Product Description

The Key to Unlocking Your Writing Success
This ultimate writer's reference connects you to who's who in the publishing industry. Inside, you'll find the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail and Web addresses for hundreds of top editors and agents, plus essays from industry insiders who reveal the secrets to big-time success.

With the most up-to-date information on an industry that's constantly changing, this new edition offers everything you need to get past the slush piles and into the hands of the real players in the publishing field, including how to write attention-grabbing book proposals and thrive off rejection. Now, you hold the keys to getting published.
This deluxe edition includes a CD-ROM that contains the entire database of agents and publishers, easily searchable in just a few clicks and able to organize the most important information according to your specific needs. In addition, direct links to helpful writer-related Web sites give you immediate access to the people you need to know!
Minimum CD-ROM system requirements:
·PC: Pentium II 200 MHz, 32MB RAM, Windows 98, Netscape 4.x or higher
·Mac: Power PC-based Mac, 32MB RAM + Virual memory, OS 8.1+, Netscape 4.x or IE 4.x or higher

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1068947 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07
• Released on: 2002-07-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 912 pages

Review
"Nothing beats Jeff herman's guide."
?Jack Canfield, coauthor CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL series

"On the road to becoming a bestselling author, my first step was buying Jeff Herman's Writer's Guide."
?Meg Cabot, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries

"A must-have."
?Bookmouth.com

"Writer's Guide has eclipsed both Literary Market Place and Writer's Market as a source of projects for our company."
?Michael Snell, Michael Snell Literary Agency

"We've found this book to be the best of its kind.An essential tool for serious writers."
?Doris Booth, editor in chief, Authorlink.com

"Beats the pants off Writer's Market."
?Michael Werner, coauthor, Databases for Business and Using Lotus 1-2-3 -- Review

Review
"Nothing beats Jeff herman's guide."
—Jack Canfield, coauthor CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE SOUL series

"On the road to becoming a bestselling author, my first step was buying Jeff Herman's Writer's Guide."
—Meg Cabot, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries

"A must-have."
—Bookmouth.com

"Writer's Guide has eclipsed both Literary Market Place and Writer's Market as a source of projects for our company."
—Michael Snell, Michael Snell Literary Agency

"We've found this book to be the best of its kind. Jeff Herman does his research!"
—Writer Beware, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (www.sfwa.org/beware/)

"One of the most thorough, up-to-date references in publishing. An essential tool for serious writers."
—Doris Booth, editor in chief, Authorlink.com

"Beats the pants off Writer's Market."
—Michael Werner, coauthor, Databases for Business and Using Lotus 1-2-3

From the Inside Flap
The Key to Unlocking Your Writing Success
This ultimate writer's reference connects you to who's who in the publishing industry. Inside, you'll find the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail and Web addresses for hundreds of top editors and agents, plus essays from industry insiders who reveal the secrets to big-time success.

With the most up-to-date information on an industry that's constantly changing, this new edition offers everything you need to get past the slush piles and into the hands of the real players in the publishing field, including how to write attention-grabbing book proposals and thrive off rejection. Now, you hold the keys to getting published.
This deluxe edition includes a CD-ROM that contains the entire database of agents and publishers, easily searchable in just a few clicks and able to organize the most important information according to your specific needs. In addition, direct links to helpful writer-related Web sites give you immediate access to the people you need to know!
Minimum CD-ROM system requirements:
·PC: Pentium II 200 MHz, 32MB RAM, Windows 98, Netscape 4.x or higher
·Mac: Power PC-based Mac, 32MB RAM + Virual memory, OS 8.1+, Netscape 4.x or IE 4.x or higher

Customer Reviews

Save your money for something truly up to date!
I'm an editor (prefer to remain anonymous) who found my name as well as the names of my colleagues listed as working for publishing houses we left years ago. (I left my old house in 1998!) Stick to the professional directories or at least always call to confirm staff names.

Sure, the information in this book is current if
Sure, the information in this book is current if your potential agent is doing a life term in Sing Sing. But of the five queries I sent out based on the information in this book, two were just unanswered and three came back addressee unknown. Maybe I picked the only five bad addresses in the book, or maybe current it isn't.

Simply the best available
This is the Bible of Writer's Guides to Book Editors, Publishers, and Agents. I've reviewed several other guides and many of them are both good and useful, but this one is different. If you only purchase one writer's guide to publishers this is the one that you will want. It not only provides the publisher's name, address, and phone number, but who should be contacted for each particular type of submission, the type of submissions they are looking for, and examples of items they have published in the past. For agents it includes their address and phone number as well as their educational background, career history, hobbies and other profile information. Thoroughly researched and well documented, it is the best book you can purchase if you are a new writer seeking to get published or an experienced writer seeking to change agents or publishers.