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| 2004 Writer
Paperback
Edition: Revised
Author: Kathryn S. Brogan and Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher: Writers Digest Books
Release Date: 2003-08
ISBN-10: 1582971897
ISBN-13: 9781582971896
List Price: $29.99
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2008 Writer's Market
ISBN-10: 1582974969
ISBN-13: 9781582974965
List Price:$29.99
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One guide for one goal: GETTING PUBLISHED! 2004 Writer's Market is the #1 tool for writers who want to get published. It's easy to see why. Inside you'll find detailed listings for more than 8,000 editors who buy what you write. Each entry includes crucial information for making contact in the most efficient, effective way, including mailing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, plus information on what each editor wants, how much they pay, and how often they buy. You'll find thousands of completely updated listings (plus 1,100+ brand new publishing opportunities!) for book publishers, consumer magazines, script buyers, trade and professional journals, plus more then 300 agents! No other reference provides such complete AND current information. It's a lot of material, but don't be intimidated. More is better - and easy-to-reference symbols and indexes help you target the entries you want fast. You'll also find an invaluable selection of articles and interviews feared toward helping you master the writing life, including: * How much should I charge? - 100% updated * Janet Fitch and other writers share how they make time to write * Nicholas Sparks discusses the importance of selling your self, not just your book * Nine habits of frequently published authors * New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber discusses how to know when you're ready for an agent There's no better resource for writers serious about their work. If you're one of them, 2004 Writer's Market is the most important book you'll ever own. Product_Blurb = To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for 2004 Writer's Market by Kathryn S. Brogan and Robert Lee Brewer (ISBN 1582971897).
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waste of energy
| Customer Rating: | Save your money. And your time. And the anguish. These agents and publishers will not read your work. They have no time. Don't believe me, they will tell you in their listing. They rarely accept new clients from cold submissions. Definition of rarely: 99.44% of cold submissions are rejected. If they say they accept 5% of cold submissions they are exaggerating. If they get a thousand submissions they MAY ask to read one manuscript. (I'm being generous.) They WILL read your work if it recommended by someone they know. Otherwise you're doomed. All the how-to stuff in the front of these Writer's Market-type-books, and there are a lot of them is popcorn filler--the good query letter, the bad query letter. There is no good query letter. They don't read them.
Call them up. Ask them specifically if they are accepting the genre of fiction or non-fiction you've written. If the agent will talk to you thell him/her the plot, briefly. BE READY. Write down what you're going to say if you have to. Same thing with publishers. Most of them will take your call. Even an assistant can be very helpful. Sometimes more so. If they adamantly say in their listing "No phone calls," pass. All of them have too many clients already. If you're in L.A. or New York find out what functions the agents attend, show up, be cool but persistent. Maybe your personalities will click. If you HAVE to send a query letter, if you absolutely need to confrim this all for yourself, for heavens' sake go to the library and use their copy of Writer's Market. Good luck. Luck is what it's all about. Don't be encouraged by the one or two writers who succeed with the cold submission. For better odds try winning the lottery. |
Outstanding Resource!
| Customer Rating: | | A great resource for all types of writers. This book along with Mahesh Grossman's "Write a Book Without Lifting a Finger" have helped me to land a whopper advance. I highly recommend "2004 Writer's Market" and "Write a Book Without Lifting a Finger" if you are tired of wanting to be a professional writer and are ready to get it done! |
About to be Published!
| Customer Rating: | | "2001 Writer's Market" (Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2000) + "Formatting & Submitting Your Manuscript" (Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2000) = the book, "Jeff Chandler, Film, Record, Radio, and Television Performances," by Jeff Wells. ISBN 0-7864-2001-4, photographs and illustrations, filmography, notes, bibliography, index. Not yet published. Available Fall 2004 from McFarland & Co., Inc., Publishers. www.mcfarlandpub.com Thank you, Writer's Digest Books! |
Useless
| Customer Rating: | | I'm giving the Writer's Market two stars because it is a useful resource for beginning writers. However, I'm fed up with the book. Not only does it neglect to list many, many, many common markets, let alone the lessor-known markets, but the non-web version doesn't have access to many of the few markets they do list. My non-web version, for example, doesn't have writer's guidelines for well-known magazines like Women's World and Good Housekeeping. Apparently, if I wanted those markets, I should have paid $10 more and messed with their CD. (Or I can just go online and get them through a two-second Google search.) Not to mention, I have often found the information in Writer's Market to be WRONG and I have to always independently check it with the market. Of course, that's something you should do anyway, but I think it's amazing how often WM gets things like addresses and websites wrong. We're not talking information that is bound to change anyway, like editors or contact e-mails, but static information that WM has plain gotten wrong. You can't trust this book. A few years ago, WM was a LOT more thorough and trustworthy. Now it seems like they don't even update their database against previous editions. Many markets that were in the 2002 and 2003 editions are not in the 2004 edition, even many of those markets still exist. As a freelancer, I don't even use this book very often as a resource since I know it will only list some obvious markets, at best. I find Google and the bookstore work better than WM. |
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