Literature

The author of Roughing It With Ryan, South Village Singles from Harlequin Temptation, and 2002 MADCAP Comedy Award Winner.

Romance author of Winning Jenna's Heart, Harlequin Historical.

Historical and paranormal romantic comedy; author of the Argeneau vampire series. Book list including series and foreign editions, new and upcoming releases, author profile, forums, mailing list, image gallery of England, and links collection.

Author of contemporary, paranormal and futuristic erotic romance. Read reviews, free excerpts, news, writing tips and contests.

The author of paranormal romance.

Category romantic suspense author of the Colby Agency series. Author profile, events schedule, backlist, and news. [Flash]

Spicy romance author of western historicals and paranormals, including the Texas Vampires trilogy. Book list with synopses, forums, author profile, and links collection.

Writer for Silhouette Desire, featuring American Indians. Book list and awards, author profile, critique partners, mailing list, cover models, online stories, image galleries, links collection, and Native American FAQ.

Category romantic suspense author; biography, titles and series guides, events schedule, and subgenre writing tips.

Georgian and Regency romance writer. Overview of her work and interests, a biography, review and chapter excerpt links, poems and a short story.

Single title contemporary author. Back list, biography, excerpt, and links.

Mid-Continent Public Library.

Self-published ebook author of various works of Irish Christian SF.

Biographical information for Wilmar Shiras, author of Children of the Atom.

Publisher of the Triple Realm fantasy series, and the non-fiction So You Really Want To Write Science Fiction?.

US-based small press.

Small press publisher of horror fiction.

Smallpress publisher of books such as Gatekeeper and Sojourner (action-oriented sci-fi).

Online stories by Thomas Nevin Huber, originally written in the early 1990s.

For past and latest reviews, news, upcoming releases, and an extensive timeline.

Book reviews, news, and literature timeline.

Biography and pictures.

Membership organization promoting interest in writing of Zane Grey, links to films, museums, annual convention.

Verse version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

A place to learn about Irish mythology.

Illustrated and annotated translation of the Inferno.

Electronic realization by Charles Franco. New Translation by Joseph Tusiani, introduction and notes by G. Di Scipio.

Etext at Project Gutenberg.

Etext at Project Gutenberg.

A description of the form with instructions on how to write one.

By English journalist Edmund Clerihew Bentley, the inventor of the form.

This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now nor ever, on Earth) language.

The two earliest known books of limericks, with a link to a third. Part of an Edward Lear home page.

A limerick page for children, with a simple explanation and some family-friendly examples, including the option to print out limericks in color. Be warned: the site generates pop-up and new-browser-window ads.

A brief history and explanation along with numerous examples from "A Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear.

A blog that collects a number of sites relating to Edward Lear, the creator of the limerick.

A description and explanation of the form, with examples and a step-by-step guide to writing one.

By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Unusual in its use of rhyme.

Translations into English of Korean sijo from poets of the Classical period.

An introductory page by Larry Gross, a leading proponent of writing sijo in English, with some of his poems and links to his several pages on the subject, and an e-mail discussion list on the subject.

Instructions on how to write a Shakespearean sonnet with an analysis of the form and content of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.

An eleven sonnet sequence by George Eliot.

By Brandon Astor Jones, as of 1996 a prisoner on death row. From the archives of The Green Left Weekly.

By Oscar Wilde.

Web site of this worldwide membership group, with pages of scores of members' haiku and other resources. Webmaster Bin Akio, a senior member of Japan's haiku community.

Web site of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of United States and Canada, a Bay Area group with international membership and extensive activities built around a tradition-based understanding of haiku.

This is a group for discussing the art and the problems of translating haiku, from any language into another. Managed by Gabi Greve.

Samples of poetry and some thoughts on haiku by Dan Brady.

Regular notes from poet and author Edward Weiss

A haiku weblog by jem.