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Resources/Reading Lists

All Genres

Below you will find Reading & Resource lists for the types of writing taught at Gotham—recommended books, publications, works, and websites. These lists will usher you deep inside the world of each of these writing types. Browse and click and lose yourself here for a while.

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  • Blog & Newsletter Writing
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  • Feature Article Writing
  • Fiction Writing
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  • Hit Send: Publishing Short Nonfiction
  • How To Get Published
  • Humor Writing
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  • Mystery Writing
  • Nonfiction Book Proposal
  • Playwriting
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  • True Story: Teen Creative Nonfiction
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  • Unbound: Teen Creative Writing
  • Video Game Writing

Mystery Writing

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Mystery Writing - Reference

Business Books

  • Friedman, Jane E. . Publishing 101
  • Roerden, Chris. Don't Murder Your Mystery

Craft Books

  • Writing Mysteries
  • Beinhart, Larry. How to Write a Mystery
  • Block, Lawrence . Telling Lies for Fun and Profit
  • Gotham Writers Workshop. Writing Fiction
  • Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
  • James, P.D. Talking About Detective Fiction
  • King, Stephen. On Writing
  • Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird
  • Maass, Donald. Writing the Breakout Novel

Databases

  • Agent Query
  • Duotrope
  • Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents
  • Manuscript Wish List
  • Publishers Marketplace

Helpful Places

  • Crippen & Landru
  • Looking for a Mystery?
  • Mysterious Bookshop
  • Mystery Reviews
  • National Novel Writing Month
  • Submittable
  • The Blacklist
  • Writer Beware

Mystery Reference Books

  • Howdunit Series
  • Keating, H.R.F.. Crime and Mystery: the One Hundred Best Books

Organizations

  • Association of American Literary Agents
  • Crime Writers Association
  • Mystery Writers of America
  • Sisters in Crime
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