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Thread #66661   Message #1110082
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
05-Feb-04 - 01:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Any journalists/columnists catters?
Subject: RE: BS: Any journalists/columnists catters?
I haven't kept up-to-date with the Writer's Market, and when I do buy it, I never pay full-price. Every two or three years the folks at Writer's Digest Book Club send around an offer to get it and your choice of several others free if you'll rejoin their book club. I used to buy extra copies as those free books, and give them to friends. I never bought any more books, and they dropped me, until the offer came around again.

This is the kind of book that is good for post-it notes and marginalia. I haven't written freelance for a number of years, so would only investigate the online version if I decided to go back to it. It makes perfect sense that this book would be online. The cross-referencing may or maynot be as easy (or serendipitous) online as on paper. How do you think it compares, Kat? So many things are available through academic subscriptions that I would also check with my public library (or in my case, university) to see if there's a chance that this is one that is free through the school. Probably not, but it's worth a look. [Nope, didn't find it.] There is also another smaller magazine called Writer that also used to include a few good market tips. That one is still published and is available through Ebsco.

SRS