Support Organisations : Critique Groups : Market Information : General Writing : Articles : Publishing Houses : Useful Stuff : Members: : Competitions : Book Finding
Updated : 10 June 2000
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Support Organisations : Critique Groups : Market Information : General Writing : Articles : Publishing Houses : Useful Stuff : Members: : Competitions : Book Finding |
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Updated : 10 June 2000 |
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Where do you go for science fiction and fantasy writing stuff? There is a plethora of information on the net, but we will give you some places to start looking... If you have any information, reviews, comments, links, articles and so forth, please send them to the webmaster. |
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The Science Fiction Organisation of New Zealand |
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Barbara's Books |
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New Zealand Society of Authors |
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TV/ Video /Script writers |
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SF Fantasy Writers of America |
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Critters |
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Write Market |
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Speculations |
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Locus |
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Gila Queen |
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Inscriptions |
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Stef & Paulas SF Markets |
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Inkspot |
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New Zealand Writers |
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Mary Soon Lee |
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Literary agents for the movie industry |
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Generally Useful Stuff
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Science Fiction Weekly |
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First Names and their meanings |
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N.A.S.A. |
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National Geographic |
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How Stuff Works |
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SFF Net |
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Ged Maybury |
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Gordon Lewis |
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Tim Jones |
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Advanced Book Exchange |
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Bibliocity |
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Bibliofind |
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Write Market webzine is an extremely useful starting point in your quest for a market. It includes summaries and links to sf/f publishers, magazines and ezines, as well as links to websites and submission guidelines. It also features regular updates on market information, reviews of recent publications and rants/columns by guest writers. Great place and nifty graphics.
This frequently updated site provides lots of useful information for NZ writers, including publishers' and magazine guidelines and national and international competitions. It also provides links to various NZ writing organisations and webpublishes poetry and short fiction. They are now running regular competitions themselves.
If you ever wanted to know ( or need to find out ) about the inner workings of technical stuff - y'know - TVs, radios, rockets, generally anything neat cool or groovy look here.
‘Critters’ is one of the most respected SF/F/H critiquing websites. For those that have never taken part in on-line critiques, it’s simple. You send in your work and it gets displayed to a closed group of people (so that it can’t be considered previously published) They critique your work, and in return, you’re expected to critique theirs. You get double benefit out of this… other people’s critiques will improve the work you send in, and critiquing other people’s stuff makes you more aware of what to look out for in your own future writing. Be warned that being an active member can be time-intensive, however! The site also provides many articles on how to critique, where to find markets, links to other SF/F/H research info, interviews with writers about writing, and other such resources.
Inkspot is 'the' general resource website for writers. It gives you access over 2000 pages of information on the craft and business of writing, and a free fortnightly e-zine (Inklings) that is delivered free to your in-box (this is one of my two major sources of market information). Although not specifically SF/F/H focused (or even specifically fiction focused), the information contained on the site is extremely helpful for those who want to improve their writing, or to find a market for it.
Inscriptions is both a well-designed writing resource and market website, and a free-to-your-inbox weekly text only e-zine (you can choose which format you'd prefer - both have the same information updated weekly, although the site also contains archived copies of previous issues) It contains a wealth of information about markets, submitting tips, querying, writing techniques, competitions, and interviews with editors, publishers and published writers. There's even the odd bit of writing-related humour. As one of my two personal primary sources of writing information, this site comes highly recommended!
This is a
regularly-updated, concise listing of professional and
semi-professional
SF/F/H markets, including magazines, electronic markets,and anthologies.
It's the first site I go to when I want to check on what's new, what's closed,
and what's changed address. And it's recently added a section on Spanish-language
markets!
Mary Soon Lee has "been submitting short stories since 1992, mainly in thethe science fiction and fantasy genres [with some impressive story credits]. This page contains some tidbits of information that might be useful to new writers." She's underselling herself here - there's a lot of good stuff at this site, including links to the home pages of a large number of magazine markets, material on magazine response times, and even a list of market information sources!
"Speculations"
is a bimonthly print magazine which uses this website to provide samples
from the magazine, market update information, and so forth.
Although
you obviously need to buy the print magazine to get the full benefit, there's
a lot of good information at this site, including material on manuscript
formatting, how to write covering letters, etc. If you subscribe to the
magazine, you will be sent an email market information update in the 'off'
months.
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