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Best Sellers ...... Best selling books From the New York Times Best-Seller List

Bestsellers Lists .... From USA Today

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Slang

Slang ..... Words making their way into common usage .....

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Literary Agents

Agents e-mail ..... A list of literary agents e-mail addresses

Non-fee Agents ..... A list of non-fee literary agents

Prededitors and Editors ..... A long list of literary agents with comments

Agent Rejections ..... Common Reasons for Agent's Rejection from BookTalk by Carolyn Hopwood Blick

Writing Agents ..... A directory of literary agents --- Worldwide

Agents and Publishers ..... 1300 agents, publishers and editors in the U. S., the U. K. and Canada including websites and e-mail -- by Gerard Jones

Literary Agents ..... An extensive list of literary agents with addresses and phone numbers

Literary Agents List ..... Listings of Agents and other Representation

Questionable Agents ..... Writer Beware from SFWA

Warning List ..... Another list of agents to beware of

Publication Warning List ..... This is a warning list of publications who have refused to pay writers money owed to them.

Agency fees - 1 ..... Are Agency Reading Fees Legitimate?

Agency fees - 2 ..... Are There Any Fees an Agency May Legitimately Charge a Client?

Book Doctors ..... Are Book Doctors Legitimate?

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Journalism

Journalism ..... Internet Journalism Resources .....

Pulitzer Prize ..... All the Pulitzer Prize winners since 1917

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Screenwriters

Screen Site Dramatica ..... Film, Television and Video Reviews and information

Screenwriting ..... Lots of good information for the screenwriter from Visual Writer

Resources for Screenwriters ..... Hundreds of links for screenwriting

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Strange and Unusual

Trivia ..... Celebrity Trivia, Superstitions, Unusual Facts and more by Brian Candy

Folklore and Mythology ..... From D. L. Ashliman, University of Pittsburgh

Cliche Finder ..... Type in a word and find every cliche with that word in it

Movie Cliches ..... From the Movie Cliche List --- Really funny

Useless Information ..... Tons of useless information from Cool Quiz

Museum of Hoaxes ..... First Human Clone Born Hoax plus many more frauds, hocus-pocus, humbug, imposture, rumor, sleight, wile and so on.

Science Made Stupid ..... Written and Illustrated by TOM WELLER

Encyclopedia of Monsters ..... Monsters, Mythical Creatures and Fabulous Beasts by Gareth Long

I Can Eat Grass ..... How to say "I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me" in 110 languages. Why? Only Ethan Mollick, Harvard class of 1997, knows for sure

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Computer terminology in Chinese ..... With text and voice in Chinese .....

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Urban Legends ..... Lots of interesting, funny and useless information

News of the Weird ..... Weird but true --- News from all over

A Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases .....What do Research Phrases really mean

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All Experts                                 http://www.allexperts.com

Guestfinder                                 http://www.guestfinder.com

US National Press Club                http://npc.press.org

Expert Pages                               http://expertpages.com/index.htm

Media Resource                           http://www.mediaresource.org/

American Journalism Review Newslink       http://ajr.newslink.org/gref.html

Casey Journ. Ctr for Children and Familiehttp://casey.umd.edu/home.nsf

Internet Newsroom                                   http://www.editors-service.com/

Quoteland                                              http://www.quoteland.com/

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Quotations (Searchable databases of quotations)   http://quotations.miningco.com/mbody.htm?PID=2734&COB=hOme

Searching for quotes, sources of idioms, cliches, etc.: http://www.westegg.com/cliche/

Cliché finder                       http://members.aol.com/MorelandC/Phrases.htm            

The Quotations Page               http://www.starlingtech.com/quotes/                         

Phrase Finder                      http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/                    

Word Play                         http://www.wolinskyweb.com/word.htm                     

Book of Cliches                    http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/sybev/cliche/                           

Word Wizard                      http://wordwizard.com/newuser/default.htm                           

Slanguage                                   http://www.slanguage.com/   

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Contracts -  information  http://www.burryman.com/biz.html          

Understanding contracts  http://www.powernet.net/~scrnplay/pub.html 

Don't sign anything you're unsure about  http://www.adlerbooks.com/contract.html

Negotiating contracts  http://www.tarakharper.com/k_negoc.htm

Top ten things to negotiate in a contract http://www.ninc.com/tips/cntrt.asp

There is a lot of publishing contract information in this article:
http://www.right-writing.com/checklist.html
   

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The American Society of Journalists and Authors also has a lot of contract tips at:
http://www.asja.org/pubtips/pubtips.php

Also the Author's Guild has periodical and book contract advice at:
http://www.authorsguild.org/?p=100

Best Effort Clauses http://www.ivanhoffman.com/bestefforts.html

Contract terms  http://www.nwu.org/bite/gloss.htm

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(The) Law good portal for legal stuff http://findlaw.com

Legal encylopedia http://www.nolo.com/

Novice Writer's Guide To Rights part of the Writers Write website. (DRO) http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/dec97/cew3.htm

Publishing Law Center http://www.publaw.com

Tips on proper trademark usage. http://www.inta.org/tmcklst1.htm

US Copyright Office: http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

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