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.