Networking Follow up

So I thought it might be nice to collect the links to a bunch of the networking site you all mentioned in the comments of last tuesday's post, incase any of you wanted to expand your networking horizons. Because in all honesty, I haven't heard of a few of them (*coughkellycough*) and I figured I wasn't the only one. :D So here we go... I will appologize not if I got any of these wrong as I said a few were unfamiliar but I'm really glad I got all these additions to check out!



JacketFlap is a networking site for any of you working in the YA and Children's book genre. It boasts over 200,000 members - including authors, illustrators, publishers and other creators of books for Children and Young Adults.

A Writer's community established by HarperCollins.



Another Children's Book/ Young Adult Writers site (curtousy of Kelly)






This one I have heard of before. :D YALITCHAT has a strong twitter following as well. A great community for the YA writers out there.



This one I'm not all that familiar with but from what I know LinkedIn is another Networking site much like Facebook but for Professionals in your industry. :) Seems like a good way to keep up-to-date with the publishing industry.






The CBI Clubhouse is a third Children's writer site (this one was mentioned by both Kelly and Dawn) Personally I heart their little bookworm mascott. He's so stinkin' cute! :D






The Socitey of Children's book writers and illustrators is a great site with news on conferences, book awards, and plenty of publishing industry news.



Social Moms is a online community for the Moms out there. This was one of the unfamiliars to me but just quickly searching around it - it seemed chalk full of great stuff. I'm going to have to go back and become more familiar with it.



I figured I didn't really need to put this one up but I did it anyway, just in case. FACEBOOK

Twitter - 140 characters to express yourself. :) Its a fun way to get inventive.









I know many of you may already be familiar with these, but Goodreads, Shelfari, and Library thing are great sites for avid readers to keep track of books they've read, books that are coming out, and sharing their thoughts on each. I heard that it is addictive for authors to sneek around this site seeing what readers think about their novels but I also heard that is a masochistic endevor. Just so you're warned. :






Additions


The Institution for Children's Literature website
Curiousy of you know who. (Her name begins with K.) I'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count. ;)












This one is one I forgot to add myself. Miss Snark's First Victim is a really great site for manuscript testing. For we unpublished, MSFV holds a lot of writing submission contests that are incredibly useful for testing your current manuscripts. People are not afraid to tell you what they think over there! There are also Secret Agent contests every month where a annonymous agent reads all 50 submission and give constructive feedback. Its a great site.









P.S. If anyone has any more they'd like to share please let me know! I'll be happy to add to the list.

It's all about the Networking, People!

Hey Everyone. Sorry, I've been MIA lately. I've had some personal stuff that needed tending to, but now that things have settled down a bit, I figured it would be a good time to blog and get my mind off the other stuff. So the topic De Jour is Networking. *cue the awe-inspiring music* Yup that's right people - because for those of us who are planning on getting published, getting your name out there is a big part of the game. I recently came across this site...

It brings together other woman bloggers from across the net and gives them a place to bond over (and commiserate) the world of blogging. Sites like this are amazingly handy for networking purposes. It’s all about finding support for you as an author and your work! For one thing, when querying agents and publishers - they are looking to see if people will care about buying your book. And if you have a well established, grass roots "fan" base prior too publication, it’s a good sign for what will happen after you're published. Another good reason for Networking is that writers now-a-days (wow did that just make me feel old) need to establish a strong online presence and sites like Lady Bloggers Society, SheWrites, Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal, Tumbler, etc have become a standard part of that. Getting our names known through these online outlets make you more marketable! So what are your favorite places to network?