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• MQ is no longer
• taking memberships.
• All resource links
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• a little longer.

Resources

• Industry Blogs
• Reference Bookshelf

Interviews

Featured

• None Current
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Archived

• Kelley Armstrong
• Carolynn Carey
• Robyn DeHart
• Jennifer Estep
• Ginger Hanson
• Sabrina Jeffries
• Ann Macela
• Jessie Verino

Writing, like life, is less about the destination than the journey. Midnight Quills has a few resource and reference links to help in this continuous journey. There are also some older interviews with other authors for you to enjoy.

 

Interviews

No current interviews are up. Please check our archive section for some past interviews.

 

Blogs of Agents, Editors, and Other In-the-Know Contributors

Take all with a grain of salt. MQ is not responsible for the content of personal blogs. This reference list of blogs is for garnering possibly helpful information that is neither sanctioned nor dismissed.

• Miss Snark, The Literary Agent
• Agent OO7 on Publishing
• Agent Obscura
• Agent Jennifer Jackson
• Pub Rants
• The Knight Agency Blog
• Evil Editor
• Anna Louise's Journal
• NY Times Books
• Stephanie Bond's Open Book
• M.J. Rose - Buzz, Balls & Hype
• Irene Goodman - Live from NY Blog & Career Doctor Column

 

Reference Bookshelf for Writers

Help on Writing:

• Beginnings, Middles & Ends by Nancy Kress
• The Chicago Manual of Style - latest edition
• The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White
• The First Five Pages - A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
• GMC - Goal, Motivation & Conflict - The Building Blocks of Good Fiction by Debra Dixon
• How to Grow a Novel: - The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make & How to Overcome Them by Sol Stein
• Lessons From a Lifetime of Writing - A Novelist Looks at His Craft by David Morrell
• Self-Editing For Fiction Writers - How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne & Dave King
• So You Want to Write - How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and Memoir by Marge Piercy & Ira Wood
• Stein on Writing: - A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques & Strategies by Sol Stein
• Techniques of the Selling Writer by Dwight Swain
• What If? - Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers by Anne Bernays & Pamela Painter
• The Writer's Journey 2nd Edition - Mythic Structure For Writers by Christopher Vogler
• Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass

Help on Facts:

• The Crime Writer's Reference Guide by Martin Roth

Help on Selling:

• American Directory of Writers' Guidelines - latest edition
• Guide to Literary Agents - latest edition
• Writer's Market - latest edition
• Preditors & Editors
• Agent Query

Immediate Help, Tips and Resources:

• Merriam-Webster online Dictionary and Thesaurus
• Backspace Links At Backspace, scroll down for link contents.
• The Blue Book of Grammar & Punctuation
• Fifty (50!) Tools Which Can Help You in Writing
• Pen to Paper: Common Grammar and Punctuation Errors
• 5 Minute English: Using Punctuation  This site also has some related links.

Good Read for Writer's:

• On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

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