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Writers'
& Artists' Yearbook: 2003 (UK) 
A & C Black Ltd
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This
resource includes up-to-date listings of all
media markets, including artists, illustrators
and designers. For writers, it covers more listings
of national newspapers/magazines, more Websites,
and practical information on writing for newspapers
and magazines. |
Detailed
Description
The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook includes
advice on marketing your book, how to get an agent
and how to submit a typescript. For the artist,
topics include freelancing, picture research, market
for greeting cards and cartoons, illustration for
the children's book market, artists' agents, and
Websites for artists.
Description by Amazon
Review
Now in its 96th year, Writers and Artists Yearbook
is a trustworthy old friend to anyone trying to
sell creative work commercially and needing a one-volume
all-purpose reference book. It may not be quite
as up to date (several of the newspaper section
editors named are no longer current) as younger
rival The Writer's Handbook but it's much fuller
because it serves professional and amateur artists,
designers, illustrators and photographers as well
as writers.
The magazine listing is impressive because it includes
so many trade, membership, in-house and limited
issue titles alongside the news-stand ones. Another
strength is the number of publishers listed both
in the UK and elsewhere. The directories of Societies,
Associations and Clubs, Prizes and Awards and Festivals
are eclectic too. If you want to contact the Scattered
Authors Society, The Caine Prize for African Writing
or the Manchester Poetry Festival then all the details
are here.
This year there's a thoughtful and encouraging foreword
by veteran novelist Doris Lessing who says that
for success "the recipe is hard work"
plus many other blocks of advice from practitioners.
Jane Dorner's "Setting up a Web site"
and David Askam's "Digital Imaging for writers"
are especially helpful and how useful it is, for
most of the world which is not fluent in proofreader-speak
to have a glossary of symbols. There are few things
more galling than selling a piece of work, being
offered a proof to correct before publication, but
not knowing how to do it
Susan Elkin, Amazon
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