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November 21, 2008

Featured Book

Get Known Before the Book Deal
 
 
by Christina Katz

Use your personal strengths to grow an author platform with the help of this one of a kind guide to fostering a successful writing career.

 

WDB Author Profile

Cap'n Choundas, author of The Pirate Primer, talks about the inspiration for his immense lexicon of pirate language. Read the full Q&A.

Events

The first-ever Writer's Digest University: Editors' Intensive event is SOLD OUT!  

To read more about this essential new conference, and to add your name to a waiting list, click here.



Book Giveaway

We're giving away original illustrations from a great book of writing aphorisms called Pep Talks, Warnings and Screeds. Written by George Singleton and illustrated by Daniel Wallace, this book is filled with charming advice and cautionary tales.

Click here to learn how you can win an original illustration or a copy of the book.

WD Books Blogs

Alice's Children's/YA Blog
Get insider perspective on children's and young adult publishing from the editor of Children's Writer's & Illustrator's Market.

Poetic Asides
A poetry blog by the editor of Writer's Market, Robert Brewer.

Guide to Literary Agents Blog
Get up-to-the-minute information on the world of agents from editor Chuck Sambuchino.

Living with the M-Word
A blog about marketing your writing without selling out your creativity from marketing manager by day/writer by night, Scott Francis.

There Are No Rules
An insider's perspective on the publishing industry, from the editorial director of Writer's Digest Books.


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