Writer Resources and Advice
- Writing Excuses – phenomenal podcast especially for genre fiction writers that touches on all the important elements including world-building, creating consistent rules, choreographing fights, and believable conflict
- How to write better YA – excellent advice from a teenage reader
- Writing with Color – on writing characters of ethnic and racial diversity respectfully and fully
- Tomi Adeyemi’s writer resources
- Scott Westerfeld‘s website – especially this blog post, which is simple but instrumental for me in learning how to pace a novel (Exposition! Tension! Action!)
- Highlights for Children Foundation Workshops – in person retreats in Pennsylvania, online workshops on your computer
- Big Sur Children’s Writers Workshops
- SCBWI – Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; workshops, blogs, events
Publishing Resources
- Adventures in Children’s Publishing – resource for new books and book agent profiles
- SCBWI – Society of Children’s Books Writers and Illustrators
- Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Bookshelf – latest in industry news
Research Links
- Wikipedia – for everything from Duran Duran to betting rules
- LGBT Reads – queering your shelves
- Project Gutenberg – thousands of books in the public domain
- Behind the Name and Behind the Surname – for the perfect character moniker
- Online Etymology Dictionary – the history of word use
- SFPL – San Francisco Public Library, the haven
- Goodreads
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