December 1998

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Features
The supporting cast in your novel
By Barbara Delinsky
Detective Novels: The pact between authors and readers
By Ian Rankin
Writing juvenile fiction for the christian market
By Linda Lee Maifair
Poet to Poet
By James Applewhite
How form influences idea in poetry
The key to successful personal essays
By John Lenger
Index to Volume 111
The professional response
By Sidney Sheldon
Departments
Off the cuff
If you can't resist writing your memoirs: Ten Commandments
By George Lang
Letters to the editor
They say
Roving editor
From the editor
Prize offers
The rostrum
Where to sell manuscripts
Religious Magazines
Op-Ed Pages
Political Articles
The writer's library
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