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Help the Writer on Your List! 2001 Writer's Market
8000 Editors Who Buy What You Write - by Kirsten Holm (Editor)
Get published and get PAID for it with 2001 Writer's Market! Acquiring this 1,112-page behemoth is just about the best investment a freelancer can make. Updated every year - a MUST HAVE for all writers to keep current!
We HIGHLY recommend both this book and "Writer's Guide to Book Editors..." for ALL writers!!

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Help the Writer on Your List! Writer's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents, 2001-2002
Who They Are! What They Want! And How to Win Them Over by Jeff Herman
While Writer's Market includes listings for publishers, magazines, journals (trade, technical, and professional), and scriptwriting markets, Writer's Guide focuses exclusively on book publishers and literary agents. Many have found this one essential for selling their works!

The Elements of Style
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According to the St. Louis Dispatch, this "excellent book, which should go off to college with every freshman, is recognized as the best book of its kind we have." It should be the "...daily companion of anyone who writes for a living and, for that matter, anyone who writes at all" (Greensboro Daily News).

The Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus

The Ultimate Language Reference for American Readers - At the very least every writer should have a good dictionary and good thesaurus readily available.

We thought this combination produced by Oxford Univ Pr (Trade) was an excellent solution.

The Writer's Legal Companion
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The Complete Handbook for the Working Writer
by Brad Bunnin and Peter Beren

This is a fantastic reference for any writer interested in legal issues concerning contracts, collaboration, agents, defamation, copyright, taxes, and high-tech publishing. Whether or not you've retained a literary lawyer to work on your behalf, you'll want a book such as this on your shelf, to refer to when you need advice on avoiding defamatory statements, protecting yourself against copyright infringement, or even knowing which home-office expenditures you may deduct come tax time. You'll want this valuable reference on hand.

How to Write a Book Proposal Written by a literary agent who has successfully placed writers' manuscripts with more than 100 publishers, this newly revised book takes you through every step of writing a nonfiction book proposal. Prepare an introduction that conveys your book's purpose and audience.

The Elements of Grammar Another excellent tool for all writers of every genre. Maybe not required for that first draft, but a definite asset as you reach that final draft. Described as a "handy compendium of grammar" ... you'll want this one in your personal toolkit.

Edit Yourself A Manual for Everyone Who Works With Words - Thorough, yet at the same time easy to use. Includes a list of "word substitutes" which writers will find very helpful during the final edits of their drafts. And excellent reference book for the writers shelf.

Creating Fiction Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs - Visit the workshops of twenty-three of the best fiction-writing teachers in the country. Learn how to revise from Pulitzer Prize-winner Jane Smiley. Find new ways to evoke time and place from Richard Russo, author of Nobody's Fool. And so much more!

On Writing Well The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction - Amazon.com writes "Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser's On Writing Well should be required reading." -and- from the New York Times "On Writing Well belongs on any shelf of serious reference works for writers." Need we say more?

100 Things Every
Writer Needs to Know An all-in-one guide for writers--this wide-ranging handbook combines artistic techniques and inspiration with practical, insider's advice on getting published. Writer, editor, and literary agent Scott Edelstein has done it all--and now this industry insider brings his valuable secrets to both beginning and established writers.

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