There are many active organizations and discussion groups and useful newsletters to help you with your writing, marketing and publishing. Here's a list:
- Author Marketing Experts newsletter
- AME's Penny Sansevieri's blog on Huffington Post
- AME's Penny Sansevieri's Top 30 Websites for Indie Authors
- BookSquare (basic free version) blog on publishing industry
- Brian Jud's marketing newsletter
- Dan Poynter's newsletter on self-publishing
- Every Writer's Resource, resources for writers on book publishing, writing, literary magazines, poetry, fiction, literary magazines, book publishers and more
- Foreword This Week, general publishing news for small publishers
- Galley Cat, publishing industry blog
- Independent Book Publishers Association offers seminars and a wide range of benefits
- Publish-L, e-mail discussion list for issues related to publishing.
- Publisher's Forum, "where publishers can discuss issues of importance to them and their industry."
- Publishers Lunch (basic free version), a daily posting of publishing news
- Shelf Awareness, e-mail newsletter on book sales
- Writers and Editors, a comprehensive collection of resources for writers and editors on all aspects of writing, editing, and publishing
- Yahoo Indy Publishers group, "a discussion group for professional writers who want to self-publish, and for the freelance editors, graphic and interior designers, printers, indexers and Independent Presses who can help them do it."
- Yahoo Print-on-Demand Publishers group "for published POD authors to exchange ideas of marketing, promotion and sales of their books as well as discuss the different publishers they have used
- Yahoo Self-Publishing discussion group, "a community of authors and small presses interested or involved in publishing and marketing their own work and that of others," with more than 2,500 members
