Check out Advice for Writers for links to over 65 useful pages on the site. The latest are Writing for the web, Top Ten Tips for nonfiction writers, Choosing a Service and  Getting your poetry published.
	Read our new 7-part series An Editor's Advice, by Maureen Kincaid Speller, which deals with the most common problems she has encountered in the manuscripts which cross her desk. Read Michael Legat’s 19 Factsheets on everything from plotting your novel to publishers’ contracts.
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How to get published

	There's a useful new page on Getting your poetry published.
	Check out our new page on putting together Your submission package.
	Look through our newly-updated  UK  and US literary agency listings, bringing you hundreds of detailed listings of UK and US and international agents.
	Work your way through our tips for Finding an Agent.
	Consider using our new Submission Critique Service to get your submission package into good shape.
	If you have used our services and the editor reports favourably on your work, we will recommend it to agents we know.
	Check out our advice on Avoiding Rejection and Submissions.
	Working with an agent shows you how to get the most out of this key relationship.
	Try our Problem page to see if we've dealt with your problem.
	Explore our WritersBookstall to find a book which will give you the answer.
	Use our Contract Vetting service to make sure you know what you’re signing.
	Once you have a publisher, Preparing for Publication guides you through the next steps.
	If you have an old typescript, use our new Scanning service to get it onto your computer so you can prepare it for submission or publication.
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	See if you can get to any of the International Book Fairs we've listed.
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	Sell your book to a publisher (see How to get Published above).
	Look at the possibility of self-publishing.

	Check out our carefully selected Links to link you up to the world. Nearly 30 more just added, plus poetry sites.
	Read our writers’ reviews of books on writing.
	Our new Writers' Software section offers links, a page of script-writing software and our latest software review on Indexing Software.
	Look through our new agency listings, just updated for information on which agent to submit your work to.
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	Use our Site map to find all the sections available on the site.

	Examine the truly bizarre but authentic Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year.
	Follow the triumphs and disasters of an unpublished writer’s life in Bob G Ritchie’s Journal of a Virtually Unpublished Writer
	Enjoy the silly mistakes publishers have made in our Rotten Rejections page.
	Check out our pages of Writers' quotations

	Check out WritersPrintShop - recently relaunched with streamlined structure and lower prices!  Clear guidance on self-publishing, including the difficult questions answered in our new FAQs.
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	Read the new article on Print on Demand in our Inside Publishing series to find out what it is and how it works.
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	A new series, Quality v Quantity, looks first at the invisible world of the web.
	A useful section deals with using the web as a research tool.
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