MTed, it's that way amongst fledgling classical musicians, too. I don't know how many times I had to turn down a budding artist when I was promoting my brother. My favourite slogans which we came up with for him were "Composers don't have to be dead to be good," and, "Support American music...it's right on your doorstep." (imagine the cirlce with a TM inside it, for the latter. Can't remember the right key for it.)

I had a lot of fun in advertising and even wrote a Christmas ad for a car dealer's tv spot a couple of years ago, after not having been in adverts for years. A like helping people to "find a better way to say...":-)

Now, about that offer..cats and a rug and $10-20 thou, eh? Word count? From what perspective? For what market? Details, man, details!:-)

SRS, I will never use the hardback, again, as long as it is avaibable online. I had sticky-notes, highlighted passages, etc. in my last hardback and it was a confused mess, PLUS tedious to search through.

The online version has a really great search function, saves your searches if you'd like. One can make a separate file folder for each piece of work and save their likely publishers, editors, etc., which they find through the search, to those specific files. Plus, as I said, one can track each submission. Your info stays on your private pages forever, unless you delete it. I cannot recommend it enough!

Best of all, updates, new pubs. agents, etc. are being added all of the time, new articles, links, etc. so it is always up to date on addresses, what thay are looking for/acepting, etc. Well worth it, imo.

kat