Among the useful sites you'll find is About.Com's publishing pageAbout.com has employed two previous publishing class students.
An excellent source for authors interested in promoting their work _ or for would-be editors interested in how book promotion is done _ is the Author's Toolkit of the online publisher iUniverse.com. This useful site includes outlines of the press release and sell sheet and gives tips on getting tv and radio appearances. A useful Connecticut based site is the Center for the Book which has a variety of helpful links, including one for copyeditors
Most publishing companies - almost 80 percent now have web pages. Look them up by name or go through through a search engine like Yahoo to the business category and into publishing. For example, the large trade and educational Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Company has a large website, complete with job listings.
Of considerable interest are the new online publishing companies, which use the new digital print on demand technology. Some are in need of workers. Check especiallyIUniverse or the european based Online Originals.
As for jobs, check out Career Path, an excellent source for finding out about jobs in PR and publishing, including entry-level positions.Other search options include Job Bank ( which is broken up into regions) and Monster Board:Boston JobBank and Monster.Com.
Another possibility is to check classified ads of publishing industry publications. I've just discovered the online edition of Folio, the magazine of the magazine industry. It has a classified ad section. So does Media Bistro. Some of its material is by subscription, but you can access the want ads for free. Also look atEditor & Publisher which posts journalism and communications jobs. Unfortunately Publishers Weekly allows non-subscribers to read its articles and offers interesting links, but no entry to its classifieds.
However,The New York Times does provide access to its classified section on line. You do have to pick a subscriber id and password, but access is free and there are lots of jobs and lots of information.
Closer to home, check out the Hartford Courant's job listings. Go to Careers and try "media". I found the Connecticut Job search less useful for media, but you might have better luck. Several large Connecticut firms like Cigna, Aetna and the local NBC affilaite also have sites with listings.
During the course, we will be working on web pages and learning basic HTML. Good resource for this project include Web Development Lab, which has guides to HTML and web page construction and more. A commercial site the Lab recommended is HTMLGoodies.
A variety of organizations and individuals have websites related to their work. The Mystery Writers of America have a website with links to other useful genre sites. Romance fans might want to check out the Romance Writers of America pages.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has a large and elaborate site with good links to other web pages , especially to sci-fi and fantasy markets and magazines.
Poetry has good web connections, too. Try The Poetry Project, a site with lots of links.
A good source for other writers organizations is a useful copyright site run by the Oregon local of the National Writers Union with excellent links. The National Writers Union homepage has an abundance of information, including their health insurance opportunities. This is very important for self-employed writers!
There are also some interesting sites providing information about marketing books. Bookmarket, Publishing.miningco and Bookzone. Two About.com stites are also relevant, one is their Freelance writers site, the other is About.com 's book publishing site.
Since we will be making web pages, you might want to check out a variety of authors' web pages. The top of the line model is well represented by the elaborate home page devoted to mega-selling romance novelist, Danielle Steel.
Let me know when you find sites of interest and we'll add them to this page.