resources

Every book-related resource you could ever need is available on YA Highway's "Publishing Road Map,"
and there's lots of information gathered in the Best of Field Trip Friday.

Some personal favorites:

General Resources Forums/Organizations Absolute Write Verla Kay's Blueboards Agent Query Query Tracker WriteOn Con SCBWI Websites Literary Rambles Pub(lishing) Crawl Preditors and Editors Authors Holly Black Janice Hardy Jody Hedlund Cynthia Leitich Smith Laini Taylor's "Not For Robots" Chuck Wendig Agents BookEnds Nathan Bransford Rachelle Gardner Mary Kole Jennifer Laughran Kristin Nelson Janet Reid Miss Snark

Writing Writing Process Your Manuscript As Music The Best Writing Advice Ever Writing and Reading Diversity Honoring Your Process - Phoebe North All I Know About Writing, I Learned From Skee-Ball - Clare Legrand First Draft Guide for the Focus-Impaired Writer - Michelle Schusterman How to Make a Series Bible - Michelle Schusterman Characters Get In Character -- free download a short lesson in perspective Character Priorities and Story Jet Propulsion - Veronica Roth On Character Attributions - Stephanie Kuehn What's in Your Character's Backpack? - Michelle Schusterman Craft and Setting On Dialect and Dialogue The Magic of Setting - Kirsten Hubbard On Being Kind to Horses (sentence structure) - Leila Austin Revisions Strictly Objective Critique Partner: A Helpful Thing to Have - Veronica Roth Doors and Books and Doors to Books - Gayle Forman The Dollhouse Metaphor - Laini Taylor Everything Intern Needs To Know About Revisions, She Learned From Her Plebotomist - The Intern (Hilary Smith) Green Triangles Should Be Both Triangular and Green - Kristin Cashore Inspiration Writing the Book of Your Heart - Beth Revis Letter to a Young Writer - Francisco X. Stork Will It Ruin You? - C.J. Redwine First Chapters - Amanda Hannah It's Not the Piano - Michelle Schusterman How To Forgive Yourself - Karen Rivers Writing It All Wrong - Libba Bray Dare I Disturb the Universe? - Laurie Halse Anderson We Are All Savages Inside - Sugar at The Rumpus Confusingly To Do With Love - Sara Zarr Motivation You've Got a Friend In Me (Well, Maybe) - Emilia Plater Dare To Suck (video) - Maureen Johnson The Work Awaits - Sara Zarr Write Like a Motherfucker - Sugar at The Rumpus A Lesson Learned - Jodi Meadows A Crisis of Self-Confidence - Mary Kole Not All the Chairs Will Turn Around: Writing, The Voice, and Approval - Kody Keplinger

Career Queries and Synopses Snow White and the Seven Synopses How I Got the Agent I Didn't Query What To Ask An Agent Having An Agent Is Weird - Hilary Smith How to Get Published: A Flowchart Author Life The Turning Points series - Nova Ren Suma + guests On Responding Graciously - Phoebe North A Letter to Baby Author Me - Ally Carter Why Authors Disappear - Kirsten Hubbard The Writer's Life Is Full of Second Chances - Robin LaFevers For Friends and Family of Writers Lessons from SCBWI Time Management How To Keep Up Online Without Losing Your Mind Internet Traps and Solutions - Juliette Wade The Internet Is Not To Blame For Your Unfinished Novel - Colson Whitehead Time Management Tips - Maggie Stiefvater Find the Time. Or Don't. - John Scalzi Writing and Mental Health  On Writing and Depression On Depression and Writer's Block Confession - Myra McEntire Don't Bully Your Muse - Anne R. Allen Be Brave and Revise, or, My Struggle With Fear - Veronica Roth Adventures in Depression - Allie Brosh