Advice wanted--for a science fiction writing friend

For critiques, I recommend Critters (http://www.critters.org/) and Baen's Bar (http://bar.baen.com/). Both are free.

For editors (Not free!), I recommend Harry DeWulf and Joshua Essoe.

Sounds like your friend has burned out with it. He should stop or put it away for a while.

Here's a good online workshop for SFF:

http://sff.onlinewritingworkshop.com

The first month is free so you can try it out. Then it's $49 a year. You can also pay for 6 months or month by month. People post a chapter and exchange critiques with other writers. The site has a good reputation and is a great way to get feedback for little cost.

Thanks so very much, KaryE and HAGrant.

Your advice will give him a place to start. I did not even know some of these sites existed.

I have already passed the recs along.

1. Get him to sign up here? So much info and great helpful people.

2. You can find editors, beta readers, and more here and other places.

3. Is he spending money on editor, beta readers, proofreaders, and a cover? If he has a budget, we can give a little more advice on where to find someone good. If he has no budget, we can give entirely different advice on where to find someone at least.

Meetup dot com can help him find a local writer's group. The site will tell him how far away the groups around are so he can choose one close enough.

David and Arshness, thanks so much!

Yes, I definitely will tell him about the WC. But I warned him to be prepared for TMI. He's published a business book, spent years in high-level marketing, but I warned him it probably won't mean squat when it comes to wading through the deep waters of publishing genre fiction.    (Although the business brain might help...)

This is the best place!