Burkeman & Clarke are not responsible for the content of any of these sites nor do we endorse them necessarily or have any affiliations with them. We simply have collected together some sites that we think will be helpful and interesting to writers. In no particular order:
- Kit Whitfield's very helpful Publisher-Dating Dictionary - http://www.kitwhitfield.com/publisherdating.html - very humourous but very accurate
- Writers Guild of America, West - http://www.wga.org/
- Writers Guild of Great Britain - http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/index.htm
- Society of Authors - http://www.societyofauthors.org/
- Public Lending Right - http://www.plr.uk.com/
- Authors Licensing & Collecting Society - http://www.alcs.co.uk/
- Jeff Rivera's site for writers - http://gumbowriters.com/
- English PEN is a registered charity working to promote literature and human rights.From defending the rights of persecuted writers to promoting literature in translation and running writing workshops in schools, English PEN seeks to promote literature as a means of greater understanding between the world's people. English PEN's work is made possible by the generosity of our sponsors, donors and members - http://www.englishpen.org/
- ScriptWriter magazine online Insider knowledge and networking for screenwriters - http://www.twelvepoint.com/
- Julian Friedman's interesting and useful blog - http://blog.twelvepoint.com
- Trigger Street for screenwriters and others to "Help others, help yourself. Feedback. Exposure. Opportunity" - http://www.triggerstreet.com/gyrobase/index
- The website for writers, authors, self-publishers, freelance editors, designers and agents with over 2,000 pages of resources and services for writers – http://www.writersservices.com/index.htm
- Isobel Creed’s The Writers' Consultancy is a literary consultancy based in Ireland which provides critical assessment and editorial advice to writers - http://writersconsultancy.ie
- Cornsterstones advisory and editorial service for authors - advice for new authors, literary agents and book publishers - www.cornerstones.co.uk
- Online Home of American Zoetrope and the Zoetrope Virtual Studio - http://www.zoetrope.com/index.cgi
- Tony Garnett’s insightful piece on the state of BBC Television – July 2009 http://www.writersguild.org.uk/public/008_Featurearticl/353_WGGBFeatures.html
- Some useful youtube tips on “how to” and “why” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7xROrmhjNY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ8_mALzVec and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Drhet37EuE&feature=related
- HarperCollins’ Authonomy site where writers can upload their work and “test” the market - http://authonomy.com/
- Simon Trewin talking to Julia McCutchen for Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/JuliaMcCutchen?v=app_2392950137&viewas=613630937&ref=ts
- Artslynx page of US theatre resources - http://www.artslynx.org/theatre/playwright.htm
- Database of plays and playwrights, whose aim is to list all playwrights and their plays, written, adapted or translated into English. - http://www.doollee.com/index.htm
- BBC Writers Room and in particular the link to the Script Smart free software - Script Smart is a set of Microsoft Word templates to help writers format their scripts. Script Smart is a free formatting tool. – www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/index.shtml
- Screenwriting info – a handy site with some useful tips on formatting and other information for US screenplays – www.screenwriting.info/
- Wall Street Journal - An interesting article about getting plucked from the slush pile—heaps of manuscripts from hopeful amateur writers—has happened for some: Philip Roth, Anne Frank, Judith Guest, Stephenie Meyer. But now, even as the Web promised to democratize media, slush is more or less dead - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703414504575001271351446274.html
- If you've self-published Amazon, something to give you a little hope -
- AmazonEncore is a new program where Amazon uses information such as customer reviews on Amazon.com to identify exceptional, overlooked books and authors with more potential than their sales may indicate to reintroduce their books to readers. It is not open to submissions - http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000373401
- AmazonCrossing will introduce readers in the English language to emerging and established authors from around the world with translations of foreign language books using customer feedback and other data from other Amazon sites to identify exceptional works that deserve a wider, global audience. It is not open to submissions - http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000507571
- The London International Documentary Festival - LIDF is the UK’s largest independent documentary festival providing a platform for radical and groundbreaking output from around the globe - http://www.lidf.co.uk/
- And last, but not least, more humourous but accurate tips on "what not to do" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fc-crEFDw&sns=em