Worcester Writers' Circle: Links you might find useful

This will be added to over time. This does not include website such as writelink or twitter which have great potential, but could individually use their own posts.

Official bodies:

http://www.alcs.co.uk/- The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society

http://www.plr.uk.com/ - Public Lending Right – re books borrowed from UK libraries. Don’t forget to register your book!

Markets and opportunities

http://pred-ed.com/- Preditors and Editors, so you can check out that literary agency or publisher to make sure they're not rip off merchants.

http://www.womagwriter.blogspot.com/- Very useful for guidelines and submission details for fiction in women's magazines.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/ - BBC Writers Room

http://www.angiebenedetti.com/blog/category/anthology-market-listings/ - Constantly updated list of anthologies and submission requirements/payments details.

http://www.duotrope.com - The Duotrope Digest is a searchable writers' resource of over 3200 pro- to non-paying publications which accept submissions. It is updated almost daily and you can subscribe to feeds.

http://www.magazinesabout.co.uk - Magazine and periodicals directory (UK)

Competitions

http://www.writingcalendar.com/index.htm - Sally Quilford's calendar of forthcoming writing competitions.

http://prizemagic.co.uk/ - lists and lists of competitions to enter

http://www.writersreign.co.uk/Writing-Competitions.html

Software for writers:

http://www.openoffice.org/ - Open Office word processing

http://celtx.com/ - scriptwriting

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5.html - novel writing

Selling books

http://www.waterstones.com/waterstonesweb/ - To check if Waterstone’s stock copies of your book(s).

http://localbookshops.tbpcontrol.co.uk/tbp.web/customeraccesscontrol/home.aspx?