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The Best Free Book on Writing Craft by Philip K Dick
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The Indie, Hybrid, and Self-published author resource
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Fixing Fiction: What to do if your story has too many protagonists
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Formula Fiction: Essential Writing Techniques Traditional Publishers Don’t Want You to Know About
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Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling Dissected for Novelists
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Narrative Style and Author Branding in the 3rd Person
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An Idiots Guide to Advertising with Amazon Ads for Indie Authors
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Useful Stuff
Drafting, Editing, Formatting
This list provides great tools to get words on the page.
(Last updated: 7th August 2026)
- Atticus – Book Formatting Software
- Scrivener The best writing software
- Aeon Timeline The writers timeline tool
- Notion - free writing / notes / database
- Novlr Online writing tool with lots of features & growing fast.
- Vellum - Mac only incredible formatting / publishing tool
- Reedsy – Author Tools & Services
- Grammarly – Editing tools
- ProWritingAid – Editing Tools
Legal & Contracts
- ALLi – Independent Author Resources
(Last updated: 7th August 2026)
Other Resources
Great spaces and services which overlap many other sections and should be explored.
(Last updated: 7th August 2026)
- Dropbox Simple free storage for your files
- Story Plot Generator – A plot in a sentence
- Anagram maker
- Character Factory Detailed character building
- Contrasting Emotions
- Fake Name Generator Fast character builder
Podcasts
Great Podcasts with good advice and information for free.
(Last updated: 7th August 2026)
Publishing / Distribution
All the links you need to login and keep track of your publications distribution.