General:

• Critique.org / Critters - The first writers workshop on the web. (Free.)

• General Guidelines & Tips on Avoiding Scams

• Black Holes response time tracker - see how long manuscripts have taken to exit various editorial event horizons.

• Nyx.net - free web hosting/email/etc.

Specific to Smashwords:

• Smashwords "Nuclear Option" Assistant - Help reformat a .doc file so it has no problematic styles, but keeping italics

• Check for possible Smashwords problems - Looks for things that might upset Smashwords so you can fix them.

• Table of Contents tool - Free tool to add a ToC the way Smashwords likes it.

• Smartlinks - Allows links in books that honors Apple's demand that links go to your titles in iBooks when clicked inside the Apple ecosystem, else links go to Smashwords for other channels.