Editors of The Writer's Market offer advice for earning a living with a word processor. Among their topics are submitting winning query letters, making contacts and staying informed through Web sites and organizations, pricing work fairly, and managing time. They include many examples. Annotation c
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Joe Feiertag is a public relations professional and former journalist who has built a highly successful career as a freelance writer and editor; Mary Cupito teaches journalism and, since leaving full-time reporting, she has written many freelance articles for a number of publications.
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55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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A truly superior companion !,
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This review is from: The Writer's Market Companion: The Essential Guide to Starting Your Project, Getting Published and Getting Paid (Writer's Market library) (Paperback)
If you are an aspiring writer or a well- established writer, "The Writer's Market Companion" may be the most valuable guide you can consult.Its 17 chapters cover virtually all aspects of the business of writing---including resources, planning, selling ms (manuscripts), protecting your creations, promoting, and more. Information on both fiction and nonfiction is provided---with plenty of specific tips, realistic examples, pratical techniques. Writing and publishing online as well as conventional print are covered. A sufficienty of specifics, quotes, examples, statistics, illustations, and such support virtually every point. The authors are experienced, know the business, and are effective writers. This book is recommended to its intended readers without reservation.
54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
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Comprehensive, informative, indispensable.,
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This review is from: The Writer's Market Companion: The Essential Guide to Starting Your Project, Getting Published and Getting Paid (Writer's Market library) (Paperback)
One of the key reference books for aspiring writers seeking publication, The Writer's Market Companion is a compendium of sound information on every aspect professional writing. Joe Feiertage, Mary Carmen Cupito, and the Editors of "Writer's Market" have collaborated to provide up-to-date information on writer organizations, internet resources for writers, securing representation, obtaining a publisher, copyright protection, self-promotion, marketing and promoting fiction and non-fiction, taxes and financial issues, and much, much more. The Writer's Market Companion is a comprehensive and informative addition to any personal, professional, and community library professional writing reference collection.
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Valuable Supplement to "Writer's Market",
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This review is from: Writer's Market Companion (Paperback)
From Writer's Digest Books comes "Writer's Market Companion," which serves as a valuable supplement to their `writer's bible,' "Writer's Market."
In the volume's introduction, the authors explain their reasoning for a companion to the popular "Writer's Market" guide: "As the publishing industry changes, we have become more selective in choosing markets that appear in `Writer's Market.' As a result of these choices, we have to sacrifice essential content, the nuts and bolts of publishing...To fill this gap, we're providing you with this `Writer's Market Companion, 2nd ed.'" In their "Writer's Market Companion," authors Joe Feiertag and Mary Carmen Cupito provide an overview of "the nuts and bolts of publishing": writing and selling different types of material, including poetry, short fiction, non-fiction articles and essays, book-length fiction and non-fiction, and even screenplays and scripts. They also discuss alternative markets for a freelancer's work, such as corporations, web sites, and eBook aficionados. Other topics covered include conducting research; executing interviews; promoting your work; pursuing grants, fellowships, and prizes; finding and evaluating writing groups and communities; treating your writing career seriously, like a "real" business; contractual and copyright issues; and pricing your work. As compared to other manuals on writing, publishing, and promoting books and articles, "Writer's Market Companion" is easily one of the more superior ones I've read (and trust me, I've pored over quite a few!). The guide is well written (an essential when it's a book about writing!), informative without sounding dry or boring, and chock full of useful advice. However, I thought a few of the chapters were on the weak side; for instance, chapter 13, "Promoting Your Work and Yourself" didn't offer much beyond the monotonous promotional strategies I've seen in every other writing manual. Nonetheless, the book as a whole is good buy, definitely worth the time and money. A caveat: if you're just in search of market listings, stick with "Writer's Market." There aren't any paying markets included in "Writer's Market Companion," simply descriptions of the different types of markets out there, along with advice on how best to court them. Conversely, if you're a newbie just starting out, you'd probably be best served buying both the "Writer's Market" and its companion (after all, what good are market listings if you don't know what to do with them?).
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