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"A few literary authors who created illustrations for their works, whether published or unpublished. Though The Hobbit is arguably a book for children (and The Lord of the Rings trilogy even more arguably so), it gets a pass as a classic, and for the rest of this list we've been committed to leaving out children's literature, picture books, and graphic novels - because that's just too easy. Click through to see our list of ten literary authors who illustrated their own works "

StorYBook is a free, open source story writing software for creative writers, novelists and authors that helps to keep the overview over the strands when writing a book, a novel or a story. StorYBook assists you in structuring your book.

GIGA Quotes Extensive collection of 100,000+ ancient and modern quotations, aphorisms, maxims, proverbs, sayings, truisms, mottoes, book excerpts, poems and the like browsable by 6,000+ authors or 3,500+ cross-referenced topics [20,000+ proverbs] Biographical Index Directory of 13,000+ biographical names of historical figures, world leaders, noted authors, famous celebrities and the like including nationality, occupation, and years of birth and death Reading List Selective list of 3,000+ classical, notable and best-selling books and other significant literature including 2,300+ first line excerpts from those works

Official author website

Author interviews ranging through the decades, from the 50's to the present from The Paris Review.

Site has bibliographies for over 25,000 authors.

This site offers free reading promotion contests. Over 150 authors for YA and children's books have created trivia sheets on their books to encourage and reward students for reading.

Google has been scanning millions of books and uploading them so they can be read for free online. There are currently 20 million books that can be accessed for free through books.google.com, with the company's stated goal of having every book ever printed available. The major publishers of the world have been trying to sue them to stop this from the time they began the project. "Lawsuits trying to stop Google Books have been ongoing since 2005, and Thursday, eight years later, a judge finally ruled in Google's favour. Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. district court wrote that Google's scanning constitutes fair use because it alters the form the text appears in, and also uses some clever code to prevent the material from being copied en masse by users. Google Books "advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders."

Official website of fantasy author Cassandra Clare

Author M.T. Anderon's site

The official blog of D. M. Cornish, author of "Monster Blood Tattoo"

Interview with Australian author/illustrator D. M. Cornish about the latest #3 in the "Monster Blood Tattoo" series

The official website of Australian fantasy, science fiction author Justine Larbalestier. Jan 2008 was tips on writing month. Type in "writing" to bring up posts. or go to

The official website of Australian fantasy, science fiction author Justine Larbalestier. Jan 2008 was tips on writing month. Type in "writing" to bring up posts.

Whichbook gives readers an enjoyable and intuitive way to find books to match their mood. Instead of starting from the overwhelming choice of books available, whichbook starts from the reader and enables each individual to build the elements of that elusive 'good read' we are all looking for but don't quite know how to define. The standard way of organising books for choice, on shelves in a library or a bookshop, or on the web, starts from the products available - the authors, titles, publishers or genres. Whichbook enables the choice of book to start from the individual reader and what they are looking for.