Suzanne Montz Adams Author
Award-Winning Essayist

For Writers:

Recommended Websites and Podcasts:

• My favorite online writing community: Womens Fiction Writers Association
• Helpful and inspirational articles: Writer Unboxed
• Invaluable resource for contests, retreats, agents, and all things literary: Poets & Writers
• Information on the business side of things: Jane Friedman
• Literary agent interviews and tips: Writers’ Digest’s Guide to Literary Agents
• You Should Write a Book with Camille Pagan: Spotify
• The Best of Women’s Fiction with Lainey Cameron: Spotify 
• Hear Us Roar Hosted by Maggie Smith with the link: Spotify 

Favorite Books on the Craft of Writing 

• The Emotional Craft of Fiction: How to Write the Story Beneath the Surface by Donald Maass
• Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere) by Lisa Cron
• The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers by Betsy Lerner
• Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Browne and Dave King

• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland

For Readers:

• Modern Mrs. Darcy’s “What Should I Read Next?”
• WhichBook
• Bustle’s “10 Weird Habits of Book Lovers that Non-Readers Don’t Understand”