B o o k s f o r W r i t e r s
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Publication date: September 1,1996
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The easiest way for writers to find their best markets.
To more than 100,000 writers, this annual means "get published." Writers
will find 4,000 listings (900 are new) loaded with submission information,
all current, plus an interview with a scriptwriter for Friends, a look at
networking, and a feature called "Writer to Writer," a writer's roundtable
with advice on issues common in freelance life. This package also includes
Writer's Market on CD-ROM, giving writers the power to customize their marketing
research and speed to the listings that fit their needs. With the Electronic
Edition, writers also have a new tool for managing their careers: Submission
Tracker. They can create and call up submissions records to see which publishers
are past due answering queries or are late in paying. This is the Bible of
Writers.
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Hardcover, 1008 pages
The same book as described above without the CD-ROM. If you're a writer,
you need this book.
Mark My Words: Mark Twain on Writing
1 Ed
Kind of like an I Ching for writers: You throw the book open to wherever
and some good advice or insight spills forth from this greatest of American
authors: The same man, after all, who said he hadn't done "a day's work in
all my life. What I have done I have done because it has been play . . .
" A good attitude, indeed, to bring to your word processor, quill pen or
typewriter.
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The October Country
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Aliens and Alien Societies (Science Fiction Writing Series)
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"Analog" editor Schmidt adds his 2 cents to SF pro Ben Bova's series on "Science
Fiction Writing" with this edition on creating believable alien life forms
as well as linguistically, socially and politically credible cultures for
them to dwell in. Biology tends to be destiny here, as Schmidt walks
you through some basic science to explain why different environments--or
amphibious life, say--would produce societies different from our own. Or
perhaps not. But after absorbing this book, such distinctions will be left
to your imagination.
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World-Building
(Science Fiction Writing Series)
Hardcover
The 30-Minute Writer
Paperback, 256 pages;
"The secret is to take the time you have--however brief--and use it wisely."
And author Emerson, herself a successful freelancer, shows us how to do just
that, using the stray "bytes" of time in our modern, fragmented lives to
produce articles, reviews, and humor pieces that sell. While focusing on
30-minute "game plans," Emerson admits her "time guerrilla" approach may
not work for getting what Ed Abbey calls your "fat masterpiece" done, but
this book will get you writing--or at least strip away any remaining excuse
for not getting it done.
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Focus is a big piece of the puzzle in a writing career: focus on your work,
on making time for it, on getting it out. This source book for SF
scribes and fantasists is commendable for its focus, providing a range of
information on placing speculative stories and novels (but isn't it all
"speculative?"), on genre-friendly agents, contests, etc. The various markets
are divided into categories--"Primary," "Other," "Overseas,"--and with this
tome in hand, a strategy for getting into print shouldn't be hard to devise.
Except now you actually have to do the writing.
1 Ed
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A marvelously wide-ranging compendium, and why not, since just about everything
printed has to start out being written. Thus editor Heffron has license
to put together a volume with short, pithy discourses--this is a great book
to travel or take lunch breaks with--on poetry, playwriting, screenwriting,
nonfiction, and the death of Louis L'Amour. The surprise comes, though, not
in pieces by the likes of Tony Kushner or William Kittredge (you know they'll
be good) but in previously obscure gems like Nancy Mairs' moving essay on
"The Literature of Personal Disaster."
The
Best Writing on Writing
Volume 2; 1 Ed
Like its predecessor, another great tome to take to the beach or unwind with
between chapters--your own, that is (in which case you may want to read Michael
Norman's novella-length entry on The Marketing of a First Novel).
As before, an eclectic range is the book's greatest strength. Scribes from
Dorothy Allison to Margaret Atwood to William Goldman hold forth in the midst
of lesser known pieces such as David Carkeet's "Dear Reviewer" letter, a
bit of scathing but worthwhile advice to those of us who write blurbs like
this.
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Published by Writers Digest Books
Publication date: September 1,1996
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by Mark Dawidziak, Mark Twain
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When he died in 1910, Mark Twain left more than a legacy of timeless novels
and essays. He also bequeathed a wealth of useful--and funny--opinions on
style, literary habits and the writer's role in society. Now assembled for
the first time in one volume, this collection of Twain's outspoken opinions
and plainsspoken advice will delight and instruct for years to come.
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by Ray Bradbury
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Ray Bradbury's first short story collection is back in print, its chilling
encounters with funhouse mirrors, parasitic accident-watchers, and strange
poker chips intact. Both sides of Bradbury's vaunted childhood nostalgia
are also on display, in the celebratory "Uncle Einar," and haunting "The
Lake," the latter a fine elegy to childhood loss. This edition features a
new introduction by Bradbury, an invaluable essay on writing, wherein the
author tells of his "Theater of Morning Voices," and, by inference, encourages
you to listen to the same murmurings in yourself. And has any writer anywhere
ever made such good use of exclamation marks!?
Enter The October Country, an eerie, eccentric, exquisitely terrifying domain
that could only be found within the mind of one of our most masterful
storytellers. These 15 tales, originally collected in the author's very first
book, Dark Carnival, unforgettably map the landscape of Ray Bradbury's singulary
mordant wit and macabre imagination.
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by Stanley Schmidt, Stan Schmidt
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Publication date: March 1,1996
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Whether you're a writer or a reader of science fiction, this how-to guide
provides thought-provoking analyses of the ways in which aliens and alien
societies can be portrayed convincingly. It's almost as fascinating as the
many classic SF texts it analyses.
A thoughtful, clear and utterly fascinating reference, this book is absolutely
vital to writers who want to put extraterrestrial life-forms in their novels
and stories.
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by Ben Bova, Stephen L. Gillett
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Bova's series on Science Fiction Writing, here geologist and SF scribe Stephen
Gillett helps you construct star systems and planets from the atoms up. While
it may take you a little more than the proverbial seven days (well,
six with rest), when you're done, your knowledge of gravity, weather
patterns, cosmic mass and stellar patterns--in this universe--will be greatly
enhanced.
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by Connie Emerson
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Emerson shows freelancers how to write the kind of short, snappy articles
today's magazines want. She reveals how to use "throwaway time" for generating
ideas and casually interviewing people, why short pieces can be a foot in
the editorial office door, and how to match the work to the market.
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Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writer's Sourcebook:
Where to Sell Your Manuscripts (2nd Ed)
by
David H. Borcherding (Editor)
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Published by Writers Digest Books
Publication date: September 1,1996
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The
Best Writing on Writing
by Jack Heffron (Editor)
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Published by Story Pr
Publication date: September 1,1994
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ISBN: 1884910017
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by Jack Heffron (Editor)
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Published by Writers Digest Books
Publication date: October 1,1995
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