Just a quick post today to serve as a heads-up to my recent crop of new blog and Twitter followers (and many thanks for the follow) that there are a couple of resources for writers that I help curate. My regular readers might want to dodge out of this post now, since this is old news for you!
One of them is the Ebook Services Directory. If you’re a writer interested in epublishing, please check it out. It’s a free listing of ebook cover designers, freelance editors, formatters, conversion specialists, ghost writers, and other folks who can help you to either publish your ebook or market it. I’m using it, myself, and have found that there are a range of prices and services available.
The other is the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine that software engineer Mike Fleming designed. We just hit the 12,000 link milestone this week. I comb my Google Reader for helpful posts, tweet the posts, and the links feed automatically into the WKB. The search engine is free and is full of helpful posts on any writing or writing-promo topic that you can think of. My favorite thing about the WKB is that writers provided the content. These are working writers, aspiring authors—folks who know what they’re writing about. I use the WKB every day.
The Writer’s Knowledge Base also has a monthly newsletter that features top content of the past month and an interview with one of the top content providers. Back issues are archived on the site. Last month, it was Elspeth Antonelli and Terry Odell was featured in September. The newsletter is free and you can sign up here for it.
Okay, that’s it! Hope everyone has a great weekend! Any fun plans?
Elizabeth – Thanks for reminding us of these two rich resources :-). I admire you so much for working to put these together. Goodness only knows how you find the time to do it!
I wanted to say Hi and congratulations on the release of Hickory Smoked Homicide.
You are awesome and I feel proud that you were the first writer blog I latched onto. I’ve never been disappointed.
Teresa
Knew about both! Of course, I’m not new…
These are such great resources. I’ve just tweeted and G+’d the post, but I need to keep reminding myself, too that you’ve got so much valuable info there!
Thanks for the heads-up about the Writers’ Knowledge Base–a resource I’d never heard of. Awesome!