Customer Reviews

2000 Writer's Market: The Electronic Edition with CD-ROM

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I have used WM for many years now and have only recently discovered the usefulness of the electronic edition. The CD is much easier to carry around than the book and I can access the market info from my desktop without having to flip through multiple pages.

The CD almost makes the book irrelevant except that you also get to learn a great deal about manuscript submission and honing your writing skills in the first 55 or so pages. The search feature allows you to locate your market and send your work out fast. Finally, someone thought of writers as more than people who can spend all day reading and searching for the right market! If you want to break into writing - this should be the first book you buy. Second - purchase Michael Larsen's new book on how to write a great proposal.

~The Rebecca Review

The books extensive listings were great as usual, and yes, the Writer's Market is necessary for any serious writer's collection. But, for some reason, they decided not to include the articles about writing on the cd. So now, if you want to look one of them up, you have to drag out the telephone book sized print copy that comes with it. Very annoying!

While the book is as useful as always, the CD-ROM is a major disappointment as it runs on Windows-based PCs only. This bias against Mac users, who constitute a large percentage of writers, is a serious flaw that one hopes will be corrected in the 2001 edition.

I found this book to be extremely useful in separating the wheat from the chaff when submitting my work. Almost all I've ever needed to know when submitting work I've found in this book. The CD-ROM/Internet features are nice becuase out of date inoformation is changed or deleted. Nothing beats an email or a phone call to triple-check the info, but this book is a fantastic start.