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Home
Books
Sue Cowley Books
Books for Little People
Reviews
Teach Like Finland
Talk-Less Teaching
Teacher Geek
Coraline
The Astronaut's Handbook
The Hunger Games
Once
Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Series
The Snail and the Whale
Trash
The Maze Runner
Kidnap in the Caribbean
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Kensuke's Kingdom
Wonder
Writing
Five Top Tips
Writing Exercises
Building a Book
For Love or Money
Publishing
29 Days of Writing
Links
Contact
Links for Authors
The Society of Authors
- The professional association for UK based authors.
Public Lending Right
- The organisation that makes payments for library loans of your books.
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
- The organisation that oversees payments for copying of your books or articles.
Kindle Direct Publishing Forum for Authors
- Start here if you are interested in self publishing ebooks.
Createspace
- Start here if you are interested in self publishing paperbacks.
Draft to Digital
- Use this site to self publish ebooks for platforms other than Kindle/Amazon.
Elance
- This site is brilliant for finding graphic designers to create a book cover for you.
Shutterstock
- A site where you can buy the rights to use photos and other images, to use in your publishing.
Brainyquote
and
Wisdomquotes
- I find these sites useful for quote based inspiration.
Blog Links for Further Reading
You can find my blog at
suecowley.wordpress.com
. I write regularly about writing, and being a writer, on my blog:
Fuzzy Thinking
- about making space in your head to allow creativity to happen.
Writing for Pleasure
- about taking pleasure in your writing, rather than worrying about what others will think.
Cannot Compute
- about writing blogs in a fictional rather than a factual form.
Read as a Writer
- about reading your own writing, and that of others, with a critical eye.
28 Days
- about getting on with it, and just writing.
How to be a Writer (1): Little Miss Procrastination
- about the benefits, and pitfalls, of procrastinating.
How to be a Writer (2): Mr Money
- about asking to be paid for your writing.
How to be a Writer (3): Little Miss Useful
- about why you should make sure your books are useful.
Bad Review
- about coping with a negative review of your book.
Only Connect
- about the importance of connecting with your readers.
Dreams
- about how easy it is for a writer's confidence to be crushed.
How to Write Tight
- about why I love quotes, and how to edit to keep your writing concise.
Am Publishing
- about working with publishers.
Am Writing
- about being a working writer.
The Spark
- about where the inspiration for writing a book comes from.
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