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Editors are so accustomed to receiving inappropriate queries that they "rejoice," according to a Writer's Market tip from the University of Arizona Press, "in receiving material that is clearly targeted to [them]." So, please, do not send your article about porcelain-doll collecting to Sport Fishing magazine. Put your postage toward this updated edition of the Writer's Market instead. This book might not seem to change much from year to year, but it does. Editors move, publishing houses are gobbled up by one another, and magazines open and fold like Japanese fans. And where else can you learn both that Focal Press is publishing fewer photography books, and that Ide House is inaugurating a poetry branch?

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The Freelance Success Book: Insider Secrets For Selling Ever
The Freelance Success Book: Insider Secrets For Selling Every Word You Write is a textbook for professional freelance writers, part time freelance writers, or anyone thinking about writing for a living. Furthermore, this book is appropriate for those writers interested in writing for magazines, writing web content, or writing books. This book contains important insight into writing that the author has gained as a teacher, an executive editor at Rodale Press (Rodale, Inc), and as a writer.

This book covers essentially every aspect of writing. Topics include how to determine if you should write full time; how to find time for writing; how to make your writing periods more productive; how to research the various writing markets for potential work; how to determine what an editor wants; the importance of good titles for your work; how writing for the web differs from print writing; and the legalities of writing. In these topics, the author gives advice about how to create a successful writing career based upon good work habits, thorough research, and smart decisions. The author also includes sample invoices, permission requests, contracts, and releases for the readers use.

The Freelance Success Book: Insider Secrets For Selling Every Word You Write is full of enlightening advice for the freelance writer. This book is well written, easy to understand, and is very complete. Furthermore, each topic in this book evolves naturally and logically from the proceeding topic. This book is a must have reference for anyone thinking about writing professionally.

Don't Start Without Reading This Book
Thinking about freelancing for a living? Great---I am too. Now pick up this book and read it cover-to-cover. Keep it close by; you'll go back to again and again.

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No Articles For Illustrators
This book is a must have for anyone serious about entering or continuing in this market. It contains all the most up-to-date submission information direct from the publishers themselves. My only complaint, and its a big one, is that they seemed to forget about us illustrators when compiling the articles. How disappointing. It's tough enough for us that the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators requires us to pay the same membership fees and conference fees while dedicating only a fraction of their offerings (workshops and articles in newsletters) to the illustrators. Now Reader's Digest Books (the publisher of this book) is following suit.

A Must if You're a Children's Writer or Illustrator
Find out what to do before your first sale. How to negotiate a contract. Protect your rights. Pay your taxes as a writer.

And that's just the first 20 pages.

The "2003 Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market" contains close to 400 pages of children's publishers, agents and magazines looking for your work. If you write children's literature or you're an illustrator for children's books, this yearly guide contains more than 800 potential markets for you to get your work in print.

Each listing shows contact names, addresses, Web sites, phone numbers, submission guidelines, pay rates and more. A majority of publishers also share tips on how you can increase your manuscript's chances of being accepted within their publishing house.

You'll also find articles on critique groups, picture books structure, promotion, creating stories, how to write for children and more. And on the other side of the publishing fence, you'll find insider reports from top illustrators, novelists, editors and publishers, all geared toward the children's writer. Plus, greeting card opportunities, play publishers, clubs, organizations, contests, awards and grants are all covered as well. There's even a special section for agents representing children's authors.

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Duplication of the 2003 Writer's Market book
I recently ordered Writer's Digest Market Online and am very disappointed with my order, if not downright angry. When I received it, I was dismayed to find out that this "Market Online" book is indeed the same thing, or very similiar, to the 2003 Writer's Market book. I ordered this with the belief that this book would offer online markets (websites) to sell articles to. Instead, it lists magazines and book publishers - the very same thing as the original 2003 Writer's Market! I feel that this book is a duplication of the first and cannot return my book now because I opened it and consider it a waste of money.

Don't waste your money!
[$$$] book offering great online access BUT you have to scrape off a number (like a lottery ticket) to access your code and mine got all mangled (not like a lottery ticket) - and Writer's Market just ignored me when I contacted them.That's fraud!I wasted [$$$] for nothing!

Your career starts here
There are few events in life that I look forward to more than receiving my shiny new Writer's Market each year.Once again, the good people at Writer's Digest Books have outdone themselves.This exhaustively researched book contains more than 8,000 places to sell your work-- what more could you ask for?Oh!How about pricing guidelines, expert advice, info about agents, writing contests, syndicates, organizations for writers...

I mean it most earnestly when I tell you I wouldn't have a career without this book.And ever since I got the online version, I'm not sure how I lived without it.I use it every day to keep track of my submissions.It even tells me when it's time to follow up on a query, and allows me to record notes about different markets-- I can punch in my deadlines, payment info, contact names, etc.

Of all the books in the world, this is the only one that I can say with full confidence is an absolute necessity to those who want to make a career of their writing.The price is meager compared to its benefits.No matter what you write, you'll find markets for it here.