WRITE BETTER
Get Your Facts Straight
By Roxanne Hawn
Endear yourself to magazine editors by making your articles as factually bulletproof as possible. Here's how to stay on top of these details. PLUS: Know more about your sources.

Fiction Essentials
By James Scott Bell
Provide accurate, illuminating details to give your stories more punch.

Writing Clinic
By Gloria Kempton
Help your children's story hero earn his status by overcoming obstacles within himself-not by getting help from other characters.

Niches: Column Writing
By Craig Wilson
Open your eyes to the world around you to come up with fresh topics for your weekly column.

GET PUBLISHED
Paging New Authors
By Maria Witte
Read our annual listing of 21 agents clamoring for first time success stories. PLUS: How to write a reject-proof proposal.

Fiction Genres Explained
By Peter Rubie
When publishers talk about "genre fiction," do you know what they mean? We break down the biggest genres in fiction today so you know exactly how to position your latest work. PLUS: Why genres are important and avoiding formulaic genre books.

The Six-Figure Writer
By Robert W. Bly
Take advantage of the latest (and easiest) marketing tool to land more writing clients.

WORK SMARTER
The Perfect Fit
By Maria Schneider
Determine which writing conference will be the best fit for your needs, and how to make the most of the experience.

Meet the Press
By Mary Milz
When it's time to promote your book, how do you grab the media's attention? We show you how.

Questions & Quandaries
By Brian A. Klems
Submitting on spec, selling second rights and more.


STAY INSPIRED
The WD Interview: Augusten Burroughs
The Surreal Life
By Maria Schneider
"Revealing" is an understatement when applied to this author's memoirs. Here, he talks about how writing helped him put the pieces of his life back together.

The Last Word
By Jack Clemens
Thomas Pynchon's sprawling novels are as stylistically ambitious-and rewarding-as he is eccentric.

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Editor's Letter
Reader Mail

THE MARKETS
Increase your freelance circulation by submitting to newspapers.

Breaking In:
Hit a journalistic hole-in-one by writing for golf magazines.

5 Questions for:
Katharine Sands, author/agent, Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency.

April Markets
58 listings for book publishers, agents, contests, and consumer and trade magazines.