Agents

Association of Author Representatives- http://www.aar-online.org/

Literary Agents A-Z- http://www.fictionaddiction.net/agents.html 

Preditors and Editors- http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/ 

Contests for Writers

Beacon Award for published authors-http://www.firstcoastromancewriters.com/index_files/Page411.htm

Between The Sheets-love scene-

Booksellers Best-published-  

Colony Happy Endings (NY & S.CT)- http://www.romance-writers-colony.org

Colorado Romance Writers-Award of Excellence (published)-http://www.coloradoromancewriters.org/aoe.html

Desert Rose Golden Quill (published)- http://www.desertroserwa.org/contests.htm

Erma Bombeck Writing Competition- http://www.wcpl.lib.oh.us/adults/erma.html 

Faith Hope & Love (published & unpublished)- http://www.faithhopelove-rwa.org/contests.htm 

FF&P Prism (published)/On The Far Side (unpublished)- http://www.romance-ffp.com/contests.htm 

From the Heart’s Golden Gateway (unpublished/Lories (published)- http://www.fthrw.com/contest/default.htm

Gothic Romance Writers Haunted Hearts (unpublished by RWA standards)-http://www.gothrom.org/contest.html 

Northwest Indiana Grand Beginnings (1st 5 pages)- http://www.nwinrwa.org/Contest.php 

Great Expectations-(1st Chapter/query) (published & unpublished)-http://www.ntrwa.com/ContestPage.html

Heart of Denver Aspen Gold-published- http://www.hodrw.com/agrules.htm

Heart of Denver The Molly-unpublished- http://www.hodrw.com/molly.htm 

Kiss Of Death’s Daphne du Maurier-unpublished-http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org/contestunpublished.html

Kiss Of Death’s Daphne du Maurier-published-http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org/contestpublished.html

San Antonio’s The Merritt- http://www.sararwa.com/events.htm#contest

More Than Magic-published- http://www.rwi-rwa.com

Oklahoma Chapter National Reader’s Choice Award-published- http://www.okrwa.com/OKRWANRCA.htm 

Opening Gambit/Northeast Indiana Romance Writers- http://www.niraonline.com/ 

Outreach International Award of Excellence- published & unpublished- http://www.oirw.org/contest/index.html

PASIC Book Of Your Heart-unpublished & published- http://www.pasic.net/contest.html 

Romance Through The Ages-published& unpublished- http://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/guide.htm 

RWA® Golden Heart (unpublished) and RITA (published) Menu- http://www.rwanational.org/ContestMenu04.htm 

Scarlet Letter-steamy romances-published- http://tara.writerspace.com/scarlett.htm 

Stella Cameron Romance Genre Contest/Pacific Northwest Writers Association- http://www.pnwa.org/home.html 

Suzannah-North Louisiana Storytellers NOLA- http://www.shreve.net/~nola/page-contest_form.html 

TARA’s First Impressions (unpublished)- http://tara.writerspace.com/firstimpress.htm 

The Beau Monde’s Royal Ascot-unpublished since 1998- http://www.thebeaumonde.com/html/contests.html 

West Houston’s The Emily- http://www.geocities.com/whrwa/TheEmily.html 

Wisconsin Fab 5 (unpublished) & Write Touch Reader’s Award (published)- http://www.eclectics.com/WisRWA/contests.html 

Query Letters

Query Letter Samples by Charlotte Dillon - http://www.geocities.com/charlottedillon2000/query.html 

Query Letters: Do them right, by Lori Foster- http://www.eclectics.com/articles/query2.html 

Writing a Query Letter That Sells- http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/apr98/keegan7.htm 

Publishing/Market News

Market News: http://karenafox.com/market_news.htm

Resource/Research for Writers

20000 Names: research origin of names- http://www.20000-names.com/ 

Deb’s Historical Research Page- http://home.insightbb.com/~d.lawson/ 

Historical Cheat Sheet- http://www.likesbooks.com/history.html 

Historical Mystery Appreciation Society- http://mywebpages.comcast.net/monkshould/hmas-index.html

Historical: Castles of the World- http://www.castlesoftheworld.com/ 

Mystery of Murder-resources for mystery/suspense writers- http://home.insightbb.com/~tlgray31/ 

Publisher’s Marketplace- http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/register.html 

Publisher’s Weekly- http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?publication=publishersweekly

Themed Timelines- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_themed_timelines 

Publishers

RWA Special Interest Chapters

Faith Hope and Love Inc. (Inspirational Chapter)- http://www.faithhopelove-rwa.org/ 

From The Heat-Online chapter- http://www.fthrw.com/ 

Futuristic Fantasy & Paranormal- http://www.romance-ffp.com/ 

Gothic Romance Writers- http://www.gothrom.org/ 

Heartbeat- Online chapter-reading/writing medical romances- http://www.geocities.com/heartbeat_rwa/ 

Hearts Through History- http://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/ 

Kiss Of Death Mystery/Suspense Chapter-Online chapter- http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org/ 

PASIC-Published Authors Special Interest Chapter- http://www.pasic.net/ 

Scriptscene RWA- http://www.geocities.com/scriptscene2001/ 

The Beau Monde Regency Special Interest Chapter- http://www.thebeaumonde.com/

Celtic Hearts - http://www.celtichearts.org/

Show Me The Money

Show Me The Money http://karenafox.com/money.htm 

Synopsis Help

Lisagardner.com-synopsis help- http://www.lisagardner.com/ 

The Story Synopsis- http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/fiction/2003/07/the_story_synop.html 

Writing Corner/Synopsis- http://writingcorner.com/fiction/synopsis/synopsis-index.htm 

Writing the Fiction Synopsis- http://www.gryphonbooksforwriters.com/WTFS.htm 

Writing Conferences

Emerald City Writer’s Conference (GSRWA)- http://www.gsrwa.org/emerald_city_con/ecwc_forms/registration.htm 

Moonlight & Magnolias (Georgia Romance Writers)- http://www.georgiaromancewriters.org/default.htm 

Put Your Heart In A Book Conference- New Jersey Romance Writers- http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/7019/2003conference.html

Writing Workshops and Classes

Gothic Romance Writer’s Online Classes- http://www.gothrom.org/classes.html 

Hearts Through History Online Campus- http://www.heartsthroughhistory.com/class.htm 

Kiss Of Death Online Classes & Workshops- http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org/coffin.html

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