Welcome to AuthorPower, the ZATZ authors' resource.

If you need help, feel free to check out the resources listed to your left. If you'd like to become a ZATZ author, read this site and contact us (at david@ZATZ.com) or call (321) 722-4620.

New ZATZ Authors
You'll want to read Getting started as a ZATZ author. It'll answer all your basic questions about writing for us. Also, if you want to write something shorter, please read How to write a PowerTip.

PR Professionals
If you represent a company and want to get press, please read the following guides:

• If want to write about your own products or services, please read How to write an article about your own product or service.

• For companies wanting press coverage, there's now a detailed guide. Check out How to get your product reviewed.

• If you want news coverage, please read How to submit an item for news coverage. Perhaps the most important thing you can read is 10 bonehead mistakes PR people make when they send email.

• If you want to arrange for an interview, please read About the dreaded executive interview and The World Famous 10-Question ZATZ Email Interview.

ZATZ magazines
Here's our current publication line-up:

• DominoPower Magazine (at http://www.dominopower.com) is our Lotus publication and is all about Lotus messaging and collaboration. It's read by virtually all the Lotus network managers, systems engineers, developers, business partners, and key Lotus and IBM personnel.

• OutlookPower Magazine (at http://www.outlookpower.com) is our general email publication covering Outlook (the email client) and Exchange (the server). Because it covers both sides, we get readers ranging from basic mail users up through enterprise IT staff. There are a few key common denominators among all our readers, the most measurable being that these folks are INTENSE email users.

• Computing Unplugged Magazine (at http://www.computingunplugged.com) covers, quite literally, unplugged computing. It was originally PalmPower Magazine, so it has a strong leaning towards handhelds, but also covers WiFi, GPS devices, laptops, wireless and cell phone issues, and even robotics. Like OutlookPower, coverage and readership range from general consumer coverage through enterprise solutions.

• Connected Photographer Magazine (at http://www.connectedphotographer.com) is all about the art, science, and joy of making a connection with your photographs in the Internet Age. Whether you're producing snapshots for your family or professional shots for clients, or just pictures for your living room wall, connections, both Internet and interpersonal, pervade every aspect of picture taking, production, and creation. We cover everything from studio technique to Photoshop plug-ins, to taking eBay and personals pictures, to cameras, gadgets, sharing, and even cameras in phones, PDAs, and more. This definitely ain't your Daddy's gearhead camera reviews mag!

• WebSpherePower Magazine (at http://www.webspherepower.com) which is our IBM publication and is all about IBM solutions. Since WebSphere's the other half of IBM's core computing strategy from Lotus, WebSpherePower will cover the other half of IBM's software initiatives.

Interesting goodies

Here's a useful tip if you want to include Amazon URLs in your article: http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/388

Great read on writing for the Web: http://www.alistapart.com/stories/writeliving/

Interesting commentary on finding news links: http://www.tomalak.org/random/98/981207.html

A pile of cool writing tools and goodies: http://www.languageisavirus.com

ZDNet has some nice tips: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39273376,00.htm

Some tips on writing style (some of them violate our published conventions, so use what we say, first): http://www.sparknotes.com/writing/style/index.html

The Web site Authors & Experts has some very interesting resources both for improving your writing and for promoting yourself as an expert in your field. Once you write some articles for us, hop on over there and see how you can become even more famous.

Some of you have asked us if we'd be interested in publishing your non-technical books. Our focus is tech, so no matter how great your novel, poetry, or analysis of the Austrian fashion industry is, we can't publish it. However, we've found an interesting company you might want to check out: Five Star Publications. These folks seem to have an interesting take on the publishing process and are certainly worth a look.

Finally, just so you know you're not alone: http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2009/03/publishing-911.html

Get writing! Have fun! Write some more!