Every Writer's Essential Guide to Online Resources and Opportunities . Prima Publishing , 1997. Originally contained in files on a server, FAQs grew into quickly photocopied instructions, on-line newsgroups, and with the rise of the World Wide Web, books. Filled with Web addresses and short descriptions of individual sites, the book fulfills an important role in becoming familiar and understanding the resources available to the writer on the Internet. Gach divides his book into nineteen, reasonably organized chapters.
Topics range from networking on-line to finding a particular site dedicated to children's writers.
While this reviewer harbors no literary aspirations, he did find the sites featured in writers.net to be generally informative and quite in line with their descriptions in the book. Indeed, it is the site listings that give the book its true worth. As anyone who has ever had to find a book, article, or journal well knows, the time wasted in the actual tracking down of said resource can be enormous. Writers.net presents a plethora of Web sites whose scope is wide ranging and thorough. As these sites are doubtlessly linked to others that may not be listed in the book, they provide a gateway whereby the aspiring author can discover for his or herself the resources tailored to their needs.