MWI Website Links
Writing
Resources for Crime Writers:
Short Story Tips and
Tricks
http://www.hardluckstories.com/winter2005/WritingShort-Black.htm
Grammar got you down? Common myths
debunked http://www.grammarphobia.com/grammar.html
Other Good
Grammar Links:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/tenses.html
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastperfect.html
Chicago Manual of Style, online
version: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/CMS_FAQ/new/new_questions01.html
Murder Your Darlings by James Patrick Kelly (A classic for self-editing)
http://www.sfwa.org/writing/murder.htm
Problem Words
Clarified
http://www.confusingwords.com/
More Problem Words
Explicated
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.txt
Publishing Industry Information:
How Real Publishing Works http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20586
Newbie’s Guide to Publishing (free
downloadable e-book by noted mystery writer J.A. Konrath http://www.jakonrath.com/writers.htm
Writers Beware: Check out that ‘Too
Good to be True’ publisher or agent here:
http://www.sfwa.org/beware/services.html
Why Did my Story Get Rejected?
A list of Independent
Bookstores in
http://www.newpages.com/bookstores/canada.htm
Detection, Forensic and Legal
Resources for Crime Writers
Crime Writing Resources: http://www.zott.com/MysForum/links.htm
Canadian Association of Pathologists http://cap.medical.org/employment.htm
The Writer's Medical and Forensics Lab http://www.dplylemd.com/
Basic Autopsy http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pathology/autopsy-screenwriters-guide/
Canadian Toxicology Centre http://www.uoguelph.ca/cntc/
Alberta Justice Dept, Sudden Deaths http://www.justice.gov.ab.ca/fatality
Chief Medical Examiner of
True Crime stories http://crimelibrary.com
Crime Fiction
Contests for Emerging Mystery
Novelists:
Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in
Canadian Crime Writing http://crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/pages/awards.html
The Daphne DuMaurier Award
(unpublished division) http://www.rwamysterysuspense.org/contestunpublished.html
The Debut Dagger Award from the Crime
Writers Association (CWA –
Groups for Writers:
Crime Writers of Canada (organizing
body for the Arthur Ellis Awards) - a national
organization for Canadian crime writers, associated professionals, and anyone
else with a serious interest in Canadian crime writing. Its mission is to
promote Canadian crime writing and to raise the profile of Canadian crime
writers from coast to coast. http://crimewriterscanada.com/cwc/index.html
http://www.calgaryrwa.com/
Alberta Romance Writers Association (ARWA) www.albertaromancewriters.com
Imaginative Fiction Writers Association (
Writers Guild of Alberta www.writersguild.ab.ca
Alexandra Writers Centre Society (
Sisters in Crime/National site http://sistersincrime.org/
Sisters in Crime/ Guppies (beginning writers) http://www.sinc-guppies.org/
Online Groups:
Sisters in Crime/Internet chapter http://www.sinc-ic.org
Short Mystery Fiction Society - awards
the Derringer Prizes for short mystery fiction, and operates an active and
inspiring yahoo discussion group http://www.shortmystery.net/
Crime Scene Writer – online discussion
group where police, paramedics and other experts answer writers’ questions. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/crimescenewriter/
Crime Conventions
Bloody Words - THE Canadian mystery convention http://www.bloodywords.com/
Malice Domestic – for fans and writers of traditional mysteries http://www.malicedomestic.org/
Bouchercon – the classic mystery convention http://www.bouchercon.com/
Murder in
the Grove (
Left Coast Crime (floating location) http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/
Thrillerfest - http://www.thrillerwriters.org/
(General & Genre fiction) Surrey
International Writers’ Conference http://www.siwc.ca/