LITERARY LINKS

Bookslut takes a lively approach to author reviews, fiction and interviews.

Booksnbytes Check out your favourite author's bibliography and discover some new ones. An easy to navigate and helpful site.

Conrad Williams A talented young writer of literary, crime and horror fiction, including several novels and numerous anthologies.

dibsblog Read about books before their release date.

Edge Intelligent and thought provoking articles from scientists, humanists and philosophers.

Forum Website of Forum magazine, the UK's long running journal of human relations and all forms of consensual sexuality.

Hopeful Writer We've all received those 'bug off and die' rejection slips during our early writing years. (I know of one scribe who claimed never to have been rejected but she either aimed low or lied.) This site offers lots of helpful links for the hopeful writer, poet and reader. It's run by author Clare McHale.

Manmade Magazine Not going out? Then check out manmade, a merger of over 600 entertainment websites.

Mystical Unicorn A friendly online used bookseller who offers to ship worldwide. They also have thousands of author bibliographies and author links.

The New Writer This is the web home of long-established print magazine The New Writer. It offers advice and help to would-be authors, including opportunities to promote new short stories and interviews with more established scribes. They also list new markets in every issue.

One Woman's Writing Retreat The perfect place to find links to numerous authors - males as well as females. Lots of info on books, magazines and ezines too. This retreat is run by a woman who loves reading novels, including dark fiction. I think she should be cloned.

Page 99 is a frequently updated blog that’s designed to encourage reading and invites guest authors to comment on their latest work.

Peridot is a quarterly fiction webzine that hopes to give newer writers support. Given the price of an HB pencil these days, we surely need it. Only the strong survive the wilderness years.

Projected Letters Poetry, prose and information for new writers about everything from self publishing to finding an agent.

The Richmond Review possibly the Internet's oldest online literary magazine, has masses of quality fiction, including crime.

Scarlet Letters An adult online magazine which includes the writing of erotica author M Christian. He's also an agony uncle and fearless features writer whose article about male masturbation was first class.

Shel Silverstein A tribute site to the late great Shel Silverstein. Shel wrote novels, plays and numerous songs including Kiss It Away, the title I use for my fourth crime novel. Kiss It Away was recorded by the legendary Dr Hook.

Spicy Green Iguana is the guy to visit for author news, reviews and market information. You've got to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet a handsome iguana like this.

StorySouth.com Website dedicated to promoting the written word. My short story How To Save Your Own Life was listed amongst the most notable for their Best Online Fiction Of 2003.

SylviasMother.com Tribute site to the unforgettable Dr Hook which includes the lyrics of most of their songs, including Kiss It Away.

ukfirsteditions.com Looking for that hard to find first edition? This British mail order bookseller, who specialises in second hand books in good condition, may be able to find it for you.

wordwizard is dedicated to the English language, looking at the origins of words and phrases, quotations etc. It welcomes thousands of visitors from around the world every day. They also have an Authors Direct section in which they'll run a link to your writing site for free.

Writer Beware Is that proposed new agent a guardian angel or a rip off merchant? This site warns scribes about the charlatans (no, not the pop group) out there.

Writers.net News and discussion forums for writers, editors, agents and publishers.