Epic Plains

Pimp my Novel has been a great discovery of mine.  I always find interesting posts popping up in Google Reader from that site.

This morning is no exception.  It is actually a guest post on the blog, but it is well written and worth checking out.  The topic is “Books on Writing” and it is split into two sections: Before [still writing your novel] and After [finishing your novel.]  If you are a writer or striving to go further with your writing (as I am) then stop over and check out this post.  Once you are finished, poke around the site.  Look at previous articles and see if the site is of interest to you.  (I suspect it will be.)  If so – be sure to subscribe to the feed.  It is frequently updated with all sorts of good posts.

Some of the recommendations given in this mornings article I have seen or read before, others are new to me and have now joined my list of resources to check out.  Either way it is a post worth going through.  Randy Susan Meyers (the guest author) clearly did her homework for the post.

I have started a resources page. There are a number of online resources I have found interesting or useful that I wanted to share. They are a mix of literary sites, publishers, agent blogs, author blogs, and more. Wow – there is a lot of information about the industry out there.

So that is why I started a page for these links as opposed to putting them all in a single post. However, I will list a few of my favorite ones below.

Agent Blogs: Nathan Bransford. Recently redid his site and added forums. A *lot* of information can be found on his site relating to getting published and the industry in general. The new forums have sections for industry discussion, Query Letter assistance, and much more. Hands down the best publishing industry resource I have found.

Author Blogs: Patrick Rothfuss and Brandon Sanderson. If you have read any of their works, follow them on their blogs. I enjoy reading both. Patrick is the author of one of the best debut fantasy novels I have read in a long time. Name of the Wind is a book I highly recommend. (Still waiting for book two Pat!  Though now working on my own I am inclined to give a bit more slack in the sequel area.) Brandon wrote the incredible Mistborn trilogy along with being selected to finish Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.

There are *many* other sites I have found and subscribed to their news feeds. Such sites as Fantasy Book Critic, the NaNoWriMo blog, and Query Shark all have a different purpose but make for an informative (and often also enjoyable) read.

Check out the page and see if there are any you like.  As it says on the page, feel free to send me any additional sites you think might add to this list.  I am sure there are others I don’t yet know about!