Favorite Links
Favorite People and their home pages:
- Alexa deMonterice - CITHian, red demon, and mistress of erotic horror
- Amy Benesch - CITHian, resident pagan/wiccan/lunatic, and good all-round "hard to classify" writer
- Charles Sheffield - married to our CITH godmother, award winner and prolific author of "hard" SF stories
- Dallas Mayr (a.k.a. Jack Ketchum) - better horror writer than Stephen King and most generous matchmaker
- Gerard Daniel Houarner - CITHian, "King of the Small Press," and keeper of the insane at a Bronx mental hospital
- Gordon Linzner - CITHian, writer, and editor extraordinaire of the venerable Space & Time Magazine
- James Morrow - my favorite satirist and blasphemer as well as award winning author
- Keith R.A. DeCandido - CITHian and master of all worlds TV
- Linda Addison - CITHian, "Queen of Dark Matter," and poetess extrordinaire
- Marina Frants - CITHian, scuba queen, and fantastic fantasy writer
- Nancy Kress - CITH godmother, award-winner and all round great teller of tales - catch her fiction writing columns in Writer's Digest
- Natalia Lincoln - CITHian, webmistress of the dark arts, and key player in Goth band Unto Ashes
- Terry Bisson - CITH godfather, boffo writer and great southern gentleman
Favorite writing sites:
- The Burry Man's Writer Center - an eclectic site for writers with tips and extensive links to markets of all kinds. Maintained by Joseph Hayes.
- Inscriptions - a weekly ezine for writers, advice, interviews, markets, job postings. Sign up for the weekly newsletter.
- Writer's Digest - the grandmother of all writing sites.
- Writer's Weekly - advice, columns, markets, and job listings for freelancers. Sign up for the free weekly newsletter edited by Angela Adair-Hoy.
- Writing World - interviews, advice, and columns for fiction and non-fiction writers. Maintained by Moira Allen, previous Editor at Inkspot.com.
Miscellaneous Fun Places:
- Curses! Tired of insipid invective? Surf to this Elizabethan curse generator thou bawdy pox-marked baggage! Or perhaps you're a greasy bat-fowling gudgeon?
- About.com's Net Hoaxes and Junk Email - ever get an alarming email from a friend about Congressional taxes urging you to send it on to everyone in your address book? Check it out at this wonderful site before annoying your friends with junk email.
- Dohistory.org - an interesting site that teaches you how to research history projects from original sources
- Jay's Roman History - a comprehensive site awarded the Discovery Channel School commendation as a good educational site
- Hypatia of Alexandria - "the site" on Hypatia and her times, maintained by Howard A. Landman
- Mything Links a great site for links to world-wide myths, fairy tales, and folk lore.
- Space.com - everything you (or your children) want to know about what's happening in space with stunning pictures and video
- Wired - webhead stuff, including on-line classes (I use the Webmonkey classes for children - I figure if they can explain this stuff to kids, I might get it!)