The Storyteller's Sidekick
Book Coaching & Editorial
Writer Resources
Queries & Synopsis Help
Query Help & Examples: Query Shark
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Query Help & Examples: Writer's Digest
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Query Examples: Amy Trueblood - Quite the Query
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Synopsis - How to write a 1-Page Synopsis: Pub Crawl
Synopsis Tips: Writer Unboxed
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Synopsis Tips: Jane Friedman
Resources to Find Agents
QueryTracker: Agent search engine. From here you can find agent websites, Twitter accounts, and much more.
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AgentQuery: Agent search engine.
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Writer Beware: (warnings about bad agents and publishers)
CPs and Beta Readers
Helping Writers Become Authors: 15 Places to find beta readers.
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The Write Life: 40 Places to Find a Critique Partner
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The Write Life: Writing Feedback: The Ultimate Guide to Working with Beta Readers.
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Writer's Digest: The Quintessential Guide to Selecting and Working with Beta Readers.
Books About Writing
Super Structure: The Key to Unleashing the Power of Story by James Scott Bell
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Take Off Your Pants! Outline Your Books for Faster, Better Writing by Libbie Hawker
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Story Genius by Lisa Cron
Wired For Story by Lisa Cron
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Save the Cat by Blake Snyder (for screenwriting but has excellent information that applies to writing a manuscript as well)
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100 Ways to Improve Your Writing by Gary Provost (lots of great writing tips. You have probably seen the popular tip about varying your sentence length - this is page 58 of Gary's book).
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The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi
(All of the Thesauruses by Angela and Becca are excellent resources for writers)
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The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Maas
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Understanding Show Don't Tell (And Really Getting It) by Janice Hardy
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Fight Write by Carla Hoch: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes
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Additional Resources
Writing with Color: A Tumbler post on why writers shouldn't use food to describe people of color. It also has a Part II that provides excellent examples of how to describe people of color.
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7 Steps to Tackling a Revise & Resubmit (R&R): A guest post I wrote for Jane Friedman's blog.
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