Miscellaneous links

AuthorsBookshop.com
AuthorsBookshop.com is an online bookstore dedicated to selling self-published, independently published and small-press published books. Support independent - Buy independent - Be independent.
www.authorsbookshop.com
The Banksonian
An Iain (M) Banks Fanzine
www.banksonian.netfirms.com
BioDiplomacy
BioDiplomacy uses diplomatic skills to promote global diversity, especially in island communities.
www.biodiplomacy.net
Bookangst 101
A blog detailing the workings of the American publishing industry from the inside. Recommended reading for anyone interested in the publishing world.
bookangst.blogspot.com
Books From Scotland
The new online bookshop from the Scottish Publishers Association, dedicated to Scottish writers and publishers.
www.booksfromscotland.com
Edinburgh International Book Festival
The Edinburgh International Book Festival began in 1983 and is now a key event in the August Festival season, celebrated annually in Scotland's capital city. Today, the Festival programmes over 650 events, which are enjoyed by people of all ages.
www.edbookfest.co.uk
Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature
Edinburgh's case for designation as the first City of Literature was successfully presented to UNESCO in October 2004. Edinburgh: UNESCO City of Literature now seeks to build on this honour to deliver clear benefits for the city and for Scotland, to promote our country through literature and to establish the city as an example for all the other cities of literature that follow.
www.cityofliterature.com
Exiled Writers Ink!
This organisation provides a platform for the work of artists living in exile in the UK and mainland Europe through performance, publishing and training activities. It believes that the literature, art and culture of exile can provide a focus for communication and integration throughout society, and act as a force for positive change.
www.exiledwriters.co.uk
The Flashman Society
Site dedicated to the Victorian anti-hero, Harry Flashman, introduced to the world in Tom Brown's Schooldays, by Thomas Hughes, and star of The Flashman Papers, by Scottish author George MacDonald Fraser O.B.E.
www.harryflashman.org
Garden Blethers!
A Scottish Garden Writing site. By a garden writer: Patrick Vickery.
www.geocities.com/gardenblethers
McSweeney's
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency is an offshoot of Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, a journal created by nervous people in relative obscurity, and published four times a year.
www.mcsweeneys.net
Melissa and Rebekka's Travelogue
Melissa and Rebekka are travelling through the middle east, and will be facilitating art workshops in Jerusalem with local children. They will be writing about the experience for Textualities, but this is their live journal as they go. With text and photography.
www.livejournal.com/users/point_to_point
Scottish Pamphlet Poetry
Championing Scottish poetry pamphlets.
www.scottish-pamphlet-poetry
Wigtown - Scotland's National Book Town
Scotland`s National Book Town Ð a book lovers haven - and with over quarter of a million books to choose from, old and new - it is impossible to escape empty handed.
www.wigtown-booktown.co.uk