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Title: 2003 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market by Anne Bowling, Vanessa Lyman ISBN: 1-58297-147-1 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Quite simply, the Writer's Bible
Comment: You must own this if you write fiction. I'm sorry, but, no, there is no getting out of it. You cannot check the copy out of the library. No, you can't use LAST year's copy. Buck up and buy the thing! This is THE reference full of places to submit... but that's NOT all. It will also tell you which markets pay, which markets only accept agented work, what percentage of their published pieces are from first-timers, and give you valuable contact information. There really isn't much more this book could do for the writer, shy of sending in your submissions for you! If you don't have it, GET IT!
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Resource
Comment: Short and sweet: Regarding the "Novel & Short Story Writer's Market" - I used contacts from the 2001 book and sold 3 stories. I used contacts from the 2002 book and sold 5 stories. I am buying 2003 now. Sure, rejections abound regardless but, don't dwell on "sour grapes". Use the contacts enough and you will succeed!!! This is a good resource.
Rating: 2
Summary: Why Waste Your Time?
Comment: The Writer's Market is a rather absurd principle in today's world of fiction writing and publishing. Sure, there are many, many names and addresses in this resource and it is a well-organized, fundamentally sound reference. But the real deal is, no one is going to pay any attention to whatever you send them, so don't waste your valuable time and money. How many query letters, dear writer, have you received, returned from an agent or publisher? How many have you written? How much money have you blown on stamps? Can you paper the walls with the return mail? Of course you can. Does that mean your stuff stinks? No. It only means that no one actually reads anything you sent; they have a junior intern opening their mail, putting your query letter back in your SASE and mailing it back. There you go, seventy cents down the drain right there. And how much time did that cost you? Plenty. My advice is to take a different route. There are ways to get your stuff published without having to go through the brick wall of the current agent/editor/publisher relationship. It is a terrible situation for which this book has no answer, except in a very brief, but informative article on Print-On-Demand (POD). Don't bother any more with this stuff. You're going to have to do it yourself anyway, as the blurbs in the smaller publishing houses clearly state. They all say that since we are a small publisher/printer, we expect the writer to market his own book- it's in their contracts. And the big houses (Random House, Simon and Schuster) aren't taking any more writers unless you know somebody who knows somebody who was at a cocktail party they went to once. That's the truth, I'm afraid. A sad state of affairs, but it is nonetheless the reality. Best of luck to you- but my advice is to think outside the box; you're beating your head against a wall.
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Title: 2003 Guide to Literary Agents: 600+ Agents Who Sell What You Write (Guide to Literary Agents, 2003) by Rachel Vater ISBN: 1582971463 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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Title: 2003 Writer's Market by Katie Struckel Brogan, Robert Brewer ISBN: 158297120X Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: 2004 Writer's Market (Writer's Market, 2004) by Kathryn S. Brogan, Robert Lee Brewer ISBN: 1582971897 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Your Novel Proposal: From Creation to Contract by Blythe Camenson, Marshall J. Cook ISBN: 1582972567 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne, Dave King ISBN: 0062720465 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 16 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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