Some Fantastic Web Sites for Writers

These are writers' web sites a bit off the beaten path that I've stumbled across recently.

The Anonymati - also called the "evil first page clinic" - you send in your first pages for critique. Anonymously, of course.

Call My Agent! - an Australian literary agent who critiques query letters. I love this gal. Funny, concise, and a grammar nerd to boot.

Hey! Teenager of the Year - a talented, funny, vivacious writer dissects first pages of YA novels. Did I mention she's 15? Yet another Aussie, I think.

The Intern - an insider look at book publishing. Anonymous, of course. Poignant and screamingly funny all at once.

I See You - a visit into the life of crime writer Cat Connor as she juggles writing and book promotion with rearing seven children in Upper Hutt, New Zealand. Think a wise-cracking but more sardonic Erma Bombeck who spends her spare time figuring out how to make realistic fake blood for a book promotion video and the precise manifestations of chlorine gas poisoning, while cooking for a dinner party and tending to her youngest kids, who are fighting off the flu and upchucking in Mum and Dad's bed. (Her KILLERBYTE is available for Kindle.)