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Query Letters Made Simplefrom SARA RWA
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Research
The Phrase Finder Meanings and Origins of Phrases, sayings, cliches and quotes
Urban Legends Reference Pages Look up that pesky rumor folks have been spreading around as TheTruth--or isit?
Science Made Simple Need I say more?
City-Data.com good jumping off point to statistics on hundreds of cities in the USA

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Publisher Websites
These are only a few of the publishers that publish romance. We've put guidelines in where available. For a more complete list of publishers and submission guidelines, please see the RWA ® website, the members only section, which features a market update area with publisher requirements, as well as names of editors who are currently accepting submissions. Please check before submitting!

• Avon Romance is a division of Harper Collins, which is a subsidiary of News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch) Guidelines
  
• Bantam Dell Publishing Group is part of Random House, which is part of Bertelsmann
  
• Berkley Jove is part of the Penguin Group, which is part of Pearson
  
• Dorchester Publications Imprints Leisure and Lovespell feature romance; are not owned by anybody else. Yet. Guidelines
  
• Harlequin-Silhouette REALLY good site for readers and writers. Too many imprints to mention. They are owned by Torstar. Guidelines
  
• Kensington Publishing Corp. also independent
  
• NAL or New American Library, not a very informative site, but anyway, an imprint of Penguin Putnam, a part of the Penguin Group, which falls under Pearson (see Berkley Jove above)
  
• Pocket Books an imprint of Simon and Schuster, which bought and sold, bought and sold, was bought and sold, and now is under the wings of Viacom
  
• St. Martin's Press part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe George Von Holtzbrinck, which also owns Tor/Forge
  
• Tor/ Forge part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC, a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe George Von Holtzbrinck, which also owns St. Matins. Guidelines for Paranormal Romance can be found here
  
• Warner Books this is the romance section, which is only a bit of the vast amount of things they publish. Part of the Time Warner Book Group, which is part of AOL-Time Warner.
  

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