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Science Fiction Reviews Net - several reviews per month, and you can submit your book for review. Search by author, title, year of publication, or ratings.

Publishers Weekly - weekly bestsellers of hardcover fiction

Magical Mountain is the first in the four-part Kingdom of Treasures series by Asmaa Jamil. What began as a screenplay, Magical Mountain is part of the growing wave of fiction advancing strong female leads. In this case, she retells the Cinderella story from the fairy's perspective.

Ghostwriting is not new, and Millie Bobby Brown is not the first celebrity to hire a ghostwriter. But, soon after she published her book, she came under fire for using one.

This site features an article on suspense in creative writing.

"It's true that writers all have their preferred way of working. While some prefer the Scrivener approach, others still use typerwriters. Some even write by hand! Check out this cool infographic to see if your favorite author is on here… and let us know in the comments how you prefer to do your own writing!"

The Renegade Writer provides regular e-courses, including - Travel Writing Food Writing Trade Magazines, and Magazine Writing Freelance Writing Business Story Ideas Non-Fiction Blogging

Tom Colvin has written features, taught English and history, worked in the corporate world, and is working on a non-fiction book. His site covers tools and insider secrets for writers.

Creative Writing Podcast by Tom Occhipinti at AmericanWriters.com. Lots of episodes and topics here for the fiction writer.

The Squid.org's RPG generator has quite a selection of tables to choose from. Provides good names for fantasy fiction and character names.

Husband-and-wife team Alan and Rebecca Lickiss cover fiction techniques, interview fellow authors, and provide writing exercises.

Free Family Tree program, allowing for any birthdates and partnerships. Good for creating fictional family trees for your writing work.

If you are writing non-fiction, clarity counts most. Here are four tips to write clearly.

A cover is more than just a title and an image. On the back, people read the author's bio. They read the reviews. They look at the author's picture. But most of all, they read the back cover blurb. Those few lines answer the book buyer's critical question: "What's this book all about?"

If you hate ebooks, that loathing might attach to their dim screens, their wonky typography, their weird pagination, their unnerving ephemerality, or the prison house of a proprietary ecosystem. If you love ebooks, it might be because they are portable, and legible enough, and capable of delivering streams of words, fiction and nonfiction, into your eyes and brain with relative ease.

Storytelling is in our blood. Since the dawn of man, human beings have told stories. We've sung around campfires. We've crafted poems, written epics, and we've even passed down knowledge using fiction. Man is a storyteller. Yet why do we write?

About the Author, Jonathan Bean, a context for the essay: I am interested in learning about how to use knowledge of many subjects for the improvement of the thrivingness of life and space-time. For example, I like political and ethical philosophies and the social sciences and how they can be used to understand how to better the world.

This is an original collection of writings by Clark Waggoner, a freelance writer\nin Portland Oregon. These poems deal with themes of meaning, pain, and love. They are free form and follow theme more than metric device. This is one of several posts that contain similar works of creative writing on similar themes.