The Renegade Writer

Renegade Writer Q&A: Sharon Anne Waldrop

Pick up a number of big-name magazines and it won’t be long before you run across Sharon Anne Waldrop’s byline. She writes for Parents, Parenting, Women’s Health, Woman’s Day, Health, and more. I “know” Sharon mostly from a writers’ bulletin board online, but we’ve actually met in person and she’s a smart, energetic whippersnapper. When …

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Nov 10, 2006 Writer Q&A

How to search libraries worldwide

I found this cool site this a.m. as I was vanity searching The Renegade Writer. WorldCat lets you search for books in over 10,000 libraries worldwide, very handy if you like to get books through interlibrary loans like I do. (By the way, I found RW in 140 libraries in the U.S. Cool!) [db]

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Nov 10, 2006 Cool tools

Use Amazon — But Not to Buy Books

Here’s a way to find up-to-the-minute sources for your queries and articles: Enter keywords related to your topic into Amazon, then sort the results by publication date instead of relevance. New books and books that are soon to be published will appear at the top of the list, and you can contact their authors for …

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Nov 10, 2006 Cool tools, Query letters, Sources

free packet: 10 query letters that rocked
e-books that will make you an unstoppable freelancer

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