The Personal Web Pages of Chris Gerrib

Writing

General Useful information about writing (focus on speculative fiction) www.speculations.com

It's important for a writer to get critiques from objective people who read the same type of stuff you write.  In other words, not your Mom or your best girlfriend.  So try the nice folks at www.critters.org.

How do you know if that agent or publisher is ligit?  Try the folks at Preditors and Editors.

What is Rotary? 

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.

Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. 

The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Visit the Darien Rotary Club. (This is my club - I am the President until June 30, 2008)
Or look at Rotary International

General Interest

There's the always interesting Glenn Harland Reynolds (AKA Instapundit)

Science Fiction

For Science Fiction writing, it's hard to beat John Scalzi.  He's nominated for both a Hugo and a Nebula (the SF equivalent of an Emmy and an Oscar.) 

Or, try the great editing team of Teresa and Patrick Neilsen Hayden.

Then, Julie E. Czerneda (her name rhymes with "Chernobyl").

Here's a fairly new SF novelist, Jeff Duntemann.

For the best short stories on the web, visit Jim Baen's Universe! 

Here's another self-published writer, Goeff Nelder.