For writers

Good advice for writers: http://kfgallagher.blogspot.com/2007/02/warning-more-writing-advice.html

http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/Resources.html

Find an agent at http://www.agentquery.com/

WRITER’S DIGEST HAS NAMED THE TOP 101 SITES FOR WRITERS. I’ve checked most of the out, and many of them are great:

http://www.writersdigest.com/101sites/categorysearch.asp?year_101=2006

Short story formatting: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

Competitions: http://www.pw.org/mag/0701/submissioncalendar.htm

Style Guide: http://www.economist.com/research/StyleGuide/

Black hole of responses: http://www.critique.org/critters/cgi-bin/rawbymarket.cgi?market=Magazine%3a%20Shimmer

Markets: http://duotrope.com

On craft: http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/Suggestions.html

http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/Resources.html

Agents to avoid–SCAMMERS: List lifted from Absolute Writer Water Cooler @ http://www.absolutewrite.com/

-The Abacus Group Literary Agency
-Allred and Allred Literary Agents (refers clients to “book doctor” Victor West of
-Pacific Literary Services)
-Capital Literary Agency (formerly American Literary Agents of Washington, Inc.)
-Barbara Bauer Literary Agency
-Benedict & Associates (also d/b/a B.A. Literary Agency)
-Sherwood Broome, Inc.
-Desert Rose Literary Agency
-Arthur Fleming Associates
-Finesse Literary Agency (Karen Carr)
-Brock Gannon Literary Agency
-Harris Literary Agency
-The Literary Agency Group, which includes the following:
Children’s Literary Agency
Christian Literary Agency
New York Literary Agency
Poets Literary Agency
The Screenplay Agency
Stylus Literary Agency (formerly ST Literary Agency)
Writers Literary & Publishing Services Company (the editing arm of the above-mentioned agencies)

-Martin-McLean Literary Associates
-Mocknick Productions Literary Agency, Inc.
-B.K. Nelson, Inc.
-The Robins Agency (Cris Robins)
-Michele Rooney Literary Agency (also d/b/a Creative Literary Agency and Simply Nonfiction)
-Southeast Literary Agency
-Mark Sullivan Associates
-West Coast Literary Associates (also d/b/a California Literary Services)

Other scams to beware for novellas, novels, dribble, shorts, screenplays, etc.:

http://www.sfwa.org/beware/twentyworst.html

and http://accrispin.blogspot.com/2007/02/happy-valentines-day-from-writer-beware.html