Writing Book Reviews
Page Two of Two1998 Poet's Market® Edited by Chantelle Bentley & Tara A. Horton
Writer's Digest Books, Sept., 1997.Trade Paperback, 603 pages.
ISBN: 0898797969.
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Amazon.com.
The Poet's Market is a vast resource for the beginning or experienced
poet. It includes market listings of over 1800 markets that are
looking to publish poetry, contests, awards, conferences, workshops,
colonies, poetry organizations and publications and websites of
interest to poets. The book also includes well-written and timely
advice on opportunities for publishing your poetry online,
as well as interviews with advice from established poets and editors
of publications seeking new poets. The market listings describe each
publication and include contact information, including website and
email addresses if applicable, method of payment, frequency of
publication, size and style of the publication, what the
publication/publisher is looking for, what rights are involved, how
to submit and frequent comments from the editors. The book also
contains indexes so you can easily find publishers that may most be
interested in your poetry including a chapbook index, a geographical
index (by U.S. States and by countries) and a subject index by
category or genre (i.e. Anthology, Humor, Love, Political,
Translations and Women/Feminism).
The Poet's Market is a must-have for all poets. It is invaluable for its listings of places for poets to get published as well as for its reporting on current trends in the poetry publishing world. This is a book poets will turn to time and time again.
Missing Persons: A Writer's Guide to Finding the Lost, the Abducted and the Escaped by Fay Faron
Writer's Digest Books, Sept., 1997.Trade Paperback, 264 pages.
ISBN: 089879790X
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Missing Persons provides detailed information on the process of
locating missing people from why people go missing in the first
place to specific resources available in finding lost or hiding
persons. This resource provides excellent material for writers
because it not only presents the facts and information but also the
whys and hows that get you inside the thought processes and behaviors
of the people involved in missing person cases. The book includes
profiles of the types of people that go missing and witnesses, types of scams and cons, profiles of the victims, why
people hide and extensive information on how to find missing people
using resources such as public records, libraries, confidential
sources, databases, microfiche and CD-ROMs. The book is also a
great read; author and investigator Fay Faron provides interesting
anecdotes of her own experiences from various cases she has worked on
in her own detective agency.
A great writing reference for writers using mystery plots or details in their fiction. Mystery writers will want to add this book to their reference bookshelf.
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