1998 Writer's Market: Where & How to Sell What You Write (Annual)

Editorial Review:

To more than 100,000 writers, this annual means "get published." In it, they will find 4,000 listings filled with submission information, all current, plus inside information on publishers and the types of material they handle, networking advice, ideas for freelancing opportunities, payment information on royalties, advances, and pay rates, and much more.

This freelance writer's bible, available for the first time in paperback, weighs in at more than 1,000 pages. For novices, there are chapters on query writing, negotiating contracts, and the like, as well as firsthand reports from various publishing professionals. The bulk of the book comprises comprehensive listings for more than 4,200 places to sell your words, from book publishers (more than 1,250) to magazines (more than 2,000) to greeting-card companies, script buyers, writing contests, and a handful of online markets. The entries vary in thoroughness (depending on how helpful a specific publisher was), but most are quite complete, including a description of the publishing company or publication, contact names, and tips from the editors on how best to get your pen in the door. The tips range from the truly useful to the nearly useless ("Ride a motorcycle and be able to construct a readable sentence!" recommend the folks at CC Motorcycle Magazine). This is an invaluable resource: all the work that goes into requesting writer's guidelines and trying to figure out how best to get published somewhere can be put toward, well, writing. The 1998 Writer's Market is also available in CD-ROM (includes a handy submission tracker) and as a book/CD-ROM package.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Very Informative:

This book should be on every serious writer's shelf. The CD and software are simple to use, though lack some obvious features.

stunk!!!!!Worst Book in history:

It was the most intresting book I have ever read!Very informative

No other book comes near it. The bible for writers:

The book is near-perfect. Almost every question I have ever had, about freelance magazine articles, is answered in detail.

More and Less:

Every year the current WRITER'S MARKET touts its new additions, so we're led to believe that we'll have more publishers and editors to whom to submit our work. Wrong! Each year there may be more entries, but there are also more houses and magazines which do not want unsolicited material and/or to hear from The Unpublished.

In order for this annual reference book to be truly invaluable every category should have two sections: one for published authors and one for unpublished writers. The latter section... more info

• Academic & Commercial
• Business
• Children's Literature
• Editing
• Fiction
• General

• General AAS
• Genre Fiction
• Journalism
• Newspapers & Magazines
• Nonfiction

• Play & Scriptwriting
• Poetry
• Technical
• Travel
• Writing Skills