Publish your fiction! This guide will help you make it happen, providing completely updated information on book publishers, magazines, literary agents and script houses -all interested in work from writers like you. Inside you'll find publishing opportunities for virtually every genre, from Romance to New Age, and each listing features the crucial details you need to make the most of every submission.
In addition, you'll receive hard-won advice from some of the most respected figures in fiction publishing today, including Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner for Charming Billy; Russell Banks, author of The Sweet Hereafter and Cloudsplitter; Janet Fitch, author of Oprah's Book Club pick, White Oleander; and Jonathon Galassi, editor-in-chief of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and editor of such acclaimed authors as Tom Wolfe and Scott Turow.
You'll also find important tips on self-promotion, formatting submissions and writing query letters, and this guide includes extensive listings of writing contests, conferences and organizations to help you get connected, build your career and improve your work.
For writers of fiction intent on publishing, there is no better resource than the annual Novel & Short Story Writer's Market. Each update of the guide, which lists over 2,000 places to publish fiction (including magazines literary and otherwise, zines, and book publishers large and small), acts as a kind of annual industry checkup. What publications are out there? What are they publishing? What kinds of fiction are hot, and not? This year's edition tells us that freshness, short shorts, originality, neatness, simple fonts, risk taking, good endings, and humor are all in. Workshop writing, thinly veiled autobiography, gimmickry, splatter fiction, and grammatical errors are not. Still, the best, and perhaps most often repeated advice throughout is: To thine own self be true. Write what you want or feel compelled to write, and worry about publication later. There is a market for almost everything, including climbing fiction (The Climbing Art), black-lesbian erotica (Black Lace), baseball stories (Spitball), tales of oppression and rebellion (Struggle), hot-air ballooning stories (Balloon Life)--even fiction featuring large-breasted characters (Gent).
While contact information, payment terms, and the like provide the backbone of the listings, it is the advice from the publishers that makes this book so eminently browsable. "Forget formulas," says the editor at The Café Irreal; "Write about what you don't know, take me places I couldn't possibly go." "Write as if words were your bread, your water, a great vintage wine, salt, oxygen," say the folks at Collages and Bricolages. "Even though we are jaded old teachers and editors," confide the jaded old teachers and editors at The Distillery, "we still want to feel a chill run down our spines when we read a perfect description or evocative line of dialogue." And don't forget: "If an editor says, 'try again,'" remind the editors of Acorn Whistle, "try again ... and again!"
New this year: listings for over 60 literary agents; a section on screenwriting markets; overviews of the mystery, romance, and science-fiction & fantasy markets; and short interviews with Olivia Goldsmith (The First Wives Club), Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha), Ann Beattie, Rick Bass, Mary Higgens Clark, Amanda Scott, and others. --Jane Steinberg
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Indispensable.:
Unpublished & industry green American fiction writers, you need this, and this is all you need, armed with your manuscript. You will find out how & where to send your work. You will learn who is looking for your particular brand of talent. You will see opportunities to win monetary awards, tangible printcopy (of your book) awards, and chances to travel and hole up somewhere cool like Oregon and write, write, write. What more do you want?
The Right Market Book for Fiction Writers:
One of the first thing an aspiring writer hears is "Get the Writer's Market" from Writer's Digest. This is good advice for anyone who wants to sell their work. The problem is - too many people think there is only one 'Writer's Market.' The big one is great for someone trying different types of writing, including magazine articles or nonfiction books. But for FICTION WRITERS - this one has tailor made information.
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If you right well enough to get published, you need this!:
This is the best place to get an accurate evaluation on the current market for fiction. Do you write? Forgive me for being presumptious here, but it's my guess that you do. That's why you're looking at these reviews. In that case, I feel indebted to give you some pertinent information regarding this book. First of all, if you have a manuscript that you wish to see in print, you should know a few things. You should know the marketplaces in which to get published. You should know the best ways to submit your... more info
A Must-Have Book for all fiction writers!:
It had been a few years since I'd last updated my Novel & Short Story Writer's Market and, boy, what a mistake that was! As the Internet as enhanced our lives, so has Writer's Digest enhanced this market guide. The listings contain editorial email addresses, magazine/publisher website addresses, publication size and number of pages (magazines), clear symbols indicating paying vs. non-paying markets (no more wading through all that small print), online markets only, and so much more! New to this edition... more info
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