Writing

Squidoo allows you to create your own page in 60 seconds! Use Squidoo to share your interests, get found, and even earn money(for you or for charity). For free, of course.

Blogger is one of my favorite blogspots. It provides a platform for you to quickly post thoughts, interact with people, and more. All for FREE + you can even earn some cash by adding a few Google adverts to your blog.

On Wordpress you can get a blog started in less time than it takes you to read this sentence. All you need is an email address. You’ll get your own WordPress.com address, a selection of great free and customizable designs for your blog, 3 gigabytes of file storage and other great features. Stop here to find out more!

Associated Content's platform enables anyone to participate in the new content economy by publishing content on any topic, in any format (text, video, audio and images), and connects that content to consumers, partners and advertisers.

EzineArticles.com is a matching service: bringing real-world experts and ezine publishers together. On Ezine Articles, expert authors & other writers are able to post their articles to be featured within the site. Earn your status here!

GoArticles.com is an article search engine and directory with more than 1 million indexed articles and a membership exceeding 135,000 authors. It provides authors, publishers and visitors with the best and largest free content article database on the Web.

Wordsmyth is a great dictionary and thesaurus. I find that I generally use the synonym feature to explore the best way to construct complex sentences... there's a lot of useful features, that notwithstanding.

Amazon is one of the most important and useful sales channels for my books. It's a great indicator of overall uptake and response to a new title...

RankTracer tracks sales on Amazon. It's the only site in the world that generates sales estimates from an analysis of the sales rank over time and this unique features combines nicely with strong graphing, reporting, feeds and more. I use it track all of my books and my competitors'.

Wikipedia isn't necessarily a writing site, but it's one of the best online research tools around. If its general knowledge you're after, this is the site to visit.

Does what it says on the tin - provides a great resource for finding literary agents.

Make use of the absoute write forums for learning about the who's who of publishing. There are a lot of queries and answers about agents and its useful to check up on this site to see if the person you're dealing with is legit.