The Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America has over 250 members from Pensacola to Key West.

Mystery Writers of America - Florida Chapter ~ Links

Listed below are links to websites that MWA-Florida feels are useful resources for mystery writers.

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Bookstores

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Murder on the Beach - If it's mystery you want, this is the place to get it.

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Chronicles Bookshop - "We're Your Book Store At Your Door!" PLEASE NOTE NEW E-MAIL: staff@chroniclesbookshop.com 

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AUTHORLINK - E-mail: dbooth@authorlink.com 

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Meritorious Mysteries - Molly Weston 919/362-1436

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Amazon.com Books! Earth's Biggest Bookstore - Search by Author, Title, Subject or just browse the 'isles'

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BookWeb: Bookstore Directories - Comprehensive Independent Booksellers Online. Find bookstores by specialties. Over 4,500 booksellers

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BIBLIOFIND - Three million old/rare/out of print/antiquarian books offered by over 1000 booksellers around the world.

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Book Links - Mystery, Suspense, Thrillers - Lots of links to publishers. Reviews Fiction.

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Llewellyn Home Page - New Age Bookstore

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Florida Websites

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Fort Lauderdale, Florida Area Guide

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Butterfly World

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South Florida Birding Connection (c)1997

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Florida Explorer: Welcome!

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Forensics & Law Enforcement

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International Law Enforcement Guide to LEO resources, justice resources, Most Wanted, newsletter, and more

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T.C. FORENSIC P/L - Forensic and Scientific Services Forensic & Scientific Services. Great links. Good articles.

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TnCrimLaw's Criminal & Law Links search engine for criminal & law links

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TnCrimLaw: Tennessee Criminal Law Defense Res... lots of links: forensics, medical Mental Health, reference, Criminal Law, Tennessee Law Federal Law, General Law and more!

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Chris Anderson & Co Forensic Document Examiners Good article about document examination

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DNA EVIDENCE Articles, reports & case studies.

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Crime Scene and Forensic Photography Here's how it's done!

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The Wild, Wild World of Forensics Forensic Psychology, Serial Killers, Profiling

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Crime Scene Investigation Here's how it's done!

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Police Radio Codes (for California)

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LAW ENFORCEMENT SITES ON THE WEB Chat room, missing children, Law enforcement news. (8 sites)

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Legal

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Stetson Law - Legal Resources

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Stetson Law - The Charles A. Dana Law Library

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Supreme Court Decisions - The Legal Information Institute offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes, the court's electronic-dissemination project.  This archive contains (or will soon contain) all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990.   In addition, our collection of over 300 of the most important historical decisions of the Court is available on CD-ROM and (with reduced functionality) over the Net.  

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The 'Lectric Law Library's Reference Room - Here's the 'guts' of the Library, The Lawcopedia™, our legal dictionary, The 'Lectric Law Lexicon, and our many Topic Areas. There are also links to some of our other rooms, to unique resources and to other folk's sites. But, rather than bore you with the details, why don't you just explore and check things out.

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Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Page - Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

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Guide to Law Online - Prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information worldwide on government and law available online without charge. It includes links only to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's nations, although none of these sites have yet qualified for full GLIN recognition for the completeness, accuracy and officially certified authenticity of the legal texts they provide. As such sites come online, they will be linked directly to the GLIN database and will additionally receive special recognition in the Guide.

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United States Code - Generated from the most recent version of the Government Printing Office CD-ROM. It contains the laws in force as of 16 January 1996.

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Court TV Law Center - Court TV's Law Center is the place online for consumers to get information about what's going on at Court TV as well as what's going on in the law and the legal system. In addition to program guides, court documents, and transcripts of legal proceedings, the Law Center offers practical tips on the law, legal games and discussion groups about the law. Members can talk to each other and to the staff at Court TV. Drawing from the resources of Court TV, the Law Center provides lively, comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the law.

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Cal Law - The Complete Daily Briefing on California Law and the Courts - Court TV's Law Center is the place online for consumers to get information about what's going on at Court TV as well as what's going on in the law and the legal system. In addition to program guides, court documents, and transcripts of legal proceedings, the Law Center offers practical tips on the law, legal games and discussion groups about the law. Members can talk to each other and to the staff at Court TV. Drawing from the resources of Court TV, the Law Center provides lively, comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the law.

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Thomas - U.S. Congress on the Internet - Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the Thomas World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. Searching capabilities in Thomas were built on the InQuery information retrieval system, developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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TnCrimLaw: Tennessee Criminal Law Defense Resources - Plus more!

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Marketing

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Internet Directory of Literary Agents - A directory of literary agents with ability of search or browse. Also, FAQ's and Discussion area.

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National Directory of Magazines - Includes Mystery and Horror. Gives addresses and short description of what magazine wants.

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Publishers' Web sites - A listing of publishers who have websites.

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Mystery Orbit - Laura Belgrave's site has information about her novel, plus links to other Silver Dagger authors.

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Mysterious Women (by and about)

bullet International Women's Writing Guild - A network for the personal and professional empowerment of women through writing.

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Researching/Searching

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CU Journalism Internet News Links - Looking for a newspaper? This link will take you to a page of online dailies.

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MEGASOURCES - Lots of well organized links to sources on the Internet.

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Internet Research FAQ - Learn the best way to research on the web before you waste lots of time.

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The Best Research Sites - Researching a novel? The Internet can help you get your facts straight, and by following these links you can add realism to your writing.

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Research Links to Other WWW Sites! - These sites have been chosen specifically to help writers research their scripts.

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See also WRITING, REFERENCE

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Writing (Groups, Organizations, Schools/Software)

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MWA National - The website for the national organization includes information on the organization, on the members, and a number of very good mystery links.

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MWA Northern California Chapter - Information on chapter activities, including membership and a good links page.

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The Sisters in Crime Internet Chapter - Information on the chapter plus interviews and member information; private bulletin boards for members with library and private conference rooms. Members from all across the U. S. and outside as well.

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ComedyWriter Software - ComedyWriter is a Microsoft Windows 3.1/95 program which helps make life and work funnier...and easier!

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StoryCraftPro, A Whole New Way to Write - Get the program that Charles Deemer calls "the best story-development tool on the market today." [Our listing does not constitute a recommendation; nor is this a paid advertisement.]

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Children's Writing Resource Center - Dreaming about writing for children? Here's a place to learn.

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Tampa Writers Alliance

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The Desktop Writing Workshop - Here's where you can learn what you need to know about the kind of writing you like to do and it's inexpensive, fun, fast, convenient and effective.

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Purdue University On-line Writing Lab - OWLs - Online Writing Labs - abound on the Internet. Here's a good one.

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Futures

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Manhattan Mysteries - This writer's group focuses on small town mysteries and invites everyone to their "terrific little conference" in the beautiful Flint Hills of Kansas in October, when the weather is absolutely glorious!

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Writing (Reference Sources)

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Bartlett, John. 1901. Familiar Quotations - Search by word, by author, by books!

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On-Line English Grammar - If in doubt, check it out here. Even includes an online grammar clinic.

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Grammar and Style Notes - Fifth-year Ph.D candidate in English literature says, "None of these rules is set in stone, and many are matters of personal preference, but all may be useful in making your writing clearer and more effective."

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The Collected Works of Shakespeare - All of them are here and can be searched!

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WritersNet - Internet Resource for Writers, Literary Agents, Editors, Publishers, Writing Assignments

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Other

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The Internet Movie Database - A searchable database of more than 117,000 movies. Search by movie title, actor or actress, character name or even a quote.

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Astronomy Links - A marvelous assemblage of links to sky events: current views, space shuttle missions, satellite passes, comets, eclipses, software, the solar system, Astronomy 101, and much more.

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National Park Service's Links to the Past - Information on historic sites, architecture, archaeology, history.

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Global Positioning System (GPS) Resources - Lots of GPS info together in one place.

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