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Margaret I. Carr

WRITING FOR MAGAZINES: Twelve New Things Writers Must Do Today to Make Money
by Meg Weaver

Published by Wooden Horse Publishing, 1961 Main Street Suite 222, Watsonville, CA 95076.
Telephone (888) 236-7228 or (831) 728-0835, fax (831) 761-9085.
Web site: http://www.woodenhorsepub.com/
e-mail: mweaver@woodenhorsepub.com
Sample chapter and purchase information at:
http://www.writersweekly.com/magwritexcerpt.htm

You've worked and studied and written and worked and studied and practiced techniques and written more. Now you want some recognition and if at all possible some financial rewards for your efforts. Money! At least enough to support your writing habit. Non-fiction writing for magazines is supposed to be the prime approach, but -- why is it so much harder to sell to magazines now? Meg Weaver has a good explanation and, even better, a step-by-step plan that will help you sell to the magazines of your choice.

Can't stand to read on the screen? Buy a ream of paper and an extra ink cartridge and print it out! Yes, this book is worth the effort. Fiction or non-fiction, booklength or for magazines, the information on how to use submission guidelines and where to find the information the guidelines omit can make the difference between a certain rejection and a possible sale. (As an editor it made me cringe and resolve to revise T-zero's Guidelines to make them more useful.)

This book won't teach you how to write. It *will* show you how to study the market and determine the best approach to selling your work. Take a look at the sample chapter and see if you don't agree.