaw Personal site with plenty of writing info.
The Spiritual Bookstore Specializes in reviewing spiritual books.
Standing Words For writers and readers of short stories, poetry, and love letters.
Storytellers A new site that hopes to offer the best information on the web about the craft of writing and publishing.
Substance Books A commission-free web promotion network for books and authors. Also offers promotion-oriented website design.
Sunset Coverage / Sunset Script, Hollywood CA 90028. Email: sunsetscript@boardermail.com. Offers screenplay analysis and coverage, pitch contests, festivals, script reading, screenplay contests, entertainment industry networking, and Hollywood insider news for advanced screenwriters.
The Surface, Andrew Mykytyn, Editor. Email: editor@www.surfaceonline.org. The Surface is a chronicle of observation and comment. A shop window for aspiring writers, poets, illustrators, photographers, journalists and essayists.
Susan's Design Books directory. Family directory. Find wholesome websites for the whole family. Submit your website. Exchange website directory. Link exchange. Add url, add link.
TeachingBooks, Nick Glass, 313 W Beltline Highway #204, Madison WI 53713; 608-257-2919; Fax: 608-327-8010. Email: nick@teachingbooks.net. For K-12 children's book authors, publishers, illustrators, and teachers. 10,000+ links to great information. Also offers thousands of teachers guides on Pre-K through 12 books, hundreds of multimedia author programs.
TeachingBooks.net loves to share information about books and authors with teachers across the continent. To get featured, email Carin Bringelson, their information manager, at carin@TeachingBooks.net with the following information:
1. The URL of your website
2. URLs to any interviews you've done
3. URLs to any book guides about your K-12 children's books (including ideas on how to use your books in a classroom).Tips for Writers Resources, links, articles, and references designed to help you build your writing career and get published.
TitleZ Currently a free service, this website allows you to check current and historical Amazon ratings for the top 400,000 titles going back to November 1, 2004.
Today's Woman, Rose DesRochers, Founder. Email: admin@todays-woman.net. A community where writers, poets, and columnists meet and exchange ideas, rate and review each other, and help each other succeed as writers. It hosts an online forum with more than 56 communities.
Together We Write A site for collaborative writers. Looking for writers who are intimately familiar with life in the U.S., with specialties in reference, travel, and how-to.
Top 101 Independent Book Publishers Features John Kremer's selection of the best of the independent book publishers.
Top 25 Independent Bookstores Features the best independent bookstores in the United States along with information on the Top 700 Bookstores data files.
Top 700 Independent Bookstores Data Files This list started out as 500, then 600, then 700, and now almost 800 top general bookstores. It includes names of the book buyers and event coordinators, address, phone, fax, email, website, and other information about each bookstore. You will be able to download six different formats (your choice of one or all) as well as an information sheet to let you know what is contained in the various data files (Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, comma-delimited ASCII, tab-delimited ASCII, dBase, and rich text format). Data file download, $40.00.
Versatile Writing Rosalynn Whitehead. Email: versatilewriting@yahoo.com. A website especially for black women writers.
Website Promotion Book This book teaches beginners about website promotion, Internet marketing, search engine optimization, etc.
Wizards of Words, Caryn Bruer, President. Email: carynannebruer@sbcglobal.net. WOW is an organization made up of writers of all genres, published or unpublished, and our purpose is to help provide ways and means to improve our members writing, to help establish writing careers, and to seek to provide support within the publishing and literary communities.
Worthy of Publishing, Aaron Cook, Director, 79 Lynbrooke Avenue, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 1007, New Zealand; 64-9-377-8583; Fax: 64-21-612-642. Email: info@worthyofpublishing.com. This website features books or manuscripts from new authors and self-publishers. Self-publishers can include a Buy This Book link that, if clicked, costs the self-publisher 50 cents. If a publisher wants to publish a manuscript featured on the website, they pay Worthy of Publishing a 3% royalty on the book.
Write Connection This site lists questionable agents and publishers (those who have had complaints lodged against them by other writers.
Write for Dollars, Anne Wayman, Webmaster. Email: wayman@inetworld.net. A small website with original articles and a free newsletter.
Write That Novel A short website about writing novels.
Write to Win, Earma Brown. Email: earmabrown@comcast.net. Helps service business professionals and writers get started and complete a book. Brown is author of Write Your Best Book Now and Push Button Easy Book Marketing Strategies ebooks.
Writer Interviews This website converts author videos to streaming video files and hosts them on its server. The streaming video is linked directly from the writers' website. Also offers tips for photographer and subject on videotaping on-camera interviews.
Writer's Club A very useful site for writers. Lots of good articles, a chat room, and more. Plus twice-weekly informative email newsletter.
Writer's Digest Provides a searchable guide to online and print publications, consumer and trade. Also many articles and features drawn from the pages of one of the great magazines for writers.
Writer's Freelance Network A nice growing resource site for writers and editors, they publish the Freelance Writer's Report.
Writer's Insite Provides information for writers of all levels and genres, including advice from experts, tools and resources, career information, writing galleries, business directories, courses, training listings, and a range of other topics.
Writer's Weekly Features information on e-publishing and promotion, syndicating a newspaper column, and other freelance writing tips. Also publishes a free weekly e-newsletter for writers.
Writers-Editors Network Offers a data bank of writers and editors, which can be searched in a number of ways. Ghostwriters, copyeditors, content editors, press release writers, and more can be located in any of several ways. For an explanation of their services, see http://www.writers-editors.com/Need_a_writer_/need_a_writer_.htm.
Writers' Gift Shop Features t-shirts and other gifts for writers.
Writers Round Table Features a special report on the writing life each month: marketing info, reviews, writing tips, humor, book promotion, resources, spotlight interviews and profiles of members, and more. We are writers helping writers. Free 3 month trial.
Writers Software Writing tools and resources for book writers, scriptwriters, and others.
Writers Store, 310-441-5151; 800-272-8927; Fax: 310-441-0944. Features writing tips and resources for writers and filmmakers.
Writing Tree, Philip Jenquin; 858-587-4646, ext. 141. Writing Tree is dedicated to making the act of writing more fulfilling for the millions of writers and aspiring writers who use the Internet.
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