Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #35436 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 832 pages

Alexander McCall-Smith
`Never give up, never become discouraged, and set right to it,
with the Yearbook your shining armour, your sword!' (Foreword)

The Society of Authors
'A must for established and aspiring writers'

The Association of Illustrators
'Packed with tips and professional insight'

Customer Reviews

The Work At Home Freelancer's Must Have
Every year I grumble at the thought of shelling out for the latest copy of this, but every year, realising it's a must-have for my freelance writer's toolkit, I buy it.

I might start buying it every second year though, as I don't have time to read the pro articles and if I wanted to read these, there are plenty in the Sunday press and literary mags.

The 'writing short stories for radio' piece was useful though - however, less pleasing was the fact that these submissions take up to a year to even get read.

For a beginning writer determined to make a business or career out of writing, this book can be used as a textbook or course to study! Hard work though!

Usefull... Probably yes, if you happend to be a writer....
I bought this book to help me making a mailing list for a forthcoming photography exhibition. I thought that from this book I could have found contact addresses for art curators, art critics etc... as it is named writers and artists yearbook.

Photography chapter in this book is really narrow and only concentrating to picture agencies and libraries, which is just a tiny sector of the whole field of photography and really far from the fine art photography. This chapter is too narrow for the book to be called: "a directory for photographers".

Art is in the same chapter with illustration and this chapter mainly concentrates getting illustration commission. This doesn't make much sense to me as I consider myself an Artist, but I don't do illustrations. Art and Illustrations doesn't have that much do with each other. Of course illustrations can be seen art, but to advertise a book as artists yearbook and then only concentrate on illustrations is misleading marketing.

I have to say that listings of magazines and newspapers are useful, but at the same time it is missing quite a big and seminal photography magazines i.e Portfolio and Photoworks magazines.

Buy this book, if you are a writer. If you are an artist, you have to consider is the little information you can find from this book really worth the money. I would say no.

The WAYB is always such a boast!
I love reading the latest WAYB. It's all the tips and notes from those successful in all the many fields of interest and work open to a writer that satisfies me the most. AGAIN, of course, the contributions are first class - informative, inspirational and an overall boast to self confidence and a heightened sense of belonging.

All things feel possible once you have, as Fay Weldon says of the WAYB, "...an entrance ticket to the world you long for".

You can now (using the password inside your WAYB copy) get free access to 1000s of searchable listings, more expert advice, book and writing news and competition entry via the new website.

There is true meat on this book's bones!