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Inkspot

An Epilogue

Maintained by Debbie Ridpath Ohi

Update: Xlibris sold the Inkspot.com domain as a traffic funnel for Writing.com.
What to do if you see a link to Inkspot.com (a heartfelt plea)

After six years of operation (with nearly 50,000 subscribers, 200,000 unique site visitors and over 400,000 page views a month), Inkspot was shut down by Xlibris on February 14th, 2001, eight months after being acquired by the company. Xlibris cited budget cuts for their decision. See this Wired article.

The discussion forums were moved to Writers' BBS (but see below). You also can find farewell messages from staff (including my own) and Inkspot users below.

I've started up a weblog for writers called Inkygirl. You can find out more about what I'm up to by visiting my personal homepage, my daily journal, or my semi-autobiographical comic strip. I currently am the Market Watch columnist for WritersMarket.com.

And if you haven't already, don't forget to visit Moira Allen's Writing World, which is packed with useful articles, columns and links for writers, and also offers a free e-mail newsletter.

Thanks so much for all your letters of support and encouragement; they're much appreciated.

Keeping writing,

Debbie


Information

Press clippings, awards, past user feedback
Farewell messages: Inkspot staff
Inkspot's disappearing? Where should I go instead?!

In The Press and Community

Community

Press:

Columns Relocation

From Margaret Shauers:

The March issue of the Children's Writer's Marketplace (formerly sponsored by Inkspot) is now online at http://bookbarn.odsys.net/childmkt/.

All of us will miss Debbie Ridpath and the great Inkspot site. We hope children's writers will click into the new column site and support it as you have done over the years. Please let us know if other former Inkspot sites and offerings show up elsewhere. And anyone who has a site, let me know--maybe we can swap links!

Margaret Shauers and Jerry Crotinger

Discussion Forums

Brian Rickman has kindly agreed to host the discussion forums formerly part of Inkspot. New URL: http://www.writersbbs.com/inkspot/.

The Young Writers' Speculative Fiction group has moved to: The Inkspotted Phoenix.

Newsletter

Moira Allen is publishing an Inklings-like newsletter for writers on her site, Writing-World.com. You can also find lots of articles and resources here, as well as Moira's column, Freelancing 101.

Sal Towse has an excellent resource for writers at:
http://www.internet-resources.com/writers/.