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ESSENTIAL GUIDES FOR ASPIRING WRITERS
As an aspiring writer, the best two pieces of advice I received were: 'Leave some of the good bits out' and 'Buy a copy of the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook.
This is the l0th-Anniversary edition of the essential source of information and inspiration for writers working for print, the theatre, and the broadcast media, artists, designers, illustrators, and photographers It is packed with up-to-date contact details of newspaper, magazine, and book publishers in the UK and overseas, agents,' broadcasters, picture agencies, and professional associations, as well as thoroughly researched guidance on such topics as proof-reading, copyright law, writing courses, and awards. It also contains chapters of both practical and inspirational advice and encouragement, including contributions from such successful authors as J K Rowling, Joanna Trollope, William Dalrymple, and Simon Winchester.
The two sister (paperback) titles take the same format but concentrate on providing the greatest possible amount of specialist advice for children's writers and illustrators, and for poets, including performance poets. For both established writers and those who are thinking of giving writing a try, these Yearbooks are invaluable, and having everything summarized neatly in one place saves hours of trawling around on the internet.
Writers' & Artists' Yearbook 2007 - A & C Black 832pp Pb. ZWP392 £14.99
Children’s writers & Artists Yearbook 2007 - A & C Black 400pp Pb. ZWP393 £12.99
Poetry writers’ Yearbook 2007. Gordon Kerr
A & C Black 352pp Pb. ZWP394 £12.99
IS THERE A BOOK IN YOU? Alison Baverstock
This is the perfect book for any aspiring writer. The author has collected nuggets of wisdom from numerous published authors, including P D James, Philip Pullman, Jacqueline Wilson and Margaret Drabble, and combined them into a well structured manual that should definitely help the more committed writer both to write and to get published.
A & C Black 224pp Pb. ZWP395 £8.99
FROM PITCH TO PUBLICATION Everything You Need to Know to Get Your Novel Published by Carole Blake
This book is the ideal volume to help any aspiring author to move from dream to published reality. Carole Blake, a highly experienced literary agent, takes the reader through all the stages necessary, from identifYing your market to presenting your finished work professionally. It won't actually write that bestseller for you, but it does pretty much everything else. Pan 400pp Pb.
ZWP396 £14.99
WRITING FOR MAGAZINES How to get Your Work Published in Local Newspapers and Magazines by Adele Ramet
This book provides an immense amount of practical advice about how to maximize your chances of becoming a successful writer of short stories or articles for magazines. Covers everything from the actual writing process to how to market your manuscripts and organize your work as a freelance. The author is a prolific contributono newspapers and magazines and teaches creative writing. How to Books 256pp Pb.
ZWP397 £10.99
THE FIVE-MINUTE WRITER Margret Geraghty
Learning to write can be a bit like aerobics: by exercising your creativity daily you will soon start unlocking those writing muscles. 'Five minutes every day is better than 35 minutes - or even rwo hours at the weekend', the author advises. She has tried out all the enjoyable and varied exercises in the creative writing classes she runs. Somne look at how our unique life experiences can be a source of inspiration while others help us to hone our observational skills or delve into our imaginations.
How to Books 181pp Pb. ZWP398 £9.99
THE ART OF PUNCTUATION Noah Lukeman
New in Paperback
This superbly practical guide to punctuation for creative writers draws on numerous illustrative examples from great authors, and provides practice exercises to enhance your own style and content, The subtlety and nuance of creative expression is laid bare and clarity of thinking is encouraged in a work that will be invaluable for anyone endeavouring to produce a piece of writing that is not just good, but excellent, Oxford University Press 208pp Ph.
ABP315 £7.99
INSPIRED CREATIVE WRITING
– 52 brilliant ideas from the master wordsmiths
By Alexander Gordon Smith – Infinite Ideas 256pp pb R12.99
THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE NOVEL by Jan Smiley
Suffering from writer's block after the tragedy of 9/11, when she was in the midst of writing Good Faith, Jane Smiley decided to stop writing and start reading. Here she offers a definition of the novel; offers advice on writing novels, and gives a short account of each of the hundred books she ploughed through in order to reacquaint herself with what it is that makes a novel work. Having won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Thousand Acres, one can safely assume that Jane Smiley knows what she is talking about.
Faber & Faber 5l0pP pb. ABP4 _ _ £16.99
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