Publisher's Synopsis
The best selling guide to markets in all areas of the media, completely revised and updated, containing 8 new articles and a foreword by top author Terry Pratchett.
New articles: - Self-publishing - G.P. Taylor - Year-in-View of the publishing industry - Joel Ricketts - How to publicise your book - Isabel Losada - How to get an agent's attention - Alison Baverstock - Poetry into print - Roddy Lumsden - Getting cartoons published - Crime writing - Mark Billingham - Can you recommend an agent? - Marc Le Fanu
Listings include newspapers and magazines, book publishers and literary agents, TV and film producers, websites, picture agencies and libraries, societies, prizes, festivals and editorial services - all revised and updated.
Subjects covered in Writers' & Artists' Yearbook and not covered by its nearest rival publication include: Vanity publishing - How to get an agent - Marketing your book - Writing for the children's market - Writing for newspapers and magazines - Picture research - Artists' agencies - Writer's retreats - Art agents and commercial art studios - Card and stationery publishers - Indexing and proofreading - Who owns whom in publishing - Copyright - Income tax and social security - Book distribution
