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Title: 2004 Writer's Market (Writer's Market, 2004) by Kathryn S. Brogan, Robert Lee Brewer ISBN: 1-58297-189-7 Publisher: Writers Digest Books Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Writer's Bible Continues to Live up to Its Name
Comment: The writer's bible dated 2004 A.D. has arrived! Most writers won't wonder what book I'm speaking of since it's THE BOOK.
The first 100 pages or so contain articles and advice while the rest is markets, markets, markets. These articles include agents, pricing, interviews, building a career, and queries. Writers have been complaining about one critical item that's missing from the 2003 edition. It's back. Yes, the "How much I should charge?" article is here to rescue writers (me included) who struggle with pricing. The article has seven pages worth of gold with going market rates sorted by categories. Scan these 100 pages as soon as the book arrives in your hands to put the advice to immediate use.
Copyright issues make me crazy. "The Business of Writing" defines terms relating to rights and provides a brief overview of selling subsidiary rights and contracts and agreements. It's a painless five to ten minutes read. Online markets have pounded writers with more confusion over rights and rates. "Strategies for Negotiating Electronic Rights and Rates," untangles the web.
If you own an older version of the book, this one is still worth the purchase. It has 1,100 new listings and contacts change often with people moving around within the industry and to new locations.
For those who have never seen or heard of this book, read the first article in the book, which takes you on a tour of what's in it and how to use it. The markets cover 300+ agents, book publishers, magazines, journals, scriptwriting, contests and awards, and resources making this a valuable paperweight or doorstopper. Inside of the front and back covers is a key to the symbols and abbreviation to help you make heads and tails of each entry.
Each listing comes with contact information, pay rates, statistics, tips on how to deal with the resource, and details on the publisher's needs. The agents sections provides terms, recent sales, representation type (subjects, fiction, etc.), and member agents.
We get too busy to read books. This is not a book you need to make time to read. When you come up with a brilliant article or manuscript, search the book for possible publishers to pursue. It's a heck of a lot faster than researching online or at the library.
This baby with over 1,000 pages pays for itself with one cheap article. Even if you find just one or two markets from the book, it's worth the investment.
Rating: 4
Summary: Indispensable!
Comment: The 2004 edition of Writer's Market is as complete and wonderful as it is every year. The massive paperback is brimming with tips and information about the craft as well as the business of writing. It is complete with contact information for book publishers, agents, and magazines. It also has a section on contests and awards, and a nice glossary. It is a good value.
My one gripe is that the book has ads in it. I count three cardboard inserts advertising their magazine, their Web site, workshops, and their other books.
Rating: 2
Summary: Useless
Comment: I'm giving the Writer's Market two stars because it is a useful resource for beginning writers. However, I'm fed up with the book. Not only does it neglect to list many, many, many common markets, let alone the lessor-known markets, but the non-web version doesn't have access to many of the few markets they do list. My non-web version, for example, doesn't have writer's guidelines for well-known magazines like Women's World and Good Housekeeping. Apparently, if I wanted those markets, I should have paid $10 more and messed with their CD. (Or I can just go online and get them through a two-second Google search.)
Not to mention, I have often found the information in Writer's Market to be WRONG and I have to always independently check it with the market. Of course, that's something you should do anyway, but I think it's amazing how often WM gets things like addresses and websites wrong. We're not talking information that is bound to change anyway, like editors or contact e-mails, but static information that WM has plain gotten wrong. You can't trust this book.
A few years ago, WM was a LOT more thorough and trustworthy. Now it seems like they don't even update their database against previous editions. Many markets that were in the 2002 and 2003 editions are not in the 2004 edition, even many of those markets still exist. As a freelancer, I don't even use this book very often as a resource since I know it will only list some obvious markets, at best. I find Google and the bookstore work better than WM.
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