The Writer's Handbook 2004 - 68th Edition

1055 Pages. Slightly concave spine and some cover corner wear. Otherwise an As New book with no marks, stamps or underlining. Over 50 valuable essays by America's greatest writers and 3000 markets for your work. Advice from America's most successful writers. A compendium of writing techniques, inspiration, and advice from America's most successful writers. Practical techniques to develop salable ideas for many markets. Create compelling stories and articles. Write a children's book, a novel, or a screenplay. Improve your manuscripts for submission. Specific ways to market your work more successfully. Negotiate better contracts. Write a terrific article query or book proposal. Snag a good agent or impress an editor. Improve your professional skills and financial returns and other advice you can use right away to get better results in your writing career. More than 1,700 magazines in 50 categories, with descriptions of what they buy, how to contact them, and Web sites. Plus over 700 book publishers, adult, children's and religious markets that purchase ficiton and nonfiction manuscripts. Lists of agents, literary contests, conferences, writer's organizaitons, and much more. Advice from Jois Lowry, Janet Evanovich, Dennis Lehane, Elizabeth Berg, Alan Furst, Anne Lamott, Ray Bradbury, Robert B. Parker, M.J. Rose, Robert W. Bly, Carl Hiaasen and many others. Heavy book that may incur addtional shipping costs to some locations.…