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Tanya Tienne

On This Site
The Mystery Genre - Definitions of the mystery genre and its sub-genres
Writing Tips - Tips from other mystery authors
Writer Support Organizations - Free Membership
All About Murder - Website included information about member authors' books and links to their websites, book reviews, a message board and a Yahoo! newsgroup, and a page of mystery-related links.
DorothyL - An online discussion list focused on mystery fans, but populated with many writers, librarians and booksellers.
Murder Must Advertise - An online community dedicated to exchanging ideas and experiences about marketing mysteries, with many experienced authors, booksellers, agents and PR people in its membership.
Mystery Writers' Forum - A bulletin board for mystery writers and aspiring mystery writers.
Writer Support Organizations - Membership Fee Required
Mystery Writers of America - Membership open to published mystery writers, editors, screenwriters, and other professionals in the field.
- A bit expensive at $80 per year, but offers good legal and tax information, sponsors conferences, and presents the Edgar award.
Sisters In Crime - “An international organization of writers, readers, booksellers, librarians, agents, editors, reviewers and teachers interested in promoting the work of women mystery writers.” (Men are welcome to join as well.)
- Membership is $35 per year. SinC has local chapters across the country and an Internet chapter. (Last time I checked the Internet chapter cost $10 per year.)
Author's Sites
Holly Lisle   - Several message boards and a lot of articles about writing and publishing.
Mary Reed and
Eric Mayer
 
- A large listing of newsletters and a good links page.
Margaret Chittenden   - Good writing tips and good writing links pages.
Individual/Commercial Information Sites
Internet Resources   - If you're looking for one web page containing enough categorized writing links to keep you busy for a few weeks, this is it.
Ivan Hoffman,
Attorney at Law
 
- A lot of legal info here, including articles about foreign rights, contracts, distribution, copyrights, being an entrepreneur, and misc.