Writer's Encyclopedia. This item is unavailable.Writer's Encyclopedia

Identifies and defines terms concerned with writing, books, the publishing industry, journalism, and reference sources

Don't know your royalties from your retainers? Your dedications from your defamations? The Writer's Encyclopedia is a versatile writer's reference detailing more than 1,300 items in a broad range of relevant topics. It delves into various contests and awards, organizations and associations, writing techniques and editorial jargon, explains all manner of publishing practices, and explores a number of writer- and editor-related ethical issues. The Encyclopedia provides the purpose, scope--and address--of the Editorial Freelancers Association, describes standard editorial rewriting practices, and summarizes the debate over the value of journalism degrees as opposed to a liberal-arts education. There are items on first-draft revisions, first-person short stories, and first serial rights, discussions of gossip columns, gospel music, and go-aheads, plus charts of Library of Congress systems, magazine-organization systems, and a table of magazine revenues compared to costs and profits. For freelancers, especially, who haven't a ready cohort of office colleagues to offer clear explanations, savvy experience, and rational perspective, the Writer's Encyclopedia is a useful and reliable professional resource. --Stephanie Gold