October 2001

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Features
By Ronald Kovach
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian offers a wealth of advice on the joys of writing, research and storytelling.
Departments
Writers' exchange
By Bill Nelson
A longtime writing teacher shares students' tips that pay.
Syntax
Off the cuff
Seven habits of highly effective book marketers
By David Poyer
Letters
Contributors
@Deadline
News and notes, quips and quotes on writing and publishing.
Dear Writer
So you have a great idea for a book. What's next?
Poet to poet
Bottom line
Net//Working
WriteStuff
The Situation and the Story, by Vivian Gornick
By Robert Allen Papinchak
Palms, Handspring Visors: Go-anywhere machines
By Nancy Hendrickson
Billy Ray's Farm, by Larry Brown
By Marc Anderson
Writers wanted
New publications, prize offers, conferences and market listings.
Market focus
Classified advertising
Index of advertisers
How I write
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