Links to Useful Websites
Here are some useful websites for independent authors.
Writer's Groups
- The Alliance of Independent Authors: A global non-profit group of independent, self-publishing writers.
- Critique.org: an online author-to-author critiquing workshop
E-Publishing News
- EbookFriendly.com: Aggregated news headlines from a number of e-reading and e-publishing websites
- The Digital Reader: News, reviews, and opinions about e-books, e-reading, and e-publishing
- TeleRead: News and opinion about e-books, e-reading, libraries, copyright, and other publishing-related topics.
- Gizmodo.com /Ebooks: E-Book related news with a tech slant
- BetaBeat /EBooks: E-book related news with a tech slant
- Independent Publisher: Independent publishing news, including e-publishing
- Self-Publishing Review: covering all aspects of self-publishing
Technical Resources
- Review of Website Building Tools with recommendations and ones to avoid
- Mobileread.com: a forum and wiki focussed on e-publishing and mobile reading
Legal/Tax
- Tax Cheat Sheet for Kindle publishing
DIY
- Publetariat: Covering the full spectrum of self-publishing, from writing through book creation to business aspects
- The Creative Penn: Author Joanna Penn's resources for writing, publishing, and book marketing.
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