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Romance Writer's Pink Pages: The Insider's Guide to Getting Your Romance Novel Published

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This book has a lot of good points - writer's tip sheets, suggestions, markets that not everyone has heard of.

However, there are some drawbacks. The most notable comes from the sheer volitility of the publishing market - editors rotate, move around, leave jobs, etc. And writers, using a contact name several months or years old will look foolish to the people they are trying to impress with their proffesionalism. The other drawback I found was in incorrect information. For example, they list president names of RWA chapters. Only the person they listed as my chapter president hadn't been president for more than three years. In another spot, they list a phone number for a publisher. I called to have a tip sheet sent to me. Only, it was an incorrect number.

I felt the drawbacks, though, were merely inherent in the style of book. I would, therefore, still recommend it to a writer trying to break into the market.

I was very disappointed in this book, whose reputation has apparently been exaggerated. It was minimal information at best--nothing I couldn't have gotten from the FAQs section of the Harlequin website.

Romance Writer's Pink Pages : The Insider's Guide to Getting Your Romance Novel Published (1996/97) is an excellent reference for the fledgling romance writer, a 'must have.' The Pink Pages gives the guidelines and criteria of what the romance publishers are looking for in a manuscript, as well as names and addresses of publishers, for everything from novels to short stories.