Writing Organisations:

• Romance Writers of America

• Romance Writers of Australia

• Romance Writers of New Zealand

• PASIC - the Published Authors Special Interest Chapter of Romance Writers of America

On-Line Communities:

• The Ditzy Chix – a group of friends who also happen to write great stories

• Desire Authors – upcoming releases, author news, everything Desirable

• eHarlequin Community – a community of writers and readers who love talking about Harlequin books

• Access Romance – author community with great interviews, behind-the-book tales and author podcasts

• Cataromance – the website that celebrates category romance 

• Romantic Times – the on-line home of the magazine

Six of the Best: some of my favourite places to visit

• Alicia Rasley’s Article of the Month: one of my favourite writing teachers 

• Anne Gracie’s Articles on Writing: another on my list of favourite writing teachers!

• Barbara Samuel is my favourite writer for all manner of reasons. This column is one of them. 

• eHarlequin's Learn to Write Channel for articles and advice and guidelines on writing for all the Harlequin lines and imprints

• Paula Roe’s website  is a fun place to visit (don’t you love the design?) and has an awesome collection of links for writing and research 

• Romancing the Blog is a collection of romance writers and readers and the occasional editor blog about…what else?…romance. 

Bookstores:   click here for links to romance bookstores