Writers
Resources
Updated November 26, 2008
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& Publisher's
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African
American Children's Book Writers and Illustrators 1st Conference, April 25, 2009, Charlotte, North Carolina. For
details about this historic opportunity to learn and network, click
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Highlights
Foundation Writers' Workshops--the
annual summer Writers' Workshop at Chautauqua New York and various workshops
throughout the year. Read M. LaVora Perry's "The Chautauqua
Magic"--her article about her experience at a Chautauqua Workshop-- here.
Ohio writers, check out Young Audiences of
Northeast Ohio
if you want to present workshops at schools.
OffLine
& Online Writers' Associations, Communities, Blogs, and Web Sites
LaVora's
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AbsouteWrite.com
African American Children's
Books Writers and Illustrators
ArtistsFirst.com
(Affordable Radio Interviews to Promote Your Art/Book)
Black
Literary Marketplace,
Cleveland
Events
BlogTalkRadio.com/mlavoraperry.com
BlogTalkRadio.com/bookbitesforkids
Colossal
Directory of Children's Publishers' Submission Guidelines
Demandstudios.com/writers-application. html
F1rstPages.com
(Professional Children's Writers Editing Service)
FreelanceWritingGigs.com
FYOS.com (Literary Law Guide)
Institute
of Children's Literature
NOHSCBWI
(Northen Ohio Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
VerlaKay.com
(website for children's book writers)
Write4Kids.com
Writer's
Digest
Writer's Weekly
WritingforchildrenCenter.com
Writing-World.com
SerendipityLit.com
(Literary Agency)
SmartWriters.com
Society of Children's Books Writers &
Illustrators
SuzanneLieurance.com
The-Lit.org
(Cleveland)
Underdown.org
(Children's Book Editor Harold Underdown)
Author
and Publisher's Resources
48HourPrint.com
(bookmarks, posters, etc.)
Penguin
Author's Guide to Online Marketing, 2008
Amazon Advantage (book listing service | Amazon gets 55% commission on
sales)
BooksAreFun.com
(Sells large quantities of books at corporate book fairs)
BN.com
(Barnes & Noble)
BookWeb.org
(BookSense.com Advance Access | $50.00 Fee | American Booksellers Association
(Send information about your books to independent bookstores across the U.S.)
CombinedBook.com
(Combined Book Exhibit | Small Press Exposure at National and International
Library and Book Trade Shows
Cushcity.com
(leading fee-based provider of services to promote
and market products of interests to African-Americans)
Google
Print (FREE Book Listing Service)
JacketFlap.com
(children's book writers, Illustrators, publishers, agents)
MosaicBooks.com
(leading fee-based provider of
services to promote and market books of interests to African-Americans)
MosaicBooks.com
Book Club List
LaVora's tips for preparing for author
visits.
Print on Demand: An Affordable Self-Publishing Option by M. LaVora Perry
CreateSpace.com--Amazon's
No-Fee Self-Publisher's Service
PrintUsa.com:
Resource for those seeking off set printers--global printers bid on your print
job
Small Publishers Association of
North America
VistaPrint.com
(business cards)
Reviewers and Book Clubs
These sites will all be hyperlinked at some point. Meanwhile,
Google them:
Black Issues Book Review
Booklist
(American Library Association)
On the Web:
Bookreporter.com--The
following 5 sites are BookReporter.com sites:
ReadingGroupGuides.com
FaithfulReader.com
AuthorsOnTheWeb.com
Teenreads.com (for teens
ages 12-17)
Kidsreads.com (for kids
ages 6-12)
BookPage
BookPleasures.com
Booking
Matters Magazine
Newsletter of the Black Caucus of the American Library
Association
DearReader.com
Foreword Magazine
Kirkus Reviews
Junior Library Guild
Library Journal
Midwest Book Review
Publisher's Weekly
RawSistaz Reviewers
School Library Journal
TheGrits.com
Gritskids.com
Young Adult (& Kids) Books Central
Writers'
& Entrepreneurs' Publishing & Book Promotion ListServes
YahooGroups.com::African-American
Children's Books Writers & Illustrators
E-Drum--Writers
of Color List
African
American Lists
Article
Announce
GritsKidz
Book Club
LadiesWhoLaunch
ReadersNFriends
SisterFriendsWriters
Internet-Authors
Other
PublicityHound.com
Publishers' Lunch
PublishingBasics.com
PW
Daily (Publishers Weekly)
PW
Children's Bookshelf
Submit
Your Press Release to News Wires & Media Free
PRLog.com
BlackPressUSA.com,
Free-press-release.com,
PRLeap.com,
PRWeb.com,
Books
Children's
Writer's Word Book by
Alijandra Mogilner
The
Complete Guide to Self-Publishing: Everything You Need to Know to Write,
Publish, Promote and Sell Your Own Book (3rd edition) by Tom
and Marilyn Ross
Literary Law Guide for Authors: Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in Plain English by Tonya Marie Evans and Susan Borden Evans, Attorneys at Law
The
Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter
Web
Master Resources:
Website
Magazine.com
DEMC
Magazine
Linking101.com
SiteProNews.com
