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The Writer's Handbook 2001
A comprehensive guide to markets for creative writing and journalism with current freelance rates listed as well as sections addressing various subjects and issues relevant to the new or established writer, such as: copyright, writing for children, self-publishing, resources, tax and the writer. With listings for publishers in UK and USA as well as agents, packagers, magazines, TV and radio, small presses, literary prizes, granting bodies, courses...
Brewer's Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable
The Complete Book Of Scriptwriting
J Michael Straczynski’s revised and expanded reference book is a good
starting point for anyone hoping to write and sell scripts, teleplays,
screenplays for stage, animation, television and the movies. The text is very
comprehensive and though it tends to dwell upon the minutiae of presentation
and the unavoidably tedious business aspects, it comes from the perspective
of real experience in both writing and producing. This expanded UK edition
includes the full screenplay for the Hugo Award winning
Babylon 5 episode, The Coming Of Shadows.
(Titan Books, ISBN 1 85286 882 1) Buy this book
The Chambers Dictionary
The best-selling and most comprehensive single-volume English dictionary.
The new edition claims more than 215,000 references and over 300,000
definitions which often read like informative mini-entries from a well
researched encyclopaedia. Chambers is fast becoming the recognised standard
for dictionaries and is the official reference dictionary for Scrabble(R)...
(Chambers Harrap, ISBNs standard: 0 550 14000 X, thumb-index: 0 550 14005 0)
Buy the Standard Edition or the
Thumb-index Edition of this book
On Being A Writer
This compilation of revealing interviews with various popular and respected
writers forms a superb book about writing. Journalists, novelists, playwrights,
commentators, poets, academics all talk about their backgrounds and the way
they approach the job of writing and the writer's life... Featuring wisdom
from such greats as Capote, Hemmingway, Steinbeck, Vonnegut, Faulkner, Jong,
Bradbury, Ginsberg... 32 interviews, in all, addressing all aspects of
writing.
(Writer's Digest, ISBN 0 89879 522 2)
This book seems to be out of print, but can still be
ordered from some public libraries...
