RESOURCES

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My Top Resource Posts

• 10 Questions to Ask Your Beta-Readers
• 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

Contests and Communities

• Pitch Wars YA Subgroup – (I help run. For writer’s who have at least 1 book near the query stage!)
• Pitch Warriors Support Group! – (For writer’s who participated in (or plan to) in PitchWars)
• PitchWars
• NaNoWriMo – ( a community and a challenge — write 50,000 words in November)
• The Insecure Writers Support Group