by Peggy Graham

Contacts for fiction writers!

This is the list of contacts from the book, updated and extended as we become aware of changes:.

Magazines

Magazines that contain helpful information for writers:

The Writer’s Digest

The Writer

Writing Magazine and Writer's News

For writers who have adapted their work to film format and wish to find contacts: Encore magazine.

Scripts

The BBC Writers Room is at <http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/>
This is the BBC's online resource for writing drama & comedy for television, radio and film. It includes information about writing opportunities and events, along with useful tips and advice from, and interviews with professional writers and other industry experts.
You will find writer's guidelines at <http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/writing/index.shtml>
and at <http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/index.shtml> are a set of script templates for MS Word with the comment that "however brilliant your script may be, it won't see the eyeballs of the script reader (or producer) unless your presentation's up to scratch".
There are also messageboards for writers and would-be writers in the comedy and drama areas.

For Australian Film Script contacts refer to relevant section of The Australian Writer’s Marketplace.

Useful Addresses For Short Fiction Submission:

Short Fiction contact in Britain

The People’s Friend, story paper for women. D C Thomson & Co Ltd. There are guidelines to this magazine and others at Jacqui Bennett Writers Bureau: <http://www.jbwb.co.uk/pfguidelines.htm>

Children’s Books

Hinkler Books:<http://www.hinklerbooks.com/>

Barefoot Books, UK and USA <http://www.barefoot-books.com/>

Romance Publishing

Livewire Publishing Australia <http://www.LivewirePublishing.com.au>

Agents

In the UK you’ll find the Association of Authors’ Agents at <http://www.agentsassoc.co.uk/>

In the USA the Association of Authors’ Representatives, Inc., is at <http://www.aar-online.org/>

In Australia contact the Australian Society of Authors publishes a list of agents which includes members of the UK and US associations mentioned above, as well as Australian agents and information on the roles of the agent and a sample agent and author agreement. <http://www.asauthors.org>

In Canada see the Canadian Writer’s Guide published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside <http://www.fitzhenry.ca/>

In New Zealand a new association of literary agents has recently been formed and email addresses are in the print edition of Pathway to Publication.

Self-publishing

The UK distributor for this book, Eyelevel Books, also handles contract publishing and provides a full range of support services. Like many of the better firms in this field they will not take on a book if it does not meet their standards. Contact Jon Moore.

A useful contact in the US is John Culleton of Able Typesetters & Indexers, whose website is at <http://wexfordpress.com>

Another site with a mass of useful information is Aeonix Publishing group run by Pete Masterson at <http://www.aeonix.com/>

and for more names to add to the many authors who have self-published see the Self-Publishing Hall of Fame at <http://www.bookmarket.com/selfpublish.html>

The A-1 complete writing and Editing Site has a useful page linking to other useful sites as well as providing info on their own editing services: <http://www.a-1writingandediting.writernetwork.com/links.html>

Just interesting!

Among the many email lists for writers is a recently started one called About Writing Fiction at Yahoo Groups.

Another site worth a look is writing.com which offers a mass of material and forums for writers of all kinds. One of its services is a free email address, and me@writing.com would certainly appeal to many publishers a lot more than a generic yahoo or hotmail address. For US$20 a year you'll cut down on pop-ups (eliminated completely at the next higher memebership) and get a good number of extra services. They also offer hosting for writers who want a web site of their own and couple that with a submission tracking tool among the extras you get for $140 a year.

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