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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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