June 1999

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Features
How to generate suspense in fiction
By John Lutz
The shock of good poetry
By Jane Hirshfield
A conversation with Sue Miller
By Lewis Burke Frumkes
Ten tips on writing picture books
By Diane Mayr
Plot with your five senses
By Billie Lou Cantwell
Are you reading enough?
By Maggie Murphy
Departments
From the editor
Spinsters ink: a feminist press
By Joan M. Drury
The rostrum
Target marketing: hitting the bull's eye
By Alan S. Horowitz
Off the cuff
Beginning
By Edith Konecky
They say
Roving editor
Letters to the editor
The writer's library
Market newsletter
Prize offers
Where to sell manuscripts
Magazine Markets: Lifestyle, Family & Parenting; Women's; Men's;
Home & Garden; Food & Wine; Hobbies & Crafts, Collecting
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