RESOURCES
My Newsletter
For Writers – Weekly Newsletter – A weekly round-up of my blog posts and my publication news.
For Readers – Publication News – Just the publication news — when my worlds and stories are shared.
My Top Resource Posts
- 10 Questions to Ask Your Beta-Readers
- Problematic Publishing: Red Flags To Watch Out For
- One Method for Incorporating Feedback In Your Writing
- How One Writer Uses Trello To Track Her Projects
- Morgan’s Complete Guide To Attending a Convention
- 5 Big Things I Learned About Editing
- Writing a Selling Synopsis
- Top 10 Tricks For Writing A Better Query Letter
- How To Handle Rejection Letters
- Top Writing Tips from 15 Panels
- Plotting a Sustaining Series
- 3 Tips For Approaching People At Cons
- Handling the Unavoidable Infodump
My Top Resource Sites:
- The Query Shark
- Writer’s Digest
- 25 Steps to Edit the Unmerciful Suck Out of Your Story
- Words to Cut From Your Writing
- Agent/Editor’s Manuscript Wish Lists
- QueryTracker
- Online Thesaurus
- Etymology
- Wikipedia
- Guide for Authors and Writers
Contests and Communities
- NaNoWriMo – ( a community and a challenge — write 50,000 words in November)
- The Insecure Writers Support Group
- PitchWars (A mentorship opportunity that ended in 2021)
- Pitch Warriors Support Group! – FB group for writers who participated (or wanted to) in PitchWars
- Pitch Wars YA Subgroup – FB group for YA writers who participated in participated (or wanted to) PitchWars
- Author Mentor Match