The Writer's Friend

The Writer's Friend by Linda Davis Kyle & co-authors, Joseph Gregg & Nancy McAlary, is perhaps the first book to document how writers appear to magazine editors & how editors would like writers to change. Its purpose is to steer aspiring writers away from calamities with editors. More than 40 editors from around the world reveal what writers must do to succeed. Authors such as Dan Auilier, Liz Carpenter, Ron Franscell, Sonia Pressman Fuentes, Lynn Grisard Fullman, Ralph Marston, Margaret McAlister, Fern Michaels, Robert Powers, Shara Rendell-Smock & Robert J. Sawyer offer power packed suggestions on the craft of writing & penetrating the publishing industry. Kyle shares writing & publishing hints based on 18 years experience as an editor for The Journal of Chemical Education & as a writer. She & Australian writer McAlary present the vignette, "A Day in the Life of an Editor," & Gregg introduces the lucrative world of technical writing. The Writer's Friend (ISBN 0-9673651-0-4) also includes an appendix & a user friendly index. These 20 rapid read chapters can greatly improve aspiring writers' relationship's with editors. Order directly from the publisher WritingNow.com.or Amazon.com.Nancy McAlary is the author of 'The Writer's Friend', published 2000 under ISBN 9780967365107 and ISBN 0967365104.