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Backspace (www.bksp.org) is an online writers organization with over 1,800 members in a dozen countries. A third of our members are agented and published, and include several dozen New York Times bestselling authors. Members have sold film rights, and their books have been nominated for and/or won prestigious awards: Quills, Edgars, Anthonys, Lambdas, the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, John Sargent Jr. First Novel Prize, and Booksense’s Book of the Year, to name just a few.
One reason for our members’ outstanding success is that we take our mission statement seriously. Backspace is predicated on the idea of writers helping writers, which we accomplish by means of discussion forums, an online guest speaker program in which agents, acquisitions editors, and bestselling authors regularly conduct question and answer sessions with the group, advice and how-to articles from publishing experts on this website, as well as our real-world conferences and events.
Backspace is endorsed by David Morrell, Gayle Lynds, Lee Child, Jeff Kleinman, Janet Reid, Kristin Nelson, and many others associated with writing and publishing. Backspace has been named to Writer’s Digest Magazine’s ‘101 Best Websites for Writers’ list all eight years of our existence. (2005-2012)
The discussion forums are available by subscription ($40/year, including a 5-day free trial). If you’re not yet a Backspace member, why not check them out? Here’s how to join.
“I love being associated with you guys. Such a class act. Backspace is the pre-eminent writers organization because you guys have made it so. Always innovating, thinking outside the box, and just generally doing conferences bigger and better than they have been done before. I’m just honored to have been there from the start.” — Kristin Nelson, Nelson Literary Agency
“Backspace is my favorite.” — Jeff Kleinman, Folio Literary Management
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Backspace Members’ Websites:
Alender, Katie
Alexander, Tasha
Allan, Christa
Amernic, Jerry
Anderson, Jeffrey Scott
Annino, Barbara
Apolicastro, Anthony
Archer, Gretchen
Baker, Gail Konop
Balester, Patrick
Baratz-Logsted, Lauren
Barbara, Stephen – Donald Maass Agency
Barker, Ian
Bass, Carolyn Burns
Bastable, Mark
Beard, Philip
Beckwith, Sandra
Benedict, Laura
Benjamin, Melanie
Berridge, A.L.
Bernard, Jami
Bernstein, Arnie
Birch, BK
Bourgeois, Richard
Bourque, Marie-Claude
Brazalovich, Stacy
Breaux, Kevin
Britt, Julie
Brown, Ruth L.
Brown-Wolf, Carrie
Browne, Robert Gregory
Bruner, Ryan
Burton, L. A.
Campbell, Kay Hardy
Carmichael, Liz
Carney, Jacqueline
Carter, Ally
Chan, Darcie
Christie, Nora
Clay, Cynthia Joyce
Clinch, Jon
Cohen, Tish
Cole, Camille
Cole, Rachel E.
Coleman, Eileen Cruz
Compton, Julie
Cook, Eileen
Coombes, Mike
Cooper, JJ
Corona, Laurel
Crandall, Eileen
Crawford, Hughes
Cronin, Keith
Curran, Caroline
Dana, Maggie
Dark, Kristy
del Rio, Rebecca
Derby, Ray
DeVido, Brian
Diamond, Vincent
DiCairano, Catherine
Dionne, Karen
Doyle, Gerry
Du Bay, Jen
Duffy, Shannon
Dunlap, Susanne
Elkinson, Eileen
Ferrer, Barbara
Fisher, Sharon
Ford, Jamie
Forkner, Tina Ann
Fowler, Heather
Fullerty, Matt
Gable, Michelle
Gardiner, Jenny
Gerber, Linda
Getze, Jack
Giacoletto, Loretta
Glassman, Sharon
Gombar, Christina
Grabenstein, Chris
Graham, Marc
Grantham, Robin
Gray, Claudia
Greene, Nancy O.
Griffin, Lynne
Gruen, Sara
Guidarini, Lisa
Gulland, Sandra
Hamer, Sandra
Harayda , Janice
Harp, Andy
Harrington, Kim
Hart, Steven
Haskins, Michael
Haupt, Jennifer
Hauser, Melanie Lynne
Henderson, Susan
Henry, Sara J.
Hinton, Billie
Hooper, Kay
Huffman, Delia
Hughes, Jill Elaine
Hunsicker, Harry
Jaden, Denise
Jaquith, Janis
Jefferson, Jennifer
Johnson, Allison
Johnson, Jeffrey N.
Kagen, Lesley
Kahl, Polly
Kay, Janet
Keener, Jessica
Kennedy, Mary
Kibler, Julie
Kiernan, Kristy
King, A.S.
King, Gary C.
Kleinman, Jeff – Folio Literary Management
Knapp, E.J.
Konrath, J.A.
Kramer, Julie
Kring, Sandra
Laskas, Gretchen
Lazar, Aaron
Leavitt, Caroline
Letts, Elizabeth
Levy, Joanne
Lindsay, Colleen
Lonsdale, Kerry
Luther, Alice
Lynds, Gayle
Maberry, Jonathan
MacKinnon, Amy
Magendie, Kathryn
Magid, Beverly
Major, Laura
Mariano, Thelma
McGowan, Maureen
McMann, Lisa
McNeill, J.P.
McNicholl, Damian
Meador, Minette
Meyers, Randy Susan
Mitchell Moore, Meg
Molina, Terri
Moore , Joe
Moore, Joyce
Mullan, Pat
Nelson, Kristin – Nelson Literary Agency
O’Connor, Martha
Olivia, Lori
Paine, Mary
Patton, Lisa
Pearson, M.J.
Pemberton, Heather
Pettus, Mark
Pike, E.B.
Phipps, Mickie
Pugh, Candida
Raab, Diana
Rakha, Naseem
Read, Cornelia
Rhoades, J.D.
Richenda
Riley, Jess
Robison, John
Romo, K.L.
Rose, Terez
Rosen, Renee
Rosenfeld, Jordan
Rowen, Michelle
Rowland, Russell
Roy, Allyson
Ruttan, Sandra
Ryan, Trish
Schubert, Debra L.
Schoenberger, Susan
Schweitzer, Sophia
Sellers, L.J.
Shakely, Jack
Shapiro, Rochelle
Shimko, Bonnie
Shore, Melody
Sibley, Marcille
Simon, Clea
Simpson, Karen
Sinclair, Lynn
Skolkin-Smith, Leora
Slick, Robin
Smith, BPM
Snow, Jennifer
Sokoloff, Alexandra
Stagliano, Kim
Stanley, Kelli
Stephens, Marta
Stokes, B.
Surface, Kevin
Talty, Jennifer
Taylor, Jane E.
Teukolsky, Roselyn
Thayer, David
Tokunaga, Wendy Nelson
Toomey, Jason
Turner, Bonnie
Tutman, Paula
Vida, Nina
Wade, Juliette
Walsh, Therese
Ward, Lexie
Weber, Kristen – Kristen Weber Editorial
Wills, Steph
Winfield, Jess
Winslow, Emily
Wood, Patricia
Young, Gareth
Zuzulo, Kellyann
