A vital resource that every writer should own is an up-to-date version of the Writers' Market. Regardless of who the writer is, this book will be one that you will come to rely on more than others especially if you are searching for publishers and script producers to buy your work. Inside is a wide range of information useful to writers, with special sections that include everything from business to submissions and their processes.
If you're writing for magazines, then you will also find manuscript ideas that are targeted to a particular magazine or marketplace. Keeping up to the current trends is easier if you thumb through the Writer's Market. If you are prepared to send out your work, you can use this book to find just the right publisher who will be interested in printing it.
The Writers' Market is the most well-known and reliable source of current information about the publishing world. It's full of practical advice on preparing your work for submission to editors, maintaining professional contacts, negotiating agreements, keeping accurate records and much more.
There interviews with authors and other industry professionals on many subjects writers can read about. If you are a freelance writer, there are over 4,000 companies that could use your work. Everything is carefully organized by category and subject, making it quite easy to target the ones you need to contact.
So get to work! Your next publisher could be just pages away!
The business of writing is one of the most difficult hurdles I've heard self-published and traditionally published authors complain about. The importance of building an author's platform is sometimes overlooked because of the work involved, but it is a necessity to becoming a success. Then there's marketing and promoting, and more marketing... I'm going to write articles to help you with these issues and others. Stay tuned!
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