Writers Market: 3,100+ Book and Magazine Editors Who Buy What You Write

by Kathryn Struckel Brogan

The reference that every writer needs is updated for 2003 with the markets, phone numbers, contact names, and e-mail addresses to make their dreams come true. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158297120X
• ISBN13: 9781582971209
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
• Length: 1112 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

essential freelance writer's tool

If you want to start selling your writing, or to get published you need this book. I wrote that sentence with the new writer in mind because it's hard to imagine an experienced writer who does not know about this book. I've been buying Writer's Market for over 24 years. About 24 years ago, I sold my first freelance article to a national magazine. It was directly due to Writer's Market-- due to the solid nuts and bolts information you get, updated each year. The book lists thousands of magazines, publishers and agents and the key info you need to intelligently contact them. You get chapter/articles which advise you on how to research a publisher before making contact, and then, how to submit your writing queries. Then, it lists thousands of magazines, categorizing them by demographics, subject matter, regions, etc. They give you the pay rates, lengths of the articles or stories, they seek, topics they are extra interested in, who to contact, how to get a sample copy and writer's guidelines. They tell you whether the publication accepts simultaneous submissions or e-mail proposals, and if they want S.A.S.E.s And if you don't understand all those terms, they provide a glossary of writer's terminology. Since I started buying Writer's Market, (and the monthly magazine also published by the same company, Writer's Digest) I have had articles published in Success, OMNI (10 articles in OMNI alone) Family Health, and cover articles in Writer's Digest (on coming up with article ideas) and the National Enquirer (on arthritis pain relief and on vitamins) Since I write on topics that grab my interest, it's important that I have a fast way to access info which publications cover which topics. This book does the job. The publishing world changes so fast you need to keep up with current information. This is one book that you should not save your pennies on by buying an older used edition of an earlier year. A common sob story of the writing business is you start with an editor who loves your work, only to submit your finished assignment to a new editor who has replaced the editor you signed on with. This book keeps you much more up-to-date on contact info.

The Writer's Bible

When Writer's Market was first recommended to me years ago as a necessary tool in the quest for publication, I reluctantly paid my money, expecting another dry reference manual that would occupy space on my shelf and do little for me. Boy, was I wrong! I have since bought each new edition, and the 2001 version is the best yet.This book is loaded with articles that go beyond helpful to the point of inspiring. It contains complete instructions on manuscript formatting. Beginning writers often have no appreciation for the stiff odds they face in getting published--even with a perfectly formatted manuscript. Submissions that don't follow the guidelines laid out so clearly in Writer's Market simply scream "amateur," and wipe out what little chance you had.And there is no other place to find such a complete and well organized listing of agents and publishers. It tells you who they are, what they are looking for, how to submit your proposal, and where to send it.I believe my book would never have been published had I not used Writer's Market. --Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author of Wake Up Dead.

This Was The Actual Map I Used To Become Published!!!

I used to purchase Writer's Market every year because it is such a handsome book and I wanted to imagine myself a writer. When I finally got serious and decided to write, I sat down with my WM and found everything I needed to get my book published. From WM I found a small house that published the kind of books I was trying to write. I put together a manuscript, cover letter and marketing plan with the very details I found in WM. My book, "I'll Carry the Fork! Recovering a Life After Brain Injury" was published in 1999. Please believe that, when you add Writer's Market to a dream and a commitment to hard work and determination, you have all the tools to find yourself a published author. It's the real deal. Don't pass up this gift to yourself.

A must for any beginning, established, or student writer

Writer's Market is a must for any beginning, established, or student writer who wants to be published.It is a required text for my Freelance Writing students. They utilize Writer's Market's essays to improve their manuscripts, and they use its resources to research and place their work. Last year, a student submitted her piece on Wednesday, revised it and mailed Friday, and received an acceptance Monday. Others placed theirs quickly as well.When they follow the advice of Writer's Market, students learn marketable writing skills. I did, they do, you can, too, when you purchase Writer's Market.

A classic improves!

As one of several freelance writers throughout the country contacted recently to do a professional review of this book for the publisher, I expected to find some changes from last's years version. The primary question I was ready to ask was if those changes being made in this version were made simply for the sake of making this edition different from its predecessor, or would there be enough real, viable, beneficial additions to an already outstanding book to make a hard-working, penny-pinching freelance writer buy a new copy. The answer was rather quickly answered as I thoroughly examined the book, and I was most pleasantly surprised at the changes actually made in this edition. Somehow Senior Editor Kirsten Holm (and the obvious multitude of others who worked on this edition) managed to find a number of subtle and not-so-subtle ways to improve a book that is almost beyond improvement. Writers Market has been, and still is, THE basic reference volume for any writer working in the magazine market, and it is an excellent resource book for any writer need information on publishers in the U.S. or Canada. This year's version now includes the addition of a section on literary agents, and although I'm not sure about its inclusion, like the rest of the book it too is well done (I have a personal problem with the rather large number of books in the writing marketplace that don't include many of the hard-working smaller agents - mine included). That said, this year's Writer's Market is worth a serious look, especially if your last year's version is as dog-earred, yellow-lined and worn as it should be if you are using it properly. Final comments? I feel so strongly about this year's version that even before I was contacted about reviewing the book, I had already purchased one. And the sample provided me for review? It now resides in our local library's reference section so the many "new" writers in my area can have access to a major reference book until they decide they need one of their own.