The Canny Link Directory

Thoughts+Freelance writing

A-1 Complete Writing and Editing  


Agents

A.E.I. On Line - Literary management and film production company.

Abacus Group Literary Agency - covering fiction, non-fiction, textbooks, and screenplays; but not poetry, anthologies, or children's.

Adler & Robin Books Literary Agency - represent fiction, nonfiction and computer books.

Alta Vista Corporation Ltd - literary agents.

GEM Literary - for published and unpublished authors of all genres.

Hilton Publishing Company - promotion and editorial services for minority and women authors and by physicians and other medical professionals.

Luster Literary Agency - a small-by-design agency focused upon the publishing of quality literature. Clients range from techno-thriller novelists to historical biographers.

New Brand Agency Group - looking for book-length fiction and nonfiction from published and unpublished writers.

Phenix & Phenix Literary Publicists - marketing services, both on-line and traditional, for talented authors who want to get their message out to their readers.

Richard Curtis Associates - literary agency.

Sedgeband Literary Associates - literary agents for both the published and non-published writers.

Sligo Literary Agency - Publisher's in-house literary agency

Strictly Book Promotions - helps the small publisher and self-published author get media exposure.

Treasure Pages Literary Marketing - electronic marketing for authors.

Wilson Devereux Company - literary agency handling trade and professional books, Fiction and Non-Fiction, Business, Science, Politics and Maritime. Generally does not handle children's or religious books.

ACI Writing Assistance Center - help with most types of writing, editing and research.

Absolute Perfection Ghostwriting Services - services include ghostwriting, collaborating, editing, critiques, reports, and advertising copy

Advent, Inc - documentation consulting firm that specialized in converting printed procedure or reference manuals to an online Windows based system.

Agent Research & Evaluation, Inc. - the people who tell you which literary agents sell what to whom for how much.

Alexander Communication - teaches business writing, customized writing workshops, writing skills, technical writing.

Ark Valley Writers' Service, Inc. - gay-owned and operated company is pleased to assist gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered writers by providing word processing, composition, editing, and research.

Authorlink! - electronic clearing house and information service for editors, agents and authors. Manuscripts and listings pre-evaluated by published writers.

BMC - specializes in writing resumes for aviation pilots and retail managers.

Biomedical Writing and Editing Service

Bligh Graphics - graphic design and copywriting services for print and electronic media.

Cambridge Career Services, Inc. - career coaching, personal marketing consulting and resume writing..

Communication Strategies - provides corporate writing, publication planning, and communications counsel for businesses: annual report writing, employee and customer publications, company profiles, and internet training.

Consider This Enterprises - specializing in low-cost ways to help writers get published and to market their works; also designs ad campaigns for small businesses.

Creative Writing Service - offering resume services, job assistance, business proposals, company brochures, graphics or special creative writing applications.

EEI Communications - publications company offering new media, training, editorial, staffing, design, and production services to the communications profession

Editor's Selection - providing editorial services and preparation of Internet documents and publications.

Editorial Services Online - proofreading, copyediting, substantive editing, writing, and publications management for both paper and electronic publishing.

Editorial Solutions - offering editing and writing services for magazines, newsletters, trade journals, and other publications.

English Consulting and Language Reference Services - answering grammar and language questions, and checking documents for correct usage.

Esseti s.r.l. - produces promotional and technical literature for third parties.

Fouché Media Associates - offering editing, writing, and marketing services.

Global Business Perspectives - services include writing company newsletters, brochures, and directories.

Grammarian Business Services - copyediting and fact checking for written documents, web sites and online databases. Services are provided in English, Spanish, Japanese and French.

Grant Tech, Inc. - writes grants, business and marketing plans. Technical writing available also.

Hartbright Editorial Services - print and on-line manuscript evaluation, proofreading, copy-editing, content- and line-editing, rewriting, and writing.

Mayo Editorial Services - editorial services for scientists and doctors who are not native English speakers.

MediScribe, Inc - medical writing and editing for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare industries.

Noble Icon Editorial Services, A - proofreading, copyediting, indexing, writing, abstracting and research services.

Office Support Services - provides an online typing and document creation service, including newsletters, resumes, menus, directories, theses, and manuscripts.

Richard N. Côté: Writing, Ghostwriting, and Editing Services

SpeechWriters - personalised or pre-prepared speeches for social, business or sporting occasions by email.

The Writers Bloc - TWB - offers an extended range of writing, corporate communications, marketing and script writing capabilities from a talented team of experienced professionals.

TimTrout Creative Writing for Business - producer of copy for consumer and corporate literature, features, brochures and web sites.

Wealth Writers - newsletters and content for financial advisors.

Winning Words - services include ghostwriting, promotional writing, and technical editing.

Wireless Words - providing freelance writing and public relations services to the wireless communications industry and technology industry.

WordMagic Communications - writing, editing, and photography.

WordSmith - Proof-reading, editing and writing services

WordsWork - specializes in federal and state guidelines regarding readability levels.

World Wide Weblications - offers assistance for authors and writers.

Write By Design - desktop publishing, translation, and technical writing services.

Write Expression - provides writing, editing and proofreading services on manuscripts, presentations, proposals, press releases and general documents.

Write Stuff Productions - editorial services for print & electronic media.

Writersaid - editing, research, ghostwriting, publicfity, and Internet publicity for writers of all genres.

WritingSchool.com - online writing courses in a variety of genres from fiction and screenwriting to business and technical writing.

AR Communications - provides writing solutions in corporate communications, specialising in executive speech writing, newsletters and brochures, annual reports, and editorial services.

Cornerstone Creative Communications - specializing in newsletters, brochures, ads, web pages and reports, among other things. Includes free resources for writers.

Eclectic Services - customized web-based information gathering/analysis is our main focus. In addition, we offer precision editing, writing, rewriting and web document creation services.

Collage/Universities

University of Mississippi - covers all writing at Ole Miss: the writing center, graduate and undergraduate studies, the teachers' writing project, and more.

Purdue On-Line Writing Lab

Salt Lake Community College Online Writing Center - offering resources about writing and places to interact with writers and tutors. Teachers can find information about pedagogy.

Trinity College Allan K. Smith Writing Center

University of Michigan - Online Writing Lab - offers a comprehensive writing resource that takes advantage of the interactive capabilities of the Web.

Whitman College Writing Center - hours and information.

Elements of Style - by William Strunk, Jr.

Antagonyms - words that have opposite meanings (e.g., "bad" can mean bad or good depending on usage).

Common Errors - discussion of errors in English usage which are so common that some people don't recognise them as errors.

English Grammar Clinic - your grammar questions answered by professional English language instructors.

Focusing on Words - This advanced English-language site is here as a guide by your side so you can experience the wonder of words and the English language.

Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices

Grammar Lady - stamping out bad grammar and offering answers to all of your English grammar questions.

Grammar Slammer Online - online English grammar help. Includes letter writing, confusing words, and easy search engine.

Grammar and Style Guide - guide to grammar and style, prepared by Jack Lynch of the University of Pennsylvania.

Heteronyms - words that are spelled identically but have different meanings when pronounced differently (e.g., wind or lead).

On-Line English Grammar

Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students

Slot, The - part style manual, part pet-peeve collection, The Slot is one copy editor's look at how to use, and how not to use, the English language.

Trinity College Allan K. Smith Writing Center

Uniform English - proposes new spelling rules and logic for English.

Usenet - alt.usage.english - English grammar, word usages, and related topics.

Wordpower - increase yours. Write a report, pen a news release, cite and list references.

World Wide Words - Michael Quinion's language pages include articles, the word hoard, newsworthy words, and usage notes.

MLA Bibliographic Citation Form Guide

Organizing Research and Documenting it with MLA Citations - an aid to beginning research paper writers who need help finding research sites, organizing their thoughts and documenting their sources using MLA format.

Citation Guides  


Institutes

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing  


Journals and Diaries

Diarist.Net - starting point for the online diary and journal. Home of The Diary Registry and DIARY-L.

Diary List (DIARY-L) - mailing list devoted to the discussion of online journals and diaries.

Spiritual Journals

An Extraordinary Dream

Dr. Zeus Dreams

Dream Page - a personal dream journal.

Elder Dan's Dream Log, The

Lucy Dreams - one woman's dream journal and journey towards lucid dreaming.

Never Separated From God - relating a dream about God.

Willa's Dream Journal  

A Soldier's Journal - follow the experiences of Captain David L. Emmett on his 270 day peace keeping mission to Croatia.

Aisling's Diary - see the world through the eyes of an extreme & creative artist. Updated daily.

Along The Road

Aries Moon - this two year old diary strives to justify its bandwidth by being amusing, thoughtful, and rather good-looking.

Carolyn's Diary - as featured in 24 Hours in Cyberspace.

Changes: Tracy's Journal - a journal and dream diary.

Daily Feed, The - a story of my life one sentence at a time.

Diary of Mr. Gall's Second Grade Class

Diary of an Average Australian - the light-hearted diary of an average, almost normal, occasionally hard-working, just about sane Australian living in Melbourne. Updated weekly.

Drifting Through My Mind - drift through the daily thoughts and experiences of a young male.

E Files, The - The truth about Eve Andersson is out there.

Famous For Sixteen Minutes - the life and times of Peter Green, Frenz of the Enz fan club president.

Fishpond

Harold Culney's Web Journal - day-to-day chronicles of a descent into madness.

In Medias Res - a student, husband, father and webmaster in paradise.

Justin's Life

Life and Diary of Fred Campos Jr. - the daily life of a Christian software business owner who struggles with success, singleness, and what it is to be a Christian.

Mighty Kymm, The - diary of a hedgehog girl.

Nap Time Notes - offers readers a humorous look into the life and mind of a 90's mommy.

Online-Diaries - Read about thought processes, adventures and experiences from people from all over the world or write your own cyber-diary.

Secret Diary - secrets, confessions and private fantasies. Ever wish you could read your sister's diary? Now you can. Enter and write your own.

Sick Sad World - thoughts. Comments. Ideas. Reality with no fuzzy bunnies, animated kittens, banner ads or meaning of life essays.

Tao of Me - look inside the throes of (trying) to become a young adult in SoHo, NYC.

TripleSec - the journal of a wired Canadian country hick who bread is buttered by doing magazine layout and web design.

Waltzing Matilda - online journal of a fifteen year old girl from New England.

Willa's Journal

Xnox - journal of a young Japanese woman who lives abroad.

aegri somnia - these things happen.

braindump - unassuming personal insights from a geek in the haight-ashbury.

delineate - about a girl from Louisiana, her journal, and life after college.

heavy water

more than this - chronicles my pregnancy (not always so joyous) and just my life.

mypath.com - a nonlinear self-narrative -- a life in text and pictures, expanding daily.

parenthesis - a 30-mumble mother of four just trying to hear herself think.

stranger.than.fiction [a life]

vannatter in utero - daily journal from a little punkrocker.

Adventure Channel, The - follows the lives of the world's most interesting explorers and adventurers.

Athea's Page - ski trip around the Pacific Northwest of the USA and Canada by an Aussie: lots of pictures.

Baseball Across America - ongoing journey of two best friends to visit all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums.

Big Adventures - essays and photographs of my hiking, cycling and driving travels.

Booksites.com - not just a travel site, more than a site about books; it's a cyberspace meetingplace for literary pilgrims and erudite explorers.

Boomerang Box - track the progress across the U.S. and around the Pacific Rim of this 40-foot container painted by school children from the Pacific Northwest.

Civilized Explorer, The - You've had vacations before, now it's time to explore.

Deserts of Our World: A Literary Adventure - experience the diversity and cultural richness of the world's deserts through the people who have been challenged by their uniqueness and rewarded by their remoteness.

Jan's Journeys - Encompasses our travel 'finds' including Bed & Breakfast, wineries, California getaways, and dream vacations in Hawaii with tips on Maui, Kauai and other islands.

Journey from Chilas to Thandiani - description of the journey with pictures and both descriptive and historical information on Pakistan.

Life Following the Dead - chronicle of a tour - images, video, audio or just plain text.

Majesty - multimedia page containing a host of travel, ski, golf photos plus Christian literature. Travels include Bermuda, Caribbean, Japan, Hawaii, Europe, Canada, etc.

Man In A Suitcase - Images and commentary from far too many business trips around Europe, Japan and the US of A.

Mark Moxon, Traveller and Writer - tales from Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Nepal.

Memories of a Transatlantic Passenger - personal history of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the 1950s by ship and by plane.

Monica Chong's Travels - photo and sketch journal of South America, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and US.

My Travel - stories and photos of travels around the world.

Overland from Kathmandu to Damascus - account of my trip through Nepal, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria and Jordan.

PostcardsFrom - see all 50 states and all state capitals through daily postcards sent directly to your e-mail box.

Road Scholar's Journal - presenting Erika Schelby's travel articles and photographs.

Sally's Place - food, cooking, travel, beverages, cartoons, recipes, crossword puzzles, fiction, wine and a whole lot more.

Technomad Times - stories about various technologically endowed wanderers and their adventures. Site includes links to other technomadic sites.

TheTravelzine.com- Holiday travelogues for the independent traveler (Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland & USA), travel discussion group, hotels, restaurants, packing hints, planning tips, spas and honeymoons.

Thresholds - journey through Mexico and Central America; a maze of many stories, photographs and journals.

Travelling is Living - documents trips taken by Swiss journalist Marcel Stoessel.

Travels by Lynn McKamey - skiing, rafting, and fall foliage trips.

Travels with Samantha - about the summer I spent seeing North America, meeting North Americans, and trying to figure out how people live.

Ukrainian Vacation 1997 - Kathy & Bill Clark's jaunt through Ukraine. Included photos.

Virtual Tours - collection of tours for Museums and Exhibits, the US Government and the World to enhance your journey on the World Wide Web.

Alice Williamson's Diary - diary of a Tennessee schoolgirl chronicles life during the Civil War.

Civil War Diary of Bingham Findley Junkin, 100th Pennsylvania

Diaries of Various Civil War Personalities - William Heyser, Joseph Waddell, Clay Mac Cauley, Rachel Cormany, and Samuel Cormany.  


Organizations

American Copy Editors Society - professional organization dedicated to improving the quality of journalism.

Board of Editors in the Life Sciences - professional organization which offers board certification for editors and freelancers in the life sciences.

Boulder Writers Alliance - a resource for BWA members and employers in the market for hiring writers in the Boulder/Denver Colorado area.

Editorial Freelancers Association - nonprofit, professional organization of self-employed workers in the publishing and communications industries. Offers courses, events, a job phone, and other services.

Heartland Writers Guild - sponsors of the biennial Heartland Writers Conference, HWG is a not-for-profit multi-genre organization devoted to helping its members market their writing.

Hong Kong Writers' Circle - information on their work, Hong Kong, and resources.

Independent Writers of Southern California - IWOSC - service and support organization for professional, self-employed writers.

International Food, Wine and Travel Writers Association - professional non-profit trade organization for writers, photographers, broadcasters, food and hospitality industry members and related professions.

National Writers Union - trade union for freelancers: journalists, book authors, poets, novelists, business-technical writers, and fiction writers.

Professional Writers of Orange County - networking organization for the education, support and betterment of Orange County writers.

Queensland Writers Centre Assoc, Inc.

Writers Room, The - providing working space to writers.

Canadian Authors Association - a national association for writers of every kind, for those who actively seek to become writers, and for those who want to support writers.

Federation of BC Writers

Manitoba Writers' Guild - non-profit organization offering a number of services and programs to writers.

Writers Federation of New Bruswick

Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia