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Writers Resources:

The following are some great writers resources:

• Dictionaries and Thesauri
• Encyclopedias
• Biographical References
• Libraries
• Almanacs
• Publishing
• Publishers
• Writer's Employment Links

Dictionaries and Thesauri:

Wordsmyth
American English educational dictionary-thesaurus.

Merriam-Webster Online
Large site by Merriam-Webster that features a dictionary and thesaurus.   Look up words even if you can't spell them!   Here's a picture of Noah Webster (The author of America's first dictionary):

WordNet
A lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory.

Law.Com Dictionary
An invaluable tool to translate the legal phrases that bombard us every day in countless ways.

Thesaurus.com and Dictionary.com
Related sites that include links to writers' resources, games, word information, and more.

Rhyme Zone
A wonderful site to find rhymes, synonyms, homophones, similar sounds, same consonants, and related words for your word.

Encyclopedias:
Britannica.com
The online version of Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia.com
More than 14,000 articles searchable by keyword or phrase.

Encarta Encyclopedia
Microsoft's online encyclopedia with over 16,000 free articles and over 42,000 with a subscription.

The Encylopedia Mythica
An online encyclopedia for mythology, legend, and folklore.

Internet Medieval Sourcebook
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is organized as three main index pages, with a number of supplementary documents....Everything Medieval

Wikipedia
The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. You can help build Wikipedia into a better encyclopedia and wiki community by editing and creating new articles.

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Original contributions by professional philosophers around the internet.

Biographical References:

Biographical Dictionary
"This dictionary covers more than 28,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world from ancient times to the present day. The dictionary can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords."

Biography.com
Website based on the popular A&E Biography series. Includes biographies of over 25,000 personalities.

Libraries:

Perseus Digital Library
Perseus is an evolving digital library, engineering interactions through time, space, and language. Our primary goal is to bring a wide range of source materials to as large an audience as possible.

Library of Congress
The Library of Congress, through their elected representation in Congress, have created the world's largest repository of knowledge.

Internet Public Library
  The first public library of and for the Internet community.

Almanacs:

InfoPlease.com
Distinguished almanac publications and reference databases with a tradition of more than 60 years of publishing. With millions of useful and interesting facts on a wide range of topics, the Almanacs have set the standard for scope, authority, and readability among reference works.

Publishing:

      To create a book you can call your own is one of the most rewarding experiences you'll ever have.  What are you waiting for, take your first step toward getting that book of yours published!
      You need to copyright your book before you get it published.
      Go to  and get your manuscript bound at a local copy shop and remember to mail a copy to your self.
      Go to the  U.S. Copyright Office and get the "Form TX" for literary works with instructions and information so that you can send the two copies.

Publishers:

• Baen Books
• Del Rey Books
• HarperCollins
• NESFA Press
• Penguin Putnam Inc.
• Random House
• Simonsays.com
• Tor, Forge, and Orb Books
• BookWire   (Publishing industry news)

Writer's Employment Links:

Writing Employment Center
Listings of jobs for writers, editors, reporters, and journalists. ;  This site also contains a collection of tools for writers.

The Write Jobs
The Write Jobs is a job board which maintains listings of current employment opportunities for those with writing skills. Positions listed include journalism positions, editor positions, staff writing positions, freelance writing positions, positions involving technical writing and related positions.   The Write JobsTM also provides links to other writing-related job resources, direct links to company job pages and newsgroup job searches.