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A database of literary agents - Track query letters to literary agents - Share data about literary agents.

Especially with the recent growth in self-publishing and ebooks there has been an explosion of new books across all genres but how many people are writing books that could be described as 'general fiction', 'contemporary fiction' or 'literary fiction'? Or what about 'quiet fiction'? Are writers too concerned with their demographics and less with writing books that need to be written?

Four women writers explore their literary careers on this blog

Aerin's writing blog - on reading, writing and all things literary

Online social network and marketplace for writers, literary agents, readers and the media. Amazon authors get a free listing on the WriterFace Bookshop. Members can join various WriterFace groups - there is a WriterFace Facebook group also.

"Writers don't have lives. They have ongoing research. Every day is a work in progress. Nothing's sacrosanct. No one's exempt. You can't hand them a note from your mother to leave you alone. It doesn't work like that." - Scottish novelist, Jim Murdoch, talks about writing his first two novels, now available as a single ebook, and explains why his target audience is himself.

KCRW's Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt features author interviews.

"Have you ever imagined a favorite author at work on their writing? Perhaps you pictured them at a coffee shop or in a book-filled study, scribbling on sheets of paper or clicking away on a laptop keyboard."

It is a strange feeling to be both compelled to do something and repelled in the doing of that same thing. What relief to discover that other writers, published ones yet, felt the same way!