Donna Andrews

Writing resources

The best all-around collection of resources you can find:

• Laura Resnick's writing resources page

Synopsis writing:

• Samples from Poisoned Pen Press

Avoiding scams

• Preditors and Editors
• Writer Beware
• The Street-Smart Writer

Blogs and websites on writing by mystery authors

• The Femmes Fatales
  
• Jan Burke on writing
  
• The Lipstick Chronicles
  
• Donna Andrews on Finding the One True Agent
  
• Writing tips from Meg Chittenden

General links from the mystery community

• Mystery Writers of America national
  
• Mystery Writers of America Mid-Atlantic chapter
  
• Sisters in Crime national
  
• Sisters in Crime, Chesapeake Chapter
  
• DorothyL mystery list
  
• Malice Domestic
  
• ClueLass
  

Subject matter expertise

• Weapons Info Yahoo group


• Doug Lyle: the Writer's Medical and Forensics Lab


• The Graveyard Shift: Lee Lofland's blog about police procedure and investigation