The Writer's Handbook 1991

by Barry Turner (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1990

  $6.25

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.33

  Fully revised and updated, The Writer's Handbook 2008 is an indispensible companion for everyone in the writing profession. Packed with provocative articles, useful advice, key contacts, hints and discussion, this practical and straightforward guide provides full details on the key markets. Here you will find all you need to know about book publishing in the UK and US, agents, newspapers and magazines, screenwriting, TV and radio, film and video, theatre, PR consultancies, poetry, writing courses and circles, festivals, grants and prizes, alongside up-to-date information on taxation, copyright, contracts and much, much more. With two easy-to-use indexes that allow you to search by company or subject, this is a book no established or aspiring writer can afford to be without.

  New features for this edition:

  A guide to the publishing industry and how to get your work published

  Chris Hamilton-Emery on the globalization of poetry

  An expert's guide to good English

  Macmillan New Writing: a bold venture in discovering new talent

  The future of publishing as seen by the top agents

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.25

  This reference book is for all aspiring and professional writers. It covers every possible market - plays, books, news and feature articles, documentaries, radio and TV scripts, poems, short stories and compilations. This third totally revised and expanded edition includes new sections on picture libraries, poetry and literary grants, updated articles on libel, copyright and contracts and hte latest schedules of rates for freelance journalists and writers for TV and radio. A new system of indexing allows for easy cross referencing. In listing all essential names and addresses, the handbook pinpoints key personnel in companies and organizations so that writers can see at a glance who to approach. Advice on how to best present work to publishers, newspapers or production companies is supplemented by tips on what is most likely to sell and to whom. The Writers' Handbook contains full lists of agents, grants and scholarships, libraries and research facilities and many other sources of help and information for the busy writer who wants to make money. Barry Turner was Education correspondent for the Observer and has written several books on politics, education, travel and the theatre.