This is a list of helpful references, both online and off.
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Podcasts

• Self Publishing Podcast (also on Youtube)
  
• The Creative Penn (also on Youtube)
• Story Telling Podcast
• Rocking Self Publishing
• Sell More Books Show

Books

• Write, Publish, Repeat by Platt and Truant
• 2K to 10K: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love by Rachel Aaron
• On Writing by Stephen King
• How to get Happily Published by Judith Appelbaum

Marketing for Self Publishers

• Free sites to promote your book
• Author Marketing Club
• The Shy Author and Marketing
• Maximizing Your Book Sales With Author Central

Programs

• Scrivener (hailed as the BEST word processor for writers. Watch tutorials to get more from it.)
• Write faster with Scrivener

For your listening pleasure

• Niel Himself addresses a university (Video. Some of the best advice EVER!)
• Podiobooks (Listen to, or make your own, free audiobooks.)

World/Story Building

• Ever-changing Book of Names is a downloadable, and adjustable program that allows you do create lists of names for your world.
• 22 Rules of Storytelling according to Pixar
• On the Origin of Science Writers (Comments from authors on why they write what they do.)
• How to Write a Book in Three Days
• How to Write a Book – The Short Honest Truth

Analyze Your Writing

• Word Counter (Counts words, analyzes word density.)
• Writers Diet (Analyzes a sample of writing for passive language and other language that can weigh down prose.)
• Auto Crit (Paid program. Analyzes for repeated,and overused words, cliches and redundancies.)
• EditMinion (Analyzes for weak words, adverbs, possible homonyms, and passive voice.)
• SmartEdit (Downloadable. Shows you over used word combinations and more.)

Other Writers Resources

• 42 Things I Love on the Internet from  DIY Writing
• Tools for Writers from Katrina Stonoff

Traditional Publishing Resources

• Writers Market (Published annually, available in most libraries, and online)
• Duotrope (a good search engine)
• Ralan (With market notes and response times.)
• Preditors and Editors (is the publisher known for scamming, or helping their writers?)
• Poets and Writers (tools for both poets and writers)
• Agent Connect

Traditional Publishing Advice

• Proper Manuscript Format Vonda McIntyre (PDF)