Author's Tool Kit
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Artwork
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Eric Cooley is a graphic artist who manipulates existing elements in
exiting ways to produce unique book covers. |
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Henning Ludvigsen creates original artwork in digital format. He seems to specialize on fantasy work, but you may be able to talk him into working on your non-fantasy project. |
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Junior's Digital Designs. Focus is on digital cover art and design, mostly fantasy, sci-fi, and nature. Creates original art or works with existing elements. Reasonable rates. |
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Kira Echo creates original artwork as well as working with a camera to produce covers and illustrations. She has a rather large set of portfolios:
Home site Presentation Brochures and Logos Public Gallery |
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Zane of Art Concepts is an old school artist. Doesn't work in digital format. However, she has associates who will convert her work to digital format. She also illustrates books. |
Help with the craft of writing
Our tips page
Writers Readers created by Jerry Simmons. Jerry retired from Time Warner Book Group in 2003 after a career in sales for two of the "big" houses (the other one was Random House). He now offers help for new authors. Much of the stuff on his site is free. Some costs. He'll also mentor for a fee.
Miscellaneous resources from Victory Crane. Also free articles. Crane is a writer and writing coach.
Publications
Industry books by Jerry D. Simmons
Books of interest to Science Fiction writers
Workshops for writers and authors
Look for a workshop in your area. Libraries are a good place to ask since many workshops meet in libraries. Check the bulletin board.
Do a search engine lookup for writer workshop using Google or some other search engine. You should be able to find one that fits your needs.
If you write "hard" science fiction, a good example is Science Fiction Novelists.
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