Completely revised, updated and enlarged, the new edition of The Writer's Handbook contains over 6,000 entries covering every area of writing. In addition to the key areas of UK and US book publishers and agents, magazines, screenwriting, TV and radio, theatre, film and video and poetry, new features for the 2004 edition include:
* An enlarged and extended US section
* The appeal of biography
* The uses and abuses of the English language
* The challenges and rewards of self-publishing
* Peter Finch on poetry
* Media contracts
'This is a book no writer should be without' The Times
Barry Turner has worked on both sides of publishing, as a journalist and author, editor and marketing director. He started his career as a teacher before joining The Observer and then moving on to radio and television. His first book, a study of British politics in the early twentieth century, was published in 1970. He has written over twenty books, including A Place in the Country, which inspired a television series, as well as a bestselling biography of actor Richard Burton. He has been editor of The Writer's Handbook for over twenty years. He lives in north London.
Title: The Writer's Handbook 2004
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ISBN: 9780333908129
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Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publication Date: 2003-08-15
Number of Pages: 832
Weight: 0.9619 kg
'This is a book no writer should be without' The Times