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The Writer's Handbook (Writer's Handbooks (Writer Inc))

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This 65th edition is fully updated, revised and expanded thereby continuing to present the aspiring writer and the seasoned author with a premier compendium of writing techniques, inspiration, and advice from dozens of leading writers in all fields and aspects of the writing process. For those seeking to market their manuscripts there are 3,300 listings for possible publication which include names, addresses, editorial requirements, payment rates, and preferred lengths. Whether writing fiction or non-fiction, essays, articles, short stories or full-length novels, writing for adult or juvenile readerships, working with agents, and more, The Writer's Handbook 2001 is an essential, core reference title that is highly recommended for personal, professional, writing class and seminar, as well as academic and community library "how to" and reference collections.

I was deeply disappointed when I received this book, for one thing I had mistaken it for the Writer's Digest Markets which always satisfies with thousands of real markets and all the info one needs to sell their work.

Not so with Writer's Handbook--it is more concerned with telling you HOW to write! Telling the obvious & calling it helpful. It only includes 3000 markets at best (and repeats quite a few which would probably cut the 3000 almost in half). So if you need to know how to write, this might help, if you want to know WHERE TO SELL, this is NOT the book for you. Instead try Writer's Market 2001.