Useful Resources

This is a fairly blandish blog today. Just a list of (fairly obvious) things I found useful and informative in starting out. 

Plenty of it is just stuff I googled because I had no idea how else to find out the answers I wanted. And others just to boost my confidence about stuff I thought I knew, but wanted to validate. 

First things first:

How to publish a book?

http://www.wikihow.com/Publish-a-Book

Traditional publishing versus self publishing?

http://www.writersdigest.com/online-editor/the-pros-and-cons-of-self-publishing-traditional-publishing

More in-depth information about self publishing:

http://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/pod/

Also pretty insightful:

http://catherineryanhoward.com/2012/05/24/wait-until-you-hear-this-the-taleist-self-publishing-survey/

How to write science fiction:

http://io9.com/how-to-write-a-great-science-fiction-novel-in-7-easy-st-1565393502

This made me laugh while also dying a little inside:

http://postgradproblems.com/how-to-write-a-shitty-young-adult-novel/

I’ll try and add more to this list later, hopefully more pragmatic ones than these.