Right up there with quiet country living and no traffic jams are these two equally great resources for Maine writers.

One is the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. I can’t tell you how many times they’ve extracted me from some  thorny writer’s thicket or other.

The other is Maine Authors Publishing. It’s a beacon of hope during this agonizing publishing meltdown. It is also a harbinger of what I believe will be a trend, authors banding together to get their work out there, bypassing traditional publishers.

If you are at work on a biography, consider joining BIO,  the first-ever international organization to represent the everyday interests of practicing biographers: those who’ve published the stories of real lives, and those working on biographies – in every medium, from print to film. They have been and will continue to be a resource for me.

Robin Brooks of The Beauty of Books designed SPRING BEAR. She is a treasure. If you’re thinking about publishing a book on your own, by all means look at the work she does.

Sam Sayen designed this website. He’s smart, helpful, and easy to work with. Unfortunately, he’s not designing websites anymore.

His dad, Murad Sayen, is one of my three favorite Maine photographers. He shot the landscape on the front page of this site. I’ve directed you to some of his Maine images, but surf his website for his other talents — he’s a writer, painter, and knife designer too.

Next on my Maine photographer list (though they’re all equally good in my eyes) is Chuck Feil. He combines a love of flying with superior photography and shoots downwards while dangling above the earth at the wheel of a gyroplane he calls “Rootie Kazootie.” Sometimes he flies a regular plane, too.

And last is Paul Cyr, an amazing photographer who shoots up in Aroostook, “the County.” I get his daily emails and open them first thing to check out the wildlife and weather up where my Evvie Mallow of SPRING BEAR comes from. Poke around on his site, too, for more of what he does.

Gwyn Fisher is an absolute whiz-bang with Word Press. He, too, turns out to be a Maine photographer, a newly discovered favorite of mine. (What is it that attracts me to them???) He re-configured this site and adapted a new theme.