September 2001

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Departments
Writers' exchange
Off the cuff
A good editor challenges you to create your best work.
Writers wanted
Market focus
Boost your novel's chances by submitting it the right way.
WriteStuff
Get Your First Book Published, edited by Jason Shinder and Jeff Herman, with Amy Holman
Christopher Newport University Writing Conference
The New Scriptwriter's Journal, by Mary C. Johnson
Classified advertising
Poet to poet
How I write
Acid-tongued satirist Joe Queenan has made the most of not having a job.
Index of advertisers
Dear Writer
On telling the difference between imprints, subsidiaries and publishers.
Ethics
Letters
@Deadline
Bottom line
Contributors
Net//Working
A market whose time has come
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