Juiced on Writing

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

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Calibre is free software (cross platform) which works as a one stop solution to your e-book needs. It provides library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversions, and e-book reader sync features. It can compile a library of your e-books held in many formats.

authonomy is a website from HarperCollins which promises some interesting dynamics. Part social network, part self-publishing (on the net), the site is setup to let authors publish their manuscripts onto the web, and have these rated by, commented on and read by the authonomy community. Top rated or supported books are promised that in the future HarperCollins wants to look at these for possible publishing. The site also contains top ranked books on the frontpage, and an active forum.

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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.

Juicespot allows people to comment on books, review them, and recommend.

KCRW's Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt features author interviews.

Yearly online writers conference for a week.

Bookalert provides hourly trackings of the Amazon rank of your - or other - books.

Jobs for writers, contests, markets and several newsletters.

There are two podcasts at Litopia - the Litopia Daily (a brief podcast with writing news) and Litopia After Dark (a weekly roundtable discussion of writing and publishing).

Writing Excuses podcast features three writers (Brandon Sanderson , Howard Tayler, and Dan Wells) talking about their various writing challenges, either amongst themselves or with guest interviewees. They now have a CD out also.

Mindjet MindManager Pro - commercial software for mindmapping, with online collobaration, integration with MS Office, PDF outputs, Gantt Chart integration, a web side, and copious features, templates etc.

You have 1,440 minutes a day. Use one of them to write. Writing prompts.

With Write or Die! (from Dr Wicked's Writing Labs), you get tangible consequences with procrastination. Insert a wordcount, and time period, and start to write - in the online java applet. If you pause, within 20 seconds you will find your surrounding screen turning red, then the noises start.

The Writer's Daily Blog, as part of the Published & Profitable site, offers daily articles and resources for the writer.

Elizabeth Stark's blog, with links to her online writing courses (currently supporting NaNoWriMo efforts).

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

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