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For information about manuscript assessment (manuscript appraisal) and development, editing, agents, publishing and other writing issues and resources, see the following links.

The Australian Literary Agents Association, http://austlitagentsassoc.com.au/index.html for information on agents and how to go about approaching them. See links below.

The Australian Society of Authors at http://www.asauthors.org for anything to do with the business of writing.

For contact with writers and readers, classes, workshops, competitions and more, see The Writers' Centre of your capital city

NSW Writers Centre: http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
WritingWA: http://www.writerswritingwa.org

VIC Writers Centre: http://vwc.org.au/

QLD Writers Centre: http://www.qwc.asn.au
SA Writers Centre: http://www.sawriters.on.net
NT Writers Centre: email http://www.ntwriters.com.au/
TAS Writers Centre: http://www.tasmanianwriters.org
ACT Writers Centre: http://www.actwriters.org.au

or contact your regional writers centre. NSW Litlink Regional Writers Centres are

Hunter Writers Centre www.hwcentre.com

Varuna, A Writers House http://www.varuna.com.au/index.html

Booranga Writers Centre (Wagga Wagga) www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/booranga/index.html

Central West Writers Centre http://www.wordsoutwest.com.au/

New England Writers Centre http://users.northnet.com.au/~newc/

Broken Hill City Library www.bhlibrary.org.au

Northern Rivers Writers Centre www.nrwc.org.au

South Coast Writers Centre www.1earth.net/~scwc

For information and advice on contracts, Contract Advisory Service of the ASA Writers’ Centre.

Books and journals

Samantha Schwartz, Australian Guide to Getting Published (Hale and Iremonger, 1995).
Barbara Jefferis, Australian Book Contracts (Keesing Press, 1994).

Australian Author, Journal of the Australian Society of Authors.
Australian Bookseller & Publisher (Thorpe).

The Australian Writers’ Marketplace (Bookman). New edition yearly. www.awmonline.com.au
Australian Publishers Association Directory of Members.

Umberto Eco, On Literature (Vintage)
John McWhorter, What Language Is (And What It Isn't And What It Could Be)

Stephen King, On Writing (Hodder & Stoughton).
Robert McKee, Story (HarperCollins).

Lawrence Block, Telling Lies for Fun & Profit.

Rhonda Whitton and Sheila Hollingworth, A Decent Proposal.

Neil James(ed.), Writers on Writing (Halstead).

Grammar and Writing resources

A Note on Grammar, by Bruce Byfield

http://www.linkedin.com/news?viewArticle=&articleID=699734702&gid=69017&type=member&item=66029115&articleURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etechwr-l%2Ecom%2Fcontent%2Ftech-writers-grammar-and-prescriptive-attitude&urlhash=7dmN&goback=%2Egde_69017_member_66029115

The Cambridge Guide to Australian English Usage ed. Pam Peters http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521878210&ss=fro

ABC Radio National Style Guide http://style.radionational.net.au/about-guide

Chicago Manual of Style www.chicagomanualofstyle.org

Associated Press Stylebook http://www.apstylebook.com/?do=view_recent_ask US Journalism Style

Hodges Harbrace Handbook

Fowler's Modern English Usage, 2nd Edition, by H. W.; revised and edited by Sir Ernest Gowers (1967) (the non-Gowers attempts at revising Fowler just leave me cold)
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (1994) (more accessible than Fowler for a lot of people; grammar isn't everything, there's usage to wrestle with too)

Woe Is I and anything else by Patricia T. O’Conner
Mark My Words, Peggy Smith
Proofreading Plain & Simple, Debra Hart May
Copy Editing, Karen Judd
Copyeditor’s Handbook, A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, with Exercises and Answer Keys, Amy Einsohn
The Copyeditor’s Guide to Substance & Style, EEI
Stet! And Stet Again!, Priscilla Taylor
Lapsing into a Comma and Elephants of Style, Bill Walsh
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, A Handbook of Grammar and anything else by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
The Grammar Devotional by Mignon Fogarty (aka the Grammar Girl)
The Gregg Reference Manual

Eats shoots and leaves by L Truss

The Writer's Grammar Guide, by Janet Walpole (1984)

Working with Words: A Concise Handbook for Media Writers and Editors" by Brooks, Pinson and Gaddy Wilson.
Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy Einsohn.
Self-Editing for Fiction Writers Renni Browne and Dave King(HarperPerennial).

Write Away by Elizabeth George

Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maas

The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maas

Plot and Structure by Jim Bell

Revision and Self-Editing by Jim Bell

Getting Into Character by Brandilyn Collins

The First Five Pages by Noel Lukeman

Stein on Writing by Sol Stein

The Copyeditor's Handbook by Amy Einsohn

Insights on the Writing Life by Jerry Jenkins

The Christian Writers Market Guide by Jerry Jenkins

The Writers Digest Shop

http://www.jccc.edu/home/depts.php/1504/site/GrammarHandouts .
http://library.cn.edu/wacn/toc.html .
http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/exercisecentral/Exercises.aspx .
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/ Grammar Girl Blog

http://www.grammarphobia.com/ O'Conner and Kellerman - check the blog

While Flood Manuscripts offers these publications and sites as being useful to some writers, their recommendations and methods do not necessarily concur with the opinions of our assessors.

Literary Agents

Australian Literary Management
Barbara Mobbs 9363 5323

The Book Doctor

Callaghan Literary Management 9571 1150

Curtis Brown (Australia)

Drummond Agency 5427 3664

Golvan Arts Management
JBD Literary Agency
Jenny Darling & Associates

Margaret Gee Literary Agency

The Mary Cunnane Agency

Rick Raftos Management 9281 9622

International Lists

http://www.writers-free-reference.com/agents/index.html