Research and resources are a daily part of a writer's life - whether it be research for a story or necessary resources to handle the business side of writing. Over time, I hope to build a comprehensive Resources section here to help writers at all stages of their careers. For now, I've included a few links and resources that have helped me.

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Writing, Romance and Craft Resources

Queries, Submissions and Rejections, oh my.

Query Letters
I've put together a page including a Query Breakdown, Dos & Don'ts, Links to Articles & Websites, Sample Query Letters and Links to Query & Pitch Critiques.

Generic Submission Guidelines
Generic submission guidelines to help you format your submissions properly.

Editing & Polishing Checklist
A checklist to help you get in the right mindset for editing and polishing your manuscript.

Rejections getting you down? Visit my blog entry on famous authors and just how many rejections they've received.

Marketing & Promotion

To get started, visit my Website and Online Dictionary -- a growing dictionary of terms I mention here as well as words you've likely heard across your promotional travels. This is targeted toward writers so it contains information on how each term applies to you, what you need to know.

Free Resource for Download

Author Web Information Checklist: Print out this MS Word document and use it to keep track of your website and domain user names and passwords. (This download uses the ejunkie system but the purchase is
FREE.)

     

Promo Plan in a Month

Follow along as I create my promotional and marketing plan in a month.

• A Complete Marketing Plan in A month...Can I Do It? |Blog Post
• Promo Plan in a Month: Step #1: Know My Goals |Blog Post
• Promo Plan in a Month Step #2: Know My Audience | Blog Post
• Promo Plan in a Month Step #3: Get All The Facts |Blog Post
• Promo Plan in a Month Step #4: The Plan | Coming Soon
  

Promotional/Marketing Tools

• Book Marketing and Promotion Timeline (HTML) or PDF Download
• Budget Template | Excel Download

Creating a website and All That Entails

This new series of articles will go through the step by step process of getting your website up and running, from getting your domain name (sooner than later!) to building a website.

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All About Email Marketing

From my years working in marketing and design, email marketing became a huge part of my daily life. Here are some of my time-tested articles:

• Article: Adding Personality To Your Emails
• Article: Art of Email Conversation
• Article: Email Newsletter Pet Peeves
• Article: Play the Game of Save, Delete or Read and win.

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Websites, Groups & Links

Here are a variety of websites, groups or links I've visited and found useful.

Research

Regency England

Book Purchases

Books for research are some of my most enjoyable purchases. So I'll do my best to attempt to list the new books I've purchased, found on GoogleBooks or other some such places.

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