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AGENTS
Association
of Authors' Representatives
— an organization whose
memebers include many of the major, notable literary agents in the
country. This website includes names, addresses, phone numbers of agents,
as well as further detailed information on the agencies in the organization.
More agents
A
further list of agents
The
LMP
— The professional directory of the American Literary
Marketplace. This guide is used in the industry and is a complete listing
and resource for locating agents, editors, publishers, associations, book
manufacturers, distributers, artists, awards, grants, contests, clipping
bureaus, translators, publicists, book-oriented radio and TV programs, and
magazines, newspapers and new syndicates featuring books as well as many
other services. The listing includes names, addresses, phones numbers,
and pertinent information about making contacts.
Literary Agents: The Essential Guide for Writers
— published by Poets
& Writers
Literary Agents: A Writer's
Guide —
published by PEN.
Literary Agents
— a directory and
guidebook
Agent
Research and Evaluation
— on request, and for a
fee, tracks the performance and employment records of an agent. Publishes
a newsletter on new agents.
Writers'
Representatives,
Inc.
Hollywood
Litsales — a
commercial resource site for selling your book, on spec, to the
movies.
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LEGAL ADVICE FOR
WRITERS
The Authors' League
330 W. 42nd St., NYC 10036
212-564-8350
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
1285 Avenue of the Americas, NYC 10019
212-977-9270
California Lawyers for the Arts
415-775-7200
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PUBLISHERS
Bookwire
— a compendium of
information on current books and publishing, including literary periodicals,
reviews, events, when and where your favorite authors are appearing, etc.
Algonquin
Books — a
distinguished independent publisher, known in particular for its southern
writers.
David
R. Godine
— a very good, midsize, literary publisher.
Graywolf
Press — a very
good, small press.
W.W.
Norton —
a fine, longtime literary house, one of the last independents.
New Directions —
James Laughlin's venerable avant-garde press, responsible for initial publication
of many now famous works and authors that the big presses wouldn't
touch.
Milkweed
ON-LINE
PUBLISHERS
1st
Books
Online
Originals
Xlibris
— on-demand publishing
for authors who want to publish.
TobyPress
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ORGANIZATIONS,
FOUNDATIONS, GRANTS, AWARDS FOR WRITERS
Associated
Writing Programs (AWP)
— AWP is the professional organization of teachers and students of creative
writing in U.S. colleges and universities. The organization publishes an
informative newsletter, including notices of grants, awards, writing conferences,
and calls for manuscripts. AWP members are eligible to receive a periodical
listing of teaching and writing job opportunities.
Poets
& Writers
— P&W publishes a magazine of interest to working writers
and writing students. With the AWP newsletter (above), P&W magazine comprises
a reasonably thorough entry to many aspects of the writing life.
PEN
— Poets, Editors,
Novelists — the international, professional organization of writers
and editors, active in supporting freedom of speech and related rights around
the world.
The
Authors' Guild —
Since 1912, an advocacy group for writers, with concentration on fair
compensation, copyright protection and freedom of expression.
MLA
— the Modern Language
Association, the professional association of college and univeristy literary
scholars.
Grants and Awards Available to
Writers —
a very complete directory published by PEN, with submission information,
deadlines, etc.
The
Lannan Foundation
— honors established and emerging writers of distinctive literary merit
by conferring grants and awards.
John
Simon Guggenheim
Foundation —
fellowships in the humanities and arts for established artists and
scholars.
National
Endowment of the Arts
— government grants to writers.
California
Arts Council —
a source of info on grants, awards, and programs for writers and
artists.
The
Pulitzer Prize
The
National Book Award
The
Nobel Prize
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RARE
BOOKS
Marsha J. Shapiro — Books
Bought & Sold: Old, Rare, or Out of Print Books.
355 W. 85th St., Apt. 7
NYC 10024
212-595-4219; fax 212-875-1948
Bibliofind
— an excellent online source
of rare, hard-to-find, and out of print books.
Alibris — another online source of
hard-to-find, and out of print books.
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MISCELLANEOUS
The Elements of
Style
— Strunk
and White. The all-time
favorite style book for writers.
The
Oxford English
Dictionary —
the Alpha and Omega of English language lexicography.
Directory
of Small Press and Magazine Editors and Publishers
International
Directory of Little Magazines and Small
Presses
How
to Write a Book Proposal
— instructions and
examples.
American
Booksellers Association
The
Great Books Foundation
— a resource for finding book discussion groups.
The
On-line Books Page
— includes more than eleven thousand texts (Balzac, Conrad, Dickens,
Eliot, Flaubert, and so on).
Classics
— texts on-line
and references.
Bartleby — great books online.
Plumb Design Visual
Thesaurus — uses web animation to illustrate the latticework of
language. Enter a word, and the thesaurus will create a solar system
of similar words orbiting around the sun for the original term; click on
one of those words, and the system will reorganize.
Project Gutenberg
— the preeminent website
of literary masterworks and classics published in their entirety on-line
(Shakespeare, Spinoza, Dickens, Wilde, and many more.)
Literary Locales
— links to places that figure in the lives and works of great writers;
includes many photos.
Mississippi
Writers — a
site with links and info on myriad Mississippi writers, indlucing Faulkner,
Welty, and many others.
A
Common Reader
Writers'
Federation of Nova Scotia
Society
of Authors —
writers' organization in the U.K.
U.S.
Copyright Office
— phone 202-707-9100 for forms, or 202-707-3000 for answers to
questions.
Council
of Literary Magazines and Presses — CLMP is the national membership
organization dedicated to supporting and promoting literary publishing in
the United States. A good source of information on little magazine and small
presses.
info@clmp.org
— CLMP is the national
membership organization dedicated to supporting and promoting literary publishing
in the United States.
rejectioncollection.com — a site where authors can post
and share their rejections, their responses to their rejections, and provide
their accounts of overcoming rejection.
Litfict — a listserv
created to promote and discuss issues related to the writing of literary
fiction, including publishing, rejection, motivation, research questions,
and contests. Subscribers can choose individual messages or digest
form.
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