(Dianne) Fox Writes

**Great crime-writing resources:
* The Graveyard Shift — author of the Howdunit Book of Police Procedure and Investigation: A Guide for Writers goes into detail about various aspects of police investigations.
* Crime Lab Project — supports greater funding for forensic labs, while offering informational resources to writers.
* Crime Scene Questions for Writers YahooGroup — offers a forum for asking /your/ forensic questions.
* Robert Jones at StorytellersUnplugged — the Forensics 101 series at Storytellers Unplugged is ongoing, and full of useful information for writers.
* Police officers talk about police body language and behavior.

**Alison Tyler of Pretty Things Press gives a breakdown of where all that money goes from the sale of a book.

**Want to write for Harlequin? Here’s your chance.

**Editorial Anonymous is putting together a publishing dictionary with lots of useful terms.

**While I don’t think it’s a good idea to send the straight output from this, there is apparently a tool in Word to help with summaries. You could use that as a starting point the next time you’re trying to write a synopsis for your new story.

**A huge, but easy to use list of common errors in English.

**Author!Author! has a series on how to get good feedback on your writing.

**Ira Glass is an amazing storyteller. I’ve seen him speak in person (and I have a dollar bill he gave me, signed by him) and I was thrilled to see that some of his presentations are now available online. This one is about hanging in there.

**The fiction writers’ guide to psychology.

**Ten methods of discipline for writers.