num_pages: 678
description: Publish your fiction! This guide will help you make it happen, providing completely updated information on book publishers, magazines, literary agents and script houses -all interested in work from writers like you. Inside you'll find publishing opportunities for virtually every genre, from Romance to New Age, and each listing features the crucial details you need to make the most of every submission. In addition, you'll receive hard-won advice from some of the most respected figures in fiction publishing today, including Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner for Charming Billy; Russell Banks, author of The Sweet Hereafter and Cloudsplitter ; Janet Fitch, author of Oprah's Book Club pick, White Oleander ; and Jonathon Galassi, editor-in-chief of Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, and editor of such acclaimed authors as Tom Wolfe and Scott Turow. You'll also find important tips on self-promotion, formatting submissions and writing query letters, and this guide includes extensive listings of writing contests, conferences and organizations to help you get connected, build your career and improve your work.
language: English
title: 2000 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market
titlecomplete: 2000 Novel & Short Story Writer's Market (Novel & Short Story Writer's Market, 2000)
genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Writing
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Writers Digest Books