Links to Events & Literary Festivals:

www.literaryfestival.org/ -  Dahlonega, GA (February annually).

http://www.georgialiteraryfestival.org/.

http://www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/bookfair.html - The Center for the Book, Library of Congress.  This site
lists events across USA and around the world.

http://www.poets.org/state.php/varState/GA - From Academy of American Poets.  This site lists info and
events for GA Poets.

http://www.coe.uga.edu/gcba/ - Georgia's Children's Book Awards in Athens, GA every spring.

More information coming soon.  Please check back!
Informative Links:

Want to know what sites are out there relating to children's literature? A librarian in New York maintains this set of links that
she considers the best of the web. Check it out at: http://www.digital-librarian.com/childlit.html.

http://www.scbwi.org/links.htm - Links are broken down into categories:  Helpful Research Links, Industry Related
Links, and Member Web Pages.

http://writing.shawguides.com/search?t=Georgia - Writers conferences and workshops in Georgia.

http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/ - Link to Prededitors & Editors.  General advice is to avoid any agent/editor
who demands upfront fees, except for nominal fees for copying, postage, etc.

http://www.robinfriedman.com/interviews.html - For interviews with Editors.

www.arthuralevinebooks.com - Arthur A. Levine's inspirational speech from a Miami Conference.

www.kimn.net - Inspiration for writers on the web.

www.gigglepoetry.com - Hundreds of poems to read and rate!

www.lankalinksystems.com/directory/tools/kids/childrens_books.htm - A listing of 126 children's books publishers
at your fingertips!

www.wikpedia.org - A link to all the best resources on the net!

www.rhymezone.com and http://rhyme.poetry.com - Find rhyming words.  Perfect if you don't have a dictionary or
thesaurus around.

www.write4kids.com - Write4Kids.com is packed with articles, interactive tools and cool freebies...all about the art of
writing children's books and submitting them to children's book publishers.  You'll find page after page of advice found
nowhere else online or off.

www.smartwriters.com - For everyone who writes, read or teaches literature for kids.

www.askjeeves.com - Ask.com's innovative search technologies deliver fast and relevant information for millions of
people every day.

www.rinkworks.com/namegen - Samuel Stoddard's Fantasy Name Generator.  Choose insults, long names, and names
with apostrophe simply by selecting from a drop down list.

www.fortunecity.com/victorian/tiffany/111/dnd/elfnamejava.html - Elf Name Generator.

www.rinkworks.com/dialect - Dialectizer translates a webpage into Redneck, Cockney or other dialects.

http://www.google.com/Top/Games/Roleplaying/World_Building/Names/ Generators - For a complete listing of
name generators.

www.mainstrike.com/mstservices/handy/insult.html - Shakespearean Insult Generator.

www.insultmonger.com/generators - Site dedicated to art of insults.

www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm - Random Name Generator.  Generates an endless amount of names for you to
use.  Find the perfect combination of first and last names!

www.vs24.cedant.com/gens - Page of Generators.  Generate names of fantastical lakes, rivers, mountains, wands and
character descriptions.

www.leonatkinson.com/random - Leon's Random Generators.  Come up with jokes, band names and more.

http://rinkworks.com/words - Fun With Words.  Lists links and shows you words with letters in ABC order.

http://20000-names.com - Resource that allows you to find names in different languages and tells you what they mean.  
Find the name that's perfect to describe your character.

www.namepower101.com - Free analysis of any name.

www.nzbirds.com/more/nouns.html - Collective nouns on birds.

http://rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml - One of the craziest oddities of the English language is that there are so
many different collective nouns that all mean "group" but which are specific to what particular thing there is a group of: a
herd of elephants, a crowd of people, a box of crayons, a pad of paper, etc. There are a great diversity of collective nouns
associated with animals, from a sleuth of bears to a murder of crows.  At this site you'll find a list of the correct terms to
describe groups of various types of animals.

http://www.vigay.com/nouns - Paul Vigay's Collection of Collective Nouns.  Find collective nouns for mammals, fish,
objects, people, insects, etc. at this site.

http://www.drgrammar.org - Your RX for writing ills.
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