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Writer’s Handbook Blog
http://writershandbook.wordpress.com/
This is a blog of practical writing tips and career advice for writers, by Philip Martin, director of Great Lakes Literary and series editor of The New Writer’s Handbook. The annual Handbook (Volumes 1 and 2 current available from Scarletta Press) is a paperback anthology of best advice for a writing craft and career, in a concise fashion (short pieces, with concentrated nuggets of useful tips), in a reasonably priced paperback ($16.95), and with lots of viewpoints (60-plus articles), by a bevy of outstanding and successful writers, journalists, writing teachers, literary bloggers, and more.
It's an annual professional-development seminar. Most of each book is useful to early-stage, emerging writers, but many pieces are useful for experienced writers as well.
The goal: that any writer can find at least one piece in each volume that will really make a difference in their writing career.
(And professional writers also need teachable ideas to share with students . . . so each volume also serves as a pretty good teaching tool.)
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Philip Martin, Director, Great Lakes Literary, LLC
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